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• Solo founder Ben Cera says Polsia raise it's own financing of $30M at a $250M valuation, autonomously

  Approaching $10M ARR, Cera says Polsia runs companies autonomously with one founder and AI, and even handled its own raise while he "just showed up for signatures."

• Superset is building an agent-first IDE on GitHub, wiring skills into the dev workflow

  The public GitHub project under superset-sh is shipping agent skills, a Linear ticket draft flow, and editor UX tweaks, with 10.9k stars and nearly 2,900 commits.

• Klemen Kotar announces PSI-0.5, a promptable physical world model

  Kotar framed PSI-0.5 as contrasting with world models focused on moving around scenes; the reposted announcement we saw did not include links to code, a demo, or a paper.

• Speridlabs exits stealth to build a spatial AI foundation model

  The research lab outlined a staged plan for a single 3D-native model and an open-by-default posture; Pear VC and Base10 are backing the effort.

• Qwen 3.7 Max draws head-to-head comparisons with GPT and Gemini-class systems

  Benchmark chatter has shifted from open vs weak baselines to parity talk, with hints that Qwen 3.7 Max posts a strong math score.

• Whip launches as a social feed of tappable AI mini apps and games

  Creator samagra14 debuts Whip as a social home for playful, weird, useful AI mini apps and games, with no-code creation and a public download link.

• Spotify launches Reserved to hold two concert tickets for top fans

  Eligible U.S. Premium subscribers get a day-long purchase window before general sale, with no added fees from Spotify and bot checks tied to fan engagement.

• Gabriel Valdivia opens waitlist for Patina, a local private AI workspace for Mac

  Local-first personal intelligence that connects iMessage, Gmail, Calendar, Slack, Notion, Figma, Health, WhatsApp, and more with data stored as local files; plans start at $30/month or a $99 lifetime license; waitlist at patina.md.

• Jia Chen unveils Jam, a simple marketing interface for the agentic era

  Jam claims 2,000+ companies, developers, and operators already using the tool, after starting as a side project that devtool founders paid thousands to access.

• Cosmo aims to give AI agents a desktop UI, launched by Shiyuan on X

  In an X thread, Shiyuan says Cosmo lets you type or speak from the desktop while the interface renders live; some demo changes are not live yet.

• Runway pushes Aleph 2.0 into an editing workflow with new Edit Studio

  Runway is steering its video model toward controllable, preview-first editing, not just one-shot generation, per a thread on X and a new Generative Session page.

• Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses, pushes engineers to GitHub Copilot CLI

  Internal memo sets a June 30 cutoff for most Claude Code seats; Microsoft frames the shift as convergence on a first-party CLI and a cost move tied to fiscal year-end, per The Verge.

• TeamPCP claims 4,000 GitHub repos after poisoned VSCode plug-in; 3,800 confirmed

  Wired reports the group has hidden malware in 500+ open source tools across 20 waves, breaching hundreds of companies and now offering GitHub code for sale.

• Inside 'Google Zero': AI answers move intent off the open web

  Founders and indie publishers describe the same analytics signature as Google's summary-style results, including AI Overviews, satisfy queries on the results page and thin out the clicks that fund new work.

• ClickUp CEO Zeb Evans says agent-driven workflows can 100x orgs and 1000x top performers

  In an X thread announcing a 22% cut, Evans framed a shift to agents and smaller, faster teams, citing a weeklong frontend architecture rebuild, 40x research, faster code review of agent outputs, and million-dollar bands for outsized impact.

• Hark raises $700M Series A for a stealth bid at a universal AI interface

  Founder Brett Adcock lands a $6B valuation as Hark readies multimodal models and dedicated hardware for a personal AI assistant.

• Anthropic-backed services firm acquires Fractional AI to anchor enterprise push

  San Francisco-based Fractional AI, founded by Chris Taylor, Eddie Siegel, and Travis May, will be the operational core of a new Anthropic, Blackstone, and H&F backed firm.

• Minkai Xu introduces Gemini Omni, a self-described world model, in a Google DeepMind X post

  Researcher-builder Minkai Xu says he has been heads-down for months on a world model, with the announcement appearing on Google DeepMind's X account.

• OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT images with Google's SynthID and launch a provenance checker

  Images from ChatGPT, the OpenAI API, and OpenAI Codex will carry SynthID and C2PA signals, with a checker to verify provenance and new participation in C2PA conformance.

• Lab0 says its AI FDE cuts enterprise rollouts from 6 months to 10 days

  Founders say the agent automates discovery-to-go-live, from drafting docs and test plans to configuration and integrations; Lab0 also says it is already working with Adobe.

• Chinese cities are rolling out AI robot barber kiosks, Cointelegraph says

  Cointelegraph said in a thread on X that 3D-scanning robot barber kiosks are appearing in Chinese cities for 60 yuan a cut, but did not name the maker or list specific cities.

• Stanford cs329x publishes human-centered LLM playbook

  The cs329x report, led by Caleb Ziems and Dora Zhao, maps design, data, tuning, evals, and deployment tradeoffs, and flags engagement-optimization and sycophancy incentives misaligned with goals like user empowerment and mastery.

• Startup Spotlight: ThineAI opens iOS beta as ambiant memory app (aka for when you blackout)

  Rai says ThineAI runs in the background to capture work and life context and return it on demand; early access is rolling out to iOS testers, with Android not live yet.

• Zach Dell's Base Power inks 40 MW residential battery deal with Austin Energy

  Austin Energy will dispatch a 40 MW fleet of home batteries from Base Power for peak shaving and price spikes, while homeowners get whole-home backup.