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• Simon Reiff's HIC Mouse takes aim at the messy middle of AI coding

  The tool gives coding agents coordinate-based edits, staged rollback and richer tool responses, with pricing that starts at $15 a month.

• Yohei Nakajima's ActiveGraph Turns the Agent Trace Into the Runtime

  The BabyAGI creator's May 21st arXiv paper argues for agents built around append-only logs, replay, forking, and lineage.

• Ekin Ertac's AI-built PHP engine now renders WordPress

  Phargo's public scoreboard shows 3,844 upstream PHP tests passing, with the human operator using the corpus as the code reviewer.

• RidgeText's Allan Bogh Moves Map Data Out of the LLM Context Window

  The SMS outdoor assistant now renders wildfire and trail overlays by letting the model queue layers while server-side code handles GeoJSON.

• Dario Amodei's Mythos bet is hitting the public CVE record

  Epoch AI found a June spike in serious vulnerability disclosures, but the data shows a bottleneck Anthropic still has to clear: patching.

• The British Are Coming for the Algorithm, and YouTube Wants Creators to Mobilize

  The UK proposal is a consultation, not a law, but it puts creator reach inside a fight over who controls video discovery.

• Musk says he has 'wised up' in reply to the 'takers' having the right to vote

  Musk's reply did not happen in a vacuum: the world's richest man has already been tied to a $1 million voter-registration giveaway that court filings later said involved handpicked MAGA supporters, not a random drawing.

• World of ClaudeCraft pushes vibe-coded games into live AI play

  Levy Street's browser game is open source, token-linked and now being used to test AI agents inside a shared MMO world.

• Claude Fable 5 generated a pure C++ Vampire Survivors-style demo, Lentils says

  The X demo claims the game was produced in two prompts, with sprites, sounds, graphics and music generated at runtime from C++ code.

• Claude Fable helped Ammaar Reshi bring Command & Conquer Generals to Mac / iPhones

  The open-source fork runs the 2003 RTS on Apple Silicon, iPhone and iPad, but users still need their own EA game assets.

• Julio Merino takes EndBASIC closer to 1.0 with sound and richer graphics

  The Rust-based BASIC environment adds BEEP, SOUND, script execution, a retro VGA font and a macOS SDL fix in version 0.14.0.

• YouTube's AI can be tricked into leaking private video titles, researcher says

  Security researcher Javox says Google rejected the report as social engineering, exposing a policy gap around AI-driven creator tools.

• Citizen Lab says Pegasus hacked an EU lawmaker investigating Pegasus

  Stelios Kouloglou's iPhone was infected in 2022 and 2023 while he sat on the European Parliament's spyware inquiry committee.

• Midjourney wants Hollywood to open its AI files

  A new motion asks a judge to widen discovery beyond AI work that resulted in consumer-facing images or videos.

• America's best invention is permission

  The republic's most valuable technology was never a gadget. It was the permission to argue, fail, move and build at continental scale.

• Sysdig says JADEPUFFER carried out ransomware with an AI agent

  Sysdig's report sharpens Loris Degioanni's runtime thesis: attackers can chain old cloud flaws without a human operator.

• Okhai's Foundation builds a stricter stack for AI-era software

  The public Ovasabi repo pairs Go, Rust/WASM and TypeScript with agent rules, performance gates and a license that limits AI training.

• Dario Amodei's Samsung chip talks put Anthropic deeper into the compute business

  Anthropic has not picked a chip use case, server design or production path, but its Samsung discussions show how Claude demand is pulling the lab toward silicon.

• Sebastian Jimenez is paying Rilla employees $18,000 to live near the office

  The Rilla CEO ties the stipend to a 72-hour, in-office culture built around speed, sales coaching and physical proximity.

• Hirotaka Sato's cyborg cockroach can now work underwater for three hours

  NTU and Waseda researchers built a flexible 3D-printed oxygen suit for remote-controlled insects in flooded disaster zones.

• Bilawal Sidhu turns Meta Ray-Ban footage into a 4D scene with Claude Fable 5

  The ex-Google AR/VR PM says IronSight was made from two pairs of smart-glasses footage after a few hours of experiments.

• Mistral opens Leanstral 1.5 in a bet on machine-checked AI

  Arthur Mensch's Paris lab says the Lean 4 model solves 587 PutnamBench problems and found five previously unreported bugs.

• The Sportsbook Is Recruiting the Next Founder Before Startups Do

  The same edge-seeking psychology that produces builders is being monetized by betting apps before many young people ever ship a product.

• Wafer pushes GLM-5.2 Fast onto AMD as Nvidia inference costs bite

  The six-person inference startup says MI355X tuning got GLM-5.2 to 2626 tok/s/node, with Vercel and OpenRouter now carrying the model.