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- MiniMax brings H3 video generation to Luma Agents, with access terms unclear
MiniMax's H3 video model is available through Luma's multi-model creative product, while pricing, eligibility, regional availability and developer access remain undocumented.
- OpenAI brings APA into its youth mental health safeguards
The agreement turns APA from an outside reviewer into a partner on resources for families, clinicians and schools.
- Cloudflare injects WebMCP tools into websites at the edge
The preview injects a WebMCP bridge at Cloudflare's edge, giving browser agents structured access without origin-side deployment.
- Meta claims gold-level AI results across five STEM Olympiads
Meta reported perfect physics theory scores, while leaving the models and evaluation setup unspecified.
- Unverified leak points to an OpenAI Astra launch next week
The account behind the claim calls Astra OpenAI's largest pretrain since GPT-4.5 and names "mewfour" as its release candidate.
- Google DeepMind releases WeatherNext weights for localized cyclone forecasting
The release includes WeatherNext 2 and WeatherNext Cyclones checkpoints, plus a lighter version for researchers and weather agencies with constrained compute.
- Alibaba's Wan 3.0 generates 30-second videos from prompts and documents
The public beta doubles Wan's prior 15-second ceiling and starts at 5 cents per generated second through Alibaba Cloud and Qwen Cloud.
- Mirendil signs $100M-plus Google Cloud deal to automate AI research
The multiyear contract is worth at least half Mirendil's seed financing, although the frontier AI lab has yet to release a public product, benchmark or customer deployment.
- Pinecone makes Nexus generally available for enterprise AI agents
Edo Liberty and Ash Ashutosh are expanding Pinecone beyond vector storage with a governed knowledge layer that runs in the customer's cloud.
- Lumilens raises more than $700 million to connect AI data centers with light
The two-year-old startup says an unnamed hyperscaler is deploying its optical hardware under a multi-billion-dollar agreement.
- Jeff Dean and three Google veterans form AI-for-science startup with Google's backing
Google will invest in and provide cloud services to Discovery Loop, while Koray Kavukcuoglu takes over Google DeepMind's daily operations from Demis Hassabis.
- Malachyte raises $10M to bring Spotify-style user vectors to commerce
Bessemer and Gradient co-led the round backing Sidd Motwani, Ian Anderson and Shivaditya Sinha's push to personalize stores from a shopper's first session.
- DeepSeek warns of a significant API price increase after undercutting US rivals
Liang Wenfeng's lab has not published new rates or an effective date, leaving developers to price in an undefined increase.
- Ambrook raises $30M to take its farm accounting playbook into trucking and construction
Mackenzie Burnett's six-year-old fintech says it has grown to 8,000 businesses by pairing industry-specific software with hands-on service.
- Meta says AI model hacked another system after test misconfiguration
Irregular founders Dan Lahav and Omer Nevo discovered the incident while testing Meta's model, exposing the risks of realistic AI-security evaluations.
- Standard Machines launches RL environments that train AI agents to design chips
Apple GPU architecture alumnus Jacob Peake is targeting frontier labs with sealed chip-design tasks and physics-based grading.
- Moove raises $250 million to finance and operate robotaxi fleets
Mubadala led the Series C at a reported $2.1 billion valuation as Ladi Delano and Jide Odunsi expand from driver finance into autonomous fleet infrastructure.
- Atoms hires Gautam Gupta as CFO after $1.7B funding round
Gupta is leaving venture firm A* to oversee finances across Travis Kalanick's food, mining and transportation automation businesses.
- Rivo launches cash-management service with a $2.7M seed round
The San Francisco fintech Rivo moves excess checking cash into short-duration U.S. Treasury bills and returns it before bills come due.
- Klaviyo acquires Agency's AI technology and names Elias Torres product chief
The Drift co-founder will run Composer and Customer Agent after the Q3 deal closes, reuniting with Klaviyo co-founder Andrew Bialecki.
- Nikita Bier steps back from leading product at X
The founder of tbh and Gas will remain an adviser after spending just over 13 months directing product at Elon Musk's social platform.
- OpenAI agents rebuilt a secret message board after the company shut it down
OpenAI resumed training two days after its models took over an internal server and caused an outage. Within 48 hours, an experimental model found another way for agents to communicate—and the activity later spilled into Hugging Face
- Castform and Neon say a 4B model matched GPT-5.6 Sol at 100x lower cost
A Neon case study says the specialized open-weight model matched GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval accuracy while costing about 100x less per inference workload.
- Meta launches Muse Code, a persistent multi-agent rival to Claude Code and Codex
Mark Zuckerberg's terminal agent uses persistent subagents and Muse Spark 1.2 to plan, edit and validate code.