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- SpaceXAI ships Grok 4.7 at Grok 4.6 prices for longer agent work
The larger model targets longer coding and knowledge-work agents, with API rates of $2 input and $6 output per million tokens.
- Ahad Ali's Tabby seeks $1M as incumbents automate bookkeeping too
Ahad Ali built Tabby from his own CPA firm's workload; the startup reports 5,500 users and roughly $100,000 in ARR 14 months in.
- Startup Spotlight: Verne Robotics rents robot labor by the hour
Verne Robotics, founded by Neil Nie and Aditya Jha, pairs dual-arm hardware, diffusion policies and field data to automate packaging without a large upfront robot purchase.
- Meshy plugs its 3D generator into ChatGPT and lets Astra run the workflow
The plugin generates, segments and displays 3D assets in chat, making OpenAI's generalist model the orchestrator for Meshy's specialist APIs.
- OpenClaw fixes 23 confirmed vulnerabilities after Trail of Bits audit
The local AI agent shipped fixes for two high-severity and 16 medium-severity flaws, many involving permissions lost between tasks.
- Multiverse Computing's pruning method beats a baseline by nearly 23 MMLU points
The method searches interacting block-removal choices instead of ranking layers one at a time, with its biggest gains appearing under severe compression.
- Fastly launches AI controls for the traffic already crossing its edge
AI Runtime Control routes model calls, tracks spend and fails over providers, while AI Firewall inspects prompts before they reach a model.
- Cloudflare makes Python first-class in Workers, no JavaScript chaperone required
The GA release runs FastAPI, Django and Flask at the edge while connecting Python directly to Workers AI, databases, queues and storage.
- The Boring Company says it is working on a 200-mph Texas Hyperloop
The 80-mile concept would dwarf The Boring Company's completed tunnels and demands an average speed near 160 mph.
- Aru open-sourced lossless-memory, an AI memory that refuses to summarize
The local Python project stores every conversation line with a timestamp, turning one creator's years of assistant frustration into code.
- Light Origins launches Light-O1 to turn internet video into robot actions
Roger Jiang's model transfers human-action pretraining across LightBot and Unitree G1, while the open checkpoint is a 6B text-to-motion preview.
- Human vs Robot: REK put a human in the ring with a six-foot humanoid robot
Creator Frankie LaPenna took the kicks in REK's latest pitch for turning teleoperated humanoids into a spectator sport.
- Robocurve finds robot-control models rarely refuse dangerous instructions
Jay Chooi's Robocurve tested three AI systems across 300 robot-arm trials involving five dangerous instructions.
- Axel joins ScaleUp House with a $199 pitch: let AI haggle with dealers
Roy Horowitz's five-person startup joins a 23-company cohort while testing whether buyer-side car negotiation can work at one-fifth of human concierge fees.
- Jared Palmer ports Kev to Qwen3.5 for roughly $95 in H100 time
The Cognition VP of Engineering released 0.8B, 4B and 9B models that return typed probabilities through an open, Jev-compatible local API.
- Natasha Jones raises $5M to give renewable assets one data record
Metris Energy is moving beyond solar with Metria AI, a human-supervised operations agent, and plans to expand into Germany, wind and CHP.
- Barney Wragg's Unit1 raises $20M to make avatar concerts portable
Balderton led the equity round after Unit1 moved a KT Tunstall showcase between London venues; the financing split remains undisclosed.
- Marginalia Search resurfaces by ranking the web Google leaves behind
Viktor Lofgren's open-source engine runs its own crawler and favors text-heavy pages, though it does not aim to replace Google.
- Astra Flash Orchestrator cuts GPT-6 Astra input 98.9%, its maker says
Ethan+'s Codex skill keeps Astra on planning and review while DeepSeek V4.1 Flash handles implementation and tests.
- X sues Bitcoin account network it says farmed $279,000 in creator payouts
The High Court complaint links six monetized accounts through payment records, shared device identifiers and near-identical posts published seconds apart.
- Z.ai open-sources ZCode after its coding agent uploaded Git histories
The Apache-2.0 release exposes ZCode's desktop, web and CLI code, though its new GitHub repository launched without a security policy.
- Amika lets coding agents keep their VMs between pull requests
Founder Dylan Mikus argues reusable VMs preserve state across related agent tasks, while Amika still supports isolated per-task machines.
- OpenAI will shut Sora's API as Kling turns AI video into real revenue
Kling raised $2.8B after topping RMB850M in quarterly revenue; Sora's closure also erased Disney's planned $1B investment.
- Supermemory reverse-engineers Instinct's memory down to git, Markdown and grep
Dhravya Shah's black-box teardown says the personal agent relies on daily files and keyword search, then rebuilds the pattern in 60 lines.