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- Manus resumes independent operations after Beijing forced Meta to unwind its $2B deal
Founders Red Xiao, Tao Zhang and Yichao "Peak" Ji remain in charge after a separation that forced account and task-data deletions.
- A vibe-coded app exposed METR's API key and consumed $600,000 in free credits
The AI evaluator says a March breach exposed an API key, while a May campaign probed an endpoint that could theoretically expose sensitive model outputs. METR believes attackers did not access that data.
- DHH says agents wrote Omarchy Quattro, while Basecamp exposed their limits
DHH says agents handled Quattro's implementation, while 37signals' Basecamp work showed how quickly mature architecture can become a cleanup job.
- Omarchy reports $12.6M in patron commitments, but itemized pledges total $10.6M
The Omacom Foundation's August announcements list $10.6M from named patrons and companies, leaving $2M of Omarchy's reported total unexplained.
- What an AI sidekick should do in a newsroom
Coding showed the pattern first: let AI handle the maintenance so the person can spend time on the work that requires judgment, trust and a name.
- Prodigy Research says its AI returned 140%, with few details attached
The two-person YC lab says delta-neutral strategies gained 140%, but it has not published the period, capital base, leverage or methodology.
- Apple says ex-engineer used its schematic for OpenAI hardware work
A forensic review of Chang Liu's Apple-issued MacBook has become the iPhone maker's main argument for accelerating discovery.
- Nous Research ships Hermes Agent Bot Mode for multi-agent group chats
Version 0.21.0 adds persistent bot-to-bot messaging, steerable subagents, browser control and scheduled jobs that remember prior runs.
- Meta takes Muse Code out of beta and adds $5 monthly plans
Meta's terminal coding agent adds cross-session messaging, multi-agent workflows and an SDK preview after a 26-day beta.
- Vanta publishes 65 AI agent controls for the gaps ISO leaves open
Herman Errico's open-source project separates governance for builders and buyers, while leaving runtime enforcement to other tools.
- John Elling's Molten Salt Solutions raises $7M for enriched lithium
Dolby Family Ventures led the seed round, which will move the Santa Fe materials developer toward pilot-scale isotope production.
- Nscale closes $3B in debt commitments for two US AI campuses
J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs arranged delayed-draw facilities for GPU deployments in Texas and North Carolina, after a $900M July credit line.
- Pennant joins YC with AI software for institutional proxy voting
The two-person startup says its early customers include a large US public pension plan, a top law firm and governance advisors.
- Runway says Solaris generates interfaces frame by frame in real time
The early-access research model turns clicks and drags into synthesized 720p frames, while text, trust and accessibility remain open problems.
- Reframe raises $40M to scale microfactories beyond its first 10 homes
The former Amazon Robotics leaders have now disclosed at least $60M in equity and say FAB1 can produce up to 500 multifamily units a year, versus 10 homes completed companywide.
- DeepSeek publishes 168GB vision model weights under an MIT license
The 305B-parameter checkpoint lands 10 days after its API debut, while DeepSeek's headline benchmark uses Anthropic's superseded Opus 4.8.
- Together AI signs 250 MW Saudi deal, projects $5B annual revenue
HUMAIN will supply power and 120,000 AI chips under a revenue-sharing arrangement for open-model training and inference.
- Grok 4.7 rumor revives Musk's September promise and SpaceX data bet
A viral post adds an unverified training-complete claim to Musk's August promise of a September model trained on SpaceX engineering data.
- Scan.com raises $220M to build the API layer for US medical imaging
A $90M Series C and $130M in debt will fund acquisitions, network expansion and AI scheduling as Scan.com claims a $165M run rate.
- Ryan Breslow is raising up to $27M for Bolt, including $5M of his own
The Bolt founder is putting in $5M after an abandoned 2024 financing triggered litigation from investors.
- Tidal drops its cut of music and merch sales to 0%
US artists keep the sale price after processing fees, while Square handles payments and Tidal's merch stores remain in beta.
- Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1 after Bedrock exposed its model slug
The official release confirms a pre-launch API clue that distinguished Fable 5.1 from invalid Anthropic model identifiers.
- Pentagon CTO declares the defense-tech science fair over
Emil Michael's office is concentrating innovation programs around deployment, commercial adoption and measurable military use.
- Clipto disclosed a $250M-plus valuation in January; TechCrunch reports a $15M round
Clipto's January 5th release covered financing rounds beginning in July 2025 but did not state the latest round's size. TechCrunch now reports $15M, while founder Henry Kang says the media-search startup generates more than $15M in ARR and is profitable.