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Every story published on RuntimeWire, newest first.
- Zenbu launches terminal-browser to put web previews beside coding agents
The open-source project uses Chromium and terminal graphics protocols to combine preview, planning and browser automation in one tab.
- Argil adds MiniMax H3 to its AI-avatar social video workflow
Founders Laodis Menard and Brivael Le Pogam are placing MiniMax's video model inside Argil's production system for avatars, scripts, captions, B-roll and finished social clips.
- Huawei releases 505B-parameter openPangu model trained on Ascend chips
The 512K-context release tests whether Huawei can turn its chip, model and inference stack into a credible alternative to Nvidia-centered AI.
- Altman claims AI cost declines are 20x faster than Moore's law
The OpenAI CEO made the claim after the company reported a 20% serving-cost reduction and greater than 15% token-efficiency gain from GPT-5.6 Sol, while passing some savings to Luna and Terra users.
- Tomasz Janusz launches Privacy Thing for per-domain browser fingerprinting controls
The Chrome and Firefox extension coordinates location, language and time-zone signals while exposing what supported browser data each site reads.
- Space-Eyes strikes $638 million SPAC deal on $1 million in revenue
Founder Jatin Bains is taking the counter-drone developer public with Eric Trump as an investor and adviser and up to $251.7 million in gross proceeds.
- Adi Prasad brings Tesla and CloudKitchens lessons to Matter's AI factories
The Tesla, Apple, CloudKitchens and Rivian veteran is applying first-principles engineering and zero-based budgeting inside a Sunnyvale plant.
- Zoox wins federal approval to charge for steering-wheel-free robotaxi rides
The two-year exemption covers an initial deployment of up to 2,500 vehicles over that period, but Zoox still needs state and local clearance before collecting fares.
- Alibaba's Qwen upgrades speech recognition for technical terms and structured transcripts
Qwen says its ASR update improves context and hotwords, though Alibaba's public API documents still point to older model snapshots.
- MarbleOS tests a visible desktop workspace for AI agent work
Miguel Acevedo's macOS app turns research, files, recurring tasks and outputs into an inspectable workspace.
- DeepSeek updates V4-Flash API for coding agents without changing architecture
DeepSeek's July 31st public beta adds native Responses API support while leaving V4-Pro and the models in its app and website unchanged.
- OpenAI rolls out Sign in with ChatGPT as an identity layer for apps
Airtable, GitLab, HubSpot, Notion, Supabase and Vercel are initial partners, giving OpenAI a new distribution point outside ChatGPT.
- RuntimeWire crosses 200,000 pageviews and launches a hand-reviewed AI jobs board
The founder-built publication recorded 118,310 article reads in July and is offering hiring teams a 50% launch discount.
- Source says Coldcard wallet exposure extends beyond Mk3 after $38 million sweep
Coinkite's public advisory confirms an Mk3 seed flaw, but a source says the exposure is broader without identifying other affected devices.
- Decimen streams files through fountain-coded QR frames without pairing
Alstroph says Claude Code helped build the one-night PoC, which claims 128 KB/s but currently loads its receiver page over a local network.
- Conductor launches multiplayer cloud workspaces that keep coding agents running
After raising $22 million in March, Conductor adds shared microVM sandboxes, an API and an iPhone beta to its Mac-first agent manager.
- Amazon books $53.4 billion in other income as Anthropic stake swells
The mark follows Anthropic's $65 billion round at a $965 billion valuation and a commitment to spend more than $100 billion with AWS.
- Citadel buys Situational Awareness's public portfolio after leveraged AI losses
Leopold Aschenbrenner kept a private Anthropic stake reportedly worth $5 billion, preserving his largest route back from the rout.
- Smallest.ai raises $13 million to build full-duplex enterprise voice AI
Seligman Ventures led the round as founders Sudarshan Kamath and Akshat Mandloi introduced the Hydra speech-to-speech architecture.
- DBOS says Postgres queues can reach 30,000 workflows a second
Qian Li and Peter Kraft cut lock contention, transaction retries, and index churn, backing DBOS's case for simpler workflow infrastructure.
- Rune 1.1 makes personal use free and adds Python, Emacs support
Ernest Romero Climent is using a free tier and deeper code navigation to widen adoption for the self-funded, terminal-centered IDE.
- Anthropic says Claude accessed three real systems during cyber evaluations
A Claude model reached the internet from testing environments, turning controlled security exercises into unauthorized real-world access.
- Depthfirst launches RL-trained dfs-large1 for enterprise vulnerability detection
The model beats general-purpose rivals on Depthfirst's internal benchmark, whose construction and methodology remain unpublished.
- Google connects Gemini Spark to Chrome for logged-in web tasks
The U.S. rollout gives AI Pro and Ultra subscribers an agent that can use active browser sessions, with daily task caps and security warnings.