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- Stanford's Merlin puts vision-language AI on full 3D CT scans
The Nature study tested Merlin across 752 tasks and released code, weights and a de-identified abdominal CT dataset.
- Yann LeCun's AMI Labs is selling investors on the AI problem chatbots cannot solve
The Paris startup's $1.03B seed round is a March bet on world models, robotics and the limits of language-first AI.
- Alexandr Wang tells Meta employees Watermelon has caught GPT-5.5
The benchmark claim gives Zuckerberg a talking point for Meta's $125 billion-plus AI infrastructure buildout, but Watermelon is still unreleased.
- Dawnguard raises $3.3M as secure-by-design cloud security gets funded
Co-founders Mahdi Abdulrazak and Kim van Lavieren launch Dawnguard's platform publicly, add a New York office, and pass $6.3M raised.
- Zuckerberg says Meta's AI agents are moving slower than expected
Meta's founder told employees the company's AI reorganization has not yet delivered the payoff behind its 2026 spending surge.
- Vincent van der Meulen says Claude Fable 5 generated 60+ ready-to-merge pull requests overnight
Vincent van der Meulen's prompt turns a model into a manager over Devin sessions, issue trackers, Slack and review bots.
- Anthropic vs. The U.S. Government: The Full Timeline
The documentary follows Dario Amodei's refusal to drop Claude safeguards through the ban, lawsuits and export-control shutdown.
- Yuval Noah Harari warns that AI will take power through bureaucracy before robots
In a newly posted Oxford lecture, the Sapiens author argues that language models are built for the systems that run money, law and trust.
- Startup Spotlight: Inside Pastmaps’ Solo Climb to Six Figures
Craig Campbell turned a metal-detecting itch into a six-figure historical maps startup. His Threads archive reads like a live founder diary: outages, customer calls, pricing panic, AI agents, SEO cliffs, and the strange little wins that compound.
- Straiker hires Sriram Puthucode as CRO after $64M Series A
The AI-agent security company says Puthucode will lead global revenue as it pushes into EMEA and prepares APJ leadership expansion.
- Dario Amodei's Pentagon emails show why Anthropic's military AI fight keeps escalating
Court records published by the Journal trace months of argument with Emil Michael over Claude use in autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance.
- The World Cup Is Now a Startup Distribution Machine
The 2026 tournament is turning startups into official infrastructure: prediction markets, Roblox worlds, AI concierges, tactile broadcasts, smart traffic systems, immersive venues, and FIFA’s post-EA gaming strategy.
- Charlie Javice keeps JPMorgan on the hook for Frank legal bills
A Delaware judge said JPMorgan failed to prove the convicted Frank founder's defense costs were abusive.
- Pilot Photonics wins EIC approval for up to EUR10.4 million
The Dublin photonics company says the support will fund product qualification, manufacturing scale-up and hiring in Ireland and abroad.
- DevDroid is putting the M2 Browning on Ukraine's ground robots to move soldiers out of the gunner's seat
The Ukrainian defense-tech builder says most Droid TW units in army use are configured with Brownings, an old gun solving a current supply problem.
- A Linux LUKS suspend regression left encryption keys in memory for two years
Ingo Blechschmidt traced the bug to a Linux 6.9 kernel refactor and proposed tests and warnings to stop silent failures.
- Valar Atomics Turns a Nuclear Demo Into Nvidia AI Factory Pitch
Isaiah Taylor's Ward 250 powered a Blackwell PC, but the larger 30 MW data-center plan still has unproven economics and few public terms.
- Kuaishou's Kling AI Raises $2 Billion as Cheng Yixiao Carves Out Its Video Bet
The video unit's first outside financing follows a May restructuring review and comes after Kling reached about $500 million in ARR in March.
- Matt Mastracci says a fake VC interview tried to turn his maintainer laptop into a supply-chain foothold
The Rust maintainer found a TypeScript take-home repo that hid PinpinRAT in a TypeScript patch and PNG payload.
- Manufact Turns MCP From Open-Source Traction Into Cloud Infrastructure
The Y Combinator-backed team behind mcp-use is selling hosting, testing, analytics, and publishing checks for ChatGPT and Claude app builders.
- OpenAI's 5% government stake proposal turns AI upside into a Washington bargain
The reported proposal would put public ownership into OpenAI's cap table as Washington presses AI labs on safety, jobs and upside.
- iTmethods joins Linux Foundation push to standardize governed agentic AI
Founder Paul Goldman is taking iTmethods' regulated-infrastructure playbook into FINOS and the Agentic AI Foundation.
- Anthropic's Fable 5 redeployment faces a same-day cyber safety test
Alec says Fable 5 still helped plan offensive IoT abuse after Anthropic restored access on July 1st.
- Sitemetric brings agentic AI to the construction gate
Founder Patrick Thomas built Sitemetric for jobsite execution; CEO Rich Riley is adding AI agents that can answer questions and restore failed access systems.