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TalkToMe
On Sep 28, TalkToMe, a macOS menu-bar app, lets your coding agent call you for a voice conversation.
Stanford Rejuvenation A.I. Benchmark
As of Sep 28, a leak of Stanford's Rejuvenation A.I. Benchmark circulated online, with posters saying it pushes AI companies to take aging research seriously.
SiMa.ai
On Sep 28, SiMa.ai raised a $150 million Series C at a $1.45 billion valuation for physical AI chips.
Range
On Sep 28, Range opened container images and Hugging Face model repos without downloading them first.
Peak XV
As of Sep 28, Peak XV upsized its Surge seed investment ceiling to $5M and unveiled an 18-startup cohort, per TechCrunch.
Outmarket
As of Sep 28, insurtech Outmarket raised $34.5M just months after its prior round, per TechCrunch.
OpenAPPA
As of Sep 28, OpenAPPA launched on Hacker News as open-source deterministic guardrails that don't break agents.
MuseTogether
On Sep 28, MuseTogether lets different people's Meta Muse agents message each other to coordinate plans.
Modal Labs
As of Sep 28, Modal Labs neared a $750 million round led by Accel at a $1.5 billion valuation, per TechCrunch.
Jylus
On Sep 28, Jylus turns logs and changing data into proof-linked evidence packs for AI systems.
iReadAll
On Sep 28, iReadAll launched a free AI reader that picks a narrator voice to fit your text.
Florida–OpenAI lawsuit
As of Sep 28, Florida's Attorney General James Uthmeier called for a judge to block OpenAI from giving ChatGPT false human attributes, months after the state sued over safety concerns.
DetectifAI
As of Sep 28, TechCrunch profiled DetectifAI, a startup building smartphone-sized models that flag deepfake voices in real time, founded after a family deepfake scam.
Corral
On Sep 28, Corral, a Linux CLI, made sure no process started by an AI agent's command is left running.
Climate Week
As of Sep 28, TechCrunch reported data centers and AI divided climate tech founders and investors at Climate Week.
Bad Apple benchmark
As of Sep 28, community posts describe a 'Bad Apple' benchmark designed to push AI models to their limits.
AutoTrust AI
On Sep 28, AutoTrust AI released JEV-27B, an open-weights decision model for self-hosted AI agents.
Australia cyber defences
As of Sep 28, Australia ordered urgent work to fortify digital defences after a Medicare incident, per community posts.
AMD–World Labs
On Sep 28, AMD to acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs in an all-stock deal valued at about $8.2 billion.
TinyAIArena
As of Sep 27, TinyAIArena launched on Hacker News for watching AI agents battle.
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