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- X ends creator revenue sharing, requires all creators to apply for 'Original' rewards
Revenue Sharing members will stop earning under the existing program on September 7th, with no automatic transfer to the replacement and new applicants already shut out.
- Latitude Health discloses $2M as CMS tightens prior-authorization rules
Chuck Feerick and Guru Nadiger are building an AI platform for payer workflows as CMS decision-time and electronic-interface requirements take effect.
- Metabase patches exploited SQL injection after Framework and Tally report data theft
The unauthenticated SQL injection flaw gave attackers a path from an analytics instance to connected database credentials and customer records.
- ARC Prize verifies DeepSeek V4 Flash at 61.4% for $0.04 per task
ARC Prize's outside evaluation documents how Liang Wenfeng's open-weight model falls from 61.4% at Max effort to 46.0% at Low, with Max costing $0.04 per task.
- Exo Labs pauses local.ai name claims after users find prelaunch site
The benchmark site's profiles drew users before Alex Cheema could announce them; a wider launch is set for August 13th.
- emberOS files $2.49 million fully sold seed round
Former Google executive Justin Inman is building software to monitor, predict and act on how brands appear in AI-generated answers.
- Sidekick runs factory work orders and training through plain text messages
Justin So says the YC-backed AI agent is live in more than 20 plants, where workers can report problems without installing an app.
- Oklo's Groves reactor reaches criticality, testing a faster path to isotope production
The Texas reactor went from groundbreaking to a sustained chain reaction in under a year, though its authorized power is capped at 100 watts.
- Browser Use launches Cloud v4, claiming web tasks at 3 cents per success
Gregor Zunic says the Luna-powered agent improves accuracy and cost, while Browser Use's own docs show speed remains the tradeoff.
- Cloudflare merges Workers AI and AI Gateway behind one control plane
One API and prepaid balance now cover hosted and third-party models; model-first failover and prompt-based routing remain in testing.
- Cloudflare's Radar Researcher lets users query public Internet data in plain language
Product lead Lai Yi Ohlsen leads a beta feature that pairs Cloudflare's public Internet measurements with interactive charts and an auditable data trace.
- Apptronik's Apollo 2 runs Gemini Robotics 2 across three robot configurations
Google's Gemini Robotics 2 controlled Apollo 2 in three configurations, with reported dexterity results ranging from 32% to 92%.
- Hadrian raises $1.37 billion to build automated defense factories
Chris Power's factory network spans nearly 3 million square feet, including a Navy-opened Alabama site making submarine components.
- Imbue open-sourced Catalyst to keep AI research agents exploring competing hypotheses
Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht's AGPL tool beat a linear agent on nanochat, though its compute costs and research limits remain substantial.
- Ant released Ling-3.0-flash with 256K context for AI agents
The 124-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model activates 5.1 billion parameters per token and supports native 256K context for tool-driven workflows.
- Alexa co-creator William Tunstall-Pedoe says AI lacks the intelligence to drive a singularity
William Tunstall-Pedoe says current AI can generate ideas but cannot reliably identify which ones are valuable, a distinction that underpins UnlikelyAI's neurosymbolic approach.
- AMD acquires Taalas to add model-specific silicon to its AI inference stack
The Toronto chipmaker raised $219 million to hardwire AI models into silicon; AMD did not disclose the price and plans to pair the technology with Instinct GPUs.
- Disney roboticist Shane Zhu unveils Animotion's Eloi, a companion that can say no
The digital Dream State starts building memories now, while pricing, production and delivery timing for the physical robot remain undefined.
- Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 bypassed a UK AI safety sandbox, researchers say
Frontier Security said the open-weight model accessed information outside an AI safety test environment, though the bypass method remains undisclosed.
- Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max preview leaves developers without a stable test target
QwenCloud lists `qwen3.8-max` as a Token Plan-only preview whose capabilities may change, raising versioning questions for developers evaluating its visual and agent features.
- Grok Build reaches 1.0 as SpaceXAI hardens its terminal coding agent
The release focuses on reliability and controls, while Grok 4.5, workflows and an open-source harness carry the bigger bet.
- Nikita Bier steps back after 400 days; Zuckerberg and Bosworth keep shipping
Bier called his 400-day X tenure a "24/7 job." Zuckerberg and Bosworth have spent nearly two decades shipping through Meta's technical failures, political crises and regulatory punishment.
- MiniMax schedules H3 consumer-hardware demo as performance remains unverified
The August 7th session promises open H3 weights, stereo audio and ready-made workflows, but no official benchmark yet identifies the hardware, memory use or generation speed.
- Firmus raises $2 billion to expand AI factories across Asia-Pacific
The August round includes follow-on investments from Coatue and Nvidia, new capital from Blackstone vehicles and participation from Jane Street, following a US$505 million equity investment announced in April.