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• PromptArmor says ChatGPT for Google Sheets can exfiltrate entire workbooks via a single prompt injection

  The AI risk team reports that OpenAI’s new Sheets add-on can be manipulated to run attacker scripts and steal data across an account, even with human approvals required.

• NousResearch says it's a big week for Hermes Agent; X takes notice

  A one-line tease on X pulled in 850 likes and 61 replies with no technical details.

• Emad Mostaque says the 'Sora team became robotics team,' linking to a Sam Altman post

  The former Stability AI CEO posted a one-line claim and pointed to a Sam Altman post; no details or confirmation accompanied the note.

• Apify hosts biggest SF AI hackathon for 180 builders; 80+ spots already claimed

  The event centers on AI automation and web scraping projects built on Apify's platform; capacity is 180 with 80+ registrations already claimed, per Apify's post on X.

• Bankr hackathon coming after Base MCP launch

  A post on X says the upcoming Bankr event will focus on agent-powered swaps and trading on Base, positioning builders to tap Coinbase’s L2 for distribution.

• Meshy launches chat-based AI agent for 3D creation, now in beta

  Meshy says creators can brainstorm and build 3D assets by chatting, skipping traditional modeling software; technical specs and formats were not included in the announcement.

• Telli is hiring across engineering, design, and GTM

  YC-backed Telli is opening roles as it scales its AI voice agent platform used by enterprises like Sky, with a fast-iteration culture and published principles.

• Peter Steinberger spotlights OpenClaw policy conformance plugin

  A repost on X points to a governance-focused add-on promising verifiable drift checks for the local, open-source agent.

• Hermes Agent claims No. 1 on OpenRouter as agents crowd weekly AI usage board

  OpenRouter's opt-in usage data puts Hermes Agent at No. 1; OpenClaw, Kilo Code, Descript, pi, Janitor AI, GitLawb, ISEKAI ZERO, and Cline round out the week's most-used tools.

• xAI’s Grok-Imagine-Video-1.5-Preview hits #1 on Arena.ai’s image-to-video leaderboard

  Arena.ai reports a +52 point jump over the prior Grok-Imagine-Video (720p), edging past Seedance-2.0 and HappyHorse on its image-to-video leaderboard.

• Doorfee surfaces on BetaList promising automated payments and roles for Discord

  A brief BetaList entry points to a tool that links payments to Discord roles; beyond the tagline, the listing shares no docs, pricing, or product details.

• Jef Raskin on starting the Mac: an interface-first vision, in his own words

  A Low End Mac interview surfaces how Jef Raskin sold Apple on the Mac, why he pushed simplicity, and the critiques he still had of the modern UI.

• Eddy Grid raises 7.5 million euros to scale real-time trading for renewables in Europe

  Eddy Grid says it will expand algorithmic trading of solar, wind, and batteries across European power markets, treating assets like a continuously optimized portfolio.

• Ruflo plugs multi-agent orchestration into Claude Code, claims 100+ specialized agents and shared memory

  Posted on X, Ruflo is presented as a GitHub repo that runs multi-agent workflows inside Anthropic's Claude Code, with task results feeding a shared, self-learning SOP layer.

• OpenRouter raises $113M Series B led by CapitalG

  CapitalG leads; NVentures, ServiceNow, MongoDB, Snowflake, and Databricks back OpenRouter as it scales to 25T weekly tokens and 8M+ developers across 400+ models.

• Nature Biotechnology paper introduces MOLEA, a single-pass AI for multi-objective drug design

  MOLEA reports simultaneous optimization of potency, selectivity, and safety in one go, challenging the usual one-property-at-a-time workflows in AI-assisted drug design.

• Addy Osmani packages Claude Code agent skills into slash commands that mirror the dev cycle

  A post says the kit wraps senior-engineer patterns into slash commands like /spec, /plan, /build, /test, /review, /ship; it claims seven commands but lists six.

• Mystery company allegedly spent $500 million on Claude in one month after leaving license usage uncapped

  Tom's Hardware, citing Axios, says an unnamed enterprise forgot to set usage limits on employee Claude licenses, amplifying worries that corporate AI spend is outpacing returns.

• Helios runs LIDAR-based plug-in solar math for any British address

  The browser tool ray-traces LIDAR to estimate balcony solar yield and payback per address, reflecting UK rules like the 800 W cap and MCS export limits.

• Andrew Kelley rewires Zig build: new configurer-maker split aims for 90% faster runs

  The Zig creator says a reworked build pipeline that caches config and runs an optimized maker process is on main and slated for 0.17.0.

• Francis (@fdavidsont) is about to launch a travel tool, per Ritwik Pavan

  Ritwik Pavan says he saw an early build and called it an awesome tool for travelers, linking to @fdavidsont ahead of a Monday launch.

• Caelan Garrett to present ScheduleStream, a GPU-driven multi-arm planner, at ICRA 2026 in Vienna

  The researcher says ScheduleStream tackles multi-arm task-and-motion planning on GPUs; the announcement surfaced via an X post amplified by Bowen Li.

• Xiaoxuan Ma shares REST3D, aiming for physically stable, visually consistent 3D from a single photo

  In a post on X amplified by Bowen Li, the REST3D project teases single-image 3D scene reconstruction; no paper or code link was provided in the announcement.

• Liquid AI ships LFM2.5-8B-A1B, an 8B on-device MoE trained on 38T tokens

  The on-device 8B MoE adds a 128K context, 128K vocab, and scaled pretraining to improve tool-calling on laptops, with base and post-trained weights on Hugging Face.