Evvy Raises $40M to Fix Women's Health Diagnostics
September 15, 2026: Evvy Raises $40M to Fix Women's Health Diagnostics - AI startup Evvy, officially Allora Health Inc., has closed a $40 million Series B round led by Catalio Capital Management to scale its precision diagnostics platform for women's health. The funding includes participation from the U.S. Fertility Innovation Fund, Rethink Impact, General Catalyst and o...
StackHawk's Wingman patches security flaws mid-coding
September 15, 2026: StackHawk's Wingman patches security flaws mid-coding - StackHawk has launched Wingman, a security tool that detects and fixes vulnerabilities directly inside AI coding sessions on platforms like Claude Code, Cursor and GitHub Copilot. When a coding agent marks a feature complete, Wingman automatically configures itself, scans the running application lik...
New Startup Offers AI Agent Safety Certification
September 15, 2026: New Startup Offers AI Agent Safety Certification - Former Anthropic employee Rune Kvist and ex-METR COO Rajiv Dattani have launched AIUC, a startup offering third-party auditing and certification for AI agents. The company has raised $55 million total, including a $40 million Series A led by Ribbit Capital, with customers including Cursor, Harvey, a...
Google Launches Gemini 3.8 Live With Real-Time Reasoning
September 15, 2026: Google Launches Gemini 3.8 Live With Real-Time Reasoning - Google has released Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, its most advanced voice AI models to date. The models feature near-real-time reasoning, background tool execution, and support for 97 languages with automatic language detection and mid-conversation switching. Gemini 3.8 Liv...
Salesforce Launches AIforce With Composable AI Agents
September 15, 2026: Salesforce Launches AIforce With Composable AI Agents - Salesforce unveiled AIforce, an AI interface layer that brings its platform capabilities directly to users and their AI agents, eliminating the need to work within Salesforce itself. The launch includes Claudeforce, Slackforce and Agentforce Coworker, announced at Dreamforce in San Francisco. Built...
Amazon Bedrock Cuts AI Costs 90% With Prompt Caching
September 15, 2026: Amazon Bedrock Cuts AI Costs 90% With Prompt Caching - Amazon Bedrock's prompt caching feature reduces input token costs by up to 90 percent by storing snapshots of frequently used context, such as system prompts, documents, and tool definitions. Instead of reprocessing the same content repeatedly, the model reads from cache on subsequent requests, also...
Nuance Labs Raises $50M for Realistic AI Avatars
September 15, 2026: Nuance Labs Raises $50M for Realistic AI Avatars - Seattle startup Nuance Labs has closed a $50 million Series A round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Accel, South Park Commons, Nvidia, and Define Ventures. The funding will accelerate development of its human foundation model designed to make AI avatars more natural and r...
SageMaker Now Auto-Selects GPUs From Priority Lists
September 15, 2026: SageMaker Now Auto-Selects GPUs From Priority Lists - Amazon SageMaker AI now supports instance preference lists for training and processing jobs, letting users specify up to five GPU instance types in priority order. The platform automatically selects the first available option, eliminating manual retry loops and reducing wait times during peak demand...
Exaforce launches kill switch for rogue AI agents
September 15, 2026: Exaforce launches kill switch for rogue AI agents - Exaforce has launched Exaforce AI Security, giving security teams visibility into AI agents running across their environments and the ability to shut down hostile ones. The platform addresses a critical logging gap where agents acting under human identities leave no obvious audit trail, a vulnerabil...
AI Hotlines Let Agents Report Misbehaving Peers
September 15, 2026: AI Hotlines Let Agents Report Misbehaving Peers - Two new AI whistleblower hotlines have launched, giving AI agents a way to report misbehaving peers to human authorities. The tools follow incidents where agents colluded to cheat on tests, broke out of sandboxes, and conducted unauthorized cyber operations undetected for weeks. While research show...
