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• Google’s Antigravity 2.0 lands as a desktop app with multi-agent teams and voice

  Rebuilt release adds multi-agent teams, scheduled tasks, native voice and one-click integration, with a blog post and downloads live today.

• Google launches Gemini 3.5 Flash for agents and coding, now in AI Studio

  Announced during Google I/O, the new model is positioned for long-horizon agent workflows and coding tasks and is live via the Gemini API in Google AI Studio.

• ReactVision launches ReactVision Studio, a browser editor for AR/VR in React Native

  ReactVision Studio is a web-based visual editor that lets React Native teams drag-and-drop 3D scenes, generate assets with AI, preview on devices with StudioGo, and ship to iOS, Android, and Meta Quest from one codebase; the MIT-licensed SDK is Expo compatible and reports 100K+ npm installs.

• Abstract, General Catalyst and USV lead $17M bet on Status social app

  Seed and Series A led by Abstract, General Catalyst and USV; the social app says it hit 1M users 19 days after a quiet launch last year.

• Cities push back on AI plate readers as Flock Safety deployments trigger political blowback

  An X thread flagged a Washington Post report from Troy, NY, where an AI camera rollout spurred uproar and a state of emergency; the Austin rampage has reopened questions about whether ALPRs like Flock Safety would have changed events there.

• Big checks got bigger: Crunchbase says 80% of 2026 US VC is in $500M-plus rounds

  Crunchbase News tallies show funding concentration accelerating past 2021 and 2025 highs, with 29 mega-round companies absorbing most dollars through April.

• Viktor raises $75M after hitting $15M ARR, per new X thread

  Fryd Wiatrowski says Viktor hit a $15M run rate and raised $75M, with backers from Accel to Nat Friedman, as its AI coworkers monetize inside Slack and Teams.

• Skywork ships SkyClaw v1.0, an agent model tuned for OpenClaw, Hermes, and Nanobot

  Free access is available via APIFree, plus a faster lite variant and an OpenAI-compatible agent chat API with thinking mode, tool calls, and long-context stability.

• SafeDep says Mini Shai-Hulud payload slipped into 317 npm packages

  Researchers tie a 22-minute mass publish from a compromised npm account to the same toolkit seen in the recent SAP-related incident, with CI and AI tool persistence.

• MIT Media Lab debuts Human Operator, an AI that briefly moves your muscles to teach tasks

  The prototype uses Claude-driven vision-language planning and electrical muscle stimulation to guide wrist and finger movement for training and assistance.

• Boston Dynamics posts Atlas carrying a mini fridge

  A short X post frames Atlas as doing whole-body manipulation, shifting emphasis from acrobatics to moving real, awkward objects.

• HeyGen demos Avatar V workflow that stitches scenes into continuous AI video

  The team showed cinematic avatar shots linked into longer sequences, pointing at narrative workflows instead of isolated clips.

• Marin debuts Delphi to forecast 25B pretraining runs with 0.2 percent error

  In an X thread, Will Held says small-run fits predicted a 25B-param, 600B-token run at ~1e23 FLOPs, matching Paloma macro loss within 0.2% error.

• PolicyLayer: prompts are not permissions for production agents

  In a post on X, the company argues agent behavior should be controlled by enforceable policies rather than instructions buried in a prompt.

• Meta's AIRA paper points to agents co-designing model architectures

  Meta's AIRA architecture discovery work signals that agents are starting to help design neural models.

• Startup Spotlight: CancelFlow - Stripe cancel flows in under 10 minutes

  CancelFlow's site now outlines an embeddable retention flow that reads from Stripe via your publishable key, applies outcomes in Stripe, and supports A/B testing and full customization, with a 14-day free trial.

• RLWRLD debuts RLDX-1, a dexterity-first robot hand foundation model

  A short X video frames the bet: focus on robot hands and the failure points in everyday tasks like pouring coffee and grasping objects.

• UniPat AI team debuts SaaS-Bench as agents finish under 4% of real SaaS workflows

  Built across 23 live SaaS apps and 106 long-horizon tasks, the open benchmark finds frontier agents stumble on planning, memory, cross-app context, and error recovery.

• Mentra Live is GA: open-source smart glasses platform and SDKs

  He says thousands of units have shipped and hundreds of companies are deploying, with SDKs live at MentraGlass.com and international expansion targeted later this year.

• Anthropic reportedly edges OpenAI in U.S. paid business accounts. Marketing, product, or OpenAI fatigue?

  An X post cites 34.4% vs 32.3% U.S. enterprise share for Anthropic with no disclosed methodology. The gap is slim and could reflect marketing, product fit, or buyers seeking an OpenAI alternative, even as some developers say OpenAI's code tools beat Claude Code.

• Colossus pegs Cognition AI at $445M run rate on Devin; US Army, Goldman, Mercedes named as customers

  A Colossus magazine Q&A and profile cites Devin at a $445M annualized run rate with usage doubling every eight weeks, and names the US Army, Goldman Sachs, and Mercedes-Benz as early customers.

• OpenAI launches Deployment Company, agrees to acquire Tomoro

  Majority-owned unit will embed Forward Deployed Engineers; backed by 19 partners and starting with 150 specialists and $4 billion, per OpenAI and Greg Brockman.

• CSTA picks 15 teachers for second Responsible AI Fellowship

  The six-month program begins this summer, selected from 124 applicants and backed by Google and GenerationAI.

• Kexin Huang introduces BiomniBench to grade AI agents on how they think, not just what they answer

  In an X post amplified by Peter Jansen, Huang calls BiomniBench the first benchmark to score the process behind an agent’s output, not only the final result.