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- Sharpa plans Dairy Queen shifts for its North humanoid in Shanghai
The August pilot asks North to complete 50 to 60 manipulation steps per order using a store's existing tools, ingredients and workflow.
- Standard Nuclear raises $150 million in cut-down IPO at $2.41 billion valuation
Founder Thomas Hendrix keeps voting control as the Oak Ridge fuel maker enters the NYSE with a smaller float than planned.
- Anthropic is rumored to be pursuing robot AI developer Physical Intelligence
Robert Scoble cited an unnamed investor and said the deal had not closed; neither side has announced a transaction.
- YC-backed Agentcard launches rewards for purchases made by AI agents
Karen Serfaty's YC S26 company is adding a card-style rewards layer to its virtual Visa product for agents.
- Saronic picks South Texas for $3.2 billion autonomous shipyard
The Austin defense startup plans Port Alpha at the Port of Brownsville after raising $1.75 billion at a $9.25 billion valuation.
- Hadrius raises $27 million to automate financial-services compliance with AI
CRV led the round as the New York company expands from adviser compliance into a broader system of record for regulated firms.
- State Affairs announces $70 million for AI policy intelligence platform
Founders Fund and Khosla are backing Evan Burns and Jamie Seltzer's bet that statehouse reporting can become proprietary data for AI.
- Integrium launches wound-care EHR built around payer audit trails
Somers Point-based Integrium says CORE uses deterministic rule checks as CMS tightens skin-substitute reimbursement and review.
- Parallel Web Systems plugs its AI search into Google Cloud's Gemini platform
Parag Agrawal's post-Twitter company is getting Google Cloud distribution while staying available on AWS and its own API.
- Prolo raises £4.2M to build AI procurement for construction SMEs
James Morris-Manuel is returning to proptech with a managed procurement service backed by Triple Point Ventures and a16z Scout Fund.
- Sierra Space wins $798 million SDA contract for missile-tracking satellites
The 18-satellite award puts Fatih and Eren Ozmen's space company deeper into the U.S. military's proliferated low-Earth-orbit architecture.
- Hyundai moves to own all of Boston Dynamics before Atlas hits its factories
SoftBank is selling its remaining stake as Hyundai prepares to put Atlas into Georgia manufacturing work from 2028.
- MIT researchers publish non-generative test for CSAM-tuned AI models
Gaussian probing checks LoRA-adapted diffusion models by reading internal activations instead of producing illegal outputs.
- EdVisorly raises $13.3 million to automate college admissions back offices
Founder Manny Smith is using an Air Force systems background to sell EddyAI into transcript and transfer-credit workflows at more than 100 institutions.
- Nous Research nears $75 million round at $1.5 billion valuation
Robot Ventures is leading the reported financing, with USV participating, as the 2023 open-source AI lab pushes Hermes toward a business.
- Whatnot acquires Shaped to speed up live-shopping recommendations
Shaped founder Tullie Murrell and nearly a dozen engineers and AI researchers will join Whatnot as the $11.5B marketplace expands beyond collectibles.
- DeepSeek's V4-Pro price cut exposes the agent margin problem
Liang Wenfeng's lab cut API prices, but agent workflows can still turn one user request into dozens of billable model calls.
- Saturn Cloud adds Lilac's idle GPU network for per-token inference
Founder Sebastian Metti is betting enterprise-owned GPUs can feed Saturn's token factory without reserved capacity.
- Thinking Machines releases Inkling, its first open-weights AI model
Mira Murati's lab is putting full weights on Hugging Face and routing customization through Tinker, its managed fine-tuning platform.
- OpenAI ships GPT-Red to train GPT-5.6 against prompt injection attacks
The internal-only model uses adversarial self-play to generate attacks that harden OpenAI's production models before deployment.
- Arbital Health launches Arbital Flex, a self-serve actuarial AI for value-based care contracts
Brian Overstreet and Travis May are packaging Arbital's risk-contract engine for buyers that lack large actuarial teams.
- Hacked Suno code shows YouTube and Deezer scraping behind AI music models
404 Media's report lands weeks after Suno said it raised more than $400 million at a $5.4 billion valuation.
- OpenBox AI integrates runtime governance with Temporal for long-running agents
The July 13th integration gives Temporal developers policy checks, approvals, attestations, and audit trails inside agent workflows.
- Refer raises $7.5 million for candidate-paid AI recruiting
Founder Andre Hamra built Refer after putting up flyers at Stanford to help people find jobs; hires pay 20% of their first month's salary.