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• MiniMax releases Music 3 for five-minute songs with hierarchical generation

  Yan Junjie's model splits long-range composition from acoustic rendering and accepts detailed sectional controls, though its official weights remained unavailable at verification.

• Oxide details three Kubernetes paths, with native storage still unfinished

  The on-prem cloud builder supports Rancher, Omni and Cluster API, while disk hot-plug still blocks a native CSI storage driver.

• OpenAI data finds top enterprise users adopt reusable AI skills six times as often

  OpenAI's customer telemetry links heavier use to Plugins, reusable skills and Codex, offering startup operators a deployment playbook without proving those tools improve results.

• Joe Harris raises $8M for Alloy's AI robot-debugging platform

  Square Peg led the round at an $80M valuation as Alloy expands in the US and builds agents that trace failures across robot fleets.

• DeepLumen reaches 1,000 merchants as it rolls out pay-on-sales AI commerce

  Joy Wu's Shopify app creates machine-readable product pages, tracks AI-attributed orders and charges merchants when those sales happen.

• Trunk Tools expands construction AI from document search into workflow agents

  Solo founder Sarah Buchner spent more than a decade in construction before expanding Trunk Tools from document search into connected agents for contractor workflows.

• DeepSeek sets peak V4 API rates at twice off-peak levels as prices rise

  The new schedule charges twice as much in seven UTC hours, while off-peak output rates still rise 136% for V4-Flash and 128% for V4-Pro.

• Brian Roemmele launches Mac cleaner for Claude's text watermarks

  The local workflow rewrites marked text, but Anthropic has not published the detector needed to independently verify the cleaner.

• CoreWeave signs A100 cloud contract extending Nvidia's 2020 chips into 2029

  Jensen Huang says CUDA keeps older hardware useful as CoreWeave tries to extract revenue beyond its GPUs' initial contracts.

• OpenAI starts rolling out giftable ChatGPT credits

  The one-time claim links let users buy prepaid usage for someone else. OpenAI's Windows app already contains gated entry points for the purchase flow.

• Anthropic holds talks to buy real-time AI startup Decart for about $6B

  Bloomberg reports that Anthropic is weighing an unsigned deal for Decart's low-latency video, world-model and inference technology.

• Zed launches Delta to move AI code review inside agent conversations

  The private-beta application syncs agent transcripts, live worktrees and review comments while retaining Git compatibility.

• Semaphore reports $7.45M sold in equity offering after Sigmaways acquisition

  Luke Mann and Ori Spector lead the San Francisco company, whose five-investor offering follows a software-services acquisition involving disputed assets and wage claims.

• Trump enlists private cyber contractors to hack foreign crime groups

  The structure may invite comparisons with deniable cyber proxies, but written approvals and direct federal control are designed to address contractor liability, not obscure Washington's role.

• Magnific will showcase MiniMax H3 at a San Francisco creator event

  The live San Francisco presentation puts H3 before Magnific's claimed 1 million subscribers, though the event materials do not establish a product rollout.

• Brainfish founders build Ballet to turn plain-English workflows into reviewable code

  Daniel Kimber and Ajain Vivek are extending Brainfish from customer-support knowledge into reviewable code for multi-system commercial workflows.

• AiGent files Form D disclosing fully sold $17.45 million offering

  AiGent's SEC filing reports a fully sold exempt offering; its security type and relationship to AGent Energy's 2025 seed remain unclear.

• The White House is ending open AI models' security-review exemption

  The expected revision would end an exemption for open models once they reach the capabilities of the strongest closed systems.

• uBlock Origin volunteers quit playing whack-a-mole with Facebook ads

  Two volunteer contributors carry most of the filter work, leaving Facebook users dependent on outside lists and custom rules.

• Woxi 0.3 runs Mathematica notebooks on an open-source Rust engine

  Adrian Sieber's Wolfram Language interpreter adds Windows builds, browser execution and a native notebook editor while leaving major gaps.

• Lee McIntire takes Fermi CEO role as Texas AI power campus moves to buildout

  Lee McIntire inherits Fermi's binding TensorWave lease, 17-gigawatt Project Matador plan and unresolved board dispute.

• Scoop: Grok Bot ships dormant shared rooms for tasking other users' agents

  Windows code defines owner-approved invites, cross-account agent membership and scoped computer access, though the tested account remained gated.

• Cognition adds Grok 4.6 to Devin's multi-model coding platform

  The integration gives xAI distribution inside an established engineering workflow and strengthens Cognition's pitch that orchestration, not any single foundation model, is the durable product.

• Twitch defaults creators into Amazon AI training because opt-in would fail

  Product chief Mike Minton said "nobody would opt in," making creator inertia central to Amazon's access to a native multimodal dataset.