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• Poke brings its AI agent to Apple Messages for Business

  TechCrunch and Poke describe the approval as Apple's first for an AI agent on the business messaging platform.

• Alex Dolotov brings Tesseract Analytics' Open Terminal to retail investor research

  Open Terminal combines SEC financials, news, filings, charts, AI Q&A, and SQL access, but Tesseract has not disclosed pricing or funding.

• Alpha School's $65,000 Manhattan pitch tests the line between AI school and homeschool center

  WIRED reports MacKenzie Price and Joe Liemandt pitched wealthy parents on a $65,000 New York campus that the outlet says is not actually a school.

• DeepSeek V4 Flash routs Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5

  DeepSeek V4 Flash wins 34.0 to 17.0 by being usable, complete, and more faithful to the prompts. MiMo-V2.5 repeatedly looked polished while dropping facts, inventing details, or failing outright.

• microagi's Shift offers free apartment cleaning if AI can watch

  Founded by two former Formula One engineers and an AI researcher, microagi is testing whether chores can become robotics training data.

• NVIDIA's new Nemotron model takes the top US open-weight slot, Artificial Analysis says

  The benchmark group says the 550B-parameter model scores 47.7 on its Intelligence Index, with weights posted on Hugging Face.

• Cloudflare brings VoidZero's Vite team in-house, adds $1M ecosystem fund

  Cloudflare says it is investing in the Vite stack as web infrastructure, while the Vite team says governance, MIT licensing, vendor neutrality and Open Collective control are not changing.

• 1X launches a world model lab for Neo, betting robot data beats fine-tuning

  CEO Bernt Bornich hired Luma AI veteran Sam Sinha to lead the lab, but 1X has not disclosed its budget, hiring plan or Neo shipment volume.

• Jeff Bezos backs Thomas Reardon's Flourish in a $500 million neuro AI bet

  Flourish is trying to build Cortex AI, a 50-watt brain-inspired system, but Wired reports the technical proof is still ahead.

• Uruky adds image search and URL rewrites to its paid private search engine

  Co-founder Bruno is betting that privacy search can stay small, paid, EU-based, and deliberately free of AI assistants.

• Appendix Lets Patients Get Prescriptions from Claude Without Ever Speaking to a Doctor

  Appendix lets users have an AI agent draft a medical encounter, then routes it to a human physician for review and a prescription if warranted.

• Lindy CEO says DeepSeek V4 replaced Anthropic in production, with a caveat

  Lindy claims performance improved after the move, but says Anthropic Opus may still handle some failed tasks.

• RuntimeWire — Weekly Report (Week 1, June 3rd, 2026)

  The self-reported report says model comparison stories led traffic while a new models catalog tracked 1,221 active AI models.

• Ayyappan R's FirstClub doubles valuation to $255 million on curated grocery bet

  The Bengaluru grocery startup raised $55 million from Peak XV, Sofina and existing backers as it expands in Bengaluru and Hyderabad.

• Ursa Ag finds demand for a new tractor farmers can fix themselves

  Doug Wilson says more than 1,000 farmers from about 30 countries contacted Ursa Ag after its low-tech tractor hit farm-show circles.

• Anton Osika's Lovable deepens Google Cloud bet as AI coding rivals pick sides

  TechCrunch reports the multi-year deal expands Lovable's Google Cloud footprint fivefold and gives it broader access to Claude and Gemini.

• Runway's Aleph 2.0 lands in Figma Weave for AI video edits, per Aligned News

  The sparse announcement points to Runway's push to put generative video editing inside collaborative design work, but access and pricing are unclear.

• xAI puts Grok Imagine 1.5 Preview into its API

  The preview is pitched as a video upgrade, with xAI claiming better motion, scene coherence, native audio and longer clips.

• Claude Sonnet 4.6 beats DeepSeek V4 Flash on rigor

  Claude Sonnet 4.6 wins 35.0 to 26.5 by being more reliable where correctness actually bites. DeepSeek V4 Flash had the cleaner customer email, but it fell down on harder structured and coding work.

• Reve details image API for create, edit and remix after 2.0 launch

  The image-generation startup's docs list endpoints for text-to-image, image editing and reference-image remixing, with direct image responses, postprocessing and credit headers.

• Canva AI 2.0 preview shifts design away from templates

  Early access is limited to an Easter Egg experience at Canva Create 2026, according to the thread, so this is not a broad rollout yet.

• We Put Ideogram 4 Head-to-Head against OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft in Four Image Stress Test

  The comparison found different strengths across storytelling, product design, brand systems, and photorealistic physics.

• Forbes says Clear CEO Caryn Seidman Becker is now a billionaire

  Her airport identity business is profitable, but 6% airport membership growth is pushing Clear into hospitals, stadiums and enterprise logins.

• Miso Labs publishes Miso TTS 8B, an open voice model for conversational speech

  Aoden Teo's release puts inference code, public weights and a local quickstart on GitHub, while the repo details voice-cloning support, watermarking and CUDA hardware limits.