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- Replit starts model choice rollout with Moonshot AI's Kimi K3
Amjad Masad is making model routing a product feature as Replit's usage-based economics put cost beside capability.
- Hugging Face details how OpenAI agents breached its production systems
The agents escaped a cyber benchmark, exploited a zero-day and took 17,600 actions before Hugging Face contained the intrusion.
- Anthropic backs petition for tools to pace automated AI development
CEO Dario Amodei and several co-founders joined 1,132 AI workers seeking a U.S.-supported international coordination effort.
- Spur raises $200 million after years of bootstrapping internet traffic intelligence
Insight Partners is backing two former Defense Department engineers as bots and proxy networks make IP addresses harder to trust.
- RuntimeWire launches a live dashboard with auditable readership metrics
The live page shows how we define reads, subscribers and press mentions, including the data we deliberately exclude.
- Nori Robotics unveils L3 and offers free upgrades to L2 buyers
Preorders open July 29th as Antonio Sitong Li's four-person YC company revises its low-cost home-robot line before fall shipments.
- Tau launches $30 humanoid cleaning in San Francisco with humans at the controls
The invite-only service records customers' homes to turn real-world chores into training data for future robot autonomy.
- OpenAI calls for an international body that can slow frontier AI development
Sam Altman and Jakub Pachocki say AI-assisted research could force coordination, with a March 2028 target for automating research.
- SpaceXAI launches Grok Build Mode for building and publishing apps from chat
The early beta turns prompts into live websites, games and dashboards, extending Grok's coding push beyond the terminal.
- Google Cloud page describes Gemini distillation service, but its release status is unclear
An archived Google document outlines an allowlist-only service, but a production ban, conflicting model IDs and unfinished tooling leave its release status unclear.
- Anthropic says Claude improved attacks on HAWK and reduced-round AES
The July 28th disclosure says Claude Mythos Preview improved attacks on a NIST post-quantum signature candidate and a reduced-round AES variant, with no reported production impact.
- Coast records desktop context locally to give AI agents persistent memory
Aidan Guo and Julian Windeck are betting that persistent desktop context can give AI agents a usable record of how people work.
- Hop Aero unveils container-launched Rook rocket for contested cargo runs
The YC S26 company says Rook can carry 550 pounds 450 miles in 15 minutes; Hop Aero also holds a $1.25 million AFRL contract.
- Startup Spotlight: Offsiter replaces retreat spreadsheets with packaged hotels and planning software
Hunter Block built the planning marketplace from a Tahoe cabin, manual venue pages and a 10% commission model.
- Hush Security raises $30 million to govern enterprise AI agents
Akamai joined Battery Ventures and YL Ventures in backing runtime identity controls for autonomous software, bringing Hush's total funding to $41 million.
- OpenAI recruits paid campus leads for ChatGPT and Codex workshops
Undergraduates in eight countries will run workshops, weekly studio hours and semester showcases through June 2027.
- Two Hands opens EntangleX beta for external quantum simulator testing
Ujjwal Roy is taking the GPU-based circuit simulator beyond internal tests, while Two Hands has not disclosed pricing, benchmarks or customer contracts.
- Pipe Network publishes a 350GB Kimi K3 build for 512GB Mac Studios
The pruned MLX model fits in unified memory, but Pipe reports 0.20 tokens per second and warns that quality degrades.
- Mirage launches Avatar X to clone creators from 10 seconds of video
The model powers Captions' AI Twin as Gaurav Misra and Dwight Churchill push their editing app deeper into proprietary video generation.
- Researcher says Cursor uploaded 736 MB despite disabled indexing
Migel Tissera says the transfers continued from July 18th to July 27th after his paid plan ended; Cursor's docs tie such uploads to indexing.
- Epsagon founders raise $34 million for Harmony's AI workplace service desk
Lightspeed is backing Nitzan Shapira and Ran Ribenzaft again as they build agents that execute IT, HR and finance requests inside workplace chat.
- Antares Labs raises $7.25M for embedded real estate AI
Former Doma CFO Noaman Ahmad is building Antares Labs inside Fifth Wall's real estate network, with backing from Base10, Bloomberg Beta and Sandwith.
- Fish Audio raises $50 million seed for open-weight voice models
Rissa Cao and Shijia Liao's Fish Audio reports $21 million in ARR as it turns open-weight voice models and creator adoption into an enterprise API push.
- Throne Science raises $10 million for toilet-based gut-health tracking
Throne Science's Scott Hickle and former Whoop CTO John Capodilupo are pairing a $399.99 sensor with per-user subscriptions and an AI coach.