Rocket Lab signs 20-launch agreement with Synspective
Rocket Lab signed a 20-mission Electron launch agreement with Japanese radar satellite operator Synspective, Ars Technica reported, citing Aviation Week & Space Technology. Rocket Lab calls it its largest Electron launch service a...
Halluminate raises $30M for AI financial training environments
Halluminate raised a $30M Series A led by Oak HC/FT, bringing its total funding to $38.5M, Fortune reported. The nine-person San Francisco startup builds environments for training AI to perform complex financial work, giving the f...
OpenAI deploys Jalapeño chips with AMD Turin host processors
OpenAI is deploying its Jalapeño custom AI chips internally alongside AMD EPYC Turin host processors, each with 1.5TB of memory, Tom's Hardware reported. OpenAI hardware chief Richard Ho said the company chose Turin to reduce depl...
Mercor study finds AI outperforms accountants on simplified bookkeeping tasks
AI models performed structured bookkeeping tasks faster, more accurately and at lower cost than licensed accountants in a Mercor study, The Decoder reported. Twelve CPAs with an average of five and a half years of experience compl...
Suno opens public beta for speech generation with optional music
Suno has launched Speech in public beta on its web and mobile platforms, extending its AI music service to spoken voice generation, The Verge reported. Users can generate voiceovers and accompanying background music together, or s...
Supabase announces Turso acquisition to build databases for AI agents
Supabase announced it is acquiring Turso to build database infrastructure for AI agents. Turso's team will join Supabase, with co-founder Glauber Costa leading the agent infrastructure effort. Supabase says Turso rebuilt SQLite i...
