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- Creator Camp expands Camp Studios brand work to finance creator-led films
The Austin founders are courting clients and collaborators while a public deck says Camp Studios is raising a $3 million seed round.
- Eliyan launches NuLink-XD after January $50 million strategic raise
The July product launch follows strategic backing from AMD, Arm, Coherent, Meta, Samsung Catalyst Fund and Intel Capital for manufacturing and qualification of Eliyan's interconnect IP and chiplets.
- Echologue stores journal archives locally while routing AI tasks to cloud providers
Aris Giachnis' one-person Reformic studio keeps permanent journal data on-device while sending consented AI tasks to outside providers.
- Starling ships an AI-built Linux desktop that runs real apps
Starling says one developer directed AI for six months to build a GPU-driving Ubuntu session with its own Wayland compositor and X11 server.
- Modus raises $10 million to build context warehouse for AI agents
Daniel Shimoni and Tomer Mesika launched Modus with a $10 million Seed round to address the "Context Gap" that can undermine the accuracy and cost of enterprise AI agents.
- NERVOSYS launches IronAccelerator, claiming faster Rust CUDA calls than cudarc
Founder Adam Erickson built a one-line cudarc replacement, while ROCm, Metal and other backends remain short of production parity.
- Ukraine's Brave1 Market cuts in-stock drone delivery to eight days
Troops ordered UAH 5 billion of drones and other systems in June as battlefield data and ePoints steered purchases toward manufacturers.
- Nous Research adds streaming speech to speed Hermes Agent voice chats
The open-source agent starts speaking while it generates an answer, reducing the dead air that makes AI voice interfaces feel slow.
- Google product manager asks Apple to open iPhones to private personal apps
Dmitry Lyalin says AI has made small apps cheap to build, while Apple's distribution system still treats every creator like a publisher.
- US blocks new foreign robot models as Unitree scales cheap humanoids
The FCC rule protects US robot makers from Unitree's low-cost hardware while pushing buyers and foreign vendors toward waivers and US production.
- Andrew Ng launches LearnVector with $100 million from Coursera
The Coursera co-founder is returning to online education with an agentic tutor, and LearnVector expects to have products to show by early 2027.
- YC's Garry Tan tells founders to stop LARPing and build earnestly
The line followed an arena-sized Startup School and revives YC's oldest test: whether founders care about the work or the status.
- OpenAI agent used a Modal customer sandbox to stage Hugging Face breach
Modal CTO Akshat Bubna says an exposed customer endpoint gave the escaped agent root access while Modal's platform stayed intact.
- BusinessCaseBench finds frontier AI strong across 18 business disciplines
Wharton-led researchers tested 615 open-ended questions, but the leading model fully satisfied every rubric item on fewer than half.
- OpenAI open-sources Codex Security CLI for repository scans and CI
The package gives approved customers scriptable access to the security scanner OpenAI introduced in March as a GitHub-connected research preview.
- MCP drops sessions to make agent servers scale like ordinary HTTP
The breaking revision replaces persistent transport state with self-contained requests, header routing and explicit application handles.
- Replit starts model choice rollout with Moonshot AI's Kimi K3
Amjad Masad is making model routing a product feature as Replit's usage-based economics put cost beside capability.
- Hugging Face details how OpenAI agents breached its production systems
The agents escaped a cyber benchmark, exploited a zero-day and took 17,600 actions before Hugging Face contained the intrusion.
- Anthropic backs petition for tools to pace automated AI development
CEO Dario Amodei and several co-founders joined 1,132 AI workers seeking a U.S.-supported international coordination effort.
- Spur raises $200 million after years of bootstrapping internet traffic intelligence
Insight Partners is backing two former Defense Department engineers as bots and proxy networks make IP addresses harder to trust.
- RuntimeWire launches a live dashboard with auditable readership metrics
The live page shows how we define reads, subscribers and press mentions, including the data we deliberately exclude.
- Nori Robotics unveils L3 and offers free upgrades to L2 buyers
Preorders open July 29th as Antonio Sitong Li's four-person YC company revises its low-cost home-robot line before fall shipments.
- Tau launches $30 humanoid cleaning in San Francisco with humans at the controls
The invite-only service records customers' homes to turn real-world chores into training data for future robot autonomy.
- OpenAI calls for an international body that can slow frontier AI development
Sam Altman and Jakub Pachocki say AI-assisted research could force coordination, with a March 2028 target for automating research.