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Tutor Intelligence raised $75M led by a16z for Sonny and Cassie, robot workers customers pay for by the hour or by the pick. Remote "tutors" guide them, and every shift trains Tutor's robot model. Target: 1,000+ robots by end of 2027. spectrumweb.co/news/tutor-in… #Robotics #AI

Sentra raised a $150M Series C led by Capital One Ventures to control what AI agents can reach inside company data. It protects data where it's stored rather than inspecting every agent request, and grew 300%+ in a year. spectrumweb.co/news/sentra-1… #AI #Cybersecurity

Preferred Networks opened PLaMo 3 Translate: four translation models from 0.8B to 31B, 53 languages, running fully offline. PFN showed the 0.8B one translating on a phone in airplane mode. Free for non-commercial use. spectrumweb.co/news/pfn-plam… #AI #OpenWeights

Traversal raised $120M at a $1B valuation for AI agents that work out why production software breaks. Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint and Khosla co-led. Monthly investigations went from 513 to nearly 73,000 this year. spectrumweb.co/news/traversa… #AI #DevOps

Dharma-AI's 2B Field Extractor reads a document image and returns typed JSON, filling your schema exactly and returning null for missing fields. On its own benchmark it scores 0.834 vs 0.816 for Claude Opus 5. spectrumweb.co/news/dharma-f… #AI #DocumentAI

webAI released TwIL-8B, an 8.8B reasoning model post-trained from IBM Granite 4.2. It scores 98.2 on MATH-500, thinks with far fewer tokens than Qwen3.5-9B, and ships a 5 GB build for local use. Non-commercial licence. spectrumweb.co/news/webai-tw… #AI #LocalAI

Ricursive released Ripple-65B Preview, a dense 65B model trained from scratch on 12T tokens, under Apache 2.0. It reports 80.52 on TerminalBench 2.1, ahead of US open models up to 975B, and fits on a DGX Spark. spectrumweb.co/news/ricursiv… #AI #OpenSource

Macrocosmos released IOTA Decide 4B, an Apache-2.0 model that answers with calibrated probabilities instead of text, for routing, policy and triage calls. Built on Qwen3.5-4B, fine-tuned across 16 internet-connected GPUs. spectrumweb.co/news/macrocos… #AI #OpenSource

OpenAI is acquiring Pierre, the small team whose Trees and Diffs libraries already power file browsing and code review in Codex. Code Storage moves into Codex, the open-source tools stay open, terms undisclosed. spectrumweb.co/news/openai-a… #AI #OpenSource

Berlin fintech Pliant raised an $80M Series C led by Seaya Nova and Speedinvest. Past $100M ARR, it lets agents like Claude and ChatGPT run B2B payments via MCP, with permissions and audit trails. Next: US and Canada. spectrumweb.co/news/pliant-8… #AI #Fintech

Meta bought Conductor, the app for running teams of AI coding agents in parallel. The team joins Meta Superintelligence Labs; terms undisclosed. Conductor Cloud shuts down Nov 20, and a new product is promised early next year. spectrumweb.co/news/meta-acq… #AI #DevTools

XPENG-backed researchers open-sourced GroundingPI, a 4B vision model that tells robots where things are. It scored 73.68 vs GPT-6 Astra's 71.54 across 34 perception benchmarks, and beat rivals in sim with half the demo data. spectrumweb.co/news/xpeng-gr… #Robotics #OpenSource

Cognition launched SWE-2 Flash, a coding model for Devin at 1/5 the price and ~3x the speed of SWE-2. Built on Thinking Machines' Inkling-Small (276B, 12B active). Weights are held back over cyber risk, shared only with vetted partners. spectrumweb.co/news/cognitio… #AI #LLM

Baidu unveiled Apollo World, a world model whose virtual cities react to a robotaxi in real time. Baidu says it simulates up to 100,000 km of driving a day, about 3 years of road testing, and it's already validating Apollo Go. spectrumweb.co/news/baidu-ap… #AI #Robotics

Teton built a world model for care homes. Cassandra is trained on 140M real behavioral events and, in one example, flagged elevated fall risk 3+ minutes before the fall. It can also simulate how a nap or fall changes the next day. spectrumweb.co/news/teton-ca… #AI #HealthTech

Tencent released Hy4, the official version of its 770B Hunyuan model. It adds vision and computer use for the first time, cuts its internal hallucination rate from 15.8% to 5.5%, keeps preview pricing, and open weights are on the way. spectrumweb.co/news/tencent-… #AI #OpenSource

OpenAI rebuilt the Git backend behind its monorepo because Codex agents were swamping it. Pando handles each branch independently and reuses packs across clients, cutting median push latency nearly 5x. Built in Rust in 10 weeks. spectrumweb.co/news/openai-p… #AI #DevTools

Trajectory raised a $45M Series A at a $300M valuation, led by Sequoia with Nvidia in. It lets lawyers, analysts and support teams keep post-training open models on real production feedback, each update gated by their own evals. spectrumweb.co/news/trajecto… #AI #OpenSource

The FBI says North Korea's TraderTraitor was behind the record $6.3B Binance hack. ~$3B was frozen on-chain, withdrawals reopened with $3.64B net outflow on day one, and Binance published a zero-knowledge proof of reserves for 10 tokens. spectrumweb.co/news/binance-… #Web3 #Crypto

Marvell is buying Lumentum in an all-stock deal at a $115B implied value, betting AI data centers are moving from copper to optics. Lasers, transceivers and the chips that drive them under one roof, with closing expected in 1H 2028. spectrumweb.co/news/marvell-… #AI #Semiconductors