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• Flock Safety's AI searches can start with behavior, not a suspect

  WIRED reports that OS Investigate lets police search vehicle movements and connected records by behavior, extending Garrett Langley's camera network beyond plate lookups.

• Modular open-sources Mojo three weeks after Qualcomm acquisition

  The Apache 2.0 release includes Mojo's compiler and tooling as Qualcomm-owned Modular argues its AI platform can serve rival chips.

• Medly AI raises $8M as two former NHS doctors launch SAT tutoring in the US

  Felix Capital led the seed round as Paul Jung and Kavi Samra expand Medly in the UK, launch US SAT prep and study learning outcomes.

• Munich Re will buy At-Bay for $575M, Reuters reports

  Reuters said the deal carries a $575 million enterprise value and is expected to close in the first quarter of 2027. Munich Re's 2025 annual report listed At-Bay as a 3.68% holding at year-end.

• Anthropic’s Project Parka sits through meetings and assigns Claude agents the homework

  Internally codenamed Parka, the Mac-first feature can capture system and microphone audio, stream speaker-attributed transcripts and create runnable work for Claude's agents.

• Palomar opens a Lean proof registry for the AI math pileup

  The project registers fixed GitHub snapshots, checks Lean proofs mechanically, and uses an LLM to compare formal statements with informal descriptions.

• Bedrock-RL makes Minecraft repeatable enough to train vision-language agents

  The open-source framework keeps worlds and rewards fixed while researchers swap models and trainers, aiming to make Minecraft VLM experiments reproducible.

• Twitch discounts subscriptions as sponsors pick up the gift-sub tab

  SUBtember runs August 28th through October 1st, with State Farm promising nearly 100,000 gift subscriptions and Minecraft funding a finale bonus.

• TestMu AI launches Agent Assurance to test AI agents by their effects

  The former LambdaTest is extending its quality-assurance stack to agents that write files, call tools and access APIs.

• Temporal discusses $500M round at $12B, six months after its $5B raise

  The durable-execution maker is discussing another round six months after Andreessen Horowitz led a $300M financing at a $5B valuation.

• A four-hour Claude Code session built a Mac bridge for HP's Laser 1008a

  Kuber Mehta's fix routes CUPS through a Linux VM and HP's SPL3 codec, then writes print jobs directly over USB.

• OpenAI grew 18% in Q2. Anthropic grew roughly 140%

  OpenAI's sales reached $6.7B as losses deepened, while Claude Code helped Anthropic pass its older rival for the first time.

• 'Amazon Tax' collected $76B from ads while brands paid to defend their names

  Seth Godin's publisher paid about $1 per click for his exact book title, exposing the defensive bidding inside a business growing 26%.

• DesktopFly gives macOS a fruit fly driven by 668 mapped neurons

  Denis Shiryaev's open-source toy uses FlyWire wiring data, then models the physiology that turns cursor movement into escape.

• Anthropic says 354 Claude protein designs bound in lab tests

  Anthropic released the prompts and data behind 1,440 designs, though none were tested for biological function or structurally solved.

• Z.ai launches GLM-5.3 API for coding and defensive security

  The text-only model keeps GLM-5.2 pricing, adds a 1M-token context window, and arrives before its delayed public weights.

• RadixArk released Miles v0.1 to align AI training and inference

  RadixArk's release builds on Miles, first introduced in November 2025, while its $100M seed funds an open-source AI infrastructure strategy.

• Chase Weir launches trutility to hold distributed energy assets long term

  Distributed Sun contributed a GW-scale pipeline and operating assets; the announcement gives no cash round, valuation or outside investor.

• Block adds an experimental self-hosted Git forge to Buzz

  The beta links repos, reviews and project conversations to portable Nostr identities for people and AI agents on a team's own relay.

• Fable 5 responses surface an internal 'Kettle' route, researcher says

  A decoded thinking signature points to a backend change first seen August 16th, though Anthropic says the public model ID remains pinned.

• Telegram applies for .gram to turn user handles into websites

  Pavel Durov says approval would let users claim second-level domains and generate Telegram-hosted interactive sites from a prompt.

• OpenAI pauses model training to harden its own research systems

  The company ended a two-week halt for some deployment-bound training, but its largest planned frontier run and many Astra workloads remain paused under costlier security controls.

• Bluecore Energy raised $10M to test its floating nuclear reactor at Long Beach

  Bluecore Energy is testing an unfueled prototype at Long Beach before the harder work of licensing a commercial reactor.

• Rocket One offers drone-show software as a counter-drone threat simulator

  Rocket One's August 18th pitch follows a June announcement and opens briefings and demos, while naming no military contract or deployment.