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• Deno's Dactyl rebuilds SwiftUI to preview apps in browsers and target Android

  Deno engineer Divy Srivastava detailed a Wasm renderer that avoids streamed Macs, while push alerts and Google Play publishing remain unfinished.

• Intel gives coding agents 20 ways to stop guessing at Arc GPU flags

  Kushal Mittal and nine Intel contributors packaged setup, sizing, benchmarking, profiling and CUDA migration into one Apache-2.0 repository.

• Carson Gross ships htmx 4 and leaves npm's default alone

  The eight-month rewrite moves htmx from XMLHttpRequest to fetch, adds streaming and morphing, and keeps version 2 as npm's default until 2027.

• Retro raises more than $21M in Series A financing, according to TechCrunch

  An SEC filing reports a $21,999,978 offering for Lone Palm Labs; TechCrunch identifies the financing as Retro's Series A and says it closed in December.

• a16z puts $1.1B behind AI's physical bottlenecks

  Ben Horowitz and four fellow investors presented the fund, while a16z separately named Guido Appenzeller, Shangda Xu and Erin Price-Wright among its hardware specialists.

• SubSmith turns local videos into language lessons for $15 a year

  Birmingham solo founder Ibrahim Farah built the desktop app around local Whisper transcription, editable subtitles and one-click Anki exports.

• Owner raises $240M to bring its restaurant AI platform to local businesses

  Owner says Goldman Sachs Alternatives led its Series D, valuing the platform at $2.3B.

• xTool unveils X1 for five laser types, keeps price to itself

  Makeblock founder and CEO Jasen Wang is betting that one expandable chassis can cover cutting, engraving and metal marking, though xTool has yet to disclose final specifications, pricing or a shipping date.

• Town seeks a $1B valuation two months after its $55M Series A

  Index Ventures is leading the talks, putting the firm behind both Town and Instinct as investors crowd into personal AI agents.

• Amap ships ABot-Recon to rebuild 10,000-frame scenes through a 12-frame window

  Alibaba's mapping lab open-sourced inference code and weights, though its 24.45 FPS result came from an H100, not the GTX 1080 Ti invoked in the release.

• Kimi is building a PopClip-style AI toolbar for selected desktop text

  Code in Kimi Work 3.2.3 detects highlighted text systemwide, but its search, translation and summary buttons are still unwired.

• IndexFlow opens its Rust SEO core ahead of a commercial platform

  Wu Jian, an associate professor in Nanjing, has published two Rust crates while the broader indexing workflow remains under construction.

• IBM brings its US Open AI demo back to Madison Square Park

  The free September 10th-13th event pairs match screenings with a serve simulator, AI-generated ping-pong recaps and a photobooth beside IBM's Manhattan office.

• Meta adds eight hip-hop tracks to Beat Saber after cutting entry price

  The $10.99 pack extends the music catalog built around the slicing mechanic Jan Ilavsky and Vladimir Hrincar prototyped in 2016.

• Thinking Machines' ReViSQL-K2.6 scores 91.37% on cleaned SQL benchmark

  ReViSQL-K2.6 reached 88.55% with greedy decoding and 91.37% with 16-sample self-consistency on the corrected Arcwise-Plat-SQL benchmark.

• Anthropic wins order lifting federal ban on its technology

  Judge Rita F. Lin ordered the administration to lift its ban on Anthropic technology after finding the exclusion inadequately justified, Bloomberg reported.

• Innabox discloses $10M offering as CharacterQuilt deploys campaigns

  The legal entity behind CharacterQuilt reported $9.8M sold in an equity offering that began on August 3rd, while its current product turns marketing briefs into deployed campaigns.

• Grok Bot tests Chrome cookie imports and local egress routing

  A new settings panel could copy signed-in sessions to Grok Bot's cloud VM and send its web traffic through a user's desktop.

• Experiential Labs open-sources a router that learns from agent traffic

  The Y Combinator Summer 2026 startup is betting that production traces can push routine work onto cheaper models customers own.

• OpenAI is building "Subscription sharing" for AI apps

  Code in the Codex desktop client reveals a dormant allowance system internally called ChatPass that could let applications consume separately metered portions of a user's subscription.

• NantOptiFab sells $20M offering to one investor for US photonics foundry

  NantOptiFab's fully sold Form D names executive Henry Hung and NantWorks founder Patrick Soon-Shiong as directors.

• Marvell hits record $2.739 billion revenue as AI-driven data center demand soars

  The company raised its full-year outlook as custom silicon and optical interconnects outpace traditional segments of the business.

• Dyna Robotics turns napkin folding into a Din Tai Fung rollout

  Dyna says Dyna-2 can produce 1,590 table-ready napkins per shift, enough to move from a 2025 pilot into a restaurant-network rollout.

• ChatGPT lets users save Temporary Chats and opt into personalization

  OpenAI's revised mode can use existing memories, instructions and plugins, while unsaved chats still avoid history and model training.