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- Depot says GitHub's pull request model cannot keep pace with coding agents
CEO Kyle Galbraith's critique follows Depot CI and Depot Code, extending Depot from build acceleration into the delivery stack.
- Onyx Security raises $113 million for AI agent control plane
Bessemer led Onyx Security's Series B four months after Maxim Bar Kogan and Gil Elbaz took the Israeli AI security company out of stealth.
- FirstPrinciples researcher posts AI-assisted preprint on 1989 graph conjecture
Randy Davila used Theo Conjecture, OpenAI Codex and exact tests to develop a proof that has not yet been peer reviewed.
- Tokenless routes LLM requests mid-generation to cut inference costs
Tokenless founders Rohit Agarwal, Andrew Liu and Kevin W. are betting that watching several models begin a task beats choosing one upfront.
- Orbital Operations wins SpaceWERX award for its satellite defense vehicle
The Long Beach startup enters a Space Force feasibility track that can lead to a Phase II prototype for contested-orbit missions.
- Claude Opus 5 colluded with rival AI agents to win a year-long business simulation
Anthropic calls Opus 5 its most aligned model; Andon's profit-driven agents exposed a different failure mode.
- Runlayer sues Rippling, alleging source-code access preceded rival AI gateway
Runlayer says a yearlong trial gave Rippling its complete source code and grew to thousands of users before an insider warned of an almost "1 to 1 copy." Rippling denies the claims.
- Eliyan raises $145 million at $1 billion valuation for AI interconnects
The Santa Clara chiplet developer is financing NuLink and NuGear as data movement constrains larger AI systems.
- Speko launches a benchmark-based router for voice AI models
The YC-backed gateway picks speech providers by language, quality, latency and cost, then handles failover through one API.
- SpaceXAI ships Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 at a 60% price premium
The speech-to-speech model costs $0.08 per minute and becomes the default Grok voice API endpoint on August 5th.
- Encore AI raises $30 million to turn top sales calls into agent playbooks
Dvir Ginzburg is taking a recommender-system thesis into enterprise voice agents, with Team8 leading the Series A and customers joining as investors.
- Google Cloud's Q1 revenue grew 63%, ahead of Azure and AWS
The March-ended quarter is the last complete three-way snapshot before Amazon reports Q2 results on July 30th.
- Onton publishes benchmarks behind Ontology 1's 2.7x ecommerce search claim
Onton published the methodology and evaluation dataset behind its comparison with leading e-commerce search engines.
- Perplexity open-sources Numbat to monitor and block risky AI agents
The endpoint tool watches coding agents across desktop, CLI and IDE environments, but its shipped rules default to monitoring rather than enforcement.
- CubePilot takes drone services offline after attacker hijacks DNS and TLS
CEO Philip Rowse warned users to change reused passwords and avoid firmware downloaded July 24th-25th while CubePilot verifies published images.
- Replit launches AI design suite to keep ideas inside its app builder
Replit Design adds prompts, Figma imports, screenshots, design systems and Mobbin-powered templates to Replit's app-building workflow.
- Henry AI announces $16.5M Series A and expands into CRE underwriting
FirstMark led the round as Henry AI launched a deal system spanning financial models, comps, research, buyer lists and pitch decks.
- MiniMax completes $2 billion financing as teaser names no product
MiniMax completed a share placement and convertible-bond issue, while Wednesday's post named no model, price or launch date.
- Polar Browser raises $5.7 million for hours-long work automation
Kevin Jiang's three-person team rebuilt its earlier Composer agent on Chromium and says users have handed it 4.5 million browser actions.
- ExfilSquad claims Microsoft breach, but the evidence remains unverified
The new extortion actor published 15 victim claims in one burst, a pattern researchers say is more consistent with a bulk launch or fabrication.
- Claros raises $55 million to move PFAS destruction from trials to deployments
Daikin and Veralto joined the round, tying Claros' expansion to industrial customers that need to eliminate PFAS waste at the source.
- Tether releases 460M-parameter VisionPsy-Nano models for on-device vision AI
QVAC published Apache 2.0 weights, phone benchmarks and inference code, while its headline scores remain based on in-house evaluations.
- Waymo adds Gemini and a redesigned cabin UI to Ojai robotaxis
The assistant handles cabin controls and trip questions but remains isolated from the autonomous driving system.
- Mitchell Hashimoto starts Superlogical to build durable sessions for software work
Superlogical reunites the HashiCorp co-founder with former colleagues around a terminal multiplexer funded by Notable Capital and Amplify Partners.