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• Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic after stints at OpenAI and Tesla

  Aligned News flagged the move; Wikipedia lists Karpathy on Anthropic’s pretraining team in 2026, underscoring top-tier talent consolidation at frontier labs.

• Swedish AirForestry secures SEK 28M pre-Series A for forestry electric drones

  Founder-CEO Caroline Walerud is stepping up field validation and adding 12 technician and engineering roles as Northzone leads a convertible from existing backers.

• BenchFlow to launch SkillsBench at ACM CAIS, presented by Google DeepMind

  The San Francisco afterparty will spotlight 100+ expert curated agent tasks, live demos of the BenchFlow SDK, and Kaggle’s new Agent Benchmarks.

• Why I’m Building RuntimeWire

  The longtime founder-operator says coverage has drifted from builders and pledges to chase early product signals over polished funding cycles.

• Anthropic says Project Glasswing surfaced 10,000+ high-severity bugs in a month

  Cloudflare alone found 2,000 issues; Anthropic’s OSS scans show a 90.6% triaged true-positive rate and project nearly 3,900 high-or-critical bugs ahead.

• WorkOS launches auth.md, an open protocol for agent signups

  Michael Grinich unveiled auth.md with early support from Cloudflare and Firecrawl, giving apps a standard way to onboard AI agents without brittle browser hacks.

• Ex-Apple autonomy lead's Maven Robotics is said to be raising $100M Series A

  Less than two years in, the industrial robotics startup led by Apple alum Hamza Derbas is rumored to be pursuing a $100M Series A.

• Atomic.chat says Qwen 3.7-max beat Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 in agentic Tetris-bot test

  In a 10-iteration code-and-rewrite challenge, the team let each model build and train a Tetris bot, then compared the final agents.

• One Nashville dad's open source camera stack is being cast as a Ring killer

  In a thread on X, Nav Toor said Frigate, an MIT-licensed NVR app, offers no cloud, no subscription, and privacy by default, citing 32,057 GitHub stars.

• Solo founder Ben Cera says Polsia raise it's own financing of $30M at a $250M valuation, autonomously

  Approaching $10M ARR, Cera says Polsia runs companies autonomously with one founder and AI, and even handled its own raise while he "just showed up for signatures."

• Superset is building an agent-first IDE on GitHub, wiring skills into the dev workflow

  The public GitHub project under superset-sh is shipping agent skills, a Linear ticket draft flow, and editor UX tweaks, with 10.9k stars and nearly 2,900 commits.

• Klemen Kotar announces PSI-0.5, a promptable physical world model

  Kotar framed PSI-0.5 as contrasting with world models focused on moving around scenes; the reposted announcement we saw did not include links to code, a demo, or a paper.

• Speridlabs exits stealth to build a spatial AI foundation model

  The research lab outlined a staged plan for a single 3D-native model and an open-by-default posture; Pear VC and Base10 are backing the effort.

• Qwen 3.7 Max draws head-to-head comparisons with GPT and Gemini-class systems

  Benchmark chatter has shifted from open vs weak baselines to parity talk, with hints that Qwen 3.7 Max posts a strong math score.

• Whip launches as a social feed of tappable AI mini apps and games

  Creator samagra14 debuts Whip as a social home for playful, weird, useful AI mini apps and games, with no-code creation and a public download link.

• Spotify launches Reserved to hold two concert tickets for top fans

  Eligible U.S. Premium subscribers get a day-long purchase window before general sale, with no added fees from Spotify and bot checks tied to fan engagement.

• Gabriel Valdivia opens waitlist for Patina, a local private AI workspace for Mac

  Local-first personal intelligence that connects iMessage, Gmail, Calendar, Slack, Notion, Figma, Health, WhatsApp, and more with data stored as local files; plans start at $30/month or a $99 lifetime license; waitlist at patina.md.

• Jia Chen unveils Jam, a simple marketing interface for the agentic era

  Jam claims 2,000+ companies, developers, and operators already using the tool, after starting as a side project that devtool founders paid thousands to access.

• Cosmo aims to give AI agents a desktop UI, launched by Shiyuan on X

  In an X thread, Shiyuan says Cosmo lets you type or speak from the desktop while the interface renders live; some demo changes are not live yet.

• Runway pushes Aleph 2.0 into an editing workflow with new Edit Studio

  Runway is steering its video model toward controllable, preview-first editing, not just one-shot generation, per a thread on X and a new Generative Session page.

• Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses, pushes engineers to GitHub Copilot CLI

  Internal memo sets a June 30th cutoff for most Claude Code seats; Microsoft frames the shift as convergence on a first-party CLI and a cost move tied to fiscal year-end, per The Verge.

• TeamPCP claims 4,000 GitHub repos after poisoned VSCode plug-in; 3,800 confirmed

  Wired reports the group has hidden malware in 500+ open source tools across 20 waves, breaching hundreds of companies and now offering GitHub code for sale.

• Inside 'Google Zero': AI answers move intent off the open web

  Founders and indie publishers describe the same analytics signature as Google's summary-style results, including AI Overviews, satisfy queries on the results page and thin out the clicks that fund new work.

• ClickUp CEO Zeb Evans says agent-driven workflows can 100x orgs and 1000x top performers

  In an X thread announcing a 22% cut, Evans framed a shift to agents and smaller, faster teams, citing a weeklong frontend architecture rebuild, 40x research, faster code review of agent outputs, and million-dollar bands for outsized impact.