Crucible Accelerator Fall 2026: no-equity defense dual-use program
The Crucible Accelerator (Inland Empire Tech Bridge, powered by FedTech) runs an 8-week virtual Fall 2026 cohort from October to December for 12 defense and dual-use startups, taki…
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OpenAI open-sources Codex Security CLI for pre-merge vulnerability scanning
In late July 2026 OpenAI released its Codex Security CLI and SDK as open source under Apache 2.0 (npm install @openai/codex-security). It scans repositories, reviews staged and uns…
Ex-DOGE founders raise $160M at $1.4B for AI cyber startup Cathedral
In late July 2026, Cathedral, a stealth military-cybersecurity startup founded by four former DOGE staffers (Gavin Kliger, Luke Farritor, Marko Elez and Jack Stein), raised $160 mi…
Moonshot releases Kimi K3, the largest open-weight AI model to date
Moonshot AI released open weights for Kimi K3 on July 27, 2026: a 2.8-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with a 1-million-token context window, the largest open-weight mod…
Anthropic ships Claude Opus 5 — near-top-tier performance at half the price
On July 24, 2026 Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, its fourth new model in under 60 days (after Sonnet 5, Fable 5 and Mythos 5 in June). Opus 5 delivers close to flagship Fable 5 q…
Etched raises $300M at $10.3B valuation for transformer-only AI inference chips
On July 23, 2026 AI-chip startup Etched — founded by three Harvard dropouts in 2022 — closed a $300M Series C led by Sequoia at a $10.3B valuation, with a16z, Jane Street and SK Hy…
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