Saturday, 25 July 2026
Report scores Kimi K3's cyber risk moderate
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A joint UK AISI and US CAISI evaluation found Kimi K3 trails frontier US models on cyber tasks, but its safeguards didn't stop it attempting exploits.
Alexa+ adopts MCP for third-party builders
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Amazon's Alexa+ now supports the Model Context Protocol for service integrations, plus an AI smart-home toolkit covering Bosch, iRobot, Whirlpool, and more.
Meta AI starts acting on your behalf
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Powered by Muse Spark 1.1, Meta AI now runs recurring tasks, connects to email and calendar, and delivers daily briefings without re-prompting.
Bill would give DHS an AI kill switch
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Reps. Lieu and Moran introduced the AI Kill Switch Act, letting DHS order a shutdown of catastrophic-risk AI systems after OpenAI's rogue-agent breach.
Moonshot AI plans pre-IPO round near $50B
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Kimi K3 maker Moonshot AI is negotiating a final pre-IPO round targeting a $50B valuation, up from $20B in May, ahead of a Hong Kong listing within six months.
Robotics startup Humanoid raises $152M
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Humanoid closed a $152M Series A at a $1.35B valuation, with Bosch signed on as contract manufacturer for its wheeled industrial robot, HMND 01.
Reid Hoffman's Prentis raises $100M
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Prentis, an AI lab building computer-use agents for office work, is closing a $100M round at a $1B valuation and claims a 10x cost edge on benchmarks.
Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter for ~$10B
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Stripe is negotiating to acquire AI model marketplace OpenRouter at roughly 7.7x its May valuation, a bet that routing belongs next to payments.
Patreon cuts 20% of staff, cites AI directly
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Patreon laid off 93 employees; CEO Jack Conte said AI has changed how the company builds software, requiring fewer people for the same output.