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• Physician-founded Kin Health raises $9M to put an AI notetaker in the patient’s pocket

  Led by Maveron, the seed backs a free app that records clinic visits, turns them into clear summaries with next steps, and keeps family in the loop.

• Vita Dynamics raises about $70M in pre-A as China’s humanoid race shifts to production

  The sizable pre-A round signals a push from R&D to manufacturing as Chinese humanoid startups aim to scale ahead of Western peers.

• Files.md takes a swing at Obsidian with an open-source Markdown notebook

  Built in Go with a server and web UI, the project is seeing near-daily commits as it positions itself as a hackable Markdown note app on GitHub.

• Ciridae raises $20M seed from Accel and Andreessen Horowitz to push AI into the physical economy

  Accel and Andreessen Horowitz are backing the early-stage startup as AI automation shifts focus from software workflows to real-world operations.

• MIT's GenCAD turns images into editable CAD programs

  MIT researchers Md Ferdous Alam and Faez Ahmed release a demo, paper and code for an image-conditioned model that outputs full parametric CAD command histories.

• Researchers unveil Fabricked, a software attack that misroutes Infinity Fabric to break AMD SEV-SNP

  The team shows a malicious hypervisor can subvert SEV-SNP init by dropping PSP writes via Infinity Fabric misrouting; they report 100% success and confirm on Zen 5 EPYC.

• Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch tells French lawmakers Europe has two years to build its own AI stack

  The 33-year-old cofounder warned control of chips, energy, and data centers will decide AI power, urging a rapid sovereignty push in a National Assembly hearing.

• UC Santa Barbara team bottles sunlight in a liquid heat battery that can boil water on demand

  Associate Professor Grace Han's lab stores 1.6 MJ/kg of solar energy in molecules and later releases it as heat, pointing to off-grid hot water and thermal apps.

• FAR.AI says it quickly found three jailbreaks in DeepSeek’s V4-Pro

  The research group linked to a write-up and cited 98-100% figures after red-teaming DeepSeek’s latest model, according to a post amplified on X.

• Roman Letters puts 7,049 late Roman letters in one English-language corpus

  The site frames the West’s collapse and the East’s continuity through a browsable dataset and chaptered narrative drawn from thousands of late antique letters.

• XS is a new general-purpose language asking for feedback, shipping a playground on day one

  The creator of XS says the language is at v1.2.15 and has a playground and docs live at xslang.org, inviting developers to try it and weigh in.

• Christoph Nakazawa ships Codiff, a local Git diff reviewer with an AI walkthrough

  The macOS app lets developers review staged and unstaged changes locally, add inline comments, export to Markdown, and call an LLM with a -w flag.

• Grafana Labs says attacker accessed GitHub and downloaded codebase, declines ransom

  In a thread on X, the company said no customer data was accessed, it invalidated the leaked credentials, and it will publish a post-incident review.

• Five ACT students launch PART Telescopes to put $500 radio astronomy kits in rural schools

  The Narrabundah College team published open docs and software for capturing the 21 cm hydrogen line with off-the-shelf parts, backed by Science Mentors ACT.

• Zerostack ships a tiny Rust-native coding agent with Unix instincts

  A crates.io debut touts multi-model support, a TUI, sandboxed bash, and a permission system in an 8.9MB binary that idles near zero CPU.

• NVLabs unveils SANA-WM, a 2.6B world model that makes 60s 720p video on one GPU

  The NVIDIA research team says the open-source code can turn a single image plus a camera path into a minute-long, controllable clip; weights are listed as coming soon.

• Elon Musk faces a post-merger talent drain at SpaceXAI

  Over 50 staffers have exited since February, with at least 11 to Meta and 7 to Mira Murati's Thinking Machine Labs, per reporting cited by TechCrunch.

• NVIDIA SANA-WM: 2.6B open-source world model changes everything

  In a post on X, Roemmele says the model generates controllable, physics-rich, high-fidelity worlds; the post did not include a repo or paper link.

• Calif engineers say they built the first public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5

  The AI-first security shop reported a working MIE-surviving local kernel exploit to Apple after building it in five days with help from Mythos Preview.

• After Bench's collapse, Ian Crosby raises $10M for Synthetic, an autonomous AI bookkeeper

  Khosla Ventures leads the seed with Basis Set Ventures and Shopify CEO Tobias Lutke, backing a product Crosby says may not be possible yet.

• Spectre debuts as a contract-first systems language with immutability by default

  Docs outline compile-time contracts, manual memory control, and a translate-c path to pull existing C code into Spectre.

• Turso retires its $1,000 data-corruption bug bounty after AI slop flood

  CEO Glauber Costa says maintainers were drowning in LLM-made PRs and urges new OSS governance as the team’s SQLite-compatible engine marches toward 1.0.

• v0 adds agentic browser mode to test and debug the apps it builds

  The new mode navigates live UIs, critiques designs, debugs flows, and sends screenshots while it works, per a post on X.

• xAI releases early beta of Grok Build, an agentic CLI for coding and automation

  SuperGrok Heavy subscribers can try the new command line tool at x.ai/cli as xAI asks for feedback to improve both the model and product.