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Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez said at the ALL IN conference in Montréal on Wednesday that the Toronto-based AI developer will not build its own chips, telling Bloomberg AI reporter Rachel Metz, "We don't want to get into the sp…
Scaleout Systems, a Swedish startup founded in 2018 by Uppsala University researchers and selected for NATO's DIANA Challenge Program in 2025, has pivoted from commercial-vehicle machine learning to defense applications,…
Scaleout, a NATO-backed startup, is deploying decentralized AI-driven learning to military bases and drones so that small AI models can autonomously identify and attack battlefield targets, according to Ars Technica. The…
SpaceXAI, the artificial intelligence division formed when SpaceX merged with xAI in February, has held informal internal talks about buying customer and operational data from failed startups to train its Grok model, acc…
Diogo Almeida, the OpenAI researcher behind RLHF and InstructGPT, released Jev in early access on 15 September through his startup TypeSafe AI. Jev is a non-generative "System One" model that returns typed decisions — a …
PrismML launched Bonsai 2 27B on September 17th, an Apache 2.0-licensed ternary-weight version of Qwen3.8 27B whose language model fits in 5.95 GB and, according to the company, preserves 98.2% of the full-precision mode…
Apollo Research launched an AI monitor called Watcher in February 2026 that checks coding agents' proposed actions before they run, as AI labs and startups turn to AI-based oversight to track agent swarms too large for h…
Bolt.new launched Bolt Forge, a research preview that gives every individual Pro plan 50X more usage on open models at no extra cost, running from September 14 to October 14, 2026. Builders who opt in share anonymized se…
A 2026 pricing survey of AI coding tools reports that 73% of startups now deploy at least one AI coding assistant, with GitHub Copilot the most widely adopted at $10-19 per user per month, followed by Tabnine Pro at $12 …
Skylark Labs announced a technology partnership with Skydio to connect video streams from Skydio drones to Kepler, Skylark Labs' self-learning AI analytics platform, for critical infrastructure customers. Skydio already …
XAI launched three enterprise products at its Galaxy event in San Francisco on September 17: the Voice Agent API at $0.08 per minute for speech-to-speech processing, the Voice Agent Builder no-code platform (in beta sinc…
Baseten launched Base Labs, a research arm partnering with Hugging Face and Goodfire AI to build safety evaluation and monitoring infrastructure for open-weight models, as Hugging Face currently lists over 6,000 ablitera…
Zettascale, a Y Combinator S24 company, is hiring ASIC and FPGA engineers to build chips for artificial superintelligence (ASI), according to a careers posting on the company's site. The posting also invites candidates w…
Inductive launched Beacon-2 on September 17th, a system that estimates the efficacious human dose of a small molecule directly from its chemical structure by predicting ADMET properties and potency and feeding them into …
SpaceX has discussed buying customer and operational data from troubled or defunct startups to train its Grok AI models, according to people familiar with the matter, as its SpaceXAI unit seeks affordable, high-quality t…
TypeSafe AI, a startup founded by former OpenAI researcher and RLHF co-inventor Diogo Almeida, launched Jev, an LLM that returns a defined decision plus its probability in a concise response instead of generating verbose…
Tiana Stoddart launched BlueLedger from stealth on September 17 with co-founders George Palikaras and Dhirendra Shukla, betting that artificial intelligence can reconcile conflicting public-market records. The New Brunsw…
Moonshot AI launched its Kimi Financial Industry AI Solution on September 17, connecting its large language model to more than ten major financial data providers including Wind, East Money, S&P Global, Caixin Data, and C…
Alchemy announced on September 17 that it added Mastercard Agent Pay support to AgentCard, its identity and payments product for AI agents, provisioning agents with one-time-use tokenized Mastercard credentials, an email…
Arcjet Labs Inc. launched agent runtime security, a product that tracks AI agents running in production and checks each agent action against policy before it executes, the company announced. Security teams using the offe…