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• Researcher says Saudi government app shipped bank key behind password '2'

  Zachi says the Saudi National Bank credential, client ID and secret were removed and rotated before his September 8th disclosure.

• OpenAI says 10,000 AI agents solved Navier-Stokes in 88 hours

  OpenAI released a 165-page paper and Lean files, while Clay still lists the $1M Millennium Problem as unsolved.

• Meta tests Muse, a personal AI agent that can spend your money

  The invite-only iPhone app connects to email, calendars, health and financial data, then asks for approval before acting.

• GPT-6 Astra reads spectrograms as sound

  A user test suggests OpenAI's image-only input can infer audio from visual frequency patterns, four days after Astra's release.

• MiniMax H3 generates five-second clips faster than playback on eight NVIDIA B300s

  The 1.653-second benchmark used a four-step adapter, warm hardware and no MP4 encoding; H3's weights retain a separate community license.

• GPT-6 Astra helps run four Windows games locally on an iPad mini

  Google DeepMind design lead Ammaar Reshi showed Skyrim, Arkham City, Hades and Age of Empires II with touch controls and no streaming.

• OpenAI's code points to managed agents as Agent Builder winds down

  TestingCatalog found references to hosted and self-managed environments, skills and plugins ahead of OpenAI's September 29th DevDay.

• ChatGPT Work learns your writing style from Gmail, Slack and Drive

  The paid-plan feature builds a personal style profile from connected workplace tools and applies it across Work on web and mobile.

Investigations

• Microsoft is falling asleep at the wheel as hidden code reveals Google’s big Windows AI push

  Google once went to antitrust regulators to pry open Microsoft’s desktop search. Nearly 20 years later, hidden code shows it building an AI layer across Windows itself.

• OpenAI is preparing to pay you in ChatGPT credits for using Stripe, HubSpot and other plugins

  A gated Windows flow requires users to install a selected plugin and complete a successful action before credits reach their workspace.

• Antigravity code reveals Gemini-powered Vetted mode

  Version 2.12.2 contains a gated permission preset that assigns a second AI system to approve or reject an agent's proposed actions.

• Google Antigravity is testing Concierge, a voice activated coding assistant and bot wrangler

  The dev-only interface proposes reviewing agent conversations and code changes, with finalized speech sent automatically to a dedicated agent.

• Grok Bot is building server-synced memory for its AI coworkers

  Desktop version 0.39.0 defines list and put operations for per-agent profiles and logs behind a rollout gate, but its packaged code reveals no confirmed call site or conflict semantics.

• OpenAI is testing a Codex dashboard that shows which chats are eating your usage limits

  Windows build 7868 can rank up to 100 Work and Codex chats by five-hour, weekly and credit use, with a new system designed to include subagent activity under the parent task.

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Stories

• Pixxel raises $100M to build the rest of its Earth intelligence stack

  Temasek and Seraphim co-led the round, taking Pixxel's reported funding to $195M for new sensors, software and manufacturing.

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• LightSage raises $4M to turn AI agents into a growth channel

  Jun Liang Lee and Sean Er are extending a two-year developer-onboarding quest from documentation to machine customers.

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• WorldSculpt splits crowded 3D scenes into hundreds of editable meshes

  WorldSculpt reconstructs grounded, posed multi-view imagery, requiring camera poses, instance masks and coarse 3D boxes rather than raw phone video.

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• Radical Numerics post-trains Omnii for personalized mRNA cancer-vaccine design

  The Evo founders say one genome model can rank neoantigens and write an mRNA cassette; Omnii's evidence remains computational.

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• HelmGuard raises $7.3M to make AI agents inspect compliance evidence

  Former Palantir executive John Daley and AI researcher Jack Miller will use the seed round to expand in New York and San Francisco.

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• Meta opens Muse to US adults on WhatsApp, with a reported $100 tier

  Meta launched Muse in the United States on September 8th, 2026, adding iOS, Android, web and WhatsApp access, plus paid tiers and approval gates for purchases.

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• Researcher says Saudi government app shipped bank key behind password '2'

  Zachi says the Saudi National Bank credential, client ID and secret were removed and rotated before his September 8th disclosure.

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• Earthmover and Hugging Face tackle the slow part of fast weather AI

  The tutorial pairs Microsoft's Aurora with Earthmover data and Hugging Face compute, turning a 1GB data-fetch problem into a runnable forecast.

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• Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigns over race toward self-improving AI

  The pretraining researcher worked at OpenAI and Anthropic, then concluded that private labs cannot safely coordinate a slowdown.

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• Allocortech reports $6.67M sold in offering for drone avionics

  Founders Brian Viele and Matthew Walker built the Virginia supplier to spare aircraft developers from integrating every control system themselves. A new Form D reports $6.67M sold under a larger offering, but does not specify the securities or identify the investors.

