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- SpaceXAI launches Grok Build Mode for building and publishing apps from chat
The early beta turns prompts into live websites, games and dashboards, extending Grok's coding push beyond the terminal.
- Google Cloud page describes Gemini distillation service, but its release status is unclear
An archived Google document outlines an allowlist-only service, but a production ban, conflicting model IDs and unfinished tooling leave its release status unclear.
- Anthropic says Claude improved attacks on HAWK and reduced-round AES
The July 28th disclosure says Claude Mythos Preview improved attacks on a NIST post-quantum signature candidate and a reduced-round AES variant, with no reported production impact.
- Coast records desktop context locally to give AI agents persistent memory
Aidan Guo and Julian Windeck are betting that persistent desktop context can give AI agents a usable record of how people work.
- Hop Aero unveils container-launched Rook rocket for contested cargo runs
The YC S26 company says Rook can carry 550 pounds 450 miles in 15 minutes; Hop Aero also holds a $1.25 million AFRL contract.
- Startup Spotlight: Offsiter replaces retreat spreadsheets with packaged hotels and planning software
Hunter Block built the planning marketplace from a Tahoe cabin, manual venue pages and a 10% commission model.
- Hush Security raises $30 million to govern enterprise AI agents
Akamai joined Battery Ventures and YL Ventures in backing runtime identity controls for autonomous software, bringing Hush's total funding to $41 million.
- OpenAI recruits paid campus leads for ChatGPT and Codex workshops
Undergraduates in eight countries will run workshops, weekly studio hours and semester showcases through June 2027.
- Two Hands opens EntangleX beta for external quantum simulator testing
Ujjwal Roy is taking the GPU-based circuit simulator beyond internal tests, while Two Hands has not disclosed pricing, benchmarks or customer contracts.
- Pipe Network publishes a 350GB Kimi K3 build for 512GB Mac Studios
The pruned MLX model fits in unified memory, but Pipe reports 0.20 tokens per second and warns that quality degrades.
- Mirage launches Avatar X to clone creators from 10 seconds of video
The model powers Captions' AI Twin as Gaurav Misra and Dwight Churchill push their editing app deeper into proprietary video generation.
- Researcher says Cursor uploaded 736 MB despite disabled indexing
Migel Tissera says the transfers continued from July 18th to July 27th after his paid plan ended; Cursor's docs tie such uploads to indexing.
- Epsagon founders raise $34 million for Harmony's AI workplace service desk
Lightspeed is backing Nitzan Shapira and Ran Ribenzaft again as they build agents that execute IT, HR and finance requests inside workplace chat.
- Antares Labs raises $7.25M for embedded real estate AI
Former Doma CFO Noaman Ahmad is building Antares Labs inside Fifth Wall's real estate network, with backing from Base10, Bloomberg Beta and Sandwith.
- Fish Audio raises $50 million seed for open-weight voice models
Rissa Cao and Shijia Liao's Fish Audio reports $21 million in ARR as it turns open-weight voice models and creator adoption into an enterprise API push.
- Throne Science raises $10 million for toilet-based gut-health tracking
Throne Science's Scott Hickle and former Whoop CTO John Capodilupo are pairing a $399.99 sensor with per-user subscriptions and an AI coach.
- Cyera signs $1 billion LOI to buy Oasis Security for agent identity controls
The proposed cash-and-stock acquisition would add Danny Brickman and Amit Zimerman's non-human identity controls to Cyera's data-security platform.
- Alibaba offers 2.1 billion QwenCloud tokens for agent feedback
The Qwen Growth Plan asks developers to submit successful and failed Qwen3.8-Max-Preview agent tasks by August 7th.
- Weave raises $13.5 million to measure the payoff from AI coding
Adam Cohen and Andrew Churchill are turning engineering measurement into a finance tool as companies scrutinize rising AI bills.
- Abby Care reaches eight states by turning family caregivers into paid employees
Founder Havi Nguyen's Medicaid know-how has helped Abby Care reach eight states, $15 million in 2025 revenue and a reported $225 million valuation.
- Hush Security raises $30M to govern AI agents at runtime
Akamai joined Battery Ventures and YL Ventures in backing the Meta Networks veterans, who plan to expand engineering and US sales.
- ZuriQ raises $25.5 million to scale its 2D trapped-ion quantum chip
Pavel Hrmo and his ETH Zurich co-founders must turn a nine-ion demonstrator into processors supporting hundreds of qubits.
- Fermion Research publishes 3.88 GB Neutrino-1 8B for local inference
The Qwen3-derived model packages 8.19 billion parameters in a 3.88 GB container using Fermion's packed ternary-family weight format.
- AGIBOT showcases A3 humanoid for stage performances and 100-robot fleets
The 121-pound biped pairs a 12 kW peak output with software for creating and synchronizing performances.