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• Anthropic's Fable shutdown turns into a trust fight with Washington

  The company pulled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after a June 12th export-control order, then sent technical staff to Washington to repair the relationship.

• Salesforce to buy Eoghan McCabe's Fin for about $3.6 billion

  The Intercom-turned-AI-agent company is set to join Agentforce after a May rebrand and a hard pivot into customer-service automation.

• Radical Numerics raises $50M seed to build AI for biology and biodefense

  Eric Nguyen and the Evo research team are turning generative genomics into a company with Omnii, a model aimed at DNA, RNA and proteins.

• Tensordyne puts log math at the center of its Nvidia challenge

  The former Recogni is previewing Napier, an inference rack built around logarithmic arithmetic, with shipments targeted later in 2026.

• NewCore emerges with $66M to make AI agents manageable identities

  Zohar Alon's new identity-security startup is betting enterprises will need to govern agents like workers, not service accounts.

• Carmen Li is trying to make GPU compute trade like a commodity

  Silicon Data is building the benchmark layer, Compute Exchange is building the spot market, and CME has proposed compute futures with Silicon Data, subject to regulatory review.

• Orbio raises $21M as repeat founders push AI agents into frontline HR

  Dawn Capital led the Series A for the Madrid startup, which says its agents help large employers hire, onboard and retain frontline staff.

• Startup Spotlight: Complir wants to simplify international retail compliance so ops teams can sleep at night

  The Copenhagen founders embedded with Flying Tiger's compliance team before building software for the launch bottleneck facing European retailers.

• Wild Hornets found the Shahed drone fight is not won by speed alone

  The Ukrainian maker of the STING interceptor cut back from a faster design after military feedback showed loiter time mattered more.

• Rio 3.5 page says wrong weights were uploaded after Nex-AGI analysis

  The updated model card says a base merge of Nex-N2-Pro and Qwen was uploaded by mistake, shifting the dispute from pure attribution to release discipline.

• Cohere's North Mini Code Turns Its Enterprise AI Pitch Toward Developers

  The Apache 2.0 coding model is built for agentic workflows, long context and private deployment on a single H100.

• Zuckerberg's $14 billion AI reset now needs customers

  Alexandr Wang's Muse Spark gives Meta a proprietary model; the harder job is proving it can become more than ad infrastructure.

• Pearl's AI mining pitch faces a 112 MW usefulness test

  A June preprint claims Pearl's GPU network is doing random matrix math, not verified AI work, challenging Omri Weinstein's core bet.

• PixelRAG makes the case that web RAG should read pixels, not parsed text

  Yichuan Wang and collaborators show a screenshot-first retrieval system beating text pipelines, with lower agent token use and a real chunking gap.

• Ataraxy Labs' Weave targets the merge conflicts AI agents create

  Ataraxy Labs is betting that Git's line-based merge model is the wrong unit of work for parallel coding agents.

• Kimi K2.7 ranks second behind Fable 5 and above GPT 5.5 xhigh in ErdosBench's mathematical research test

  Przemek Chojecki's 14-problem smoke run puts Moonshot's new open-weight model behind Claude Fable-5-max and ahead of GPT-5.5 xhigh.

• Depthfirst turns FFmpeg into a proof point for autonomous security agents

  The AI security startup says its agent found 21 FFmpeg zero-days for about $1,000, including an RCE exploit primitive.

• Dapple Raises $30M Seed to Sell Private AI Cloud as Owned Infrastructure

  Founder Tricia Martinez-Saab says Dapple has signed more than $100 million in contracts, but customer names and revenue timing remain undisclosed.

• Databricks Open Sources Omnigent to Put a "Meta-Harness" Above AI Agents

  Matei Zaharia and Kasey Uhlenhuth's alpha project sits above Claude Code, Codex, the Pi agent and custom agents to compose multi-agent workflows, share live sessions and enforce contextual policies.

• Rio de Janeiro ships an open AI model built on Qwen

  IplanRIO put Rio 3.5 Open 397B on Hugging Face with MIT licensing, a 1M-token context claim, and self-reported gains over Qwen's base model.

• Zuckerberg's AI reorg is messy, unpopular, and probably the job map Big Tech needs

  Meta's 6,500-person Applied AI unit looks less like automation magic than the unglamorous human operating system required to make models useful.

• Malware authors use nuclear and biological weapons language to evade scanners

  A Hades supply-chain wave hid weapons-policy bait in non-executing code comments to jam LLM-first malware triage.

• Anthropic says the jailbreak behind Fable 5 shutdown was code review

  The Amodeis' safety-first AI company is now fighting Washington over whether a narrow coding prompt justifies pulling frontier models.

• Z.ai opens GLM-5.2 to every coding-plan tier

  The new flagship adds High and Max reasoning modes and a 1M-context configuration for coding agents such as Claude Code and OpenClaw.