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- Greptile puts numbers on the AI pull request spam problem
Rahul Bathija's OpenClaw study gives Daksh Gupta's code-review startup a live dataset for its validation-layer thesis.
- Ryan Cohen pulls his GameStop pay plan as the eBay bid becomes an incentive test
The Chewy cofounder is trying to remove a clean objection from critics: that GameStop's takeover push could enrich him personally.
- Slate Auto opens EV truck preorders at $24,950, turning its reservation list into the real test
The Troy, Michigan EV startup is asking buyers for a $300 non-refundable deposit before production starts in autumn 2026.
- Bloomberg: Dutch chip startup Euclyd is seeking about 200 million euros for a Series A, not yet closed
Bloomberg reports Euclyd has several term sheets, but no named lead investor or valuation, and the amount could change.
- Racket's Rhombus 1.0 turns a decades-old macro thesis into a cleaner language bet
Matthew Flatt, Robby Findler, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt and a 20-person contributor group are trying to bring Racket-style extensibility beyond Lisp syntax.
- Superhuman agrees to acquire Edward Tian's GPTZero
GPTZero says it reached 19 million registered users and $30 million in ARR after raising just $13.5 million.
- Latitude turns AI agent chats into an observability signal
Cesar Miguelanez is positioning Latitude around the failure data hidden in production agent conversations, not just traces and dashboards.
- Sierra's Bret Taylor puts a four-year clock on the AI phone agent shift
The Sierra co-founder is framing voice agents as a brand advantage, not just a way for companies to cut support costs.
- Mark Pincus turns Zynga's product doctrine into a founder manual
The Zynga founder is using his new book and podcast circuit to push a blunt message: founders win by being right before they scale.
- Leak: OpenAI Pushed GPT-5.6 to July as DeepMind Holds Gemini 3.5 Pro
The claims are unconfirmed, but they land as official docs show no GPT-5.6 listing and Google has already missed its June target for 3.5 Pro.
- Sequoia and Founders Fund back Stark Defence at 3.5B-euro valuation, Bloomberg says
Bloomberg reports the German loitering‑munitions maker is valued at 3.5 billion euros after new backing from Sequoia and Founders Fund.
- Daniel Lyons ships Treedocs 0.2.0 to make repo maps fail when they go stale
The Swift CLI keeps a version-controlled treedocs.yaml file in sync with a codebase, with hooks for reviews, CI, and coding agents.
- Yinka Ogunbiyi's HaloBraid raises $7M to bring robotics into the braid salon
Seven Seven Six led the seed round for a salon assistant that starts with the stylist instead of trying to replace her.
- Fika Jobs raises $4M for AI video interviews that try to get past the resume
The Stockholm company is betting that candidates should keep live video profiles that employers can browse before a role opens.
- Cadence raises $100 million to make AI chronic care pay like infrastructure
Chris Altchek's second act has a $1.2 billion valuation, but the harder test is proving Medicare savings at health-system scale.
- France orders 5,000 Harmattan AI drones as Dassault's startup bet moves into volume
Reuters reported the order less than six months after Dassault Aviation led Harmattan AI's $200 million Series B.
- Firefly Aerospace's $110M EXIM loan would put Jason Kim's moon factory inside U.S. industrial policy
The expected loan would fund Texas spacecraft production after Firefly turned Blue Ghost into a credible lunar manufacturing story.
- ByteDance Confirms Seedance 2.5 for Early July With 30-Second AI Video
ByteDance has confirmed Seedance 2.5 as the model name and is pointing to an early July launch, with longer single-shot output, expanded reference capacity, and tighter editing controls.
- Moderne brings its AI code migration pitch to OSFF London
Jonathan Schneider and Olga Kundzich are selling deterministic code change to finance, where AI-generated diffs alone are not enough.
- University of Michigan researchers release AFUN for robot affordance understanding
The University of Michigan-led model pairs affordance masks with 3D motion curves, but its public repo is still inference-only.
- RJ Scaringe's R2 test starts at the high end, not the $44,990 Rivian headline price
Rivian's first R2 customer vehicles are $57,990 Performance Launch Package SUVs, with the base rear-wheel-drive Standard trim expected in summer 2027.
- Inside Flyer, the Air Force's new AI supercomputer at Wright-Patterson
Flyer pairs AMD CPUs with Nvidia H100 and L40 GPUs for secure defense modeling, AI workloads and hypersonics research.
- Z.ai's GLM-5.2 tops open-weight models on Artificial Analysis work benchmark
The open-weight model scored 1524 Elo on GDPval-AA, putting it near proprietary frontier systems on agentic knowledge-work tasks.
- Unsloth makes Z.ai's giant GLM-5.2 model runnable on local hardware
Daniel and Michael Han's open-source AI tooling startup is turning model compression into a distribution layer for frontier-scale open models.