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- AI forecasts compress four different clocks into one, Rodney Brooks argues
The iRobot co-founder says research, hype, deployment and economic change move at different speeds, challenging near-term automation bets.
- CostPerPrompt publishes calculators for estimating monthly AI application costs
The site packages model-price comparisons into calculators for APIs, chatbots, agents, retrieval systems and other AI workloads.
- Meta ships competitive AI models as capital spending tests returns
Independent benchmarks and access to 3.60 billion daily users undercut claims that Meta has little to show for AI, but a capital budget of up to $145 billion leaves the business case unproven.
- ByteDance ships Seedance 2.5 with 30-second video and timeline editing
The model doubles single-pass length, adds dense reference inputs and rolls out through ByteDance's own AI products, with an API planned.
- Truffle Security said its Hugging Face scan found 221,303 live credentials
Dylan Ayrey's couch-born TruffleHog found reused keys across public AI corpora, where deleting one source cannot erase its copies.
- Andrew Shell launches I Heart RSS, a badge-based directory for personal feeds
The Madison engineer is using reciprocal links and a shared OPML file to make independent blogs easier to find and follow.
- Federal investigators examine Iran link to water-system cyberattacks across seven states
Attackers reached operational technology at more than 30 Minnesota utilities, briefly shutting controls at one treatment plant.
- Balaji Srinivasan signs Kazakhstan memorandum after Johor shuts Network School
Johor authorities revoked NSO Malaysia's Forest City license on July 22nd; Kazakhstan's five-year memorandum gives Srinivasan a new government-backed venue.
- Granola sued over bot-free meeting capture and AI training defaults
The proposed class action says non-users cannot consent or opt out when Granola transcribes calls and uses anonymized data for model improvement.
- OpenAI says unreleased Astra model solved 10 open math problems
The lab released a 249-page paper, reasoning transcripts and Lean certificates for claims spanning geometry, cryptography and quantum complexity.
- Paul Graham's 2023 essay gives founders a four-step problem-selection framework
Paul Graham wrote the July 2023 essay as a guide for ambitious work in any field. Its four-step framework still gives founders a useful test for choosing and exploring problems.
- DeepSeek ships V4 Flash with strong agent scores and low API prices
DeepSeek's open-weight model undercuts rivals on API price, while third-party tests put its max-reasoning version near the top of its class.
- Dopl raises $6.3 million to move robotic ultrasound toward FDA clearance
SpringTide led the seed round as three co-founders use an in-person staffing service to prepare rural hospitals for remote robotic exams.
- Axis Robotics raises $12 million to turn browser users into robot trainers
Hack VC led the seed round for Chris Feng's simulation-first system, which collects and cleans human demonstrations for robot models.
- Claude Code reverse engineering alleges hidden Fable 5 model switches
Lon says a Claude Code path can route requests to Opus 4.8 without the notice and opt-out Anthropic's own help page promises.
- PDW gets conditional $820 million federal loan commitment for drone components
PDW plans to turn its racing-drone roots into a domestic component supplier for its own aircraft and other U.S. platforms.
- HackerOne will require government ID for every bug bounty submission
The August 14th rule covers new and existing accounts, while unpaid vulnerability disclosure programs remain open without verification.
- OpenAI previews Astra model built to coordinate long-running agents
Sam Altman demonstrated the unreleased model to policymakers as a federal review process approaches its August 1st deadline.
- IonQ completes $1.8 billion SkyWater deal after FTC clears acquisition
The acquisition brings SkyWater's U.S. semiconductor development, wafer and advanced packaging operations under IonQ, while the foundry keeps serving outside customers.
- Plasma AI released a deterministic wiki CLI for coding agents
The open-source tool lets agents map, search and read slices of Markdown knowledge before modifying a codebase.
- Amazon completes $50 billion OpenAI investment, deepening its AWS alliance
The financing ties Sam Altman's model developer to Amazon's cloud and Trainium chips as AI infrastructure spending accelerates.
- ALSO will start TM-B deliveries after missing spring and July targets
Chris Yu's Rivian spinoff says its $4,500 Launch Edition bikes will reach buyers from early August through September.
- MemTensor releases Metis models that write memory inside the backbone
The Qwen3.5-based research preview includes 4B, 9B and 27B checkpoints, while withholding training data and restricting the code to noncommercial use.
- Google backs away from an AI Studio app after claiming 800,000 preorders
The app was due August 1st; Google's existing product already lets builders create and distribute software through the browser.