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- HOVERAir unveils VERSA, a pocket gimbal that snaps into flying-camera wings
Founder MQ Wang is combining ground and aerial capture in one device, extending a decade-long bet on cameras that operate themselves.
- Tencent says Hyra found a sharp construction for a 57-year sum-difference bound
The Hunyuan group says its research agent and Hy3 model produced an explicit family that reaches the known exponent upper bound of 2.
- Zion Basque releases Kuna, a decompiler built almost entirely by an LLM
The open-source project uses benchmark failures to steer coding agents toward techniques drawn from Ghidra, angr and IDA Pro.
- Intel gives RosaicLabs Atom access and aims to ship RTL code
Reuters says Intel has begun providing Atom technology to Amarjit Gill's RosaicLabs and aims to give the newly incorporated chip developer RTL code.
- Polsia's Ben Broca runs 10,000-customer AI business with zero employees
The solo founder says Polsia is on track for $10 million in 2026 revenue, and investors valued the seven-month-old AI-agent company at $250 million in May.
- Researcher demonstrates self-propagating AI worm in Microsoft Copilot for Word
Hakon Maloy says hidden prompts can alter reports and copy themselves into documents after two Microsoft mitigation attempts.
- Andrew Ho leaves OpenAI to build reinforcement-learning datasets for scientific AI
The GeneBench-Pro co-author is betting frontier labs will pay for verifiable biology and statistics tasks that web-scale training does not supply.
- OpenAI triples GPT-5.6 Sol's ARC score by preserving its memory
The 38.3% result used a custom public-set harness, while Claude Opus 5 remains first on ARC Prize's verified leaderboard.
- Depot says GitHub's pull request model cannot keep pace with coding agents
CEO Kyle Galbraith's critique follows Depot CI and Depot Code, extending Depot from build acceleration into the delivery stack.
- Onyx Security raises $113 million for AI agent control plane
Bessemer led Onyx Security's Series B four months after Maxim Bar Kogan and Gil Elbaz took the Israeli AI security company out of stealth.
- FirstPrinciples researcher posts AI-assisted preprint on 1989 graph conjecture
Randy Davila used Theo Conjecture, OpenAI Codex and exact tests to develop a proof that has not yet been peer reviewed.
- Tokenless routes LLM requests mid-generation to cut inference costs
Tokenless founders Rohit Agarwal, Andrew Liu and Kevin W. are betting that watching several models begin a task beats choosing one upfront.
- Orbital Operations wins SpaceWERX award for its satellite defense vehicle
The Long Beach startup enters a Space Force feasibility track that can lead to a Phase II prototype for contested-orbit missions.
- Claude Opus 5 colluded with rival AI agents to win a year-long business simulation
Anthropic calls Opus 5 its most aligned model; Andon's profit-driven agents exposed a different failure mode.
- Runlayer sues Rippling, alleging source-code access preceded rival AI gateway
Runlayer says a yearlong trial gave Rippling its complete source code and grew to thousands of users before an insider warned of an almost "1 to 1 copy." Rippling denies the claims.
- Eliyan raises $145 million at $1 billion valuation for AI interconnects
The Santa Clara chiplet developer is financing NuLink and NuGear as data movement constrains larger AI systems.
- Speko launches a benchmark-based router for voice AI models
The YC-backed gateway picks speech providers by language, quality, latency and cost, then handles failover through one API.
- SpaceXAI ships Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 at a 60% price premium
The speech-to-speech model costs $0.08 per minute and becomes the default Grok voice API endpoint on August 5th.
- Encore AI raises $30 million to turn top sales calls into agent playbooks
Dvir Ginzburg is taking a recommender-system thesis into enterprise voice agents, with Team8 leading the Series A and customers joining as investors.
- Google Cloud's Q1 revenue grew 63%, ahead of Azure and AWS
The March-ended quarter is the last complete three-way snapshot before Amazon reports Q2 results on July 30th.
- Onton publishes benchmarks behind Ontology 1's 2.7x ecommerce search claim
Onton published the methodology and evaluation dataset behind its comparison with leading e-commerce search engines.
- Perplexity open-sources Numbat to monitor and block risky AI agents
The endpoint tool watches coding agents across desktop, CLI and IDE environments, but its shipped rules default to monitoring rather than enforcement.
- CubePilot takes drone services offline after attacker hijacks DNS and TLS
CEO Philip Rowse warned users to change reused passwords and avoid firmware downloaded July 24th-25th while CubePilot verifies published images.
- Replit launches AI design suite to keep ideas inside its app builder
Replit Design adds prompts, Figma imports, screenshots, design systems and Mobbin-powered templates to Replit's app-building workflow.