Friday, 28 August 2026
Transfyr raises $25M for lab observability
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Transfyr launched with $25M in seed funding led by General Catalyst to build an AI observability layer that captures lab activity papers never record.
OpenAI opens its first Americas office
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OpenAI launched commercial operations in Brazil with a São Paulo office, its first outside the U.S. in the Americas, plus deals with schools and a hospital.
Anthropic expands free Claude for scientists
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Anthropic is offering 10,000 free Claude seats to academic and nonprofit researchers for a year, plus up to $50,000 in extra credits per project.
GLM-5.3's flagship weights are out
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Z.ai released the full open weights for its flagship GLM-5.3 coding and cybersecurity model, two weeks after an API-only launch and a safety-hardening delay.
Barret Zoph lands at Google DeepMind
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Thinking Machines co-founder Barret Zoph, pushed out before a brief stint at OpenAI, has joined Google DeepMind as VP of research on post-training and RL.
Meta's India VP leaves for OpenAI
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Meta VP Sandhya Devanathan is leaving after a decade to lead OpenAI's Southeast Asia and Australia operations, as Meta faces fresh regulatory scrutiny in India.
Instinct raises $250M at $2.5B valuation
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Viral AI assistant Instinct closed a $250M Series B co-led by Index Ventures and Benchmark, pushing its valuation to $2.5B just months after a $50M seed.
Judge voids Anthropic's Pentagon label
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A federal judge ruled the Pentagon's supply-chain risk label on Anthropic was unlawful retaliation, vacating the designation and barring its enforcement.