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• Anthropic hires Chrome veteran Addy Osmani to improve Claude Code

  The former Chrome developer-experience leader joins Anthropic after Anthropic said Claude Code passed $2.5B in run-rate revenue by May.

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• Deft Robotics launches a factory robot stack built around human intervention

  Shane Lee and Jason Shin are pairing a $34,900 wheeled humanoid with teleoperation, edge-case labeling and fleet observability.

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• OpenAI says 10,000 AI agents solved Navier-Stokes in 88 hours

  OpenAI released a 165-page paper and Lean files, while Clay still lists the $1M Millennium Problem as unsolved.

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• Alif Semiconductor puts NPUs on two $49 development boards

  The SK-E1C and Bluetooth-equipped SK-B1 pair a Cortex-M55 CPU with an Ethos-U55 NPU, giving developers a cheaper route into Alif silicon.

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• Mamatha Chamarthi's Lumiom seeks $3M to put enterprise AI on the P&L

  A September 8th SEC filing reports that Lumiom sold a $100,000 SAFE to one investor toward its $3 million offering target.

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• Roboligent reports $2.5M offering to one investor as robots move beyond rehab

  A September 8th SEC filing reports one investor; the company also completed a $1.8M Air Force rehabilitation project in June.

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• Helene Huby raises $450M to give Europe a ride home from orbit

  The Exploration Company will fund its reusable Nyx capsule and Storm engine as ESA seeks an ISS cargo-return demonstration ideally in 2028.

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• StealthGPT ships Super after saying Pangram broke its previous models

  Founder Jozef Gherman's internal test says 89 of 100 rewrites passed Pangram V4, while 18% failed StealthGPT's factual-consistency check.

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• Vercel's Shu Ding ships a 27.5KB syntax highlighter with no language grammars

  Vercel's gpu-lexer uses a 41,321-parameter browser model, trading grammar-level certainty for one small bundle across programming languages.

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• Nir Zuk's Cylake raises $245M to put security back in the building

  Lightspeed led the convertible note for Cylake, which has raised $290M before its sovereign security platform reaches beta.

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• Inception ships Mercury 2.5 at 1,107 tokens per second, by its count

  Three university professors are betting parallel generation can cut the time and bill behind coding, search and voice agents.

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• Bluecore Energy raises $50M to move floating reactors toward licensing

  Silverton led the seed seven weeks after launch, funding engineering, regulatory work, fuel procurement and Bluecore's Long Beach prototype.

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• MiniMax schedules a Tokyo conference on Japanese IP and generative AI

  The September 11th event frames cooperation around models, infrastructure and intellectual property, with compensation and rights protection on the agenda.

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• Nex-AGI launches 1.6T N2.5 agent family, leaves Pro weights pending

  Mini and Pro target multimodal computer use, while text-only Max requires far more accelerator capacity and Pro remains unavailable for download.

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• Antioch Robotics raises $32M to turn robot testing into a software loop

  Greylock led the round less than five months after Antioch's seed, backing repeat founders building cloud simulation for physical AI.

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• Celero raises $275M at a $3B-plus valuation for AI networking chips

  Broadcom and ClariPhy veterans Nariman Yousefi and Oscar Agazzi paired the round with a claimed 2-nanometer coherent DSP milestone.

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• Thesys ships OUI-1 so developers can run generative UI locally

  The open-weight DiffusionGemma fine-tune uses 4B active parameters, while Thesys' own benchmark leaves usability untested.

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• Herdr raises $6M to put a team behind its solo agent runtime

  Bessemer led the seed round as founder Can Celik turns Herdr's open-source runtime for persistent coding agents into a developer-tools company.

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• Cloudflare stops guessing at post-quantum handshakes across 45 billion daily connections

  Automatic Key Exchange measures each TLS 1.3 origin, removes a retry round trip and defaults capable servers to hybrid key exchange.

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• PyPI's August download failures exposed a Fastly canary fault and cache bugs

  Mike Fiedler traced intermittent package-download errors to a Fastly fault in Seattle and PyPI configuration bugs affecting origin fallback and range requests.

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• Whatfix appoints co-founder Vara Kumar CEO after Khadim Batti's death

  The product architect takes over one week after Batti's death as Whatfix expands its enterprise software adoption products with AI agents and simulated training.

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• Fimo launches reviewed agents to keep AI-built websites current

  Strapi founders Pierre Burgy and Aurelien Georget are pairing AI-generated code with CMS controls and recurring website operations, while leaving production publishing to humans.

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• New York's Moonshot AI becomes Shuttlebase after colliding with Beijing's namesake

  Aviv Frenkel and Evyatar Segal are keeping their e-commerce optimization product while retiring a name shared with Beijing's Moonshot AI, the lab behind Kimi.

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