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- Jae Park's Unastella raises $24 million to chase Korean orbital launch
Altos Ventures led the Series B for the pre-revenue Seoul rocket maker, which says it flew UNA EXPRESS-I from Goheung in May 2025.
- ElevenLabs' reported $500M ARR puts government expansion in focus
Aligned News says the AI audio company has a Greek government partnership, but the ARR and Greece claims remain uncorroborated by public company materials.
- AgileX Robotics shows research platforms at ICRA 2026, backs WBCD Track 3 at Booth 87
AgileX Robotics says its hardware targets R&D use cases and is built for Cosmos 3 integrations the community is testing this week.
- NVIDIA unveils Vera, a CPU for agents claiming 80% faster task completion vs x86
Vera extends NVIDIA's AI platform from GPU to CPU and will ship in standalone servers, Vera Rubin systems, and Vera BlueField-4 STX AI storage platforms, per the company.
- NVIDIA Unveils Nemotron 3 Ultra, Targets the Next Wave of AI Agents
Jensen Huang used his Taipei keynote to position NVIDIA as a full-stack AI platform, installing Nemotron 3 Ultra atop its open model family with a latent MoE trained in NVFP4 and a claimed 5x throughput uplift.
- Researchers warn Meta's AI Instagram support can be tricked to email password reset links
Posts on X and a now-removed Hacker News thread describe a prompt that convinces the AI agent to send reset links to attacker emails without identity checks; posters say takeovers are active and urge users to lock down email and 2FA.
- Pixio AI shares fresh look at its creative tools, signaling ongoing development
In a post on X, the AI creative platform showed work-in-progress tooling aimed at professionals in visual production workflows.
- YC alum-led Tesana shows a 2-day, 39-prompt AI-built game prototype
The Los Angeles startup posted a vibe-first prototyping clip on X; it says it used muranyi-3 and roughly $90 in tokens. Engine and funding remain undisclosed.
- MiniMax unveils M3, an open-weights model touting coding-agentic gains and 1M context
In a thread on X, MiniMax cites 59.0% on SWE-Bench Pro and a new sparse attention scheme that scales context to 1M, with an API promo rolling out this week.
- Agent Cookie Lets AI Agents Stay Logged In Across Your Apps
Open-source, peer-to-peer cookie and token sync pairs two Macs so agents like OpenClaw and Hermes can stay authenticated for carts, orders, and API calls.
- FeatherlessAI raises $20M Series A to build a neutral layer for open-weight AI models
AMD Ventures and Airbus Ventures co-led the round; FeatherlessAI says it will hire engineers across the stack to keep customers off any single lab, chip, or cloud.
- Insane Mario-like demo game shows the power of Opus 4.8
In a 4-post thread, Nakajima shared a demo labeled Opus 4.8 and said he will run an AI security session for non-engineers, calling out Claude Code users.
- Spanhove hacks Meta Ray-Ban Display for a Strava-powered ghost race while you run
The indie builder layered Strava GPX, pace coins, and sprint zones into a browser app that runs directly on the glasses, saying it works without a flagship phone.
- Artisan CEO Jaspar Carmichael-Jack says KC Green dispute is settled, pulls Ava ads using 'This is fine'
Artisan took down New York and San Francisco ads that riffed on KC Green’s meme; Green says the settlement came together quickly, per TechCrunch, with terms undisclosed.
- PromptArmor says ChatGPT for Google Sheets can exfiltrate entire workbooks via a single prompt injection
The AI risk team reports that OpenAI’s new Sheets add-on can be manipulated to run attacker scripts and steal data across an account, even with human approvals required.
- NousResearch says it's a big week for Hermes Agent; X takes notice
A one-line tease on X pulled in 850 likes and 61 replies with no technical details.
- Emad Mostaque says the 'Sora team became robotics team,' linking to a Sam Altman post
The former Stability AI CEO posted a one-line claim and pointed to a Sam Altman post; no details or confirmation accompanied the note.
- Apify hosts biggest SF AI hackathon for 180 builders; 80+ spots already claimed
The event centers on AI automation and web scraping projects built on Apify's platform; capacity is 180 with 80+ registrations already claimed, per Apify's post on X.
- Bankr hackathon coming after Base MCP launch
A post on X says the upcoming Bankr event will focus on agent-powered swaps and trading on Base, positioning builders to tap Coinbase’s L2 for distribution.
- Meshy launches chat-based AI agent for 3D creation, now in beta
Meshy says creators can brainstorm and build 3D assets by chatting, skipping traditional modeling software; technical specs and formats were not included in the announcement.
- Telli is hiring across engineering, design, and GTM
YC-backed Telli is opening roles as it scales its AI voice agent platform used by enterprises like Sky, with a fast-iteration culture and published principles.
- Peter Steinberger spotlights OpenClaw policy conformance plugin
A repost on X points to a governance-focused add-on promising verifiable drift checks for the local, open-source agent.
- Hermes Agent claims No. 1 on OpenRouter as agents crowd weekly AI usage board
OpenRouter's opt-in usage data puts Hermes Agent at No. 1; OpenClaw, Kilo Code, Descript, pi, Janitor AI, GitLawb, ISEKAI ZERO, and Cline round out the week's most-used tools.
- xAI’s Grok-Imagine-Video-1.5-Preview hits #1 on Arena.ai’s image-to-video leaderboard
Arena.ai reports a +52 point jump over the prior Grok-Imagine-Video (720p), edging past Seedance-2.0 and HappyHorse on its image-to-video leaderboard.