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• Exclusive: Grok Build hides a Doom-like 'easter egg' game behind the /gboom command

  RuntimeWire testing found an undocumented mini-game inside xAI's terminal coding agent

• Xbox reset narrows the exit path for indie game studios

  Microsoft is cutting about 3,200 Xbox roles and setting exits in motion for five studios after years of buying its way into games.

• Insilico's AI-discovered lung fibrosis drug enters Phase III

  Rentosertib will test whether Insilico's end-to-end AI drug discovery thesis can survive late-stage clinical scrutiny.

• Cloudflare's Meerkat takes aim at the timeout problem inside global consensus

  The internal research project uses QuePaxa, a 2023 EPFL algorithm, to keep control-plane writes moving across Cloudflare's global network.

• ZML's Steeve Morin releases free LLMD to loosen AI inference from Nvidia

  The Paris startup's closed-source inference server runs Llama, Gemma, Qwen and Mistral models across Nvidia, AMD, TPU, Intel and Apple backends.

• OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produced a proof of a 50-year graph theory problem

  Ethan Knight said the run used 64 subagents in under an hour, pushing OpenAI's new ultra mode into peer-review territory.

• Melius wants agents, not chatbots, to run creative production

  Joowon Kim's startup is betting that designers and marketers will manage agent work on a canvas instead of inside a chat window.

• Fizz's founders accuse a Maveron partner of leaking their campus playbook

  The amended complaint adds a VC-confidentiality claim to a 2023 fight between two anonymous college social apps.

• Agility Robotics' $2.5B SPAC deal tests public-market appetite for humanoids

  A late-June Churchill Capital Corp XI agreement gives Digit a Wall Street path before humanoid unit economics are settled.

• Boston Dynamics keeps Atlas in the World Cup conversation with Viking Row clip

  The Waltham robotics company posted a Viking Row clip days after Hyundai put Atlas inside a live World Cup match environment.

• Drafted V2 turns room placement into AI-generated home plans

  Nick Donahue's AI home-design startup added partial regeneration, exterior options, saved projects, and faster floor-plan generation.

• GPT-5.6 Sol Turns Blender Into an AI Speedrun

  A viral X clip showed OpenAI's flagship model driving Blender at a claimed 750 tokens per second in Very Fast mode.

• Shuo Yang's Mondo Robotics shows Beni camera robot

  The ex-Tesla Optimus engineer is starting with a narrower consumer use case: a small camera robot tied to a personal promise to build his son a robot buddy.

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• Mistral moves into robotics with a single-camera navigation model

  Robostral Navigate is an 8B embodied AI model that Mistral says can follow language instructions without LiDAR or depth sensors.

• Stav Levi-Neumark's Alta raises $25M to build an AI command layer for revenue teams

  The Tel Aviv startup says its agents already serve Snowflake, Deel and Atlassian, but valuation and deployment depth remain undisclosed.

• PassiveLogic launches Level 3 autonomy for buildings

  New CEO Thomas Kiessling is selling buildings as robots, with NVIDIA named but customer deployments and availability still undisclosed.

• Oskar Block's Stilta raised $10.5M to put AI agents inside patent litigation

  The seven-month-old startup's pitch deck shows a McKinsey-trained team selling auditability where legal AI still has to earn trust.

• Vendelux raises $50M to make event marketing answer for pipeline

  Alex Reynolds and Stefan Deeran are taking their Shutterstock-era event thesis upmarket as CMOs face pressure to defend live-event spend.

• Polysense raises $10.7M to push AI quality control deeper into food factories

  The Ghent startup says its food-line software has moved from pilots to deployments with Agristo, Darta and Poppies Bakeries.

• MiniMax says it raised $2B, but leaves investors and valuation unnamed

  Ryan Lee's X thread did not name investors, valuation or deal structure, leaving the financing terms around the Chinese AI lab unresolved.

• Fleek raises $25M to turn secondhand clothing sorting into software

  Burda Principal Investments led the Series B, with eBay joining a cap table that already included a16z, HV Capital and Y Combinator.

• Stan's 14-day AI build turned customer knowledge into $3 million ARR

  John Hu says Stanley began with manual interviews, public posts and AI-written cold emails before expanding from LinkedIn to Instagram.