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• Coralogix raises $200M as Ariel Assaraf bets AI agents need observability

  The Series F values Coralogix at $1.6 billion, 11 months after its last round, with Advent and CPPIB leading, according to TechCrunch.

• 23andMe returns as nonprofit with a 100 million-user target

  Bloomberg reports the DNA-testing brand is returning as a nonprofit with a much bigger scale ambition.

• Perplexity AI CEO says AI race comes down to value per watt

  Aravind Srinivas told CNBC the winner will maximize economic output from AI energy use, with orchestration across cloud and on-device models as the lever.

• Qianxun reportedly raised $205 million as China's physical AI race accelerates

  The Hangzhou embodied AI startup's A+ round was reported at RMB 1.5 billion, but its investors, valuation, product scope, and founders remain unnamed.

• E2B offers agent code sandboxes to a16z Speedrun founders

  The offer targets early-stage agent builders, but E2B has not disclosed pricing, credits, usage limits, or duration.

• High Torque Robotics brings Mini Pi Plus and Panthera-HT demos to ICRA 2026

  High Torque Robotics says its robots are performing real-world tasks live at the conference booth as it opens hiring for the team.

• Roblox buys Morpheus AI for its Roblox Reality push

  Roblox tied the acquisition to Roblox Reality, its planned hybrid architecture for photorealistic multiplayer games, while leaving deal terms and Morpheus AI integration details undisclosed.

• Google is buying Play Store developers' code for AI training

  A confidential pilot turns Android app codebases into paid data assets, with terms and payout sizes still undisclosed.

• Megaport's $594 million raise puts a price on AI inference infrastructure

  Reuters reported the Australian network infrastructure company signed about $329 million of AI contracts and plans an underwritten equity raise to fund GPUs, storage and connectivity.

• Genomi gives AI agents a local database for personal genome questions

  The open-source project parses raw DNA files into a local database instead of sending genetic data into a model context window.

• Neuracle's NEO brain implant wins China approval before Neuralink

  The Shanghai startup's device is cleared only for a narrow group of spinal cord injury patients, but it moves invasive BCIs past trials.

• We Stress-Tested Microsoft's New Image Model Against OpenAI and Google. The Results Were Clear.

  RuntimeWire prompts found OpenAI strongest for dashboard text and Google strongest for web layouts, while Microsoft excelled at photoreal spaces.

• DigitalOcean says it is now an OpenRouter AI model provider

  The cloud provider says DeepSeek V3.2, Kimi K2.6 and DeepSeek V4 Flash are available, but pricing and hosting details are not disclosed.

• Cognition turns Windsurf into Devin Desktop, a command center for coding agents

  The new desktop app adds a Kanban-style agent manager, Spaces for shared context, ACP support for third-party agents and a Rust rewrite of Cognition's local agent.

• Microsoft's MAI Thinking 1 surfaces in a 109-page technical report, ML nerds geek out

  A Microsoft-hosted PDF is circulating, but public details on access, pricing, and deployment are not established in the thread.

• Microsoft AI launches seven-model MAI family as Suleyman pushes in-house frontier lab

  Microsoft AI says the lineup spans reasoning, coding, image, transcription and voice, with MAI-Thinking-1 matching leading software engineering benchmarks and reaching preference parity with Sonnet 4.6.

• Public.com Lets AI Agents Automate Bank Transfers

  The New York investing platform says users can now create plain-English automations that move cash between connected bank accounts and brokerage accounts.

• The Era of Slow, Awkward Humanoid Robots Is Ending

  A short X video shows the robot upgrade, but DEEP Robotics did not publish payload numbers, pricing or deployment details.

• Finbarr Timbers Says He Is Leaving Ai2 After Open-Model Work

  The AI researcher and investor, whose work spans reinforcement learning, game AI and generative models, praised Ai2's open-model push but did not name his next role.

• Factory launches Router to pick cheaper AI models for coding tasks

  Factory says Router is in private research preview and matched most of Opus 4.7's benchmark pass rate at 20% to 25% lower cost.

• Goodfire AI says it raised $150 million to make LLM internals auditable

  The Series B is said to value Goodfire AI at $1.25 billion, though investors and valuation terms were not disclosed in the supplied materials.

• Dashlane says attackers stole some customers' encrypted password vaults

  Dashlane says about 20 accounts were accessed after attackers brute-forced 2FA to register new devices and download vaults.

• Focused Energy raises $240M Series A for laser fusion

  RWE was the main investor as Thomas Forner and Markus Roth aim to turn direct-drive laser fusion into grid power, with a first grid MWh targeted for 2037.

• Opal Electronics turns from webcams to AI audio with OpenAI cash

  WIRED reports OpenAI put $40 million into Opal, which is now preparing an AI audio device rather than another phone replacement.