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- OpenAI awards $1M to 14 projects studying AI's economic and social effects
The six-month grants span jobs, benefits, data-center energy, biosecurity and democratic oversight, with results due in 2027.
- Sam Hogan launches Lumbridge, a RuneScape-style test world for AI agents
The open-source experiment lets Claude, Codex, Hermes and other coding agents control persistent characters through a TypeScript SDK.
- Nous Research turns Hermes profiles into reusable specialist Bots
The desktop update gives each named Bot its own model, memory and skills, with cross-Bot communication inside the same app.
- Khosla and Emanuel argue autonomous AI could outperform doctors using AI
The JAMA Perspective draws on simulated studies and challenges medicine's prevailing physician-led deployment model.
- Reddit tests audio and video versions of viral text posts
The mobile experiment adds a "play" option while preserving the original post, comments and community discussion.
- Amazon buys and destroys printed books for AI training data
A tracker hidden in a roughly 1,000-book order led 404 Media to a Las Vegas site where workers cut bindings and scan pages.
- Browser Use launches macOS Harness for direct control of Mac apps
The open-source Python layer gives coding agents access to native apps, logged-in browsers, files and shell commands through six primitives.
- Sonic Fire Tech raises $15M to push acoustic suppression through fire codes
Former NASA engineer Geoff Bruder plans to spend the round on hiring and the tests needed to move infrasound from demos into regulated buildings.
- Terra adds $18M, closing a $52M seed for defense manufacturing
Nathan Nwachuku and Maxwell Maduka plan to keep production in Africa while opening London access to defense buyers, capital and talent.
- 3M expert told ChatGPT to build zero-fault case before $61M explosion verdict
Discovery produced 350 pages of prompts, including a request to show 3M was "0% at fault," before jurors assigned 30% of the blame to 3M.
- MiniMax pitches H3 as a video model for consistent game-sprite motion
MiniMax is pitching its general-purpose multimodal H3 model for game-sprite animation, though the supplied materials include no independent comparative benchmark.
- CarSignal launches a $200-a-month AI operating system for auto repair shops
The YC-backed startup says more than 40 shops use its software for booking, diagnostics, estimates, parts and payments.
- World Liberty links its tokens to Chinese AI models under US scrutiny
WorldClaw takes USD1 payments and offers 43 models tied to Chinese companies flagged by the Trump administration, Reuters found.
- Uber backs Zipline to target 1 million daily drone deliveries by 2029
The Uber Eats integration will begin in Houston and Dallas before expanding across dozens of U.S. cities.
- Wiz says Red Agent exploited a Snowflake workflow flaw introduced by Copilot
A June workflow change let a crafted issue title execute commands and expose a Jira token for five days before Snowflake patched it.
- Cursor launches Origin, extending its AI coding stack into code hosting
The early beta hosts repositories, mirrors GitHub projects and puts Cursor agents inside pull-request workflows for paid users.
- Speko routes voice AI across providers using language-specific benchmarks
Speko has raised $1.1M and received a $500,000 YC commitment, for roughly $1.6M total.
- Bedrock Robotics deploys operatorless excavators at three commercial sites
Bedrock's former Waymo and robotics engineers must prove autonomy can handle changing jobsites and lower contractors' cost per yard.
- DuckDB previews v2.0 plan to stabilize Quack server mode
Co-creators Mark Raasveldt and Hannes Muehleisen plan to stabilize Quack and add CONNECT in a fall 2026 release aimed at shared production workloads.
- Gravis Robotics raises $200M from SoftBank to scale autonomous excavators
The ETH Zurich spinout plans to hire engineers and push its mixed-fleet excavator retrofits into construction sites worldwide.
- Xpander raises $7.5M to move enterprise AI agents into production
Three former AWS engineers are pairing Xpander's vendor-neutral agent runtime with Omni, an AI system designed to automate deployment work.
- Maria Zhang's Palona launches restaurant operating layer as funding reaches $20M
The former Google and Meta executive is extending Palona from phone orders into catering, revenue intelligence and camera-triggered workflows.
- Takt raises $9.25M to turn warehouse labor data into live operating decisions
The Reston founders will use their first institutional round to push Takt from labor reporting into order orchestration and bounded AI action.
- 1667 preserves every AI draft in a navigable story tree
Version 0.9.8 stores prose locally, brings no model of its own, and preserves rejected generations as branches writers can revisit.