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- Molagri launches virus-like pesticide platform for resistant crop pests
The YC S26 company is adapting coronavirus-era structural biology to target insect guts, with its first grower LOI and laboratory viruses produced.
- Higgsfield launches $1 million AI film contest with public project files
The 14-prize festival requires a subscription and opens entrants' prompts and generation histories after the August 31st deadline.
- Intelligence, the DesignArena maker, raises $7.9 million for human-ranked AI evals
Grace Li says the 10-person startup grew from $5 million to $60 million in ARR over six months by selling creative-model evaluations.
- Gradio names three small-model apps as OpenAI Codex prize winners
Tiny Narrator took $5,000, followed by Blood Test Explainer and Uta Sensei in a hackathon capped at 32 billion parameters.
- Robinhood starts roadshow for retail fund backing Y Combinator startups
RVII moves into SAFE-heavy early-stage bets, charging a 2% base fee and 20% of realized capital gains.
- SpaceX faces first earnings test after $500 billion market cap drop
SpaceX's August 4th report will test whether Starlink cash generation can fund Starship and AI spending as early shareholders near a sell window.
- Alibaba unveils Qwen3.8-Max with model weights planned next week
Alibaba says its 2.4 trillion-parameter model is scheduled for release next week through Model Studio, with a model-weight release planned and license terms still unresolved.
- Zenity raises $125 million to secure autonomous AI agents
Norwest led the Series C as the Microsoft alumni behind Zenity expand from low-code governance into runtime controls for enterprise agents.
- Qunett sells $1.48M toward planned $3M quantum networking offering
The MIT and University of Maryland spinout is adding private capital after using contracts and grants to move its hardware toward deployment.
- Microsoft plans Xbox 360 games for PC and handhelds from 2027
A leaked developer document outlines a 2027-2028 rollout and disc-linked licenses that would preserve resale while moving ownership across devices.
- Superblocks launches 3.0 for AI-built enterprise apps inside AWS VPCs
Brad Menezes and Ran Ma are turning the cloud account into the control boundary for software generated by business teams.
- Y Combinator recruits students for expo with 50-plus portfolio startups
The August 15th event at YC's San Francisco headquarters will include founder pitches and onsite interviews for internships and co-ops.
- Armature turns MCP sessions into analytics and staged evals
YC-backed founders Theodore Otzenberger and Louis Scremin are turning MCP traces into use cases, failure rankings and regression tests through a staged evaluation rollout.
- Markov packages 99 hours of engineering work into training data for desktop AI agents
The YC S26 startup paired 51 engineering tasks with gold files, rubrics, recordings and interaction traces across eight CAD software groups.
- Google lets Gemini Spark use logged-in Chrome sessions for web errands
The agent can schedule apartment tours and research travel, while handing payments and other sensitive steps back to users.
- Wispr Flow's updated terms reveal a meeting notetaker in development
The product would transcribe meetings, identify speakers and generate summaries, action items and insights through Cloud Sync.
- Base Power raises $1B at $13B valuation and launches Texas-built battery
Base Core moves battery production in-house as Zach Dell and Justin Lopas push their distributed storage model beyond Texas.
- Actualyze AI raises $7M to govern enterprise model calls
Rafi Khardalian and Sean Lynch are putting identity, security and budgets in the path of every enterprise model call.
- Google tests a five-template AI agent builder inside Gemini for Android
The unfinished mobile flow points to a consumer push beyond Gemini Enterprise, though Google has not announced a rollout.
- Mariana Minerals raises $310 million for software-run US mines
Khosla Ventures led the Series B, joined by a16z, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, BHP, Greenoaks and four other investors.
- Microsoft open-sources Orchard to cut AI agent training costs
The Kubernetes-based framework reuses sandboxes, datasets and training pipelines across coding, browser and assistant agents.
- FLock adds DeepSeek V4 Flash to OpenAI-compatible API gateway
Jiahao Sun's FLock now offers the 284-billion-parameter model through an OpenAI-compatible gateway, with catalog pricing displayed at $0.435 per million input tokens and $0.87 per million output tokens.
- Cloudflare Computer splits agent work across isolates and containers
Cloudflare's open-source preview gives agents a durable filesystem while reserving full Linux environments for heavier tasks.
- ComfyUI ships editable MiniMax H3 graphs for local video workflows
Yannik Marek's node-based engine added native MiniMax H3 workflows, giving creators inspectable graphs for the open-weight video model.