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- Replit cuts autoscale compute prices 81% to keep app hosting in-house
The August 1st rates also reduce request, storage and data-transfer charges, while database pricing stays flat and one legacy VM tier gets pricier.
- Merge launches Fusion to combine multiple AI models into one answer
Shensi Ding says a panel of cheaper models matched Claude Fable 5 on a 25-task research test at one-quarter of the cost.
- Black Forest Labs launches FLUX 3 across video, audio and robot actions
Video enters limited early access first, while image generation, open weights and robotics access will follow in phases.
- Cognition acquires Poke to bring consumer-style interactions into Devin
Poke will remain available while its founders join Cognition, which plans to apply the assistant's proactive messaging design to its coding agent.
- IBM acquires HRL Laboratories to boost silicon-spin qubit quantum program
The deal brings HRL's spin-qubit and quantum-sensing expertise into IBM's expanding quantum portfolio, with Boeing and GM staying as partners.
- Startup Spotlight: YC’s Screenpipe Wants to Record Everything You Do at Work—and Sell It to Your AI Agents
Louis Beaumont's 2024 project has 20,000 GitHub stars, but commercial use of its once-MIT code now requires a paid license.
- Qwen‑Audio‑3.0‑TTS offers real‑time and studio‑grade voice generation for Alibaba Cloud customers
The new text‑to‑speech model adds inline tag steering for emotions and breaths, and supports free‑form natural‑language prompts.
- Kimi K3 produces 19 exploits in 90 minutes for the latest Redis release
Chaofan Shou says Kimi K3 found 19 flaws in 90 minutes; public code documents an authenticated exploit against Redis's latest release.
- TELO plans 500-truck launch with backing from Tesla's original founders
Jason Marks is using contract manufacturing and a $41,520 mini pickup to avoid the factory spending that buried earlier EV entrants.
- VaultSort adds on-device AI scanner for sensitive Mac files
Founder Justin Haubrich is turning a $24.99 Mac utility into a consumer data-discovery tool that VaultSort says makes zero network calls.
- Hugging Face used an open model to investigate OpenAI's sandbox escape
Clement Delangue's open-model bet became incident-response infrastructure after hosted APIs rejected the attack logs.
- Gemini 3.6 Flash beats its predecessor but trails frontier coding models
Independent tests put it level with 3.5 Flash on intelligence, with half the task time and an 18% lower cost per task.
- Substack brings Pangram AI scans to posts, Notes and comments
Chris Best is betting that reader-triggered Pangram scores and creator disclosures can preserve authorship without banning AI-assisted writing.
- Petals lists 405B Llama support for volunteer GPU inference
Alexander Borzunov and collaborators' 2022 research project trades cloud control for model access, while privacy, latency and incentives remain constraints.
- CrucibleBench finds an LLM judge shifted rankings by six spots
Benjamin Davis and Philip Mims spent $99.59 on 650 persistent text-world runs across 13 models, then treated judge instability as the result.
- Cognition's Devin generated proofs and counterexamples for four graph conjectures
Cognition builder Jared Zoneraich ran roughly five Ultra-mode agents per problem, with one counterexample checked in Lean.
- Block’s internal agent tool Goose inspires open-source Buzz workspace launch
The platform stores all activity as signed events on a user‑run relay, aiming to replace fragmented chat, code and CI tools.
- Developers abandon Claude for cheaper, open Kimi‑K3
A Reddit discussion shows heavy Claude users moving to Kimi's K3 model after pricing and openness concerns.
- GitHub issues $100,000 bounty for critical RCE vulnerability disclosed by @sagitz_
The researcher disclosed CVE‑2026‑3854, a critical RCE flaw, prompting the largest payout in GitHub's Vulnerability Reward Program to date.
- Spacebar unveils shared runtime for real-time multimodal AI agents
Ayush Agarwal's team is offering developers a persistent canvas, shared browser and permission layer for agents that work alongside people in real time.
- New robot policy runs on an RTX 5090, beating OpenVLA-OFT while using 0.7% of its size
Jeff Cui shows that a frozen ViT backbone plus a tiny transformer can outperform a 7B‑parameter VLM in robot control.
- Fly.io sells $23.2 million in new equity, SEC filing shows
The filing lists five investors and directors from a16z and Dell, but leaves the buyers, round label and valuation undisclosed.
- New tool Ask Poth lets SaaS teams query a single customer graph across multiple platforms
Founder Matthew Wong introduces Ask Poth, a tool that unifies data from HubSpot, PostHog, Pylon and Granola into a single customer graph.
- OpenAI sued after ChatGPT allegedly discouraged pastor from seeking emergency care
Scott Winters says GPT-4o minimized symptoms before his July 2025 ICU admission; the complaint also seeks to halt ChatGPT Health.