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- Lumeria takes $199 preorders for a phone-mounted AI skin scanner
The YC S26 startup says Lumoscope uses RGB, UV and polarized light to track skin changes, with US shipments expected in September and October.
- Reducto launches r-1 at 1 cent per page for document parsing
Adit Abraham and Raunak Chowdhuri launched Reducto's preview document model after the company raised $108M, pricing r-1 at 1 cent per page.
- Prashant Jalan launches Guickly to find where enterprise AI budgets went
Guickly disclosed a $4.2M seed led by Engineering Capital, though SEC records date the offering's first sale to November 2025.
- fal ships H3 Max, generating five-second videos in roughly three seconds
The post-trained MiniMax H3 variant pairs fal's model research with its serving stack to generate five-second videos in roughly three seconds.
- David Reich's Fambot raises $3.5M to read the family inbox
NextView Ventures led the pre-seed, with Baukunst, Correlation Ventures, Karman Ventures and Founders Network participating as Fambot launched after signing up more than 1,000 families.
- Z.ai gives GLM Coding Plan subscribers a quota refill after one year
Every current subscriber gets a Reset Card for weekly and five-hour limits, with redemption tied to a signed-in ZCode account.
- Ishay Yaari and Nati Shalom raise $10M for Kubernetes remediation agents
The Cloudify veterans are putting agents inside customer environments to restore service before root-cause analysis, with lower telemetry costs as part of the pitch.
- Flower Labs launches Endeavor 1.0 for private frontier AI deployments
The Cambridge-linked founders are extending Flower's federated-learning stack into a licensed model preview for sensitive enterprise workloads.
- Odyssey raises $74M to finance solar gear before installers get paid
The financing combines $27M in equity and $47M in debt as Odyssey expands procurement credit across India, Africa and Latin America.
- Physical Superintelligence launches with $58M seed for virtual physicists
Physical Superintelligence says Matt Pines, Alex Klokus and Alexander Wissner-Gross started the company with Emmy, a simulation platform aimed first at data-center design. PSI also calls itself a founding technical partner of an Alpha Centauri mission.
- Ettifos selected to supply retrofit V2X hardware for Arizona deployment
Hojun Kim's V2X-AIR will connect existing fleet vehicles to a federally funded, multi-vendor network across Maricopa County.
- PaperCut ships second patch as attackers hijack user lookup to dump database tables
PaperCut issued a second emergency patch for its NG and MF products as attackers pursued a data-theft path distinct from the documented remote-code-execution chain.
- Tailscale ships Tailcat, its data plane without accounts or admins
Brad Fitzpatrick built the open-source tool on a 10-hour flight in 2023; customer demand and AI agents brought it back to life.
- Alibaba says Qwen3.8-Max leads open-weight models on commerce agent benchmark
The Accio team's state-based benchmark reports Qwen3.8-Max completing 56 tasks through Accio, 47 through OpenClaw and 53 through Pi; Alibaba calls it the strongest overall open-weight result.
- Manus resumes independent operations after Beijing forced Meta to unwind its $2B deal
Founders Red Xiao, Tao Zhang and Yichao "Peak" Ji remain in charge after a separation that forced account and task-data deletions.
- A vibe-coded app exposed METR's API key and consumed $600,000 in free credits
The AI evaluator says a March breach exposed an API key, while a May campaign probed an endpoint that could theoretically expose sensitive model outputs. METR believes attackers did not access that data.
- DHH says agents wrote Omarchy Quattro, while Basecamp exposed their limits
DHH says agents handled Quattro's implementation, while 37signals' Basecamp work showed how quickly mature architecture can become a cleanup job.
- Omarchy reports $12.6M in patron commitments, but itemized pledges total $10.6M
The Omacom Foundation's August announcements list $10.6M from named patrons and companies, leaving $2M of Omarchy's reported total unexplained.
- What an AI sidekick should do in a newsroom
Coding showed the pattern first: let AI handle the maintenance so the person can spend time on the work that requires judgment, trust and a name.
- Prodigy Research says its AI returned 140%, with few details attached
The two-person YC lab says delta-neutral strategies gained 140%, but it has not published the period, capital base, leverage or methodology.
- Apple says ex-engineer used its schematic for OpenAI hardware work
A forensic review of Chang Liu's Apple-issued MacBook has become the iPhone maker's main argument for accelerating discovery.
- Nous Research ships Hermes Agent Bot Mode for multi-agent group chats
Version 0.21.0 adds persistent bot-to-bot messaging, steerable subagents, browser control and scheduled jobs that remember prior runs.
- Meta takes Muse Code out of beta and adds $5 monthly plans
Meta's terminal coding agent adds cross-session messaging, multi-agent workflows and an SDK preview after a 26-day beta.
- Vanta publishes 65 AI agent controls for the gaps ISO leaves open
Herman Errico's open-source project separates governance for builders and buyers, while leaving runtime enforcement to other tools.