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• Resect AI raises $25M to inspect and modify enterprise LLM behavior

  Kevin Owens and three co-founders are betting enterprise buyers will pay for model-level intervention beyond dashboards that score bad answers.

• Claude Desktop is ready to test Android apps, whenever Anthropic flips the switch

  Production packages include Android Studio setup, ADB controls, screenshots, recordings and device permissions, while public docs remain iOS-only.

• OpenAI quietly ships "Watch and fix" for Codex pull requests

  The production desktop app can assign Codex to keep checking a PR every 10 minutes, repair CI failures and merge conflicts, push fixes, and optionally continue until the pull request merges.

• OpenAI prices GPT-6 Astra at Claude Fable 5.1's $10/$50 rate

  The new model costs 2.5x more per token than GPT-5.6 Sol's current promotional rate, putting the premium on autonomous work.

• Hidden ChatGPT modal previews new ImageGen 2.5 model

  The unreleased interface promises higher-quality results and smarter tools, while OpenAI's public documentation still lists Images 2.0.

• OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra as Brockman declares the 'AGI era' has begun

  The flagship costs 2.5 times more than GPT-5.6 Sol, reaches cyber customers first and produces reasoning OpenAI says is harder to monitor.

• Codex leak labels OpenAI's Astra as GPT-6 ahead of release

  Two model IDs appeared in a Codex Desktop feature flag two days after OpenAI said Astra would be available soon.

• Lyte raises $165M to build the sensor stack robots keep rebuilding

  Maverick Silicon led the round at a $1.6B valuation, backing Apple and PrimeSense veterans Alexander Shpunt, Arman Hajati and Yuval Gerson.

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• Claude Desktop is ready to test Android apps, whenever Anthropic flips the switch

  Production packages include Android Studio setup, ADB controls, screenshots, recordings and device permissions, while public docs remain iOS-only.

• OpenAI quietly ships "Watch and fix" for Codex pull requests

  The production desktop app can assign Codex to keep checking a PR every 10 minutes, repair CI failures and merge conflicts, push fixes, and optionally continue until the pull request merges.

• OpenAI is turning Flipper’s BUSY Bar into a physical ChatGPT status light

  RuntimeWire found a hidden, disabled-by-default BUSY Bar control in the latest desktop build, plus a dedicated animation package for task, ready, pending, error and disconnected states.

• Kimi Work 3.2.4's hidden system prompt override triggered local file reads without approval

  A controlled Windows test reproduced the read in Manual approval mode; a restored-default control stayed clean, and no network transmission occurred.

• Anthropic asks court to restrict Reddit’s AI team from Claude’s trade secrets

  Anthropic says Reddit's internal AI work makes some in-house counsel a competitive risk during discovery.

• OpenAI built a hidden task system for ChatGPT inside Excel and PowerPoint files

  The unreleased desktop feature turns comments on cells, charts, slides and shapes into threaded assignments that ChatGPT can complete in batches.

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Stories

• AI Score raises $5.4M to keep enterprise AI agents on a leash

  Alex Harland and Benita Tibb are turning national-security and legal experience into a runtime control layer for corporate AI.

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• Zoox adds Las Vegas airport rides, where robotaxis meet actual luggage

  Jesse Levinson's purpose-built vehicles now serve both LAS terminals, less than a month after Zoox began charging fares.

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• COPA releases 9B Armenian model with full training data and recipe

  Erik Arakelyan's team released a 9B-parameter base model, a 4.37M-document corpus and verified STEM data for Armenian developers.

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• Carbon Aware Pricing simulates cleaner tariffs across 38 grids

  Halil Yavuzhan Mekeci turned a Geneva master's thesis into a daily simulation spanning Switzerland and 37 US power regions.

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• Ozz Health pilots an AI guide for the hours hospitals leave unexplained

  Galit Desheh, a trauma and gender scholar, founded Ozz Health to give patients context clinicians often lack time to provide.

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• Backbone raises €4M to pull food compliance out of spreadsheets

  The former Henchman operators are building AI agents for supplier records, lab results and audits, with Agristo and Darta on the cap table.

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• TrustKernel ships a $149 AI computer designed to keep agents off your phone

  Li Wenhao's PlugClaw pairs a USB-C Android computer with cloud inference inside a hardware-protected environment that TrustKernel says keeps data hidden from both itself and the cloud provider.

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• AgentConnect study finds coding agents often choose grep over LSP

  Pengcheng Xu's preliminary study found that tool choice followed the task, while location-only LSP results increased follow-up reads and token use.

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• Superluminal raises $60M to move its GPCR obesity drug into Phase 1

  BVF led the round as founders Cony D'Cruz and Ajay Yekkirala prepare an oral MC4R agonist for human testing by year-end.

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• Warp launches Factory Benchmarks to test agents on work teams actually do

  Zach Lloyd is turning past agent runs into model evaluations and routing rules, with an internal cost claim that still needs outside proof.

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• Nopixel sets September 8th beta as Twitch schedules 23 days of Drops

  Nopixel's Koil-led roleplay project opens its closed beta September 8th for 448 invited players through the Rockstar Games Launcher, while Twitch runs a GTA RP campaign through September 30th.

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• Fal launches H3 Max Director for live, steerable AI video

  Fal's H3 Max Director turns short generated clips into a WebRTC session that developers can steer with live prompts. The API supports 24 fps output and remembers up to 50 earlier prompt segments. Fal launched it with a [75% generation discount](https://x.com/fal/status/2095599871449342288) for the first two weeks.

