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• Bloomberg: Dutch chip startup Euclyd is seeking about 200 million euros for a Series A, not yet closed

  Bloomberg reports Euclyd has several term sheets, but no named lead investor or valuation, and the amount could change.

• Racket's Rhombus 1.0 turns a decades-old macro thesis into a cleaner language bet

  Matthew Flatt, Robby Findler, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt and a 20-person contributor group are trying to bring Racket-style extensibility beyond Lisp syntax.

• Superhuman agrees to acquire Edward Tian's GPTZero

  GPTZero says it reached 19 million registered users and $30 million in ARR after raising just $13.5 million.

• Latitude turns AI agent chats into an observability signal

  Cesar Miguelanez is positioning Latitude around the failure data hidden in production agent conversations, not just traces and dashboards.

• Sierra's Bret Taylor puts a four-year clock on the AI phone agent shift

  The Sierra co-founder is framing voice agents as a brand advantage, not just a way for companies to cut support costs.

• Head to head: Bagel vs Juggernaut Flux Lightning

  This wasn’t a close split-decision. Across all three prompt-following tests, Juggernaut Flux Lightning proved it can hold onto scene logic, specific objects, and compositional instructions far more reliably than Bagel.

• Mark Pincus turns Zynga's product doctrine into a founder manual

  The Zynga founder is using his new book and podcast circuit to push a blunt message: founders win by being right before they scale.

• Leak: OpenAI Pushed GPT-5.6 to July as DeepMind Holds Gemini 3.5 Pro

  The claims are unconfirmed, but they land as official docs show no GPT-5.6 listing and Google has already missed its June target for 3.5 Pro.

• Sequoia and Founders Fund back Stark Defence at 3.5B-euro valuation, Bloomberg says

  Bloomberg reports the German loitering‑munitions maker is valued at 3.5 billion euros after new backing from Sequoia and Founders Fund.

• Daniel Lyons ships Treedocs 0.2.0 to make repo maps fail when they go stale

  The Swift CLI keeps a version-controlled treedocs.yaml file in sync with a codebase, with hooks for reviews, CI, and coding agents.

• Yinka Ogunbiyi's HaloBraid raises $7M to bring robotics into the braid salon

  Seven Seven Six led the seed round for a salon assistant that starts with the stylist instead of trying to replace her.

• Fika Jobs raises $4M for AI video interviews that try to get past the resume

  The Stockholm company is betting that candidates should keep live video profiles that employers can browse before a role opens.

• Cadence raises $100 million to make AI chronic care pay like infrastructure

  Chris Altchek's second act has a $1.2 billion valuation, but the harder test is proving Medicare savings at health-system scale.

• France orders 5,000 Harmattan AI drones as Dassault's startup bet moves into volume

  Reuters reported the order less than six months after Dassault Aviation led Harmattan AI's $200 million Series B.

• Firefly Aerospace's $110M EXIM loan would put Jason Kim's moon factory inside U.S. industrial policy

  The expected loan would fund Texas spacecraft production after Firefly turned Blue Ghost into a credible lunar manufacturing story.

• ByteDance Confirms Seedance 2.5 for Early July With 30-Second AI Video

  ByteDance has confirmed Seedance 2.5 as the model name and is pointing to an early July launch, with longer single-shot output, expanded reference capacity, and tighter editing controls.

• Moderne brings its AI code migration pitch to OSFF London

  Jonathan Schneider and Olga Kundzich are selling deterministic code change to finance, where AI-generated diffs alone are not enough.

• University of Michigan researchers release AFUN for robot affordance understanding

  The University of Michigan-led model pairs affordance masks with 3D motion curves, but its public repo is still inference-only.

• RJ Scaringe's R2 test starts at the high end, not the $44,990 Rivian headline price

  Rivian's first R2 customer vehicles are $57,990 Performance Launch Package SUVs, with the base rear-wheel-drive Standard trim expected in summer 2027.

• Inside Flyer, the Air Force's new AI supercomputer at Wright-Patterson

  Flyer pairs AMD CPUs with Nvidia H100 and L40 GPUs for secure defense modeling, AI workloads and hypersonics research.

• Z.ai's GLM-5.2 tops open-weight models on Artificial Analysis work benchmark

  The open-weight model scored 1524 Elo on GDPval-AA, putting it near proprietary frontier systems on agentic knowledge-work tasks.

• Unsloth makes Z.ai's giant GLM-5.2 model runnable on local hardware

  Daniel and Michael Han's open-source AI tooling startup is turning model compression into a distribution layer for frontier-scale open models.

• NVIDIA says AI data centers can cut water use with warmer liquid cooling

  The chipmaker is trying to reframe the water backlash as a cooling-architecture problem, not a hard limit on AI buildout.

• Robot.com Turns Its Delivery Robot Base Toward Workplace Humanoids

  Felipe Chavez is using Kiwibot's deployment muscle to sell R-noid into restaurants, logistics sites and healthcare, with early autonomy still limited.