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- Stephanie Hendricks' AGent Energy raises $11M to turn backup generators into grid capacity
Spero Ventures and MassMutual Ventures co-led the round, taking AGent's disclosed funding to $17M in its first year.
- SpaceXAI's Grokathon crowns a binary decompiler built in 12 hours
Nova beat social simulation tool Signal and brain-sensing speech prototype ThinkVoice in the 2026 competition.
- Assembly launches an AI app builder for client-facing software
The New York software maker is targeting service firms that need authentication, CRM data, permissions and payments built into generated apps.
- Apple issues new mercenary spyware alerts to targeted iPhone users
Citizen Lab researcher John Scott-Railton urged recipients to verify the warning through Apple and seek expert security help.
- Google replaces Gemini 3.6 Flash after three weeks, cuts prices through year-end
Tulsee Doshi's team improved coding and workflow scores, though Google's full evaluation table shows gains were uneven.
- OpenAI launches ChatGPT Computer History to remember work across Mac apps
The opt-in feature turns screen activity into reusable context for Pro, Business, and Enterprise users, with a timeline and privacy controls.
- FLORA launches Fashion Studio for 'vibe manufacturing' design and campaign production
The New York startup packages sketch rendering, virtual try-on, campaign imagery and Shopify export into connected workflows.
- Pixy turns live websites into editable canvases for coding agents
Pixy says its browser editor lets teams change a running webpage and gives coding agents a structured record to implement in source code.
- OpenAI acquired 4.2% of Cerebras before GPT-5.6 Ultrafast launch
RuntimeWire found that OpenAI acquired a 4.2% economic stake in Cerebras weeks before launching Cerebras-powered GPT‑5.6 Ultrafast.
- OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14x standard speed
Cerebras hardware drives the API tier to 750 output tokens per second, with access restricted to selected customers while capacity grows.
- Mistral put OCR 4.1 in public preview with paragraph-level extraction
Mistral's July 16th public preview adds paragraph-level bounding boxes, structural labels and block-level confidence scores, while its API guide documents page- and word-level confidence output.
- MiniMax releases Music 3 for five-minute songs with hierarchical generation
Yan Junjie's model splits long-range composition from acoustic rendering and accepts detailed sectional controls, though its official weights remained unavailable at verification.
- Oxide details three Kubernetes paths, with native storage still unfinished
The on-prem cloud builder supports Rancher, Omni and Cluster API, while disk hot-plug still blocks a native CSI storage driver.
- OpenAI data finds top enterprise users adopt reusable AI skills six times as often
OpenAI's customer telemetry links heavier use to Plugins, reusable skills and Codex, offering startup operators a deployment playbook without proving those tools improve results.
- Joe Harris raises $8M for Alloy's AI robot-debugging platform
Square Peg led the round at an $80M valuation as Alloy expands in the US and builds agents that trace failures across robot fleets.
- DeepLumen reaches 1,000 merchants as it rolls out pay-on-sales AI commerce
Joy Wu's Shopify app creates machine-readable product pages, tracks AI-attributed orders and charges merchants when those sales happen.
- Trunk Tools expands construction AI from document search into workflow agents
Solo founder Sarah Buchner spent more than a decade in construction before expanding Trunk Tools from document search into connected agents for contractor workflows.
- DeepSeek sets peak V4 API rates at twice off-peak levels as prices rise
The new schedule charges twice as much in seven UTC hours, while off-peak output rates still rise 136% for V4-Flash and 128% for V4-Pro.
- Brian Roemmele launches Mac cleaner for Claude's text watermarks
The local workflow rewrites marked text, but Anthropic has not published the detector needed to independently verify the cleaner.
- CoreWeave signs A100 cloud contract extending Nvidia's 2020 chips into 2029
Jensen Huang says CUDA keeps older hardware useful as CoreWeave tries to extract revenue beyond its GPUs' initial contracts.
- Anthropic holds talks to buy real-time AI startup Decart for about $6B
Bloomberg reports that Anthropic is weighing an unsigned deal for Decart's low-latency video, world-model and inference technology.
- Zed launches Delta to move AI code review inside agent conversations
The private-beta application syncs agent transcripts, live worktrees and review comments while retaining Git compatibility.
- Semaphore reports $7.45M sold in equity offering after Sigmaways acquisition
Luke Mann and Ori Spector lead the San Francisco company, whose five-investor offering follows a software-services acquisition involving disputed assets and wage claims.
- Trump enlists private cyber contractors to hack foreign crime groups
The structure may invite comparisons with deniable cyber proxies, but written approvals and direct federal control are designed to address contractor liability, not obscure Washington's role.