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• Mollick's Claude Fable 5 test highlights hours-long agent work, not another launch demo

  Ethan Mollick says Claude Fable 5 worked for hours across research and coding tasks, offering a long-horizon outside read on the Amodeis' agent bet.

• Dario Amodei asks Washington to treat frontier AI like aviation

  Anthropic's proposal would put large model releases through testing, audits, and possible deployment holds while funding labor-displacement work.

• Dino Mavrookas's Saronic gets a combat proof point in the Strait of Hormuz

  The Navy used Saronic's remotely piloted Corsair boat to rescue two aviators after an Apache was struck near the Strait of Hormuz.

• Guan Wang's Sapient Says It Trained a 1B-Parameter Model for About $1,500

  Sapient Intelligence's HRM-Text claim targets the enterprise fear that custom AI means frontier-model budgets and vendor lock-in.

• xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin surfaces a personalized-AI company

  Bloomberg says the xAI co-founder has unveiled a personalized‑AI venture, but the company name, funding, and product details remain undisclosed.

• Ari Jacoby's Concentrate AI enters the AI routing fight as token bills bite

  Concentrate emerged from stealth with more than $5 million, while OpenRouter's recent $113 million round shows how fast the gateway layer is heating up.

• Tesla hacker Yoni Ramon brings Pi out of stealth with $35M for AI security

  Pi is valued at $100 million and counts Navan as an early customer, while Forbes reports xAI is also using the system.

• Mike Krieger turns Anthropic's Fable 5 launch into a product test

  Anthropic says Fable 5 routes under 5% of sessions to Opus 4.8, while Mythos 5 keeps higher-risk capability behind trusted access.

• Instawork turns its gig marketplace into a robot-training data line

  Instacore puts five cameras and a compute backpack on workers to capture commercial tasks for AI labs, with customers still unnamed.

• Gamow Labs Turns a Missed NICU Diagnosis Into a Genomics Startup

  The Boulder company is building an AI interpretation layer for whole genomes, after its founder says standard testing missed his son's fatal disorder.

• Nagish becomes Rylo and raises $85 million for AI call captioning

  Co-founder Tomer Aharoni is taking a school project into a broader accessibility platform backed by General Catalyst and Canaan.

• Life Biosciences tests cellular reprogramming in a human eye

  David Sinclair's longevity company has moved ER-100 from animal work into a small FDA trial for glaucoma and optic nerve disease.

• Modulus is pitched as a multiplayer IDE for engineers and AI agents, with key details still undisclosed

  A third-party launch post says Modulus puts human engineers and AI agents in the same real-time workspace. The available source does not disclose founders, pricing, availability, deployment, integrations or security controls.

• Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5 with a gated Mythos 5 for cyber use

  The new model is priced at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens, with some requests routed to Opus 4.8.

• Illyas Khan's Quantinuum IPO turns a quantum software bet into a $2.2 billion stake

  Quantinuum raised $1.68 billion at a valuation above $15.6 billion while reporting just $30.9 million in 2025 revenue.

• Decagon puts its CX agents on a self-improvement loop

  Duet Autopilot turns live support conversations into proposed agent updates, but Decagon is keeping humans in the approval seat.

• Google ships Gemini 3.5 Live Translate across consumer, enterprise and developer tools

  The audio model streams speech-to-speech translation across 70-plus languages, with Meet access limited to private preview this month.

• ICEYE's reported EUR10 billion valuation turns radar satellites into Europe's space benchmark

  Bloomberg's valuation report leaves the deal mechanics unclear, but it puts a 2014 Finnish SAR operator in a new European space tier.

• Standard Bots raises $200M to manufacture robots in the US

  Bloomberg reported the financing, but the round's investors, valuation, close date and factory plan remain undisclosed in the accessible record.

• Alex Xiao's Evotrex raises $30M for a hybrid RV that can live off-grid

  The Anker-backed Los Angeles company plans 2027 sales of the PG5, a battery trailer with an onboard gas engine to recharge it.

• Report: Tim Cook sets September handoff to John Ternus after WWDC AI pitch

  Apple's own WWDC pages highlight Siri AI and child-safety updates, while the CEO succession claim rests on an X post and secondary sourcing.

• Zepto's IPO filing shows Aadit Palicha's ad bet is outpacing overall revenue growth

  The Indian quick-commerce company filed for an IPO with revenue doubling, losses widening, and public investors still waiting on valuation clarity.

• Harness-1 researchers say a 20B open search agent beat GPT-5.4 on recall

  The UIUC, UC Berkeley and Chroma project shifts search memory from the model context window into a structured software environment.

• Mercor's Brendan Foody calls out Sequoia's dual-price valuation play

  Foody says some AI rounds are marketed at headline prices that do not match where lead investors put most of their money.