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- James Dacombe's OLIX raises $312 million at $3.3 billion before first chip ships
OLIX's 25-year-old founder has raised $532 million in six months to fund a rack-scale AI inference system due in 2027.
- Moonshot AI shows Kimi Slides generating editable PowerPoint decks
The August 3rd tutorial shows K3 handling research and visual design, while [Kimi Slides supports citations, fully editable slides and PowerPoint export](https://www.kimi.com/en/features/slides).
- Base44's Wix sale shows where solo AI founders hit scale limits
Maor Shlomo used AI to compress product work and preserve ownership, but security, infrastructure and growth still pushed Base44 into a larger organization.
- June raises $20 million pre-seed to automate enterprise AI deployment
The Bonobo AI founders reunited after several years inside Salesforce, with Time Ventures leading the pre-seed round.
- Invenio completes enrollment in 1,006-patient AI lung biopsy study
Invenio Imaging enrolled 1,006 patients in its U.S. pivotal study of NIO Lung Cancer Reveal, collecting more than 3,250 fresh biopsy specimens for validation of the investigational AI system.
- Oumi, Larridin and Runware build tools to cut enterprise AI bills
Founders are building measurement, routing and infrastructure products for buyers that adopted costly frontier models before tracking their returns.
- Hackers copy ownership records for 31,000 Liechtenstein entities
The breach hit a government register used to fight money laundering, exposing records tied to companies, foundations and trusts.
- DeepSeek ships V4-Flash at 3 cents per benchmark task
Artificial Analysis put Liang Wenfeng's model near Gemini 3.6 Flash on intelligence and roughly 105 times cheaper than Claude Fable 5 in benchmark test cost.
- Alibaba launches Qwen3.8-Max, with open weights scheduled next week
The 2.4 trillion-parameter model is live on QwenCloud at $2 per million input tokens, while downloadable weights are still pending.
- MiniMax publishes H3 checkpoints as 2K workflow still requires hosted services
The 288 GB Hugging Face release adds two downloadable base checkpoints, while the complete 2K workflow still uses hosted MiniMax services.
- Alibaba puts Qwen3.8-Max preview behind Token Plan for coding agents
The hosted preview pairs a 1 million-token context window, built-in tools and subscription credits as Alibaba pushes Qwen into developer workflows.
- Arnav Gupta launched Prismor to govern AI agent tool calls
The open-source runtime intercepts tool calls from Claude Code, LangChain and other agents, applying policy before commands execute.
- CrowdReply pitches AI answer rankings as a $1M monthly growth channel
Dawood Khan and Sheheryaar Khan built a measurement-and-placement product, but the revenue claim rests on an unnamed customer and undisclosed attribution.
- AUR malware wave forces Arch Linux to disable every package push
The volunteer-run project escalated from blocking package adoption to freezing the AUR write path after attackers abused trusted package workflows.
- Aikido flags anthropickit as possible match in Claude PyPI malware incident
The `anthropickit` package was real malware; its unproven link to Anthropic points to a containment failure in agent evaluations.
- RuntimeWire logs 205,000 pageviews while testing a one-person newsroom
Founder Ryan Merket says RuntimeWire has no revenue yet and is betting on developer-tool ads, job listings and sponsorships.
- Inside QM: We read Y Combinator’s company-wide agent runtime
QM gives each employee and shared room a durable computer, memory, credentials and background jobs, then routes four different coding-agent harnesses through one policy core. The open release is ambitious, legible and unusually candid about where its security model breaks down.
- Cloudflare put Workers at the center of its Agent Cloud push
Cloudflare's April Agents Week bundled its serverless, security and network products into a bid for autonomous software workloads.
- Eigen Labs' agent challenge speeds Poolside's Laguna by 138.7% on Macs
MLX.fast turns each verified inference improvement into the next baseline, extending Eigen's open research system beyond quantum cryptography.
- Waymo appears to have imported 3,200 Zeekr vans despite steep tariffs
Shipping records reveal a vehicle pipeline that could substantially expand Waymo's fleet as its co-CEOs push into dozens of cities.
- Cyera pursues Oasis as NewCore and Oak rebuild identity for AI agents
The reported $1 billion transaction follows $126 million raised by two new platforms challenging employee-era identity stacks.
- Arrakis raises $8 million for AI agent runtime security
Hetz Ventures backed Tal Baron, Omer Efrat and Ron Shani's runtime monitoring and enforcement layer for autonomous software.
- Wafer says AMD's MI355X beats Nvidia B300 on Kimi K3 cost efficiency
Wafer reports 952 tokens per second from one eight-GPU MI355X node, arguing AMD's 288 GB-per-GPU memory can lower open-model inference costs.
- MiniMax launches H3 2K video model with promised open weights
MiniMax launched H3 with 2K video and native stereo audio. MiniMax says the weights are coming in days, but the H3 license and official local hardware requirements remained unpublished as of August 2nd.