The infra behind some of the fastest growing consumer AI agents we know and love? Kernel.

Armadin raises $255.5M in Series B funding co-led by @a16z and @accel to bring proof, not assumptions, to the organizations that need it most. Read more: armadin.com/blog-posts/inves…

As OpenAI and Anthropic grapple with how to safely push the AI frontier, Accel’s Matt Weigand says “alignment needs to keep pace” with rapidly improving capabilities and expects cybersecurity companies to play a role in making that happen bit.ly/4rwzjnO

Cognition has crossed $1B in annualized revenue run rate. This milestone belongs to our customers. Here's how a few of them are building with Devin.

We @Accel are excited to have led the pre-seed round in @andocorporation, and deepen our partnership with @saradu as they announce their seed round and $20M in total funding led by our friends at @IndexVentures and @emergencecap. Ando is a new team messaging product, built for a world where humans and agents work side by side. Agents are now very capable partners across software development, customer support, legal, finance, and many other functions. And as AI-native work becomes more multiplayer, coordinating context, memory, and activity across a growing number of agents is the new bottleneck. Today, Ando is opening up access to more teams, and you can sign up at ando.so/ More in the video and comments below on what makes Ando so unique.

I first came to San Francisco when I was 15, with my dad. He is a programmer. To a teenager from a small island outside of Stockholm, this was the place where the future was being built. We walked into Salesforce East and stood there watching the enormous digital display of moving water. Outside, Salesforce Tower was starting to rise. I remember looking up and thinking it would be pretty sweet to have a tower someday. We are not there yet. What I could not have known is that I would be back years later, having dinner with @Benioff and welcoming @salesforce as a @WeAreLegora customer. Salesforce's Legal and Corporate Affairs organization will now use Legora across North America, EMEA and APAC. Their lawyers keep the judgment calls. We take care of the work around them. We have run on Slack since day one and became Salesforce customers when our sales team outgrew its first CRM, so it is good to have it run in the other direction too. Welcome to Legora, Salesforce. Dad, this one feels special.

We built high-throughput materials labs in Menlo Park to create a loop between experiments and models. The labs generate fresh data, the models learn from it, and then help us decide what to try next. Using only 1,300 H200s, plus months of our experimental data, we mid-trained and RL’d an open-source model to surpass GPT-6 Astra on our analysis benchmark. We call it Neon. This is real footage from our lab. We’re focusing first on hard problems in materials science, including superconductors, magnets, and semiconductor materials. Read our blog posts below.