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- Microsoft plans Xbox 360 games for PC and handhelds from 2027
A leaked developer document outlines a 2027-2028 rollout and disc-linked licenses that would preserve resale while moving ownership across devices.
- Superblocks launches 3.0 for AI-built enterprise apps inside AWS VPCs
Brad Menezes and Ran Ma are turning the cloud account into the control boundary for software generated by business teams.
- Y Combinator recruits students for expo with 50-plus portfolio startups
The August 15th event at YC's San Francisco headquarters will include founder pitches and onsite interviews for internships and co-ops.
- Armature turns MCP sessions into analytics and staged evals
YC-backed founders Theodore Otzenberger and Louis Scremin are turning MCP traces into use cases, failure rankings and regression tests through a staged evaluation rollout.
- Markov packages 99 hours of engineering work into training data for desktop AI agents
The YC S26 startup paired 51 engineering tasks with gold files, rubrics, recordings and interaction traces across eight CAD software groups.
- Google lets Gemini Spark use logged-in Chrome sessions for web errands
The agent can schedule apartment tours and research travel, while handing payments and other sensitive steps back to users.
- Wispr Flow's updated terms reveal a meeting notetaker in development
The product would transcribe meetings, identify speakers and generate summaries, action items and insights through Cloud Sync.
- Base Power raises $1B at $13B valuation and launches Texas-built battery
Base Core moves battery production in-house as Zach Dell and Justin Lopas push their distributed storage model beyond Texas.
- Actualyze AI raises $7M to govern enterprise model calls
Rafi Khardalian and Sean Lynch are putting identity, security and budgets in the path of every enterprise model call.
- Google tests a five-template AI agent builder inside Gemini for Android
The unfinished mobile flow points to a consumer push beyond Gemini Enterprise, though Google has not announced a rollout.
- Mariana Minerals raises $310 million for software-run US mines
Khosla Ventures led the Series B, joined by a16z, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, BHP, Greenoaks and four other investors.
- Microsoft open-sources Orchard to cut AI agent training costs
The Kubernetes-based framework reuses sandboxes, datasets and training pipelines across coding, browser and assistant agents.
- FLock adds DeepSeek V4 Flash to OpenAI-compatible API gateway
Jiahao Sun's FLock now offers the 284-billion-parameter model through an OpenAI-compatible gateway, with catalog pricing displayed at $0.435 per million input tokens and $0.87 per million output tokens.
- Cloudflare Computer splits agent work across isolates and containers
Cloudflare's open-source preview gives agents a durable filesystem while reserving full Linux environments for heavier tasks.
- ComfyUI ships editable MiniMax H3 graphs for local video workflows
Yannik Marek's node-based engine added native MiniMax H3 workflows, giving creators inspectable graphs for the open-weight video model.
- James Dacombe's OLIX raises $312 million at $3.3 billion before first chip ships
OLIX's 25-year-old founder has raised $532 million in six months to fund a rack-scale AI inference system due in 2027.
- Moonshot AI shows Kimi Slides generating editable PowerPoint decks
The August 3rd tutorial shows K3 handling research and visual design, while [Kimi Slides supports citations, fully editable slides and PowerPoint export](https://www.kimi.com/en/features/slides).
- Base44's Wix sale shows where solo AI founders hit scale limits
Maor Shlomo used AI to compress product work and preserve ownership, but security, infrastructure and growth still pushed Base44 into a larger organization.
- June raises $20 million pre-seed to automate enterprise AI deployment
The Bonobo AI founders reunited after several years inside Salesforce, with Time Ventures leading the pre-seed round.
- Invenio completes enrollment in 1,006-patient AI lung biopsy study
Invenio Imaging enrolled 1,006 patients in its U.S. pivotal study of NIO Lung Cancer Reveal, collecting more than 3,250 fresh biopsy specimens for validation of the investigational AI system.
- Oumi, Larridin and Runware build tools to cut enterprise AI bills
Founders are building measurement, routing and infrastructure products for buyers that adopted costly frontier models before tracking their returns.
- Hackers copy ownership records for 31,000 Liechtenstein entities
The breach hit a government register used to fight money laundering, exposing records tied to companies, foundations and trusts.
- DeepSeek ships V4-Flash at 3 cents per benchmark task
Artificial Analysis put Liang Wenfeng's model near Gemini 3.6 Flash on intelligence and roughly 105 times cheaper than Claude Fable 5 in benchmark test cost.
- Alibaba launches Qwen3.8-Max, with open weights scheduled next week
The 2.4 trillion-parameter model is live on QwenCloud at $2 per million input tokens, while downloadable weights are still pending.