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- Bloomberg says Phia founders pushed affiliate features that could claim unearned sales credit
Bloomberg says Phia founders Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni pushed affiliate-attribution features that could claim credit for sales Phia did not drive, extending July reporting on the software.
- Neros raises $250 million to expand autonomous drones and interceptor production
Drone-racing founders Soren Monroe-Anderson and Olaf Hichwa plan to use the Bloomberg-reported round to expand autonomous and interceptor programs and manufacturing capacity.
- Microsoft upgrades its Copilot coding model 10 weeks after launch
The 138 billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model adds image input and arrives 10 weeks after Microsoft's first in-house Copilot coding model.
- Four Grok 4.5 checkpoints appear in Arena near xAI's 4.6 window
The roster entries point to multimodal and web-enabled variants, but their labels do not establish that Grok 4.6 is behind them.
- RuntimeWire launches Investigations for original startup and AI reporting
The new section gives document-driven scoops, reverse engineering and accountability reporting a home outside The Wire's daily news stream.
- OpenAI, Anthropic and Google blocked a cross-model reasoning attack
The attack used weaker sibling models as decoders and exposed credentials in public agent logs before providers blocked it.
- Unsloth Desktop connects locally run models to Claude Code and Codex
The open-source Mac, Windows and Linux app combines local inference, training and connections for Claude Code and Codex.
- Nvidia ships Nemotron 3.5 Lightning for single-GPU AI agents
The 30-billion-parameter open-weight model activates 3 billion parameters and permits commercial use under Nvidia's OpenMDW license.
- Cursor and SpaceXAI launch Grok Bot for work beyond coding
The beta gives paid users cloud agents that sign into websites, learn routines and keep running after a laptop closes.
- Manus asks affected users to back up data before Meta separation
Manus is telling affected users to back up recent data before an August 23rd-24th deletion window as it separates from Meta and its founders reportedly seek financing for a buyback.
- Keet's iOS app generates structured courses with videos, quizzes and games
Keet's iOS learning app is in private beta, while YC and Keet still publish materials for its earlier web-agent API.
- Igor Babuschkin's River AI raises $1.1 billion for customer-owned models
General Catalyst and AMP PBC led the combined seed and Series A, with Nvidia and AMD backing an open-weight training stack.
- Tencent unveils WorldClaw for editable 3D worlds from text
The agent pipeline plans terrain, builds regional assets and refines scenes in Blender, using four Nvidia H20 GPUs in Tencent's tests.
- Cursor releases Origin Git host for fleets of AI coding agents
The Git platform extends Cursor from code generation into repository hosting, review and team-wide agent orchestration after a waitlist period.
- Grok 4.6 launch appears imminent after Cursor briefly exposes the model
An outside tester received preview access hours after Cursor users found the unreleased model in its production picker.
- DHH adopts agent-first building, previewing journalism's shift from drafting to directing
Hansson's reversal shows how knowledge workers move from skepticism to agent-supervised output once AI can handle assignments, a transition journalism is likely to follow.
- Five practical ways to use Decimen across disconnected devices
The strongest use cases are restricted workstations, disconnected field operations, incompatible devices, fixed-display distribution and small transfers over unreliable visual links.
- Aureka raises $100M to build a biological world model for drug discovery
Granite Asia backed the first tranche as Aureka expands OpenDDE and its wet-lab feedback system for antibody discovery.
- Palette raises EUR 3M to make company context portable across AI models
The Copenhagen founders behind Linkfire and Airtame are selling a model-neutral layer for files, workflows and organizational memory.
- Researchers hired suspected North Korean IT workers to expose their post-hire playbook
Three hires used forged identities, Gemini-altered documents, remote access tools and AI coding assistants inside a sandboxed workplace.
- Z.ai reports 1 million ZCode users and resets GLM plan limits
The Beijing AI company reset GLM Coding Plan limits, but its self-reported ZCode milestone does not distinguish registered, active or paying users.
- Human Behavior launches agents that turn session replays into product fixes
The YC-backed analytics startup is using a $5 million seed raised in 2025 to move from explaining user behavior to acting on it.
- Claude Code watermark policy draws backlash over developer control
Nick Dobos's objection exposes a policy gap: EU guidance excludes source code, while Anthropic says its marks cover all generated text.
- Arcade acquires Smithery to control agent tool discovery and execution
The deal gives Arcade a popular MCP registry six weeks after its $60 million Series A, extending its reach from authorization into distribution.