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- Granola sued over bot-free meeting capture and AI training defaults
The proposed class action says non-users cannot consent or opt out when Granola transcribes calls and uses anonymized data for model improvement.
- OpenAI says unreleased Astra model solved 10 open math problems
The lab released a 249-page paper, reasoning transcripts and Lean certificates for claims spanning geometry, cryptography and quantum complexity.
- Paul Graham's 2023 essay gives founders a four-step problem-selection framework
Paul Graham wrote the July 2023 essay as a guide for ambitious work in any field. Its four-step framework still gives founders a useful test for choosing and exploring problems.
- DeepSeek ships V4 Flash with strong agent scores and low API prices
DeepSeek's open-weight model undercuts rivals on API price, while third-party tests put its max-reasoning version near the top of its class.
- Dopl raises $6.3 million to move robotic ultrasound toward FDA clearance
SpringTide led the seed round as three co-founders use an in-person staffing service to prepare rural hospitals for remote robotic exams.
- Axis Robotics raises $12 million to turn browser users into robot trainers
Hack VC led the seed round for Chris Feng's simulation-first system, which collects and cleans human demonstrations for robot models.
- Claude Code reverse engineering alleges hidden Fable 5 model switches
Lon says a Claude Code path can route requests to Opus 4.8 without the notice and opt-out Anthropic's own help page promises.
- PDW gets conditional $820 million federal loan commitment for drone components
PDW plans to turn its racing-drone roots into a domestic component supplier for its own aircraft and other U.S. platforms.
- HackerOne will require government ID for every bug bounty submission
The August 14th rule covers new and existing accounts, while unpaid vulnerability disclosure programs remain open without verification.
- OpenAI previews Astra model built to coordinate long-running agents
Sam Altman demonstrated the unreleased model to policymakers as a federal review process approaches its August 1st deadline.
- IonQ completes $1.8 billion SkyWater deal after FTC clears acquisition
The acquisition brings SkyWater's U.S. semiconductor development, wafer and advanced packaging operations under IonQ, while the foundry keeps serving outside customers.
- Plasma AI released a deterministic wiki CLI for coding agents
The open-source tool lets agents map, search and read slices of Markdown knowledge before modifying a codebase.
- Amazon completes $50 billion OpenAI investment, deepening its AWS alliance
The financing ties Sam Altman's model developer to Amazon's cloud and Trainium chips as AI infrastructure spending accelerates.
- ALSO will start TM-B deliveries after missing spring and July targets
Chris Yu's Rivian spinoff says its $4,500 Launch Edition bikes will reach buyers from early August through September.
- MemTensor releases Metis models that write memory inside the backbone
The Qwen3.5-based research preview includes 4B, 9B and 27B checkpoints, while withholding training data and restricting the code to noncommercial use.
- Google backs away from an AI Studio app after claiming 800,000 preorders
The app was due August 1st; Google's existing product already lets builders create and distribute software through the browser.
- Explorative Modeling adds best-of-K search to generative model pretraining
Alexi Gladstone's open-source method spends extra compute during training and reports gains across image, video and masked language models.
- Edison Scientific launches research hub with open models for reading chemical patents
The FutureHouse spinout is publishing weights, code and benchmarks to support its push to sell Kosmos into biopharma R&D.
- Tracer launches Echo with near-Claude Fable scores at one-third the cost
Solo founder Adam Rida built the YC S26 system to allocate compute across open-weight models through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
- Supabase launches open benchmark for AI coding agents building backends
The framework tests Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode on database, auth and Edge Function tasks, then publishes the scores.
- E J Ziyad launches UML, a shared memory graph for Claude and ChatGPT
The open-source project uses MCP and a Cloudflare-native graph to carry user-owned facts across AI clients, while leaving tool calls to each host.
- Argo IQ says revenue grew 10x as it shifted from AI QA to growth services
Founder Trenton Hughes is selling recurring content and growth operations to B2B companies, with human experts supervising AI output.
- Stripe says new businesses on its platform nearly doubled year over year
CEO Patrick Collison argues that AI agents favor ambitious, differentiated startups over narrow software wedges.
- Flapping Airplanes pursues new round at reported $5 billion valuation
Index Ventures and Lux Capital are leading talks for a round in the hundreds of millions, six months after the AI research lab's $180 million seed.