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- Leaked OpenAI financials put a hard number on Altman's compute burn
Audited documents viewed by Ed Zitron and verified by the FT show $13.07B in 2025 revenue and a $38.5B net loss attributable to OpenAI.
- Coinbase rolls out AI investment advisor to Coinbase One members
The SEC-registered advisory product gives automated portfolio guidance while keeping trade approval and execution in the user's hands.
- Anthropic fight with Trump turns into a cyber-defense fight
Security leaders say the Fable 5 and Mythos 5 restrictions risk punishing the same bug-finding work defenders need.
- SpaceX agrees to buy Cursor maker Anysphere for $60 billion
The stock deal gives Elon Musk's public-market SpaceX a fast-growing AI coding business as xAI chases Anthropic, OpenAI and Microsoft.
- YC Names Christopher Golda and Grey Baker General Partners
The appointments add two YC-linked operators to Garry Tan's senior bench as YC runs more batches and competes earlier for technical founders.
- SubQ Releases Its 1.1 Small Model Card as Dangel and Whedon Try to Prove Long Context Can Beat RAG
The Subquadratic team says its sparse-attention model hits 98% needle retrieval at 12M tokens, but access remains limited to design partners.
- Genesis AI's Eno robot rejects the humanoid default
Xian Zhou and Theophile Gervet are taking a wheeled, foldable path into physical AI after raising a $105 million seed round.
- Analysis: Why Salesforce is buying Fin for about $3.6B
Salesforce + Fin: packaging customer-service agents for Agentforce
- Moonshot AI's Yang Zhilin Pushes Kimi Deeper Into Coding Agents
Kimi K2.7-Code is a 1T-parameter MoE model with 32B active parameters, a 256K context window and open weights on Hugging Face.
- Anthropic faces class-action claim over Claude Max 20x limits
Karl Kahn says Claude Max 20x delivered six to eight times Pro usage, not the 20x Anthropic advertised.
- Boz tells Meta employees its AI reorg rollout was 'atrocious'
Meta is trying to repair morale inside a 6,500-person AI unit formed in March after employees pushed back on forced transfers and lower-status work.
- Microsoft's GitHub capacity crunch sends it to AWS
AI coding agents have turned GitHub reliability into an infrastructure problem Azure cannot absorb alone on Microsoft's timetable.
- Hermes Agent's new async subagents take aim at the blocking-agent problem
Teknium says the delegate tool can now fan out work without freezing the chat, a practical change for long-running agent workflows.
- Cartesia packages Sonic-3.5 and Ink-2 into a full voice-agent stack
Karan Goel is using benchmark wins to pitch Cartesia as both the speaking and listening layer for real-time AI agents.
- CrankGPT is a hand-cranked AI project with real edge-computing numbers
CrankGPT runs speech recognition, a small language model, and text-to-speech locally on a Raspberry Pi 5 with no battery or cloud.
- Claude Code user says the coding assistant saved his life by pushing him to the ER for AFib
A 73-year-old developer said he mentioned feeling unwell during a coding task, and Claude Code kept urging immediate care before doctors treated a sudden AFib episode.
- SGLang adds DFlash to push Qwen 3.5 397B-A17B inference up to 4.3x faster
Z Lab, Modal and LMSYS released a DFlash drafter for Qwen's 397B model and benchmarked it above native MTP on 8x B200 GPUs.
- a16z turns SpaceX's IPO week into an Elon Musk victory lap
The 94-second montage disclosed a16z's investment, making the congratulation post both tribute and portfolio marketing.
- Anthropic's Fable shutdown turns into a trust fight with Washington
The company pulled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after a June 12th export-control order, then sent technical staff to Washington to repair the relationship.
- Salesforce to buy Eoghan McCabe's Fin for about $3.6 billion
The Intercom-turned-AI-agent company is set to join Agentforce after a May rebrand and a hard pivot into customer-service automation.
- Radical Numerics raises $50M seed to build AI for biology and biodefense
Eric Nguyen and the Evo research team are turning generative genomics into a company with Omnii, a model aimed at DNA, RNA and proteins.
- Tensordyne puts log math at the center of its Nvidia challenge
The former Recogni is previewing Napier, an inference rack built around logarithmic arithmetic, with shipments targeted later in 2026.
- NewCore emerges with $66M to make AI agents manageable identities
Zohar Alon's new identity-security startup is betting enterprises will need to govern agents like workers, not service accounts.
- Carmen Li is trying to make GPU compute trade like a commodity
Silicon Data is building the benchmark layer, Compute Exchange is building the spot market, and CME has proposed compute futures with Silicon Data, subject to regulatory review.