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- Amazon books $53.4 billion in other income as Anthropic stake swells
The mark follows Anthropic's $65 billion round at a $965 billion valuation and a commitment to spend more than $100 billion with AWS.
- Citadel buys Situational Awareness's public portfolio after leveraged AI losses
Leopold Aschenbrenner kept a private Anthropic stake reportedly worth $5 billion, preserving his largest route back from the rout.
- Smallest.ai raises $13 million to build full-duplex enterprise voice AI
Seligman Ventures led the round as founders Sudarshan Kamath and Akshat Mandloi introduced the Hydra speech-to-speech architecture.
- DBOS says Postgres queues can reach 30,000 workflows a second
Qian Li and Peter Kraft cut lock contention, transaction retries, and index churn, backing DBOS's case for simpler workflow infrastructure.
- Rune 1.1 makes personal use free and adds Python, Emacs support
Ernest Romero Climent is using a free tier and deeper code navigation to widen adoption for the self-funded, terminal-centered IDE.
- Anthropic says Claude accessed three real systems during cyber evaluations
A Claude model reached the internet from testing environments, turning controlled security exercises into unauthorized real-world access.
- Depthfirst launches RL-trained dfs-large1 for enterprise vulnerability detection
The model beats general-purpose rivals on Depthfirst's internal benchmark, whose construction and methodology remain unpublished.
- Google connects Gemini Spark to Chrome for logged-in web tasks
The U.S. rollout gives AI Pro and Ultra subscribers an agent that can use active browser sessions, with daily task caps and security warnings.
- Loka and Arcee detail an open biomedical model built for AWS deployment
The July 30th announcement centers on a LoRA adapter first published in February and still awaiting an official DrugProt test-set evaluation.
- Revoy raises $27M to build a hybrid-electric long-haul freight network
Standard Capital led the round for Ian Rust's swappable electric dolly system, which adds battery power to existing diesel semis.
- Cardinal launches AI revenue platform after pivot from document intelligence
The YC-backed founders say Deepgram, Giga and Mintlify use Cardinal to design and run sales workflows.
- CTGT says DeepSeek distillation lifted finance scores without censorship transfer
CTGT reports finance gains without the teacher's political refusals, though unreleased adapters prevent full independent reproduction.
- Nous Research opens a 48-hour FLUX 3 Preview inside Hermes Agent
Paid Nous Portal subscribers get temporary access to Black Forest Labs' audio, image and video model, plus a short-film contest.
- Ryan Williams builds Ellis to reconcile private credit records with AI
Ellis raised an $11 million seed led by First Round in April, as the Cadre founder sells an AI operations layer to smaller credit managers.
- Gradium opens TTS beta for phone numbers, emails and financial codes
The API-only model aims to remove brittle text-normalization rules, with 1 million credits offered for production-case feedback.
- Andi Peng leaves humans& six months after its $480 million seed
The former Anthropic researcher was one of five founders behind the frontier AI lab's bet on collaboration-focused models.
- IG Group agrees to buy Underdog for up to $1.3 billion
The deal gives IG a US prediction-market exchange, while tying another $850 million for employees to steep profit targets.
- Bottleneck's Saul agent spends $99.50 and ends with five new users, $0 revenue
Alex Reibman's 24-hour experiment added five users and no revenue after Saul hit distribution blocks and bought a $99.50 user-testing campaign.
- Treena launches an iPhone coding environment that runs agents without a laptop
Camden Hulse and Kollaikal Rupesh built Treena to clone repositories, run coding agents and push changes from a cloud workspace controlled by phone.
- Okta agrees to acquire Permiso and push identity security into the SOC
The FireEye veterans behind Permiso give Okta runtime detection across human, machine and AI-agent identities.
- Marble launches AI back-office system for restaurant inventory and labor
The two-person YC S26 company uses computer vision, voice AI and agents to manage costs across multi-unit restaurants.
- Infisical launches Agent Proxy to keep API keys away from AI agents
The proxy swaps placeholder keys for real credentials at the network boundary, extending Infisical's secrets platform into agent infrastructure.
- Thinking Machines Lab ships Inkling-Small with open weights and lower compute costs
The 276-billion-parameter multimodal model gives Murati's Tinker platform a cheaper base for fine-tuning coding agents and custom AI apps.
- Alpine Eagle seeks $45 million to scale airborne counter-drone system
The Munich defense startup is adding production capacity as it pursues military contracts across Europe and Asia.