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- 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.
- Henry AI announces $16.5M Series A and expands into CRE underwriting
FirstMark led the round as Henry AI launched a deal system spanning financial models, comps, research, buyer lists and pitch decks.
- MiniMax completes $2 billion financing as teaser names no product
MiniMax completed a share placement and convertible-bond issue, while Wednesday's post named no model, price or launch date.
- Polar Browser raises $5.7 million for hours-long work automation
Kevin Jiang's three-person team rebuilt its earlier Composer agent on Chromium and says users have handed it 4.5 million browser actions.
- ExfilSquad claims Microsoft breach, but the evidence remains unverified
The new extortion actor published 15 victim claims in one burst, a pattern researchers say is more consistent with a bulk launch or fabrication.
- Claros raises $55 million to move PFAS destruction from trials to deployments
Daikin and Veralto joined the round, tying Claros' expansion to industrial customers that need to eliminate PFAS waste at the source.
- Tether releases 460M-parameter VisionPsy-Nano models for on-device vision AI
QVAC published Apache 2.0 weights, phone benchmarks and inference code, while its headline scores remain based on in-house evaluations.
- Waymo adds Gemini and a redesigned cabin UI to Ojai robotaxis
The assistant handles cabin controls and trip questions but remains isolated from the autonomous driving system.
- Mitchell Hashimoto starts Superlogical to build durable sessions for software work
Superlogical reunites the HashiCorp co-founder with former colleagues around a terminal multiplexer funded by Notable Capital and Amplify Partners.
- Tavus launches no-code PAL Maker for face-to-face AI agents
Users describe an agent to Charlie, which configures its face, voice, memory, guardrails and deployment without an engineering build.
- telli raises $15M to move AI agents beyond phone calls
redalpine led the seed round as telli expands from voice automation into a multichannel customer-operations platform.
- HeyGen launches two-host AI video podcasts from documents and links
The workflow writes dialogue, assigns AI hosts, adds captions and B-roll, and lets users edit each line before rendering.
- Google Cloud will retire Moonshot AI's Kimi K2 endpoint in October
The managed API drew criticism over a Chinese model on US infrastructure, but public documents do not show Google paying Moonshot.
- Lilian Weng returns to OpenAI for recursive self-improvement research
The Thinking Machines cofounder is the third founder from Mira Murati's lab to return to OpenAI this year.
- Google ships Lyria 3.5 to Flow Music with BPM controls and stronger vocals
The release turns Seth Forsgren and Hayk Martiros's acquired music startup into the main outlet for DeepMind's newest model.
- Superwhisper adds Cohere Transcribe for private, on-device dictation
The 2B-parameter, Apache 2.0 model downloads inside Superwhisper and keeps audio on-device across 14 supported languages.
- OpenAI offers 100,000 researchers free access to GPT-5.6
The program starts with 10,000 accounts this summer and forms part of a $250 million commitment to external scientific research.
- Reve ships Chrome extension to pull web images into AI projects
Updated July 27th, the browser tool saves web images as references, palettes, templates and album items inside Reve.
- InvestiFi raises $20 million as credit unions back embedded investing push
Vibe Credit Union led the financing, and InvestiFi says signed institutions climbed from four in 2024 to more than 60 by July 2026.
- Hint launches AI app for homeowners with Martha Stewart as co-founder
Yih-Han Ma and Kyle Rush built the free iPhone app around property data, uploaded documents and home-service guidance after a $10 million seed round led by Slow Ventures.
- Nous Research adds local wake-word activation to Hermes Agent
The opt-in feature starts hands-free sessions across the CLI, terminal UI and desktop app, with hotword detection kept on-device.
- Composio's Kimi K3 test finds a 6x token gap between agent harnesses
Across 28 tasks, Kimi Code, Hermes and Claude Code finished at similar rates while median token use ranged from 61,000 to 340,000.
- Pangram ships Pangram 4 for mixed human and AI writing
The Brooklyn company also opened an image-detector preview as its authorship scores reach Substack readers.
- Reuters reports ChipAgents raised $60 million after Nvidia tie-up expanded
William Wang's semiconductor engineering startup is financing Renoir as Cadence, Synopsys and Siemens build competing AI agents.