The AI-powered continuous security validation startup closed a $250M Series E at a $2B valuation, riding rising demand as AI-driven cyber threats grow.
Qwen3.8-Max reached GA targeting long-horizon autonomous work and coding, with a 1,000,000-token context window (131K max output) priced at $2/$6 per million input/output tokens on OpenRouter.
A Marc Benioff-backed startup backed by Michael Dell, Aaron Levie and George Kurtz raised $20M pre-seed to help enterprises deploy AI across legacy systems.
A hierarchical diagnostic benchmark spanning visual quality, control adherence, spatial consistency and world reactivity across 1,474 cases and eight tasks, unifying evaluation of camera-, action- and language-driven world-model paradigms.
State-space models can eliminate both Transformer KV-cache growth and RAG prefill cost by injecting corpus state in O(1), enabling persistent context for edge deployment.
A mechanism that turns transient interaction experience into persistent model capabilities, addressing fragmentation across test-time and self-improvement methods.
An evolution-strategies approach that does full-parameter post-training of tool-using agents without backpropagation, matching gradient-based performance at lower memory cost.
An adaptive environment-feedback pruning method built on GRPO that bypasses critic-network memory overhead for reinforcement-learning-driven GPU kernel generation.
MiniMax released open weights for MiniMax-H3 (Hailuo 3.0), now the #1 open model in the Video Arena. It takes text, image, video and audio in one context and generates 5-15s clips at native 2K and 24fps with stereo audio, with day-0 local inference in SGLang Diffusion and vLLM-Omni.
A major open-source agent framework update with a full changelog, demo video and easy `hermes update` path, drawing strong community engagement.
A proposal to turn task transformation into self-verifiable reward signals, pushing reinforcement learning toward more open-ended, self-improving LLM training.
The embodied AI startup unveiled a robotics approach focused on systems that learn on the job rather than relying on pre-programmed task libraries.
ASUS launched the UGen300, a $299.99 USB AI accelerator built on the Hailo-10H chip (40 TOPS, 8GB LPDDR4) for on-device inference on laptops and edge systems.
A NASA SBIR Phase I award will accelerate HEBI's miniaturized actuator work, exploring packaging and high-performance motion for space and robotics through December 2026.
The twisterchain energy chain delivers cable management with over 600° of rotation for palletizing and small industrial-robot applications on Axis 1.
A single API gateway unifying access to leading AI video models, letting developers switch models without rewriting integrations.
An open-source terminal tool that turns existing Codex and Claude Code sessions into live multiplayer sessions with shared context over Tailscale.
A private, on-device index that searches across Cursor, Claude Code, Zed, Codex and Kiro conversations in one timeline, with no signup required.
A command-line tool giving front-end coding agents live visibility into rendered browser output while they work.
The Italian agritech startup closed a €1.35M seed led by CDP Venture Capital for portable AI-based aflatoxin detection, with expansion planned in Kenya, Nigeria and Italy.
Italy's largest digital startup marathon selected 100 finalists from a record ~500 applications to pitch before investors, corporates and institutions.
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