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- 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.
- MiniMax and fal announce livestream on building with H3 video model
The planned session will feature speakers from MiniMax and fal discussing how developers are using H3's multimodal video capabilities, though its date and registration details remain unconfirmed.
- OpenRouter lists DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 as GA despite unchanged notice
OpenRouter calls the versioned endpoint a GA release, but DeepSeek's latest reviewed notice said V4 Pro was unchanged and did not explain the 0813 suffix.
- Google launches Pixel 11 Pro Fold with gearless hinge and $1,899 price
Google's lighter foldable pairs a gearless hinge with a company-claimed three-times durability gain. At $1,899, buyers will have to weigh that unverified claim against the device's premium price.
- Alibaba releases open Qwen3.8 with 2.4T total, 95B active parameters
Alibaba released its 2.4-trillion-parameter Qwen3.8 model as open weights, giving operators a text-only checkpoint with about 95 billion parameters active per token.
- Suvi Health launches bedside ambient AI with Mayo Clinic as first pilot
Suvi Health's venture-studio model pairs former IBM Watson Health executive Kelly Benning with Mayo Clinic clinicians to test patient-facing transcripts, summaries and care-plan reminders.
- ClearJet raised $12.35 million in Series A funding for passenger-flight parcel network
An SEC filing and CB Insights record show the May 2024 financing as founder Chris Guggenheim built an asset-light parcel network around commercial passenger flights.
- Avinash Misra's Skan AI raises $63 million to map work for enterprise agents
The Series C backs software that observes desktop workflows, models undocumented decisions and turns those patterns into AI agents.
- Reservoir raises $8M to scale its in-house water-heater installation model
The Formlabs veteran is pairing predictive heat-pump hardware with an in-house plumbing crew to reach homeowners and, eventually, utilities.
- Discovered Materials launches AI agents to find chip materials labs can make
Advaith Sridhar and Akash Ramdas paired a public benchmark with a company-claimed $9 million Lightspeed-led seed round.
- Cytix raises $7M to govern software changes as AI coding speeds up
Northern Gritstone led the Series A as the Manchester founders moved beyond periodic pentests toward continuous change-level controls.
- Cognition enters talks for funding at a potential $40 billion valuation
Cognition is in early funding talks less than three months after raising $1 billion at a $26 billion post-money valuation.
- OpenArt offers Qwen Image 3.0 access as Alibaba limits its API
Coco Mao and John Qiao's creator platform gives users access to the same image model without requiring a direct Alibaba API relationship.
- Anthropic's invisible Claude watermark draws scrutiny over closed detection
Anthropic promises third-party detection later, leaving the initial rollout dependent on technical details it has yet to publish.
- Suzanne documents a 3D generation API for Claude Code agents
The student-built product's documentation describes agent-driven 3D generation, while creator posts report early users, paying customers and monthly revenue without disclosing amounts.
- Most Americans would let AI buy routine goods without approval, Croud finds
Croud's survey puts AI closest to automating routine checkout, but reviews, creator videos and structured product data still determine whether recommendations convert.
- Joby agrees to buy Resonant Sciences for $500 million to build defense arm
The deal moves hybrid and autonomous aircraft into a Dayton defense unit while JoeBen Bevirt's commercial team stays focused on air taxis.
- AI coding lets Adam Lyttle build a safer game for his son
Adam Lyttle's AI-assisted Roblox-style prototype shows how families could turn safety rules and children's preferences into software built for one.
- MicroRefrigeration raises $4.07 million for AI chip cooling
The Gilroy startup is developing cooling hardware for critical points inside AI servers, with technical details still undisclosed.
- ClickHouse's pg_clickhouse v0.10 cuts TPC-H Q17 runtime 884x
The extension keeps PostgreSQL as the SQL interface while moving eligible analytical subqueries into ClickHouse for execution.
- Cua ships a Metal shim that accelerates LLMs inside macOS VMs
The process-scoped layer unlocked llama.cpp GPU paths and delivered up to 16.36x faster generation in Cua's M1 Ultra tests.
- Open-weight models surge past closed rivals in Vercel token traffic
DeepSeek V4 Flash and Step 3.7 Flash lead the shift, though Vercel's data covers its own gateway rather than the entire AI market.
- Silicon Data raises $30.5 million as CME readies GPU futures
Carmen Li's benchmark startup will expand the pricing and performance data behind CME Group's planned cash-settled contracts.
- Former Qwen lead Junyang Lin launches Pragmatik Labs for digital and physical agents
HSG and Gaorong co-led the Shanghai lab's financing, with Tencent joining a founder-driven bet reportedly valued at $2 billion.