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Former OpenAI employee Diogo Almeida announced Jev on September 15, a probabilistic classifier built by his startup TypeSafe AI that returns calibrated decisions in 70–500 ms at $0.042 per million input tokens rather tha…
Anthropic is building a biology lab in the San Francisco area where its Claude model will guide robots through drug experiments with minimal human involvement, Reuters reported. The lab builds on Anthropic's April acquis…
TypeSafe AI, a startup founded by former OpenAI researcher Diogo Almeida, emerged from stealth on September 15, 2026 with $40M in funding led by DCVC and released Jev, the first public model in its "System One" class, wh…
TypeSafe AI exited stealth on September 15, 2026 with a $40M seed round led by DCVC and a model called Jev, the first of its "System One Models," which returns typed answers with calibrated probabilities rather than gene…
A 15-year QA veteran joined a year-old AI agent startup two weeks ago, describing the transition as a return to being "the new guy" after being laid off from a previous employer. The engineer notes the startup's product-…
Xiaomi released MiMo-V2.6-Pro, a 1T-parameter natively omnimodal open-weights model trained for $3M, alongside MiMo-V2.6-Flash and MiMo-V2.6-Pro-UltraSpeed, which Xiaomi says delivers up to 20x faster output speed at the…
StepFun announced Step 5 Preview, a 600B total / 27B active mixture-of-experts flagship model for agentic work with 1M context and vision, and said open weights will be released on Oct 15. StepFun claims the model delive…
The San Sebastian festival's Zinemaldia Startup Challenge selected 10 finalists from 68 submissions, its largest field since launching in 2019, to pitch on Sept. 24 during Zinemaldia & Technology. The lineup spans AI, vi…
A Wall Street Journal report details how tiny startups are keeping headcount even smaller with help from AI, according to the article published at wsj.com. The story, titled "Tiny Startups Are Getting Even Smaller with H…
Firebird, a San Francisco-based startup founded by people of Armenian descent, began operating a data center in Hrazdan, Armenia, in August that is set to reach 300 megawatts and more than 70,000 Nvidia chips by the end …
Inception Labs' Mercury 2.5 is the fastest LLM available via API as of September 2026, posting 1,107 tokens per second on vendor benchmarks and 440 tok/s P50 at 1.17s latency in OpenRouter telemetry, according to a compa…
Canada's Department of National Defence is assembling a suite of sovereign AI technologies from Canadian companies, including Cohere Inc., Anvil Intelligence Inc., H2 Analytics Inc., Larus Technologies Corporation and Ta…
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. unveiled the Zhenwu V900 AI accelerator from its T-Head chip division on Tuesday, which CEO Eddie Wu said triples the performance of its predecessor and can be clustered in up to 500,000 units …
NewKid Days will hold its second edition in San Francisco on October 25, 2025, seeking early-stage companies building AI products for children aged 0-16, with applications open until September 27 at 11:59PM Pacific time.…
Spellbook, an AI copilot for transactional lawyers used by more than 4,000 law firms, in-house teams, and solo practitioners, is hiring a remote Software Engineering Manager based in St. John's to lead a small team build…
Assured Health, an NCQA-certified CVO and SOC 2 compliant product, uses AI agents to automate provider credentialing, payer enrollment, roster management, and license monitoring for healthcare organizations, according to…
Kapture CX is an enterprise customer-experience platform that pairs AI agents with a human oversight layer to run support operations across voice, chat, email, and social, according to the vendor's own product descriptio…
Smallest.ai operates a real-time voice AI platform offering text-to-speech, speech-to-text, speech-to-speech, voice cloning, and a voice-agent platform built on small, specialized models for low latency, and the company …
Magentic builds AI agents that perform procurement and supply-chain work end to end for manufacturers, from spend analysis to contract compliance, according to the company's site at magentic.com. The vendor cites roughly…
Kastle builds AI agents that automate the full loan cycle — originations, servicing, and collections — across voice, SMS, email, and chat for banks and lenders, and states it is in production at 10 of the top 25 US servi…