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Ship Your Own App on Flux by 25 October and Five Builds Win Hosting Paid Back
Flux’s #FluxWeek43 contest runs to 23:59 UTC on 25 Oct. Deploy your own Docker app; five winners get 3 months’ hosting paid back in FLUX, up to 300.
Together AI Lets Teams Write Their Own RL Loops on Open Models
Together AI launches Together Post-Training for custom RL and SFT on open models, at $9 per B200 GPU-hour for eight weeks. Customer quotes are supplied.
Inception Says Mercury 3 Diffusion Model Tops GPT-6 Luna at 4–8x the Speed
Inception launches Mercury 3, a diffusion LLM with a 1M-token context. It claims wins over GPT-6 Luna and Haiku 5.5 at 4–8x the speed; unverified.
Cloudflare Says Clairic Pulls Typed Data From Text in Under a Second
Cloudflare previews Clairic, a one-pass extraction model on Workers AI. Open weights planned; speed and cost figures are Cloudflare’s own tests.
Modal to Run Sandboxes on NVIDIA Vera CPUs After Early Tests
Modal plans NVIDIA Vera CPUs for Sandboxes after early tests showed up to 2x throughput. Serial gains not always; no rollout date. Mixed fleet via Reuters.
Town Hits $1 Billion Valuation With $108M Series B for Team AI
Town raises a $108M Series B at a $1 billion valuation for collaborative AI assistants called Townies. Paying-customer growth figures are company claims.
DOE Puts Up to $42m in DPA Funds Behind Proposed Constitution Pipeline
DOE will use up to $42m of Defense Production Act funds for pre-construction and permitting on the proposed 125-mile Constitution gas pipeline.
Red Cat Offers €39 a Share for Steyr Motors, Maker of Its Drone-Boat Engine
Red Cat proposes a €39-a-share cash offer for Austria's Steyr Motors, whose engine powers its V7 drone boat. The offer document is not out yet.
Scripps Research Gets Over 14 Million GPU Hours From Huang Foundation
Scripps Research gets more than 14 million GPU hours from the Huang Foundation via CoreWeave/NVIDIA. In-kind; no dollar value.
Super League Voters Clear Path for Metaplanet’s 2,100 BTC Deal
Super League stockholders approved Metaplanet’s 2,100 BTC investment. Rename to Superplanet planned; deal not yet closed. Company BTC valuations only.
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