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• Figure commits $3.5B in compute to Nscale for up to 100,000 Rubin GPUs

  Figure targets initial deployment in Barstow, Texas, in the second half of 2027; Nscale will take an undisclosed stake and serve as Figure's preferred compute provider.

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• Dravite Therapeutics discloses $53M financing without naming a drug program

  Founded in 2025, Dravite Therapeutics has reported nearly $68M in equity sales across two offerings; its filings do not identify a drug program or participating investors.

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• Codex leak labels OpenAI's Astra as GPT-6 ahead of release

  Two model IDs appeared in a Codex Desktop feature flag two days after OpenAI said Astra would be available soon.

  4 upvotes

• OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra as Brockman declares the 'AGI era' has begun

  The flagship costs 2.5 times more than GPT-5.6 Sol, reaches cyber customers first and produces reasoning OpenAI says is harder to monitor.

  3 upvotes

• Atira raises $17.5M after landing industrial customers without a sales team

  Accel led the $15M seed as Palantir and Google alumni Florian Diegruber and August DuMont Schuette prepare Atira's first commercial hires.

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• Ansh Chokshi and Shashwat Kapoor build Mireye's location layer for AI agents

  Mireye's API and MCP server return cited parcel, hazard, utility and site-selection data across the US.

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• SerenX discloses $2.3M offering a year after first sale

  Scott Hasbrouck's Florida defense startup sold the offering to six accredited investors and says its 2.8-kilogram interceptor reached Technology Readiness Level 6.

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• Kacey Musgraves puts Meta Quest viewers inside a Texas honky-tonk

  The VR180 production moves viewers from stage to guitar circle to rodeo, making the headset part of the concert rather than another screen.

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• OpenAI prices GPT-6 Astra at Claude Fable 5.1's $10/$50 rate

  The new model costs 2.5x more per token than GPT-5.6 Sol's current promotional rate, putting the premium on autonomous work.

  2 upvotes

• Cloudflare launches OpenAI-powered vulnerability defense tied to live traffic

  Matthew Prince's latest security bet uses GPT-5.6 Cyber to rank findings, propose patches and prepare WAF rules, with humans approving every change.

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• Osaurus ships a 6.3 GB agent model for 8GB and 16GB Macs

  Raptor 0.5 activates about 1B of 7.9B parameters and targets file, spreadsheet and email tasks on Apple Silicon.

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• Crusoe signs reported $13B Jane Street cloud deal amid $3B fundraising talks

  The five-year GPU contract would turn a former quant trader's energy startup into Jane Street's second multibillion-dollar AI cloud supplier.

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• NVIDIA PAIR turns spare PCs into a local AI inference cluster

  The open-source beta routes parallel agent requests across Windows, Linux and macOS devices without pooling their GPU memory.

  1 upvote

• TrndX raises $3.175M to make an AI cloud fit in a rack

  The fully sold equity offering gives optical-switching veteran Jitender Miglani fresh capital for TrndX's UniFlex infrastructure platform.

  1 upvote

• Context7 launches Docs7, a Mintlify-compatible documentation host built for agents

  Upstash's new product serves Markdown, WebMCP search and agent analytics, with a free tier and a $200 monthly Pro plan.

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• Thinking Machines seeks $1B-plus at a $40B valuation after last fall's $50B ask

  The lower target still values Mira Murati's AI lab at more than three times its July 2025 post-money price.

  1 upvote

• Hidden ChatGPT modal previews new ImageGen 2.5 model

  The unreleased interface promises higher-quality results and smarter tools, while OpenAI's public documentation still lists Images 2.0.

  1 upvote

• Tesla opens Cybercab fleet interest list, leaves the economics for later

  The form asks about fleet purchases and deployment regions but gives no price, delivery schedule or Robotaxi revenue-sharing terms.

  1 upvote

• Browser Use gives web agents single-use cards for checkout

  The Link integration lets users approve purchases without exposing their underlying card details to the browser agent.

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• Google DeepMind plans to bring WeatherNext 3 forecasts to Search, Maps and Gemini

  The joint Google DeepMind and Google Research project is moving into consumer products, developer APIs and cloud datasets, where company-reported benchmark gains will meet real weather.

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• Google rolls Gemini voice controls into Gmail, Docs and Keep

  Gmail Live and Keep Live reach Plus, Pro and Ultra plans; Docs Live requires Pro or Ultra, with business access promised later.

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• IFM releases six K2 Horizon models with training records for outsiders to inspect

  Eric Xing's MBZUAI institute published models from 0.9B to 375B parameters, along with code, data recipes, checkpoints and benchmark caveats.

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• OpenAI teases Astra with MIT's 1979 voice-and-gesture interface

  The clip points toward a multimodal launch two days after OpenAI said its delayed Astra model would arrive soon.

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• Anthropic cuts Fable 5.1 cache-read prices 75% for long-running agents

  Input remains $10 and output $50 per million tokens, while Anthropic estimates the cache discount can lower highly agentic workload costs by roughly 45%.

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• Resect AI raises $25M to inspect and modify enterprise LLM behavior

  Kevin Owens and three co-founders are betting enterprise buyers will pay for model-level intervention beyond dashboards that score bad answers.

  0 upvotes

• OpenAI investigates ChatGPT and Codex outage across nearly every major feature

  Errors hit conversations, login, Search, uploads, Voice, Agent and Codex; OpenAI had not published a cause.

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