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• Google opens a CLI for Fitbit and Pixel Watch health data

  The open-source ghealth tool gives developers and AI agents terminal access to Google Health API data as Fitbit Web API winds down.

• Revin takes AI call agents into Alpine-backed Vertex's roofing roll-up

  The rollout puts Quinn Litherland's AI operator model inside a 27-brand roofing platform where missed calls become missed revenue.

• Cloudflare moves to make AI agents pay for the web they consume

  Cloudflare is separating search indexing from AI use, adding default blocks for training on ad-supported sites and building x402 payments into its edge network.

• Castelion's Ex-SpaceX Founders Are Building Missiles From Auto Chips And Fracking Tubes

  Reuters reports defense startups are borrowing from commercial supply chains to attack the Pentagon's rocket motor bottleneck.

• Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 is a work agent hiding in a model launch

  Dario Amodei's lab pushed agentic work into the Sonnet tier as Fable export-control news swallowed the launch-day conversation.

• Twelve Labs raises $100 million as Amazon turns video search into an AWS bet

  Jae Lee's video intelligence company is raising a Series B co-led by NEA and Naver, with AWS tied to the compute and distribution strategy.

• MGX's $49 Billion AI Fund Turns Abu Dhabi Into a Whole-Stack AI Backer

  The two-year-old state-backed investor beat its $45 billion target, but it has not named the limited partners behind Fund I.

• Dario Amodei gets Fable 5 back online after Anthropic's export-control scare

  Claude Fable 5 returns globally on July 1st, while Mythos 5 remains tied to government-approved cyberdefense access.

• TechCrunch sets July 6th deadline for Startup Battlefield Australia applicants

  Eight startups will pitch in Sydney on August 19th, with the winner getting a direct path to Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco.

• BMW gives Brett Adcock the factory proof Figure AI needed

  BMW says Figure 02 supported production of more than 30,000 X3s, while Figure 03 moves next into Spartanburg logistics work.

• Wayve opens $85 million employee tender as Alex Kendall turns autonomy hype into a talent fight

  The secondary sale gives staff liquidity at an $8.5 billion valuation while Wayve pushes toward Uber pilots and Nissan integrations.

• EquiLibre's DeepMind founders turn poker AI into a more than $500M quant-trading bet

  The Prague lab raised an undisclosed Series A led by Creandum after taking reinforcement learning from games into live markets.

• Commerce is expected to lift Anthropic Fable 5 export controls tonight

  The move would reopen access to Anthropic's general-use frontier model after an 18-day fight over AI, cybersecurity and export law.

• Peter Beck's $8B Iridium deal gives Rocket Lab the network it did not want to build from scratch

  Rocket Lab agreed to pay $54 a share for Iridium, adding L-band spectrum, 2.55 million subscribers, and recurring satellite revenue.

• Conception Says It Has Made Early Human Egg Cells From Stem Cells

  Matt Krisiloff's fertility startup still has to mature the cells and prove safety before any clinical use.

• Realta Fusion shows its mirror reactor can pull electricity straight from plasma

  Kieran Furlong's UW-Madison spinout says the June 19th WHAM demo produced current at about 100 volts, but not net electricity.

• Google brings Gemini voice search into Gmail beta

  The beta turns inbox retrieval into a paid Gemini workflow across Gmail, Docs and Keep, tightening Google's grip on AI productivity.

• Clicks shows its keyboard phone actually working

  Adrian Li Mow Ching and his co-founders are moving the $499 Communicator from CES concept toward a late-2026 shipment.

• Etched exits stealth with $800M raised and a broader inference bet

  The San Jose chip startup says it has working silicon, first racks built and more than $1B in signed customer contracts.

• Google ships Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash to developers

  The new Gemini media models put faster image generation and conversational video editing into AI Studio, the Gemini API and enterprise tooling.

• Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 as developers wait on price, context and model docs

  Anthropic has now announced Claude Sonnet 5 through the official Claude account, shifting the story from leak-watch to whether the new Sonnet tier delivers the claimed price cut, 1M context and near-Opus positioning.

• Claude Code's Hidden China Signal

  A reverse-engineering post claims Anthropic's CLI mutates hidden prompt text when proxies, time zones, or China-related domains appear, raising a bigger question: what else is your coding agent saying before you ever type?

• DeepReinforce releases Ornith-1.0 for self-scaffolding coding agents

  The MIT-licensed model family spans 9B to 397B parameters, but its benchmark lead rests on DeepReinforce's own harness-heavy evaluations.

• Omnea founder Ben Freeman wants to turn employee churn into a $250K seed check

  The London procurement AI company will let five-year employees pitch for $250,000, even though no one is eligible yet.