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• EngineAI T800 takes head off another humanioid in secret fight clip

  The X thread shows a damaged humanoid still standing, but the robot identity and event details are not independently verified.

• AuraFlow vs Fibo Lite: Precision Beats Style

  AuraFlow wins this matchup because it follows the brief instead of freelancing around it. Fibo Lite can make attractive images, but across all three tasks it repeatedly drifts from key prompt requirements that AuraFlow hits more reliably.

• Austin Founder Launches Clare, an AI Desktop Assistant for People Overwhelmed by the Internet

  The private-alpha product is designed to help less technical users navigate email, banking, web browsing, forms, video calls and other everyday online tasks.

• Ollama QAT Weights Put Claimed Gemma 4 31B Scores Near Claude Opus 4

  The report says Google's 31B model can run on consumer laptop hardware, with a smaller E4B variant claimed to fit a 2GB phone.

• Jaiyen Shetty says Terra signed 185,000 acres for AI farming tools after hackathon win

  The founder says Terra started as a voice agent for pesticide compliance and is expanding into farm data software and tractor-mounted cameras, but customer and revenue details are not disclosed.

• Columbia Embryo-Editing Study Pulls Nucleus Genomics Into the Ethics Fight

  The Columbia-led work used base editing to alter PCSK9 and HBG in donated human embryos, with Nucleus Genomics' Nathan Treff listed as a co-author and safety questions still unresolved.

• OpenAI's Dreaming paper puts ChatGPT memory back at the center of the agent race

  The June 4 research post frames memory as an architecture problem, not just a settings toggle, as OpenAI pushes ChatGPT toward longer-running work.

• YC's Paxel turns AI-coding sessions into a Startup School signal

  The free Docker tool reads Claude Code, Codex CLI and Cursor transcripts, generates a builder profile, and tells applicants a Paxel token can boost their chances.

• Elon Musk's SpaceX turns Google into a $920 million-a-month compute customer

  The deal, disclosed a week before SpaceX's expected Nasdaq debut, would run through June 2029 unless either side exits early.

• NVIDIA Acquires Kumo AI for Over $400 Million to Push Graph AI Into Enterprise Prediction

  The reported deal would give NVIDIA graph-learning technology aimed at supply chains, customer networks, and recommendations.

• YC Startup Trata Releases Hedge-Bench, a New Benchmark Built From Hedge Fund Analyst Reasoning

  The YC W25 company says the benchmark uses 102 tasks drawn from hedge fund analyst reasoning traces.

• Sakana AI Forms RSI Lab To Chase Self-Improving AI From Tokyo

  The Tokyo AI company says the internal research group will focus on models that can help write, test, and improve AI systems.

• Reid Hoffman to leave Microsoft's board, Bloomberg reports

  Bloomberg says the LinkedIn co-founder will step down from Microsoft's board, but the timing and rationale were not available in the accessible source.

• Wuji Tech teases Wuji Hand 2 with a torque-first bet on robot hands

  The Shenzhen robotics hardware company claims 20% better transmission efficiency, but has not disclosed pricing or a shipping date.

• Mira Murati reemerges with Thinking Machines Lab's interface bet

  The former OpenAI CTO previewed models for continuous audio, text and video, but left release timing and customer traction unstated.

• Aaron Harris speeds up his founder-facing VC matching tool

  The tool asks founders for a URL or deck, then returns a tailored investor list based on Harris's claimed venture data set.

• Paul Graham says a current YC startup built an MRI machine in 101 days

  The X post does not name the startup, but the claim points to a hardware-heavy bet inside the current YC batch.

• ScaleDown targets AI inference costs with task-specific small models

  Patel says ScaleDown's small language models beat GPT-5.4 Mini on cost, speed and accuracy, but the benchmarks are self-reported.

• Mercor CEO Brendan Foody puts a number-shaped hole in the AI agent story

  A 20VC interview frames Mercor as spending more on AI agent tokens than salaries, but the exact cost comparison remains unclear.

• Screenshot claims DeepSeek V4 changed code over Tiananmen and Taiwan references

  Jane Manchun Wong said the original prompt was simply "Improve ./core.rs" after a screenshot showed DeepSeek V4 changing Rust functions about Tiananmen Square and Taiwan.

• Navier founder Sampriti Bhattacharyya bets on the Maldives for 100 electric hydrofoil boats

  JIH Global Investment plans a $100 million deployment, starting with five Navier vessels in 2026 and 95 more over time.

• Arena.ai launches Agent Arena to rank AI agents on live user tasks

  The benchmark uses Arena.ai's own session data, including 160,000 tasks and 2.06 million tool calls over one week.

• Google Gemma introduces Magenta RealTime 2 for live AI music on MacBooks

  The open model is pitched as a playable instrument that takes MIDI, text and audio inputs, but Google has not detailed its specs in the thread.

• floatingpoint is packaging supervised data and evals for vision AI teams

  The AI data research lab says it builds off-the-shelf and custom datasets, benchmarks and long-horizon visual task environments for teams shipping vision-capable models.