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• Anthropic's Claude Code Auto Mode rolls out to Pro and adds Sonnet 4.6, per community post

  A widely reshared ClaudeDevs note, surfaced by Aligned News in a post on X, says Auto Mode now runs on Pro with Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.7.

• LimX Dynamics unveils Luna, a full-size female humanoid built for malls and theme parks

  LimX Dynamics is positioning Luna for public-facing roles, but the X post offered no specs, pricing, or timeline to back the mass-deliverable claim.

• Seth Howes says he sequenced a full human genome at home to 30x coverage

  In a thread on X, Howes details a one-room setup, cites a $28k sequencer and ~$1.2k per run, and calls out a discontinued P2 Solo unit.

• Chert launches Twilio-for-iMessage API and GTM service

  YC-backed Chert is pitching a single API for blue-bubble threads with SMS/RCS fallback and CRM integrations, and says it will run outbound as a service for teams.

• Aligned News flags new paper on evaluation awareness in frontier LLMs

  Haritz Puerto says a paper on decomposing and measuring evaluation awareness just dropped, plus a resource called EvalAwa..., but links and authorship were not shared.

• Changling Li leads EvalAwareBench to measure when LLMs know they are being tested

  In a new paper and open releases, Li and collaborators decompose evaluation awareness, test nine models across four benchmarks, and publish a factor-controlled dataset and code.

• Hugging Face leader says Gemma 4 tops 120M downloads in weeks, counting Hugging Face and Ollama only

  The tally counts only Hugging Face and Ollama pulls, hinting at on-device demand but leaving methodology and release timing unclear.

• Zhao Tongyang's EngineAI starts 10,000-unit humanoid line; first T800s roll off Shenzhen base

  XRoboHub reports the line is live at an integrated Shenzhen facility, but capacity timing and T800 specs were not disclosed.

• Asimov plans Palo Alto, SF, and Austin meetups to talk humanoids and AI

  Coffee meetups land June 2, 4, and 6, with RSVPs running through Luma as Asimov convenes folks interested in humanoids and AI.

• Rumor: Sam Altman backs Pharia Health, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) protocol startup

  The company targets high-performing professionals, pairing FDA-cleared TMS with d-cycloserine and optional $200 per month maintenance sessions.

• Ascii.dev founders Anicet Nougaret and Kirill Makarov push Box, claiming 5x cheaper agent sandboxes

  Ex-ESA data science intern and Volvo Group engineer turn to agent infrastructure; Box targets agent developers with one-command sandboxes, a simple API, and pricing claims 5x below popular offers at equal specs.

• Freu AI launches Mac agent that compiles your cross-app workflow once, then runs it locally with zero recurring token cost

  Demos show a Mac agent that records your cross-app workflow once, compiles it into a deterministic DSL, and replays it locally with zero recurring tokens. With freu-cli open-sourced and a local vision execution model coming, can ahead-of-time semantic compilation beat screenshot agents on cost and latency?

• Socket uncovers TrapDoor campaign stealing keys and wallets via open source packages

  Socket researchers say the TrapDoor campaign planted credential-stealing payloads in more than 34 packages and 384+ versions, targeting crypto and AI developers.

• DeepMind preprint: LLM+Lean agent resolves 9 Erdos problems and 44 OEIS conjectures

  Google DeepMind reports a full-featured AlphaProof Nexus agent solved 9 of 353 open Erdos problems at a few hundred dollars per problem and proved 44 of 492 OEIS conjectures; code and Lean proofs are on GitHub. This is an arXiv preprint and community validation is pending.

• Yuyin Zhou releases ClinSeekAgent, an open-source clinical AI agent that seeks its own evidence

  Zhou's team links raw EHR, web, and chest X-ray tools, and reports open-source SOTA after distilling Claude Opus 4.6 into a 35B model.

• Greg Brockman walks through the 72 hours that almost killed OpenAI

  In a rare interview on The Knowledge Project, the OpenAI co-founder recounts quitting within hours, sketching a backup company, and why they stopped showing reasoning traces.

• Draw Things adds on-device Qwen 3.5 4B and a clearer mode selector on iOS and macOS

  The app says it now runs a lightweight local LLM as an interrogator model and splits generation and editing into distinct modes for a cleaner workflow.

• Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic after stints at OpenAI and Tesla

  Aligned News flagged the move; Wikipedia lists Karpathy on Anthropic’s pretraining team in 2026, underscoring top-tier talent consolidation at frontier labs.

• Swedish AirForestry secures SEK 28M pre-Series A for forestry electric drones

  Founder-CEO Caroline Walerud is stepping up field validation and adding 12 technician and engineering roles as Northzone leads a convertible from existing backers.

• BenchFlow to launch SkillsBench at ACM CAIS, presented by Google DeepMind

  The San Francisco afterparty will spotlight 100+ expert curated agent tasks, live demos of the BenchFlow SDK, and Kaggle’s new Agent Benchmarks.

• Why I’m Building RuntimeWire

  The longtime founder-operator says coverage has drifted from builders and pledges to chase early product signals over polished funding cycles.

• Anthropic says Project Glasswing surfaced 10,000+ high-severity bugs in a month

  Cloudflare alone found 2,000 issues; Anthropic’s OSS scans show a 90.6% triaged true-positive rate and project nearly 3,900 high-or-critical bugs ahead.

• WorkOS launches auth.md, an open protocol for agent signups

  Michael Grinich unveiled auth.md with early support from Cloudflare and Firecrawl, giving apps a standard way to onboard AI agents without brittle browser hacks.

• Ex-Apple autonomy lead's Maven Robotics is said to be raising $100M Series A

  Less than two years in, the industrial robotics startup led by Apple alum Hamza Derbas is rumored to be pursuing a $100M Series A.