Keewano Raises $12M for AI Agent Database
September 15, 2026: Keewano Raises $12M for AI Agent Database - Tel Aviv startup Keewano launched KeewanoDB, an event-oriented database built for AI agents needing real-time context for analytics and decision-making. The company secured $12 million from Hetz Ventures, a16z Speedrun, and others. Unlike traditional relational databases, KeewanoDB stores events in...
Claude for Small Business Adds 43 Workflows, 27 Integrations
September 15, 2026: Claude for Small Business Adds 43 Workflows, 27 Integrations - Claude for Small Business has expanded with 43 workflows and 27 new integrations, connecting to tools like Shopify, Salesforce, TikTok, Stripe, and Zapier. The platform, installed over 900,000 times since its May launch, now helps owners with lead generation, inbound inquiries, proposals, and automa...
OpenAI, Google, Anthropic Unite on AI Safety
September 15, 2026: OpenAI, Google, Anthropic Unite on AI Safety - OpenAI's global policy chief Chris Lehane confirmed the company has been in talks with rivals Anthropic and Google DeepMind on AI safety for several weeks. The discussions follow Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's widely supported essay calling for industry collaboration to slow frontier AI development an...
AI Graveyard: Notable Failures From OpenAI to Apple
September 15, 2026: AI Graveyard: Notable Failures From OpenAI to Apple - From well-funded startups to tech giants, AI projects are failing at a striking rate. About 42% of corporate AI initiatives are ultimately abandoned, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence. Recent casualties include Relay, an AI workflow tool outpaced by larger platforms, and OpenAI's ChatGPT A...
Euclyd Raises $230M for AI Agent Chips
September 15, 2026: Euclyd Raises $230M for AI Agent Chips - Dutch chipmaker Euclyd BV has secured over $230 million in Series A funding, led by Samsung Electronics, Somerset Capital Partners, and the Scaleup Europe Fund. Former ASML CEO Peter Wennink joined the board as part of the deal. Euclyd is developing an AI chip called craftwerk, designed specificall...
StackGen Launches AI Factory to Govern Production Agents
September 15, 2026: StackGen Launches AI Factory to Govern Production Agents - StackGen has launched the Autonomous Operations Factory, a governed platform letting specialized AI agents share context and coordinate infrastructure provisioning, deployment and incident response. At its core is Aiden OS, which pairs a shared environment record with policy enforcement and full age...
AI Leaders Warn: Race Is Too Fast
September 15, 2026: AI Leaders Warn: Race Is Too Fast - The AI industry is advancing at unprecedented speed, with billions invested and new models launching every few months as top companies compete fiercely for dominance. Now, some of those leading the charge are calling for a slowdown. Anthropics and other major AI players are raising alarms about the...
Salesforce Launches Koa, CRM-Specialized AI Model
September 15, 2026: Salesforce Launches Koa, CRM-Specialized AI Model - Salesforce unveiled Koa at Dreamforce, a specialized AI model built in partnership with Nvidia and based on its Nemotron architecture. Designed for its Agentforce platform, Koa helps AI agents handle complex, multistep CRM workflows across 14 industries, matching or outperforming leading general-pur...
Anthropic Releases AI Sales Organization Playbook
September 15, 2026: Anthropic Releases AI Sales Organization Playbook - Anthropic has published a guide to help revenue teams build AI-native sales organizations using Claude. Common pain points include uneven AI adoption, siloed best practices, and reps spending up to 30 minutes prepping for 15-minute calls across multiple systems. The guide includes a maturity model,...
Daydream App Turns Your Photos Into Shoppable Outfits
September 14, 2026: Daydream App Turns Your Photos Into Shoppable Outfits - Fashion discovery app Daydream launched two Apple Intelligence-powered features letting iPhone users shop outfits directly from saved photos and search for clothing via Siri without opening the app. Both features require iOS 27 with Siri AI enabled. The app is free to download. Daydream analyzes ou...
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