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- General Intuition releases MIRA, a playable Rocket League world model
The 5B-parameter demo runs four-player matches at 20 fps and arrives weeks after the AI lab raised $320 million.
- GMI Cloud Says Tencent Hy3 Beat GLM And DeepSeek In A Small Web Design Test
The GPU cloud provider tested four open models on three webpage prompts, a narrow but useful read on where design coding is moving.
- Browserbase turns its browser infrastructure into a one-call agent API
Paul Klein IV's Browserbase Agents product lets developers describe a web task in plain English and run it without hosting the agent loop.
- Meta glasses are a privacy fight aimed at the wrong target
The backlash against Meta's AI eyewear treats camera glasses as new, while phones, cars, airports, and photo apps already normalized machine vision.
- Johnny Carni's WaiV Robotics wants to make ship-launched drones recoverable
The London maritime robotics venture has raised $7.5 million and is taking a predictive landing system from R&D into market, with a June U.S. launch ahead of the Energy Drone & Robotics Summit.
- Coursera cuts jobs after Udemy merger as $115 million synergy target starts hitting payroll
The online learning platform disclosed $8 million to $11 million in severance-related costs less than two months after closing the deal.
- CurifyLabs raises $14 million Series A to push automated compounding into more U.S. pharmacies
Sandwater and HealthCap co-led the round as the Helsinki company spends on U.S. operations, supply chain and product development.
- Anthropic Found a Hidden Workspace Inside Claude
The July 6th paper introduces J-space, a Jacobian-lens readout Anthropic says can expose hidden goals and evaluation awareness inside Claude.
- SpaceXAI makes Musk's AI consolidation even more confusing
The @SpaceXAI account switch gives Musk's AI operation a clearer brand, but not a clearer corporate structure, product map or accountability trail.
- Feyn Labs says Pulpie cleans web pages for AI training at one twentieth Dripper's cost
The YC-backed team says its smallest encoder matches Dripper's extraction quality at 20x the L4 throughput.
- Cohere Labs heads to ICML Seoul as AI research becomes the sales floor
ICML runs July 6th to July 11th at COEX, where papers, workshops and GPU booths will compete for the same founder attention.
- CME and ICE split over the benchmark that will settle GPU futures
CME plans compute futures tied to Silicon Data's benchmarks. ICE plans GPU contracts tied to Ornn's pricing index. Both still need regulatory approval.
- Reddit says AI cut hate and violence enforcement time to under five seconds
The platform says automated systems lifted enforcement actions by more than 200% and cut exposure to harmful content by more than 40%.
- As Amazon lets Mechanical Turk fade, Mercor hits a $2 billion gross run rate
The figure is before contractor payouts, but it shows how AI labs have shifted paid human labor from commodity microtasks to expert data work.
- VOMO says it has crossed 400,000 users as Zhuang Wang pushes meeting notes into AI agents
The EverGrow Tech app is pitching unlimited transcription, Ask AI and agent workflows, but paid usage and retention remain undisclosed.
- Apptronik's Robot Park will feed Apollo 2 data into Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics
The Austin robotics company says fleets of Apollo 2 humanoids are collecting task data across its expanded facility and customer sites.
- Tencent ships Hy3 as an Apache 2.0 agent model
The 295B-parameter MoE release gives Tencent Hy a wider developer pitch after April's preview run across internal products.
- MakerChecker puts a policy gate in front of AI agents that can delete, trade or exfiltrate
The open-source project scans agent code locally, then enforces role-based approvals before risky tool calls run.
- Claude skill taps ProductAI to make AI portraits look less plastic
The free skill routes image edits through ProductAI's MCP connector and tries to preserve labels while adding pores, grain and real light.
- Ornn's $33M seed puts two 20-something founders in the middle of Wall Street's compute trade
Kush Bavaria and Wayne Nelms are building pricing and hedging tools for GPU compute as ICE and CME race toward futures contracts.
- AISI says agent benchmarks need compute curves, not static scores
The UK institute's new work shows token budgets can change measured agent capability, rankings and time-horizon estimates.
- Novartis to buy Imperial-Crick spinout Myricx Bio for up to $1.5 billion
The London biotech went from a 2019 GBP 4.5 million seed round to a pharma exit after shifting NMT inhibitors into ADC payloads.
- Flipper Devices keeps Flipper Zero firmware alive, with users doing more of the work
Pavel Zhovner is moving the million-user hacker gadget into a tighter maintenance model as Flipper builds new hardware.
- Mechanical Turk's maintenance mode exposes AWS's AI gap
New customers lose access on July 30th, leaving Amazon with a shrinking role in the human data market it helped define.