CrowdReply, co-founded by Dawood Khan and Sheheryaar Khan, is pitching AI answer rankings as a $1M monthly growth channel, claiming in an X post that a startup launched the prior month can make $1M/mo…
OpenAI previewed Astra, an unreleased model built for long-running research tasks, by publishing 10 claimed advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science on August 1, with an internal versi…
Aikido Security identified the malicious Python package `anthropickit`, published on June 14, as a possible match for malware that Anthropic says its Claude Mythos 5 model created during a cyber evalu…
RuntimeWire, a one-person newsroom operated by founder Ryan Merket, has published 1,627 articles and recorded 205,000 pageviews since launching in May, with AI systems handling much of the reporting a…
Y Combinator's open-source QM agent runtime, version 0.1.4, has drawn 6,600 GitHub stars, 700 forks, 68 pull requests, and 14 open issues within two days of publication, according to a code review by …
Eigen Labs' lead research engineer Gajesh Naik said on August 1st that a public network of developers and AI agents made Poolside's Laguna XS 2.1 inference 138.7% faster on Apple Silicon, four days af…
DeepSeek-V4-Pro defeated Phi-4-reasoning 12 tasks to 0 with an aggregate score of 105.5 to 33.0 and 100% confidence in a head-to-head benchmark of 12 fresh text tasks scored by gpt-5.4. The evaluation…
Cyera, founded by Yotam Segev and Tamar Bar-Ilan, is pursuing Oasis Security through a letter of intent, a move CTech valued at about $1 billion, signaling a push to make AI-agent identity a full cybe…
Arrakis Security raised $8 million in a seed round led by Hetz Ventures on August 2, with participation from ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski, Torq CEO Ofer Smadari, Pentera CEO Amitai Ratzzon, and un…
Wafer, an AI infrastructure provider founded by Emilio Andere and Steven Arellano, reported that running Kimi K3 on eight AMD MI355X GPUs delivered 48 tokens per second per dollar, outperforming Nvidi…
Rodney Brooks, the roboticist who co-founded iRobot and now serves as co-founder and CTO of Robust.AI, argued in an August 1st essay that technology forecasts conflate four distinct time scales: resea…
CostPerPrompt has published a suite of online calculators that estimate monthly spending on AI workloads including chatbots, agents, retrieval systems, and voice applications, tracking pricing for mor…
Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 scored 51 on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index, tying with GPT-5.4, GPT-5.6 Luna, and GLM-5.2, and ranked third on SciCode, contradicting a Futurism article that claimed M…
Bernini-R Edit Video defeated Marey Realism V1.5 in a head-to-head video generation test, scoring 32.3 to 27.9 with a 94% confidence win, 3 task wins to 0, and one tie. The test, conducted by an unnam…
Truffle Security's scan of 7.6 petabytes of public Hugging Face data found 221,303 live, unique credentials across 6,003 datasets, including 8,557 Google service-account keys, 8,594 database logins, 3…
Granola, an AI notetaker startup, faces a proposed class action filed July 30th in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging it unlawfully captures meeting participants…
OpenAI announced on August 1st that an internal version of its next major model, Astra, produced new results for 10 longstanding problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, a claim suppo…
DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 on July 31st, an MIT-licensed model with API prices of $0.14 per million cache-miss input tokens and $0.28 per million output tokens, aiming to lower cost barr…
Axis Robotics, a Berkeley, California-based startup founded in 2025, raised $12 million in seed funding led by Hack VC to develop a system that turns browser users into distributed operators generatin…
A reverse engineering analysis by user Lon alleges that Anthropic's Claude Code client can silently switch requests from Claude Fable 5 to Claude Opus 4.8, bypassing user controls and notifications, w…