All Stories — Page 92
Every story published on RuntimeWire, newest first.
- Fable 5 responses surface an internal 'Kettle' route, researcher says
A decoded thinking signature points to a backend change first seen August 16th, though Anthropic says the public model ID remains pinned.
- Telegram applies for .gram to turn user handles into websites
Pavel Durov says approval would let users claim second-level domains and generate Telegram-hosted interactive sites from a prompt.
- OpenAI pauses model training to harden its own research systems
The company ended a two-week halt for some deployment-bound training, but its largest planned frontier run and many Astra workloads remain paused under costlier security controls.
- Bluecore Energy raised $10M to test its floating nuclear reactor at Long Beach
Bluecore Energy is testing an unfueled prototype at Long Beach before the harder work of licensing a commercial reactor.
- Rocket One offers drone-show software as a counter-drone threat simulator
Rocket One's August 18th pitch follows a June announcement and opens briefings and demos, while naming no military contract or deployment.
- Firefox taps Exa to power cited AI search in Smart Window
The deal puts Exa retrieval inside Firefox's desktop AI workspace and its voice-based Quick Answers feature on iOS.
- X will give Grok Bot discounted API reads and free credits
The beta agent will start with read-only access, while X holds back broader permissions over security and scraping concerns.
- Tomas Koutsky explains how Meta fits Muse Glimmer into 24 GB
Meta says its 30B local agent fits within 24 GB or 32 GB alongside a 131K context, vision encoder and speculative drafter. Byteline co-founder Tomas Koutsky explains the memory arithmetic.
- Anthropic opens Claude Cowork to every paid plan, beta label intact
The agent runs on web and mobile, while Anthropic's help pages retain rollout caveats and keep desktop as the full experience.
- Divine plans public launch for August 20th, with Taco Bell as first brand partner
Divine's August 18th release says Evan Henshaw-Plath and Liz Sweigart plan to remove invite codes on August 20th as the Nostr-based video app bans AI-generated posts and tests its first brand collaboration with Taco Bell.
- ATTOM launches three AI agents to interrogate 160 million property records
The Irvine data provider is moving from APIs and files into analysis and report generation, with MCP connecting its records to Claude and ChatGPT.
- Etched raises $700M at a $21B valuation in Jane Street-led round
Jane Street led the round, bringing Etched's reported funding to $1.9B as the AI inference startup says it has secured more than $1B in customer contracts.
- Hopscotch Primary Care raises $53M to expand rural primary care
8VC and Town Hall Ventures led Hopscotch Primary Care's Series D as CEO Tim Gronniger takes Kristin Myers Peng's rural Medicare model beyond Western North Carolina.
- Converge AI connects four products through one shared business context layer
Oliver Zhang's suite links knowledge work, software, creative work and games through shared context as Converge stages its US rollout; its growth product is next.
- Checkr announces Truv deal, with the price and closing still offstage
Checkr says the proposed transaction would add Truv's payroll, bank and state-agency verification network, although no reviewed source confirms a legal closing or discloses the price.
- HiddenLayer joins DOE's $60M Prometheus project to secure nuclear AI
The funding is subject to appropriations and covers a 32-partner effort, not a separately disclosed award to HiddenLayer.
- Grounded raises $5M to make van upfitting chassis-agnostic
Detroit startup Grounded is opening its largest facility after GM discontinued BrightDrop and Ford canceled its next electric Transit, forcing Sam Shapiro to build across electric, hybrid and gas platforms.
- FORT Robotics plans a SPAC merger at a reported $557M enterprise value
Samuel Reeves' FORT Robotics has not disclosed revenue or detailed merger economics, while Newbury Street II faces a November 4th, 2026 deal deadline.
- Bartowski releases an imatrix dataset for the ugly end of model quantization
The public corpus targets chat templates and tool use; without imatrix, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B fell about 28 BFCL points at Q2_K.
- SpaceXAI bars Grok customers from helping direct or indirect rivals
SpaceXAI's policy page lists August 14th as the date for a ban on using Grok outputs to help build direct or indirect rivals.
- Webml-community runs three Qwen3.5 models locally in browsers with WebGPU
Webml-community's demo runs Alibaba's 0.8B, 2B and 4B multimodal models locally through Transformers.js and WebGPU, with no cloud API required.
- Ashutosh Shrivastava's May Gemini Omni Flash demo exhausted a five-hour limit
Ashutosh Shrivastava's May 25th demo showed Gemini Omni Flash generating a personal avatar video, while a single prompt reportedly exhausted a five-hour usage allowance.
- Elie Steinbock launches Bot Directory for one-prompt Grok Bots
The open-source catalog turns shared workflows into copyable prompts and lets an X mention bot submit new entries through GitHub.
- Researchers evolved AI "mind viruses." The antivirus was one paragraph
The preprint showed natural-language payloads spreading through coding agents and files, while describing the current risk as limited.