Sabi raised a $50M seed round led by Khosla Ventures to build a non-invasive brain-AI interface disguised as a baseball cap — custom EEG chip, 100,000 hours of neural training data, and a public debut planned for CES 2027.
OpenAI discontinued ChatGPT Atlas on August 9, 2026, folding its agentic browsing features into the ChatGPT app and a Chrome extension instead.
DeepReinforce’s Ornith-1.5 ships MIT-licensed open weights in 9B, 35B, and 397B sizes — trained in a loop where the model generates its own tasks.
Anthropic published the Automated Alignment Researcher harness on GitHub: the full agent loop, 10 benchmarks, integrity monitor — and one license caveat.
Continuum AI has launched OrcaCyber Zero 1.5, a gated cybersecurity reasoning model with a 1M-token context window that claims 100% on Cybench — plus plans for an open-weight release next week.
LG will build a next-gen bipedal humanoid on NVIDIA’s Isaac GR00T, with a public unveiling set for Q1 2027, under an MoU signed August 13 in Santa Clara.
Build a complete RAG pipeline from open-source parts: chunk documents, embed them, store vectors in Qdrant, and answer with a local LLM.
OpenAI completed a $7B employee share buyback on August 10 at its $852B valuation — self-funded, with no outside investors, and no valuation bump.
DeepSeek’s V4.1 Flash pairs a 552B-parameter MoE with an MIT license and 1M-token context. What the open-weights efficiency release changes.
vLLM 0.28.0 ships with 584 commits: Kimi-K3 optimization push, DeepSeek V4 sparse MLA, tiered KV-cache offloading, and a new Rust/gRPC frontend.
