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Investor named among backers of Berachain's $142 million across two rounds.
Cantina released apex-flash-1, an open-weights vulnerability-research model it says solved 40 of 60 tasks for $2.38, against $74.68 for Claude Opus 5 High. There is no hosted endpoint, so teams download the 321-billion-parameter weights, pay for their own inference and verify the numbers themselves.
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Cantina released Apex Flash-1, an open-weights security model fine-tuned on 50 of its own vulnerability cases. Its only performance evidence is a 60-task evaluation the company ran itself, and a separate build is modified to refuse fewer requests.
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Vishal Garg and Daniel Lewis are arguing through SEC filings, X threads and a 13-month text log ahead of a shareholder vote that decides who runs a mortgage lender the market values at $230 million.
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Mecka AI pays people to wear sensors while they make coffee or fix cars, and two people told TechCrunch that Sequoia is leading a round at about $500 million, three months after a $60 million round. The terms are not final.
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The ticker swap costs nothing and fixes nothing. Berachain holds about $32 million in TVL, took in roughly $27 of fees in a day, and BERA is down about 99% from its high.
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