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• Saildrone fires two JAGMs from its wind-powered Surveyor

  The RIMPAC test linked the autonomous vessel to a carrier strike group and paired its sensors with an MH-60S helicopter for passive electronic warfare.

• Flock gives 2,000 organizations access to one suburb's plate data

  Several dozen Alpharetta cameras feed a national sharing network whose permissions, searches and safeguards now pose a governance test for Flock's founders.

• Lupin Dental raises €15M to put veneer preparation in a robot

  Fynveur supplied €10M after the dentist-founded system secured clearance in India and certification for Great Britain.

• OpenAI proposes cutting Cursor model access after SpaceX acquisition

  OpenAI says Cursor's direct access to its models would end November 12th under a proposal issued after SpaceX acquired the AI coding editor.

• Sutro publishes a handbook for AI systems that decide instead of create

  Founder Seth Kimmel is turning Sutro's batch-inference roots into a broader pitch for measurable, repeatable decision models.

• Jordy Zomer built a Datalog engine so AI agents can forget correctly

  Lemmalog separates fuzzy LLM extraction from deterministic facts, provenance and retractions, with early benchmarks showing promise and gaps.

• Lightwheel releases 10,000 hours of robot data, with 90,000 more planned

  The release puts founder Steve Xie's Lightwheel data in front of robotics developers who may later need its simulation and evaluation tools.

• RuntimeWire keeps its INSiDE members chat free, for now

  The August 28th reminder points readers to a 31-member lounge where stories automatically become discussions with staff and subscribers.

• Sesame launches a Windows password vault with sync still off

  The public beta keeps passwords and 2FA data on-device, publishes its code under AGPL, and arrives before its independent security review is complete.

• Dave Plummer ships TMOG, a native Task Manager for three operating systems

  Plummer says a 107-page specification and Claude Code helped him build separate native apps around a shared C++ metrics core.

• Lila says three scientists designed a CAR-T candidate in months

  The preclinical result offers a test of Lila's autonomous-science pitch, though the company has not published the underlying data.

• Stephen Coates launches Twitter.now to turn moderation into a user setting

  Operation Bluebird says its web app has a few hundred users, a planned trust system and an unresolved trademark fight with X.

• VINCUE reports $73.2M equity sale, leaves investors and structure unclear

  The SEC filing counts seven investors, reports $2.4M in commissions and lists one Wavecrest-linked director, while leaving the transaction's structure unclear.

• Perplexity takes all three top spots in Artificial Analysis' search API test

  Its medium setting scored 80 at about $0.091 per task, beating rivals while landing in the middle of the latency table.

• Jon Shulkin gives Grok Bot an office, org chart, and sitcom cast

  The Valor investor's custom interface turns a fleet of coding agents into named workers that gather for build runs.

• Grok Bot can shop online, one human-approved charge at a time

  The two-week-old agent uses Stripe Link to request a single-use card after each approved spend, starting with US users.

• XChat tests X Numbers after pitching an end to phone-number swaps

  The optional code would let strangers message or call only when they know a user's X Number, while mutual follows and existing chats remain exempt.

• Linus Torvalds vibe-coded a Python audio visualizer in January

  A viral August 28th screenshot points to a January 7th commit where Google Antigravity rewrote part of Torvalds' AudioNoise hobby project.

• Meta ships Muse Image API at $0.01 per image

  Alexandr Wang is pricing Meta's generation-and-editing model for production volume, seven weeks after its consumer debut.

• Grok Bot is testing a marketplace for third-party AI teammates

  A preview shows users inspecting a bot's instructions, memories, skills, routines and integrations before adding it to a team.

• 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.

• RuntimeWire bans third-party trackers and ad networks from every reader surface

  Direct sponsors may buy clearly labeled space, but outside ad-tech companies will not get RuntimeWire's readers as part of the deal.

• Ref founder Matt Dailey publishes a seven-step guide to avoiding AI design slop

  Matt Dailey's method front-loads constraints and review before generated UI reaches Ref's production code.

• Z.ai opens GLM-5.3 weights for coding and vulnerability hunting

  The 756 GB release carries a broad commercial license and Z.ai's claims of steep gains on exploitation benchmarks.