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AuxoAI Raises Over $20 Million Series A to Bring AI Expertise to Enterprises

Enterprise engineering and consulting firm AuxoAI announced it has closed a $20.7 million Series A funding round led by NTT Venture Capital to accelerate growth and expand its enterprise AI consulting model. Its core platform, Damia, is a toolkit for "forward-deployed engineers" that turns enterprise data into applications and encodes business process knowledge into AI agents capable of long-term collaboration. The company has worked with Global 2000 enterprises for more than three years and has partnerships with platforms including Google, AWS, Snowflake, Databricks and Microsoft.

Firefly raises $20 million Series A to use AI to improve safety in the physical world

AI startup Firefly Technology has raised a $20 million Series A round led by Definition Capital, with participation from BoxGroup and Susa Ventures. The funds will be used to bring AI into the physical world and improve workplace safety. Its Ember Safety Management platform can integrate existing equipment such as cameras, sensors and radios, and comes with hardware including wearable emergency buttons, AI beacons and network gateways. The platform has been deployed across three campuses of Front Range Community College, the largest community college in Colorado.

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Ant inclusionAI Open-Sources Ming-3.0-asr-tiny: Supports Chinese-English Transcription, Dialect Recognition, and Context ASR

Ant inclusionAI has open-sourced Ming-3.0-asr-tiny on GitHub, combining the Ling-tiny-v3 language model with an audio encoder to support Chinese-English transcription, dialect recognition, and Context ASR. Dialect evaluation covers 15 test sets including Hunan, Minnan, Cantonese, and Sichuan-Chongqing; Context ASR can recognize proper nouns via hotwords in prompts or preceding dialogue. The inference stack uses Transformers 5.12.1, fla-core 0.5.2, and PyTorch 2.11.0, and provides an SGLang accelerated deployment example.

Ant Group's inclusionAI publishes the sglang_ling_v3 repository on GitHub

Ant Group's inclusionAI launches the sglang_ling_v3 repository on GitHub. Its contents are based on the open-source inference framework SGLang, which targets large language models, vision-language models, and diffusion models, and is optimized for agent workloads, large-scale serving, and RL rollout. The repository README shows that SGLang supports GPU, TPU, NPU, CPU, and Apple Silicon, and includes the built-in image and video generation engine SGLang Diffusion.

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Zihao Input Method Lands on iPhone: Built on the Rime Engine, Supports Importing Custom Schemes

The author has released Zihao, an iPhone input method built on the Rime (Zhongzhouyun) engine with Song Pinyin built in. Basic typing features are free and ad-free, and typing content is processed only on the phone. It supports importing Rime configuration folders, ZIP, YAML, or GitHub repositories with automatic updates, and dictionaries can be synced in Rime format to iCloud Drive and merged with Squirrel on Mac. The author says that in simulated tests, the first-try accuracy for sentences with 2 mistyped letters rose from 36% to 56%, and for 3 mistyped letters from 26% to 53%.

Wabi personal AI assistant is now available for download on iOS, Android, and Mac

Wabi, founded by Replika founder Eugenia Kuyda, opened public downloads of its personal AI assistant on October 19, covering iOS, Android, and Mac; it had been invite-only since September 28. The assistant is designed to be used together with family and friends, and can generate small apps such as shared calendars, itineraries, and trackers within conversations. It says it will confirm with users before important actions, and users can disconnect email, calendar, health, and other connections at any time. Andreessen Horowitz announced on November 5, 2025, that it had led its $20 million pre-seed round.

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ElevenLabs Launches Season 2 of Chroma Awards with Over $450,000 in Cash Prizes

Chroma Awards, the global AI creative competition incubated by ElevenLabs, has opened registration for its second season, featuring five tracks—film, music video, advertising, games, and behind-the-scenes—with a deadline of January 1, 2027. This season offers over $450,000 in cash prizes and travel benefits, and adds a new student award; ElevenLabs has also set up a separate $22,000 exclusive prize for works using tools such as ElevenCreative and ElevenMusic. In its first season, more than 5,550 creators from 122 countries submitted over 6,600 projects.

How to run n8n AI workflows on NVIDIA DGX Spark without calling cloud APIs

n8n Blog published a tutorial on how to deploy a complete model stack locally on a single NVIDIA DGX Spark, enabling n8n workflows to perform transcription, OCR, document Q&A, and image generation without calling cloud APIs. The entire stack exposes an OpenAI-compatible endpoint through LiteLLM; the main model is the NVFP4 version of Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, with a single-user generation speed of 120 tokens/s and an aggregate of 359 tokens/s across eight users. The author's testing found that image generation reduces chat speed to about one-third, and recommends that small teams queue image tasks or schedule them outside working hours.

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My Father's Final Weeks Show Why Canadian Healthcare Needs AI

An author, drawing on the personal experience of accompanying his father through cancer treatment, points out that Canadian healthcare information is fragmented and requires family members to manually piece it together, and calls for continuous, accessible patient records equipped with an AI assistant. The article notes that Quebec's DSQ automatically shares only part of the information, and that the Dossier santé numérique is still being piloted in Nord-de-l'Île-de-Montréal and Mauricie–Centre-du-Québec; Estonia has operated a nationwide health information system since 2008. The author also hypothesizes that with 1 million appointments per year, reducing the no-show rate from 10% to 7% would yield 30,000 additional visits, generating C$4.5 million in annual benefits at C$150 per visit.

A Guide to "Agent Engineering in Practice: Eight Lectures": Engineering Methods from Working Prototype to Production-Ready

The Tencent Cloud Developer Community has published a guide to "Agent Engineering in Practice: Eight Lectures," centered on how to upgrade a prototype capable of calling models and tools into a system that can complete business tasks, explain failures, control costs, and iterate continuously. The series runs through two fictional teaching cases—a case-filing assistant Agent and a postoperative follow-up Agent—covering eight topics: task contracts, reasoning and collaboration, context and memory, reliable tool execution, observability and replay, evaluation and calibration, security boundaries, and production operations. The article emphasizes that a model being able to suggest the next step does not mean the system can deliver business results; the example fields, budgets, and figures are all teaching calculations and do not constitute legal advice.