Pronto’s 10-minute house help pitch sparked a 3.6x valuation jump in just 90 days
Pronto has raised $11 million in an all-equity Series A round co-led by General Catalyst and Glade Brook Capital at a post-money valuation of $45 million.
August 2025
Seoul-based Datumo raises $15.5M to take on Scale AI, backed by Salesforce
Datumo began as an AI data labeling company and now wants to help businesses build safer AI with tools and data that enable testing, monitoring, and improving their models —…
Genie Envisioner: A Unified Video-Generative Platform for Scalable, Instruction-Driven Robotic Manipulation
Embodied AI agents that can perceive, think, and act in the real world mark a key step toward the future of robotics. A central challenge is building scalable, reliable robotic…
NuMind AI Releases NuMarkdown-8B-Thinking: A Reasoning Breakthrough in OCR and Document-to-Markdown Conversion
NuMind AI has officially released NuMarkdown-8B-Thinking, an open-source (MIT License) reasoning OCR Vision-Language Model (VLM) that redefines how complex documents are digitized and structured. Unlike traditional OCR systems, NuMarkdown-8B-Thinking doesn’t…
Slow Ventures cuts first check from $60M creator fund into woodworking founder
This marks the first investment for Slow’s $60 million Creator Fund since its launch in February. The fund looks to help creators launch businesses, under the belief that what made…
iOS 26 beta 6 adds new ringtones, snappy app launches, and more
The new developer beta release, iOS 26 beta 6, adds new ringtones, faster app launches, and fixes the Camera swipe direction issues.
OpenAI Scrambles to Update GPT-5 After Users Revolt
GPT-5 was touted as a major upgrade to ChatGPT. Not all users think that’s the case, posting threads like “Kill 4o isn’t innovation, it’s erasure,” on Reddit.
Sam Altman and the whale
My colleague Grace Huckins has a great story on OpenAI’s release of GPT-5, its long-awaited new flagship model. One of the takeaways, however, is that while GPT-5 may make for…
Poshmark CEO and founder to step down
After nearly 15 years, Manish Chandra will transition to being a member of the board of directors. Namsun Kim, who has served as executive chairman since April, has been appointed…
US government seized $1M from Russian ransomware gang
A global law enforcement coalition targeted the infrastructure of the group behind the Royal and BlackSuit ransomware strains, allegedly responsible for extorting victims out of $370 million since 2022.