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• Farm to Door launches map of 3,876 local farms and markets with raw dairy and CSA filters

  The site aggregates thousands of farm and market listings and flags delivery, shipping, and pickup options alongside filters for raw dairy, A2/A2 milk, CSA shares, and more.

• Skalpel AI opens 500-seat beta to tackle AI usage caps and costs

  Skalpel AI opens 500 early seats; the founder says the service targets cost control and usage-limit pain for developers.

• Aiphrodite aims to speed creative testing with AI customer personas

  Song introduces Aiphrodite, promising AI customer personas to pretest reactions to ads, PDPs and packaging so teams can iterate faster without surveys.

• Juan Andrade raises $2.7m seed for Caribou, an autonomous tax firm

  Blue Wire Capital, Y Combinator, TinyVC, and Venture Together back Caribou's $2.7m seed; Andrade shares a park video on why companies like Hadrian, OpenFX, Vertice, and others need it.

• Elon Musk: latest X algorithm published on GitHub

  Musk linked to the xai-org/x-algorithm repository in a post that showed 38,767 likes and 4,982 reposts.

• GitHub repo image-blaster turns one image into an explorable scene

  A viral X thread surfaced the GitHub repo, which claims meshes with physics, background splatting and ambient audio from one image in about five minutes.

• Amjad Masad: worked things out with Apple, Replit iOS app is publishing again after four months

  Masad said his team can publish the Replit iOS app for the first time in four months after working things out with Apple, thanking customers and creators and hinting at more features.

• Furientis debuts with $5M to build low-cost interceptor missiles

  Backers include Silent Ventures, Bessemer, SV Angel and others; Franzen says Furientis will target the gap between low-cost threats and the interceptors meant to stop them.

• Reading hardware startup Mark raises $1M, debuts Mark II $159 AI bookmark

  Signed by Eason Tang, the X thread pitches a purpose-built tool to capture quotes and whispered thoughts from physical books into an AI app without reaching for your phone, per replies in the thread; preorders are open.

• NVLabs unveils SANA-WM for minute-long 720p video with 6-DoF camera control

  The NVLabs project adds 6-DoF camera control, scene persistence, and a refiner, with a distilled NVFP4 variant that denoises a 60s clip in 34s on an RTX 5090.