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• Pixio AI shares fresh look at its creative tools, signaling ongoing development

  In a post on X, the AI creative platform showed work-in-progress tooling aimed at professionals in visual production workflows.

• YC alum-led Tesana shows a 2-day, 39-prompt AI-built game prototype

  The Los Angeles startup posted a vibe-first prototyping clip on X; it says it used muranyi-3 and roughly $90 in tokens. Engine and funding remain undisclosed.

• MiniMax unveils M3, an open-weights model touting coding-agentic gains and 1M context

  In a thread on X, MiniMax cites 59.0% on SWE-Bench Pro and a new sparse attention scheme that scales context to 1M, with an API promo rolling out this week.

• Agent Cookie Lets AI Agents Stay Logged In Across Your Apps

  Open-source, peer-to-peer cookie and token sync pairs two Macs so agents like OpenClaw and Hermes can stay authenticated for carts, orders, and API calls.

• FeatherlessAI raises $20M Series A to build a neutral layer for open-weight AI models

  AMD Ventures and Airbus Ventures co-led the round; FeatherlessAI says it will hire engineers across the stack to keep customers off any single lab, chip, or cloud.

• Insane Mario-like demo game shows the power of Opus 4.8

  In a 4-post thread, Nakajima shared a demo labeled Opus 4.8 and said he will run an AI security session for non-engineers, calling out Claude Code users.

• Spanhove hacks Meta Ray-Ban Display for a Strava-powered ghost race while you run

  The indie builder layered Strava GPX, pace coins, and sprint zones into a browser app that runs directly on the glasses, saying it works without a flagship phone.

• Artisan CEO Jaspar Carmichael-Jack says KC Green dispute is settled, pulls Ava ads using 'This is fine'

  Artisan took down New York and San Francisco ads that riffed on KC Green’s meme; Green says the settlement came together quickly, per TechCrunch, with terms undisclosed.

• 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.