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- Andrey Styskin raises $26M for Keenable's agent-first web index
Former Yandex search executive Andrey Styskin and Amazon retrieval scientist Matthias Petri are building Keenable with a 15-engineer team across the US and Europe.
- Metricform launches AI narrative tracker with a 24-to-72-hour head-start claim
Metricform founder Lindsey Aliksanyan turned years of manual research work into a product for brand teams; the prediction claim still needs a measurable test.
- Fitbit's founders launch Luffu Link, an LTE band for family caregivers
Luffu's $249 preorder combines phone-free help requests with health sensing and is expected to ship in early 2027; Axios reports a $20 monthly family plan.
- H&M-backed eComID announces $17M seed for AI shopping memory
The startup announced a Systemiq Capital-led round for former H&M Group digital customer experience lead Oscar Rundqvist's cross-brand Shopping Passport.
- TerraClear launches quarter-inch weed maps for existing corn and soybean sprayers
TerraClear is selling next-day spray prescriptions, betting growers want precision application without new camera hardware.
- Anima Anandkumar launches Accelerated Understanding to model physical systems
Anandkumar and Benedikt Jenik kept building Accelerated Understanding after declining a proposed Prometheus package; the company says its physics-focused model handled 5 trillion pieces of data in one prompt.
- OptQC raises $47M as NTT backs its room-temperature quantum computer bet
Kan Takase left the University of Tokyo in 2024 to commercialize Furusawa Lab research; OptQC has since put its first demonstration machine into operation.
- Cameron Smith ships Ambient Context, a Mac memory app without screenshots
The open-source app reads focused-window text into local Markdown, giving AI agents a work history without storing a visual replay.
- Lunar's founders raise €8.2M to build AI audit firm Repodo
The four-founder team is pairing AI agents with licensed auditors, starting in Denmark before a country-by-country European push.
- SiFive launches a boring 2U RISC-V server, exactly as intended
The 32-core BigSky system gives SiFive's customers an RVA23 machine for porting Linux and CUDA before custom data-center chips arrive.
- Embedd's Ukrainian founders raise $2.7M to automate the chip integration grind
Seedcamp led the pre-seed round as Embedd expands software that turns semiconductor documentation into production code.
- Light Links raises $6M to replace radio with infrared for robots and defense
Founder Firouz Vafadari is turning UCSC networking research into Wi-OW, a diffused-light system claiming 25 Gbps links without RF spectrum.
- Laude ships an agent harness that keeps thinking after you stop asking
The Laude-MIT collaboration runs a self-directed thought loop in less than 10,000 lines of Bash, with continuous token costs and familiar security problems.
- Plicara finds non-English agent skills reached 16.3% in Q2
Its 255,068-skill comparison shows multilingual growth, while lexical discovery remains a likely constraint on cross-language reuse.
- Microsoft Paint embeds server-issued IDs in locally generated AI images
Reverse engineer Xusheng Li found that Paint and Photos alter output pixels with a GUID untouched by the visible-watermark setting.
- Twitch turns Pokemon badges into a subscription scavenger hunt
The Amazon-owned platform is pairing Pokemon collectibles with watch streaks and paid subscriptions as it expands badge-based creator monetization.
- When you should choose Conductor Cloud vs just using Replit
Conductor orchestrates outside coding agents across existing repos, while Replit bundles its agents with an IDE, database, hosting, and deployment.
- Ghostty adds image clipboard support; stable release users still wait
Ghostty and libghostty now implement OSC 5522, letting terminal tools move images and other MIME data across supported sessions.
- Trump administration proposes $103,265 H-1B fee for workers already in US
DHS says the fee would raise $8.8B a year, while its own analysis finds a significant hit to 76% of affected small employers.
- MiniMax catalogs H3 integrations while keeping Context-IR hosted
The new index covers 24GB local deployment, ComfyUI and multi-GPU serving, three weeks after MiniMax released H3's weights.
- Quintessent raises $40M and starts sampling its eight-wavelength laser for AI clusters
Cycle Capital led the Series A as Alan Liu's photonics startup moves from lab demonstrations to customer evaluation kits.
- Meta plans Hatch agent launch while considering a $199.99 monthly tier
Internal documents point to a late August or early September rollout, followed by Meta's Watermelon model in October.
- Payloop sells $4.5M of a planned $6.5M round for AI margin software
Payloop reported 10 investors and $2M left to sell; its filing names Adam Struck and Moonshots Capital's Kelly Perdew as directors.
- Mantel raises $18.3M to make molten-salt carbon capture repeatable
Constellation Technology Ventures and Azimut backed the MIT spinout as it moves from material science into industrial plant construction.