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• GitLost shows how a public issue can make GitHub's AI agent leak private repo data

  Noma Labs says a prompt injection in GitHub Agentic Workflows crossed from public issue text into private repository content.

• OpenAI puts GPT-Live into ChatGPT Voice

  The new full-duplex voice models can listen while speaking, delegate harder work to GPT-5.5 and will come to the API later.

• Katalyst's LINK spacecraft is chasing NASA's Swift in a test of satellite rescue as a business

  Ghonhee Lee's space robotics company built and launched LINK in under a year after NASA awarded the mission.

• Bespoke Labs raises $40M for AI agent training environments

  Mahesh Sathiamoorthy and Alex Dimakis are betting that agent reliability will be won in simulated workplaces before live deployment.

• Head to head: grok-4.3 vs mistral-medium-3-5

  This was a close matchup, but the split tells a clear story: one model was more dependable on instruction-following in practical business tasks, while the other won on tighter formatting discipline and a more spec-faithful redaction edge case. The final margin reflects that difference in priorities, not a blowout.

• Perception AI raised $11 million and is shipping a 22-DOF robotic hand

  The robotics company is entering a crowded humanoid manipulation race with one verified claim: a many-jointed hand has moved from demo to shipment.

• SonarSource study finds clean code cuts coding-agent token use, not pass rates

  The May 19th arXiv preprint tested Claude Code on paired repositories and found fewer tokens and file revisits on cleaner code.

• Techstars and Emirates NBD make enterprise banking access the pitch for AI founders

  The July 6th partnership gives selected AI and FinTech teams a path into Emirates NBD pilots, with no disclosed capital commitment.

• Kyrall pitches prompt-driven CAD for engineers who still need editable models

  The startup says users can turn text, sketches, meshes and files into parametric CAD, with pricing that starts at 10 free generations.

• Castro's Dustin Bluck says personal support did not buy customer loyalty

  The indie app operator's July 3rd essay turns two years of subscription support into a sharper product lesson for small software teams.

• OpenAI sets July 9th public launch for GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna

  The rollout follows a government-coordinated limited preview that began June 26th and kept the models out of ChatGPT.

• Herdr turns the terminal into an agent control room

  Can Celik's Rust multiplexer keeps Claude Code, Codex and other coding agents alive across panes, SSH sessions and laptop closes.

• CERT/CC warns Tenda router firmware has an undocumented admin backdoor

  CERT/CC says five firmware builds accept any username if a hidden alternate password matches a device configuration value.

• Agent Gateways Are Turning Into Enterprise AI's New Control Layer

  Arcade, Manufact and Nutanix are converging on the same enterprise problem: who controls the tools, models and spend behind AI agents.

• Andra Keay's June robotics ledger turns funding into physical AI's scorecard

  Robots & Startups counted 136 June rounds worth $6.57 billion, with defense dollars and late-stage checks distorting the readout.

• Runway opens Paris research hub with a $30 million France bet

  The France office starts with 10 employees and puts Runway closer to European AI researchers working on world models and physical AI.

• Nebula Security publishes GhostLock exploit for 15-year Linux kernel flaw

  The AI security lab says the bug powered an IonStack chain and earned a $92,337 kernelCTF reward from Google.

• Sara Wilczynska left Google and turned a Thailand watercolor habit into Swil Arts

  The former software engineer built a San Diego illustration studio after a 2023 travel year showed her a different way to work.

• Deyan Ginev's ar5iv Is Still Chasing arXiv's Paper Firehose

  A June 6th status post puts April 2026 papers in ar5iv, with the harder claims around speed and AI-assisted development still unbenchmarked.

• OpenComputer turns Slack threads into durable agent sessions

  The agent infrastructure product is pushing Slack from notification surface to shared runtime control plane for long-running AI work.

• Head to head: AuraFlow vs GPT Image 2 API

  AuraFlow brings style and motion, but GPT Image 2 API is the model that actually closes the brief. Across all three tests, it was consistently better at turning dense prompt requirements into images that felt complete rather than merely attractive.

• $150 and an afternoon for a multiplayer shooter is the AI coding story

  A $150 Claude Fable 5 run produced a multiplayer capture-the-flag prototype in an afternoon, turning an AI coding demo into a cost-of-software question.

• DeepSeek is developing its own AI inference chip, Reuters reports

  Liang Wenfeng's AI lab is moving toward hardware as export controls and inference costs reshape China's model race.

• Figma buys Bud team to pull AI agents closer to the design canvas

  Bud, formerly Orchids, will shut down its products by July 18th as Kevin Lu's YC-backed team moves into Figma.