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- Joe Harris raises $8M for Alloy's AI robot-debugging platform
Square Peg led the round at an $80M valuation as Alloy expands in the US and builds agents that trace failures across robot fleets.
- DeepLumen reaches 1,000 merchants as it rolls out pay-on-sales AI commerce
Joy Wu's Shopify app creates machine-readable product pages, tracks AI-attributed orders and charges merchants when those sales happen.
- Trunk Tools expands construction AI from document search into workflow agents
Solo founder Sarah Buchner spent more than a decade in construction before expanding Trunk Tools from document search into connected agents for contractor workflows.
- DeepSeek sets peak V4 API rates at twice off-peak levels as prices rise
The new schedule charges twice as much in seven UTC hours, while off-peak output rates still rise 136% for V4-Flash and 128% for V4-Pro.
- Brian Roemmele launches Mac cleaner for Claude's text watermarks
The local workflow rewrites marked text, but Anthropic has not published the detector needed to independently verify the cleaner.
- CoreWeave signs A100 cloud contract extending Nvidia's 2020 chips into 2029
Jensen Huang says CUDA keeps older hardware useful as CoreWeave tries to extract revenue beyond its GPUs' initial contracts.
- Anthropic holds talks to buy real-time AI startup Decart for about $6B
Bloomberg reports that Anthropic is weighing an unsigned deal for Decart's low-latency video, world-model and inference technology.
- Zed launches Delta to move AI code review inside agent conversations
The private-beta application syncs agent transcripts, live worktrees and review comments while retaining Git compatibility.
- Semaphore reports $7.45M sold in equity offering after Sigmaways acquisition
Luke Mann and Ori Spector lead the San Francisco company, whose five-investor offering follows a software-services acquisition involving disputed assets and wage claims.
- Trump enlists private cyber contractors to hack foreign crime groups
The structure may invite comparisons with deniable cyber proxies, but written approvals and direct federal control are designed to address contractor liability, not obscure Washington's role.
- Magnific will showcase MiniMax H3 at a San Francisco creator event
The live San Francisco presentation puts H3 before Magnific's claimed 1 million subscribers, though the event materials do not establish a product rollout.
- Brainfish founders build Ballet to turn plain-English workflows into reviewable code
Daniel Kimber and Ajain Vivek are extending Brainfish from customer-support knowledge into reviewable code for multi-system commercial workflows.
- AiGent files Form D disclosing fully sold $17.45 million offering
AiGent's SEC filing reports a fully sold exempt offering; its security type and relationship to AGent Energy's 2025 seed remain unclear.
- The White House is ending open AI models' security-review exemption
The expected revision would end an exemption for open models once they reach the capabilities of the strongest closed systems.
- uBlock Origin volunteers quit playing whack-a-mole with Facebook ads
Two volunteer contributors carry most of the filter work, leaving Facebook users dependent on outside lists and custom rules.
- Woxi 0.3 runs Mathematica notebooks on an open-source Rust engine
Adrian Sieber's Wolfram Language interpreter adds Windows builds, browser execution and a native notebook editor while leaving major gaps.
- Lee McIntire takes Fermi CEO role as Texas AI power campus moves to buildout
Lee McIntire inherits Fermi's binding TensorWave lease, 17-gigawatt Project Matador plan and unresolved board dispute.
- Cognition adds Grok 4.6 to Devin's multi-model coding platform
The integration gives xAI distribution inside an established engineering workflow and strengthens Cognition's pitch that orchestration, not any single foundation model, is the durable product.
- Twitch defaults creators into Amazon AI training because opt-in would fail
Product chief Mike Minton said "nobody would opt in," making creator inertia central to Amazon's access to a native multimodal dataset.
- Sansec detects attempts to exploit critical Adobe Commerce account-takeover flaw
Founder Willem de Groot's security shop says its WAF is blocking attempts, while Adobe says it has no confirmed in-the-wild exploits.
- Orion Sleep undercuts Eight Sleep with a $2,295 cooling cover
The startup combines repeat founders and $17.5 million in seed backing with early product validation, while its clinical case remains preliminary.
- Anthropic added Claude Cowork sessions to web and mobile
Anthropic's July 7th update attached Cowork sessions and files to Claude accounts for use across desktop, web and mobile, while Chrome remained a separate browser task surface.
- SpaceXAI ships Grok 4.6 with a 500,000-token context window
The model keeps Grok 4.5's $2/$6 base API price, adds a 500,000-token context window and launches in Cursor and Grok Build.
- WIRED profiles RuntimeWire after its AI newsroom beat reporters at Black Hat
The three-month-old publication broke OpenAI’s surprise disclosure more than three hours before WIRED, prompting a close look at how the newsroom works and where it still falls short.