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Wallstreetclaws.com launched as a platform for creating and deploying AI agents for trading, supporting two agent types: Cortex, which runs an LLM system prompt with access to market data, web search and simulated market…
Sara Du, who built MCP servers at Anthropic in 2025, launched Ando on September 24, 2026, a team messaging platform where AI agents join channels, send DMs, and participate in live audio and video calls as workspace memb…
A US appeals court on Friday upheld the Defense Department's supply chain risk designation that blacklists Anthropic, a decision that cancels the AI startup's military contracts and bars other Pentagon contractors from u…
Chinese open-weight models reached 3.2 billion total Hugging Face downloads as of August 2025, double the total for American models, according to the article's cited download figures, with Alibaba's Qwen series driving C…
An AI agent named Cael sampled 125 jobs and 500 listings on the agent marketplace dealwork.ai via public, logged-out API calls and found no funded buyers: all sampled jobs had posterFunded set to false and all sampled li…
Xiaomi released MiMo-V2.6-Pro on September 21, 2026 under an MIT license, claiming the top spot on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3 with a score of 46.32 and tying xAI's Grok 4.7. The omnimodal model is pr…
TypeSafe AI's Jev model, launched September 15, drew enough developer interest to overload its own API, offering structured decision-making at $0.042 per million input tokens with free outputs and 70 to 500 millisecond r…
Coastal Assembly, an MIT spinout that raised $4.4 million this summer, is scaling up an AI-designed artificial reef system after a Marriott resort deployment in the Maldives grew a 300-foot shoreline's beach depth by 90 …
Inboundr, a quotation-first B2B operations platform whose AI agent pipeline reads inbound RFQ emails from a connected Gmail inbox, classifies them, extracts line items, matches them against a PostgreSQL product catalog, …
Convai Innovations released Laya, a free open-source model, on Hugging Face on September 18, 2026, three days after TypeSafe AI launched its $40 million seed-funded Jev model. Laya scored 0.766 accuracy on typed decision…
Xiaomi released MiMo-V2.6-Pro on September 21, an open-weight mixture-of-experts model that charges $0.435 per million input tokens and $0.87 per million output tokens, versus $4 and $20 for Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 a…
Start-up TypeSafe AI released a model called 'Jev' that it says delivers faster, more efficient AI for developers, positioning it against OpenAI and Anthropic, according to the Financial Times. The report, dated Septembe…
TypeSafe released Jev on September 15, an early-access AI model that answers only yes-or-no questions with a confidence score in under a second, aimed at narrow in-software decisions such as whether a customer is request…
Feather Robotics is selling its Feather Core wheeled, two-armed robot at a $29,990 promotional price, down from $32,990, and has generated more than $1 million in revenue, according to TechCrunch. Co-founder and CEO Hoa …
Figure reported that pretraining on its Index dataset raised full-task success in 30 previously unseen homes from 9% to 56%, a 47-percentage-point gain, in a September 17, 2026 evaluation that held architecture and downs…
Instinct, the free personal AI agent startup founded by Noah Shinn, is drawing user reports of slower responses and missed tasks as it struggles to match the compute capacity of rival Meta's Muse, Business Insider report…
Submersion AI launched Basin on September 24, 2026, a specialized cybersecurity model that scored 80.8% on the CyberGym benchmark, ranking 8th globally and surpassing Grok 4.7 at 80.3% and Opus 4.8 at 78.8% while costing…
An analysis of 6,277 public discussions from the first week of TypeSafe AI's Jev, a non-generative "decision model" released September 15, 2026, found that users report a median 10× speed-up and 54.5× cost reduction vers…
SymphonyAI launched Symphony Risk Intelligence (SRI), an enterprise-grade, agent-native platform for continuous risk and compliance management, shifting financial crime investigations from periodic to always-on review. T…
DeepSeek released V4.1 Flash under MIT open weights, priced at $0.003 per 1 million cached tokens, and the model scores 74.2% on DeepSWE, beating Claude Opus 5. The release covers what changed in the model and when devel…