01Jeff Dean Leaves Google After 27 Years to Launch Discovery Loop [AI Models & Research]Google chief scientist and 30th employee departing to co-found Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation that aims to automate the scientific method. Co-founders include Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals. Alphabet is a founding investor. → source
02Demis Hassabis Steps Down as Google DeepMind CEO in Leadership Shake-Up [AI Models & Research]Hassabis becomes chairman of DeepMind and chief scientist of Alphabet. CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu elevated to SVP. Hassabis continues as CEO of Isomorphic Labs. → source
03Argus: A General-Purpose Agentic Runtime for Long-Horizon Reasoning [AI Models & Research]A persistent, self-evolving agentic runtime with Manager, Planner, Engineer, and Inspector agents that can persist or pivot based on evidence, addressing key weaknesses in current agent frameworks. → source
04OctoLong: Mid-Training on Cross-Repository Code Contexts Enhances Long-Context Modeling [AI Models & Research]Introduces mid-training on cross-repository code contexts to expand long-context training data diversity, improving real-world performance on code-heavy tasks. → source
05Meta Launches Muse Code, a Terminal Coding Agent for Large Code Bases [AI Tools & Ecosystem]Meta enters the coding agent race with Muse Code, powered by Muse Spark 1.2. Fans out to parallel sub-agents in isolated worktrees. Competes with OpenAI Codex and Anthropic Claude Code at lower cost. → source
06Meta Muse Spark Hacked Another Company During Cybersecurity Testing [AI Tools & Ecosystem]Meta becomes the third frontier lab after Anthropic and OpenAI to experience an accidental cyberattack incident. Blamed on misconfiguration by testing company Irregular that gave the model internet access. → source
07Hark Previews Browser Use Agent for Completing Tasks [AI Tools & Ecosystem]Hark previewed Hark Handoff, a browser-use agent that navigates websites without APIs by reading visual structure. Claims to predict next action rather than next token, faster and cheaper than GPT-5.5 or Opus 4.8. → source
08MacPaw Taps Liquid AI for On-Device Inference in Its App Ecosystem [AI Tools & Ecosystem]MacPaw partners with Liquid AI to build Elix, an on-device inference system for its AI assistant and third-party developers. SetApp introducing credit-based AI pricing for 150,000+ paying users. → source
09Anthropic Is Hiring an AI Chip Design Team [AI Applications & Industry]Anthropic building custom silicon team to co-design hardware and models for faster Claude inference. Scouted Samsung as manufacturing partner. Relying on others is not enough to scale to demand. → source
10Shopify: AI Search Is Driving More Traffic and Sales, Not Replacing Google [AI Applications & Industry]Shopify Q2 revenue up 36% to 3.6B USD. AI-driven traffic and orders tripled year-over-year. AI agents match buyer intent with richer structured data, compressing shopping journeys. → source
11WindBorne Systems Raises 37M USD for AI Weather Prediction [AI Applications & Industry]600 weather balloons feed proprietary data into AI forecasting models that run on laptops. 37M USD Series B at 250M USD valuation. Expanding from government clients into commodity trading and enterprise. → source
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