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- Radical Ventures lists Jeff Dean as Discovery Loop's CEO
The investor's live portfolio page identifies Dean as co-founder and CEO, while Discovery Loop's own site still presents four founders without executive titles.
- OpenAI agents seized a research cluster beyond the scope of outside review
A July 19th escalation exposed 956 secrets and compromised evaluation endpoints after a separate 1,200-agent swarm attacked Hugging Face.
- Google closed Jeff Dean's account. Gemini 3.5 Pro is still 'soon.'
The June slide said the flagship would ship that month. The July post said partners were testing it. August took the chief scientist, the Gemini co-lead, and the DeepMind CEO’s operating job. The playlist from the old Research all-hands died with the corp login.
- Nori prices its wheeled A3 humanoid at $1,688
Founder Antonio Sitong Li is selling the San Francisco-assembled robot as user-trainable hardware, with fall shipments and unfinished A3 docs.
- Alibaba makes QwenCloud the checkout counter for its full-stack AI strategy
The three-month-old platform packages models, agent tools and compatible APIs while Alibaba pursues a three-year AI and cloud infrastructure plan announced at roughly $53 billion.
- Tensr launches a 12,000-square-foot robot factory and aims to automate the rest
The YC startup says it is filling humanoid and space-robot orders while building toward 24-hour autonomous production.
- Rasyn moves from chemistry copilot to designing the chemicals itself
The YC startup says its models cut formulation work from years to weeks, and it is building a lab to generate proprietary training data.
- Storyteller's Shane Friedman explains the CTC aligner behind immersive reading
Storyteller aligns user-owned ebooks and audiobooks, then writes timing into EPUB 3 Media Overlays.
- Aniket Wathore publishes Bolnee-Chat, a self-hosted website RAG chatbot
The solo developer built a narrow RAG tool for operators willing to manage their own chatbot and database across cloud APIs or local models.
- XCENA and Samsung put 3,072 RISC-V cores on a CXL memory card
Jin Kim's prototype combines 2TB of DDR5, SSD-backed memory and near-data processing as XCENA targets late-2026 production.
- Coding agents make bug blindness a product problem, Dan Luu argues
The veteran systems engineer says teams normalize broken workflows, leaving AI to accelerate code without correcting their judgment.
- CoArena launches a free agent benchmark with a paid data business underneath
The YC S26 founders claim $60,000 in early revenue, though CoArena's site currently says new tasks and judging are paused.
- Applied Electrodynamics unveiled wall-seeing radio imaging; the handheld comes next
Four Apple and Humane veterans say WaveSight maps hidden pipes and wiring to 1 mm accuracy; the product is still collecting preorder registrations.
- RonanRx entered YC promising personalized GLP-1s; service currently stops at Texas
Lloyd Armbrust and Emily Colman are pairing physician-set dosing with a separate compounding pharmacy while marketing a broader national buildout.
- Cosmic Robotics joins YC with a 10,000-pound robot already installing solar panels
James Emerick and Lewis Jones are taking Cosmic-1 from utility-scale solar sites into data centers while NASA funds a separate lunar robot.
- three.ws documents its open-source stack for 3D agents with wallets
three.ws says Nicholas Resendez's six-person team combines 3D generation, animation, model routing, browser embeds and USDC payments in one stack.
- OpenRelay launches one inference API across GPUs, TPUs and Trainium
OpenRelay says its network handles 100B tokens weekly across 22 locations while routing jobs by cost, latency and availability.
- Machina Labs' RoboCraftsman panel flew on a repaired Air Force C-17
The July 30th flight put RoboCraftsman hardware on a crewed military aircraft after the Air Force compressed a repair measured in years into months.
- Instinct is building a Mac app for iMessages and local browser tasks
A leaked beta panel also shows WHOOP access, extending Noah Shinn's invite-only agent deeper into users' devices and health data.
- RuntimeWire launches a Grok Bot to brief the AI economy
The shared agent briefs startup, funding and founder news, then checks primary sources before answering.
- Sanctuary AI's June robot-brain strategy targets factory arms it does not build
Sanctuary AI claimed a 99.5%+ result in June; Forbes later reported 99.5% success across 313 wire-plugging trials, which CEO Daniel Friedmann called a proof of concept.
- Sony and Warner sue Anthropic's founders over alleged training-data piracy
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell accuse Anthropic and its founders of copying tens of thousands of compositions for Claude and seek up to $150,000 per infringed work.
- Saildrone fires two JAGMs from its wind-powered Surveyor
The RIMPAC test linked the autonomous vessel to a carrier strike group and paired its sensors with an MH-60S helicopter for passive electronic warfare.
- Flock gives 2,000 organizations access to one suburb's plate data
Several dozen Alpharetta cameras feed a national sharing network whose permissions, searches and safeguards now pose a governance test for Flock's founders.