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Apple has made available the first release candidates for macOS Sequoia 15.8.2 and macOS Tahoe 26.7.2 to both developers and public beta testers. These updates focus on delivering security improvements, with Apple indicating they are recommended for all users. The builds are numbered 24H219 for Sequoia and 25G320 for Tahoe, and their official release is expected soon alongside macOS 27.2 Golden Gate beta 2.
Healthleap, a startup founded in South Africa in 2022, has raised $38 million across seed and Series A rounds to expand its AI platform that scans hospital patient records for signs of undiagnosed conditions. The funding includes an $8 million seed round co-led by Sequoia Capital and First Round Capital, plus a $30 million Series A led by Hummingbird Ventures. The company's system, now deployed in more than 50 hospitals, mines clinicians' written notes alongside structured data like labs and vitals to flag risks such as malnutrition and delirium.
Apple has released the initial release candidates for macOS Sequoia 15.8.2 and macOS Tahoe 26.7.2, skipping the usual preceding beta builds as it typically does for point updates to older macOS versions. Apple's notes describe the updates only as containing important security fixes recommended for all users, without further detail. The builds are identified as 24H219 for Sequoia and 25G320 for Tahoe.
German robotics startup RobCo has surpassed a $1 billion valuation through a secondary share sale that let long-tenured employees cash out part of their equity. Existing backers Sequoia, Lightspeed, Greenfield, Kindred, Lingotto and Promus Ventures joined new investors Cherry Ventures and European Tech Collective in the round, which follows a $100 million Series C announced in January 2026. The company plans a 2027 commercial launch of its autonomous robot Alfie, with a focus on expanding in the US manufacturing market.
Flow Engineering, a three-year-old San Francisco startup building AI agents for hardware design, announced a $50 million Series B round valuing the company at $750 million. The round was co-led by Antonio Gracias of Valar Equity Partners and Gavin Baker of Atreides Management, with participation from Sequoia Capital and individual investor Roelof Botha, who is joining Flow's board. The company's software automatically reconciles CAD drawings with product requirements and simulation data, and counts Anduril, Rivian, Joby Aviation and General Motors PPU among its customers.
Apple has released three macOS updates: 27.0.1 Golden Gate, 26.7.1 for Tahoe, and 15.8.1 for Sequoia, arriving a week after the second round of release candidates. Apple says the Tahoe and Sequoia updates patch a CoreGraphics out-of-bounds write flaw (CVE-2026-86950) that may have been exploited in a highly targeted attack on older iOS versions, while 27.0.1 has no published CVE entries.
Instinct, maker of a viral AI assistant that performs tasks like booking travel and making calls on users' behalf, has raised $1 billion in a Series C round led by investors including Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital and Coatue. The round values the company at $10 billion, just a month after a prior raise valued it at $2.5 billion, and comes roughly a year after its invite-only launch in August 2026.
Apple has released second release candidates for macOS Tahoe 26.7.1 (build 25G313) and macOS Sequoia 15.8.1 (build 24H212), following the first RCs issued less than a week earlier. Apple later made these builds available as public release candidates as well. The company says both updates provide important security fixes recommended for all users, without detailing specifics.
Apple has pushed out a second round of release candidates for macOS Tahoe 26.7.1 (build 25G313) and macOS Sequoia 15.8.1 (build 24H212), just days after the first RCs. Apple describes both updates as containing important security fixes recommended for all users, without further detail yet on what's being patched.
Apple has pushed out the first release candidates for macOS Tahoe 26.7.1 (build 25G309) and macOS Sequoia 15.8.1 (build 24H208), just days after releasing macOS Tahoe 26.7 and Sequoia 15.8. Both updates are described only as containing important security fixes recommended for all users, with no other changes noted in the release notes.
AI-search marketing startup Profound announced a $180 million Series D funding round led by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins, valuing the company at $1.8 billion. The raise comes less than seven months after its $96 million Series C, with existing backers Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, and South Park Commons also joining in. Profound says revenue has tripled in six months and it now serves over 1,000 enterprise clients, including Comcast, Estée Lauder, and Walmart.
Mecka AI, a startup that pays people to record themselves performing everyday tasks to generate motion data for training humanoid robots, is close to finalizing a new funding round led by Sequoia Capital valuing the company at roughly $500 million. The deal comes just three months after Mecka raised $60 million in a round led by Framework Ventures, though the exact size of the new round remains unknown and terms could still change.