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• Sansec detects attempts to exploit critical Adobe Commerce account-takeover flaw

  Founder Willem de Groot's security shop says its WAF is blocking attempts, while Adobe says it has no confirmed in-the-wild exploits.

• Orion Sleep undercuts Eight Sleep with a $2,295 cooling cover

  The startup combines repeat founders and $17.5 million in seed backing with early product validation, while its clinical case remains preliminary.

• Anthropic added Claude Cowork sessions to web and mobile

  Anthropic's July 7th update attached Cowork sessions and files to Claude accounts for use across desktop, web and mobile, while Chrome remained a separate browser task surface.

• SpaceXAI ships Grok 4.6 with a 500,000-token context window

  The model keeps Grok 4.5's $2/$6 base API price, adds a 500,000-token context window and launches in Cursor and Grok Build.

• WIRED profiles RuntimeWire after its AI newsroom beat reporters at Black Hat

  The three-month-old publication broke OpenAI’s surprise disclosure more than three hours before WIRED, prompting a close look at how the newsroom works and where it still falls short.

• MiniMax and fal announce livestream on building with H3 video model

  The planned session will feature speakers from MiniMax and fal discussing how developers are using H3's multimodal video capabilities, though its date and registration details remain unconfirmed.

• Scoop: SpaceXAI's Grok Bot stamps an account-derived ID into browser requests

  The 16-character value is derived from the authenticated Cursor account and reaches external websites through Chrome's user-agent header.

• OpenRouter lists DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 as GA despite unchanged notice

  OpenRouter calls the versioned endpoint a GA release, but DeepSeek's latest reviewed notice said V4 Pro was unchanged and did not explain the 0813 suffix.

• Google launches Pixel 11 Pro Fold with gearless hinge and $1,899 price

  Google's lighter foldable pairs a gearless hinge with a company-claimed three-times durability gain. At $1,899, buyers will have to weigh that unverified claim against the device's premium price.

• Alibaba releases open Qwen3.8 with 2.4T total, 95B active parameters

  Alibaba released its 2.4-trillion-parameter Qwen3.8 model as open weights, giving operators a text-only checkpoint with about 95 billion parameters active per token.

• Suvi Health launches bedside ambient AI with Mayo Clinic as first pilot

  Suvi Health's venture-studio model pairs former IBM Watson Health executive Kelly Benning with Mayo Clinic clinicians to test patient-facing transcripts, summaries and care-plan reminders.

• ClearJet raised $12.35 million in Series A funding for passenger-flight parcel network

  An SEC filing and CB Insights record show the May 2024 financing as founder Chris Guggenheim built an asset-light parcel network around commercial passenger flights.

• Avinash Misra's Skan AI raises $63 million to map work for enterprise agents

  The Series C backs software that observes desktop workflows, models undocumented decisions and turns those patterns into AI agents.

• Reservoir raises $8M to scale its in-house water-heater installation model

  The Formlabs veteran is pairing predictive heat-pump hardware with an in-house plumbing crew to reach homeowners and, eventually, utilities.

• Discovered Materials launches AI agents to find chip materials labs can make

  Advaith Sridhar and Akash Ramdas paired a public benchmark with a company-claimed $9 million Lightspeed-led seed round.

• Cytix raises $7M to govern software changes as AI coding speeds up

  Northern Gritstone led the Series A as the Manchester founders moved beyond periodic pentests toward continuous change-level controls.

• Cognition enters talks for funding at a potential $40 billion valuation

  Cognition is in early funding talks less than three months after raising $1 billion at a $26 billion post-money valuation.

• Grok Bot's hidden "Elon-Only Settings" picker lists 33 models

  The dormant desktop control pulls an account-scoped catalog spanning Grok, GPT, Claude, Gemini, Kimi and GLM.

• OpenArt offers Qwen Image 3.0 access as Alibaba limits its API

  Coco Mao and John Qiao's creator platform gives users access to the same image model without requiring a direct Alibaba API relationship.

• Anthropic's invisible Claude watermark draws scrutiny over closed detection

  Anthropic promises third-party detection later, leaving the initial rollout dependent on technical details it has yet to publish.

• Suzanne documents a 3D generation API for Claude Code agents

  The student-built product's documentation describes agent-driven 3D generation, while creator posts report early users, paying customers and monthly revenue without disclosing amounts.

• Most Americans would let AI buy routine goods without approval, Croud finds

  Croud's survey puts AI closest to automating routine checkout, but reviews, creator videos and structured product data still determine whether recommendations convert.

• Joby agrees to buy Resonant Sciences for $500 million to build defense arm

  The deal moves hybrid and autonomous aircraft into a Dayton defense unit while JoeBen Bevirt's commercial team stays focused on air taxis.

• AI coding lets Adam Lyttle build a safer game for his son

  Adam Lyttle's AI-assisted Roblox-style prototype shows how families could turn safety rules and children's preferences into software built for one.