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- CERT/CC warns Tenda router firmware has an undocumented admin backdoor
CERT/CC says five firmware builds accept any username if a hidden alternate password matches a device configuration value.
- Agent Gateways Are Turning Into Enterprise AI's New Control Layer
Arcade, Manufact and Nutanix are converging on the same enterprise problem: who controls the tools, models and spend behind AI agents.
- Andra Keay's June robotics ledger turns funding into physical AI's scorecard
Robots & Startups counted 136 June rounds worth $6.57 billion, with defense dollars and late-stage checks distorting the readout.
- Runway opens Paris research hub with a $30 million France bet
The France office starts with 10 employees and puts Runway closer to European AI researchers working on world models and physical AI.
- Nebula Security publishes GhostLock exploit for 15-year Linux kernel flaw
The AI security lab says the bug powered an IonStack chain and earned a $92,337 kernelCTF reward from Google.
- Sara Wilczynska left Google and turned a Thailand watercolor habit into Swil Arts
The former software engineer built a San Diego illustration studio after a 2023 travel year showed her a different way to work.
- Deyan Ginev's ar5iv Is Still Chasing arXiv's Paper Firehose
A June 6th status post puts April 2026 papers in ar5iv, with the harder claims around speed and AI-assisted development still unbenchmarked.
- OpenComputer turns Slack threads into durable agent sessions
The agent infrastructure product is pushing Slack from notification surface to shared runtime control plane for long-running AI work.
- $150 and an afternoon for a multiplayer shooter is the AI coding story
A $150 Claude Fable 5 run produced a multiplayer capture-the-flag prototype in an afternoon, turning an AI coding demo into a cost-of-software question.
- DeepSeek is developing its own AI inference chip, Reuters reports
Liang Wenfeng's AI lab is moving toward hardware as export controls and inference costs reshape China's model race.
- Figma buys Bud team to pull AI agents closer to the design canvas
Bud, formerly Orchids, will shut down its products by July 18th as Kevin Lu's YC-backed team moves into Figma.
- comma.ai bans Anthropic as an AI vendor after CTO warns of cloud token dependence
Harald Schaefer told employees to stop sending company spend to Anthropic and invest instead in comma.ai's own inference stack.
- OpenAI backs EU AI content labeling code as August deadline closes in
The June 11th endorsement ties OpenAI's provenance work to a voluntary path for meeting EU AI Act transparency rules.
- Google adds background tasks and remote MCP to Gemini Managed Agents
The July 7th update moves Gemini's agent API closer to a hosted worker layer for long-running, tool-heavy jobs.
- Meta's Muse Image gives Wang's superintelligence lab its first image model
Muse Image plans, searches the web and edits across turns inside Meta AI, Instagram Stories and WhatsApp chats.
- Eren Bali's Monogram raises $40M for a visual AI app
The Udemy and Carbon Health co-founder is betting that AI's next bottleneck is the interface, not another foundation model.
- Predio wraps Spain's Catastro in JSON for agents that cannot live with SOAP
The self-serve service adds REST, MCP, machine-readable pricing and a paid ParcelGuard report layer on top of public cadastre data.
- Anthropic extends Claude Fable 5 access for paid users through July 12th
The five-day reprieve keeps Fable 5 inside weekly plan limits before Anthropic pushes heavier usage toward credits.
- Former Facebook insiders sketch a low-cost AI endgame on Threads for Meta
The exchange points to a Zuckerberg-style strategy Meta already knows well: use distribution and open models to squeeze frontier-model margins.
- AI4Eyes wins $700,000 MEDTEQ+ award to test its dry eye AI in clinics
The Montreal eye-care startup will spend the one-year Avise project generating real-world evidence with a Quebec health evaluator.
- Duke Yan's Bidbus raises $15M to make dealers compete for used cars
Ibex Investors led the Series A as the Los Angeles marketplace expands beyond California and Texas.
- Dario Amodei's $65B Anthropic round reveals how narrow the AI funding boom is
Crunchbase says North American startups raised $392B in H1, with Anthropic, OpenAI and a few AI leaders carrying the market.
- Luffy AI raises GBP 8.1M for adaptive industrial control software
The UK industrial AI startup will use the Series A to move motor-control pilots into customer partnerships.
- Proxima Fusion raises EUR411 million as Francesco Sciortino turns stellarators into Europe's industrial fusion bet
Google and RWE joined the round as Proxima pushes Alpha, its Munich-area net-energy demonstrator, toward the early 2030s.