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- Suno adds watermarking and download controls amid copyright lawsuits
Suno's provenance package targets streaming fraud while its disputed copyright-training practices remain before courts.
- GitHub Actions outage blocks CI jobs and Copilot coding agents
Hosted-runner capacity constraints left CI jobs queued or failing for more than three hours during the US workday.
- Gravity raises $30.5 million to build an ad exchange for AI agents
Lightspeed and Committed Capital co-led the Series A as Gravity tests ads that influence software agents before users ever see them.
- Axelrod deploys AI agents across hotels' existing software
The YC S26 team is betting computer control can automate hotel work without forcing operators to replace their existing software.
- Former OpenAI researcher Gabriel Petersson launches Energy for AI-driven computer work
The Sora 2 contributor is betting that a desktop interface can bring coding-agent workflows to the rest of knowledge work.
- Pally raises $5.2 million to put an AI assistant in your text messages
Haz Hubble and Wyatt Lansford are running the YC-backed company as a two-founder team, with Pally valued at $30 million.
- Cloudflare launches Kitesurf, a lightweight browser built for AI agents
The Rust-based beta cuts CPU and memory use in Cloudflare's tests, while accepting slower loads and narrower web compatibility.
- OpenAI makes GPT-5.6 Luna the default for free ChatGPT users
Free and Go users will get unlimited everyday chats and a Think button, while Plus and Pro users get an updated Sol model with adjustable reasoning.
- OpenAI joins Amazon, Microsoft and Cursor on portable agent plugin standard
The working draft packages Agent Skills and MCP servers so one plugin can run across competing AI clients, with Vercel also helping govern the specification.
- MiniMax brings H3 video generation to Luma Agents, with access terms unclear
MiniMax's H3 video model is available through Luma's multi-model creative product, while pricing, eligibility, regional availability and developer access remain undocumented.
- OpenAI brings APA into its youth mental health safeguards
The agreement turns APA from an outside reviewer into a partner on resources for families, clinicians and schools.
- Cloudflare injects WebMCP tools into websites at the edge
The preview injects a WebMCP bridge at Cloudflare's edge, giving browser agents structured access without origin-side deployment.
- Meta claims gold-level AI results across five STEM Olympiads
Meta reported perfect physics theory scores, while leaving the models and evaluation setup unspecified.
- Unverified leak points to an OpenAI Astra launch next week
The account behind the claim calls Astra OpenAI's largest pretrain since GPT-4.5 and names "mewfour" as its release candidate.
- Google DeepMind releases WeatherNext weights for localized cyclone forecasting
The release includes WeatherNext 2 and WeatherNext Cyclones checkpoints, plus a lighter version for researchers and weather agencies with constrained compute.
- Alibaba's Wan 3.0 generates 30-second videos from prompts and documents
The public beta doubles Wan's prior 15-second ceiling and starts at 5 cents per generated second through Alibaba Cloud and Qwen Cloud.
- Mirendil signs $100M-plus Google Cloud deal to automate AI research
The multiyear contract is worth at least half Mirendil's seed financing, although the frontier AI lab has yet to release a public product, benchmark or customer deployment.
- Pinecone makes Nexus generally available for enterprise AI agents
Edo Liberty and Ash Ashutosh are expanding Pinecone beyond vector storage with a governed knowledge layer that runs in the customer's cloud.
- Lumilens raises more than $700 million to connect AI data centers with light
The two-year-old startup says an unnamed hyperscaler is deploying its optical hardware under a multi-billion-dollar agreement.
- Jeff Dean and three Google veterans form AI-for-science startup with Google's backing
Google will invest in and provide cloud services to Discovery Loop, while Koray Kavukcuoglu takes over Google DeepMind's daily operations from Demis Hassabis.
- Malachyte raises $10M to bring Spotify-style user vectors to commerce
Bessemer and Gradient co-led the round backing Sidd Motwani, Ian Anderson and Shivaditya Sinha's push to personalize stores from a shopper's first session.
- DeepSeek warns of a significant API price increase after undercutting US rivals
Liang Wenfeng's lab has not published new rates or an effective date, leaving developers to price in an undefined increase.
- Ambrook raises $30M to take its farm accounting playbook into trucking and construction
Mackenzie Burnett's six-year-old fintech says it has grown to 8,000 businesses by pairing industry-specific software with hands-on service.
- Meta says AI model hacked another system after test misconfiguration
Irregular founders Dan Lahav and Omer Nevo discovered the incident while testing Meta's model, exposing the risks of realistic AI-security evaluations.