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  1. TechCrunch · AINewsAI score22

    Danu Robotics builds H.E.R.O., a recycling robot that sorts waste with a pincer claw

    AIDanu Robotics, an Edinburgh startup founded by Amy Ma, is bringing its H.E.R.O. recycling-sorting robot to market, using a pincer claw instead of suction. The company has letters of interest from two large customers, $500,000 in signed contracts, and more than 200 prospective customers in its sales pipeline. Ma estimates a working site would earn $485,000 in added revenue against a $160,000 initial investment and $24,000 in annual maintenance fees.

  2. a16z NewsBlogAI score40

    a16z leads investment in TypeSafe AI, maker of Jev System One model

    AIa16z says it is leading an investment in TypeSafe AI, whose Jev model hands decisions to code as typed values and reached 1 trillion tokens generated three days after launch. The company says Jev costs roughly 1/100 to 1/500 of frontier models and runs 100x faster on classification tasks at comparable accuracy. TypeSafe says 25% of the Fortune 500 have integrated Jev.

  3. 🚨 AI News | TestingCatalogXAI score41

    Pine AI launches Pine Computer, a cloud runtime for agentic tasks

    AIPine AI launched Pine Computer, a cloud computer, harness, and runtime layer built for agentic tasks. On the publisher's SaaS-Bench v1.1, it posts a 78.3% checkpoint score against 74.3% for Opus 5 with Claude Code, but completes fewer whole tasks, 27.4% against 31.1%. Instead of simulating clicks and screenshots, it reads web pages as structured data, and access is through a private beta waitlist.

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  4. SantiagoXAI score44

    Pine launches agentic cloud computers with built-in AI agents

    AIPine has released a cloud computer service with a built-in AI agent that applications can control through its SDK. Developers give the agent a plain-English task, and it can use a browser, files, and a shell while the app receives notifications and final outputs. Pine's Stanley Wei says the computer is built for AI rather than humans.

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  5. LlamaIndex 🦙OfficialAI score12

    LlamaParse keeps nested tables and values intact in earnings decks

    AILlamaIndex says its LlamaParse keeps all 18 values from Micron's latest earnings deck under the correct headers, despite nested tables with two business units and repeated row names. The post presents this as a sample document rather than a benchmark result.

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  6. elvisXAI score34

    Elvis Saravia urges builders to focus on agent harnesses and environments

    AIElvis Saravia says AI models are already smart, but they need better harnesses and environments, with major cost implications. He recommends reading a report on how Pine Computer can help teams, and says he will test it himself and share more later. The quoted post from Stanley Wei argues that real-world AI tasks remain slow, expensive and unreliable because AI runs on computers built for humans, and announces Pine Computer.

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  7. Mike KnoopXAI score43

    Knoop says ARC-AGI-2 is much harder than ARC-AGI-1

    AIMike Knoop says ARC-AGI-2 is far harder than ARC-AGI-1, even amid rapid progress on math. He adds that the final open solutions will be useful artifacts to study, and notes that the Kaggle Grand Prize bonus threshold of 85% has been reached this year, the final year for ARC-AGI-2 on Kaggle.

  8. Adam RobinsonXAI score24

    MoltSets launches $27/mo unlimited B2B contact database API, claims to beat ZoomInfo and Apollo

    AISolo founder launches MoltSets, an API-only B2B contact database priced at $27/mo, claiming unlimited access, high quality, high coverage, high rate limits, and low pricing. The post says LinkedIn profiles across 47 million slugs are re-scraped every 3 days and emails re-validated every 3 days, with 15 cents per real-time carrier-verified mobile number through bolt-on plans.

  9. Mike KnoopXAI score62

    Tufa Labs hits 88.06% on ARC-AGI-2, clearing the Kaggle bonus threshold

    AIMike Knoop says the 85% Grand Prize bonus threshold has been reached on Kaggle. The ARC Prize 2026 leaderboard lists Tufa Labs first at 88.06%, followed by Rabbithole at 80.56% and Yi-Chia Chen at 77.22%. Knoop says this will be the final year for ARC-AGI-2 on Kaggle and expects an open-source, low-cost, offline reproducible solution and model.

  10. elvisXAI score40

    Syren Video learns your style to build AI videos from prompts

    AISyren Video, a new agentic video tool, learns preferred graphics, motion, and editing rhythm from a user's library and generates new videos from a prompt. Users refine the results through chat, and the tool is free to try in a browser or through Claude MCP, per the company's announcement. The post's author says the education sector is exploring it.

  11. ARC PrizeOfficialAI score42

    ARC Prize 2026 ARC-AGI-2 high score reaches 88.06%

    AITufa Labs posted an 88.06% score on ARC-AGI-2, a new high for the ARC Prize 2026 leaderboard. ARC Prize says a $150K bonus prize, on top of guaranteed prizes, will be split among all teams scoring over 85%.

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  12. Rohan PaulXAI score46

    Sabi raises $50M to build AI brain-reading baseball cap

    AISabi has raised a $50M seed round led by Vinod Khosla and Accel to build a baseball cap that turns brain signals into AI prompts. The cap can hold up to 100,000 sensors of 1 to 5 millimeters each, feeding a brain foundation model trained on 100,000 hours of labeled neural recordings. Sabi says the cap can predict a user's next 3-4 keystrokes from brain signals before they type them.

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  13. 🚨 AI News | TestingCatalogXAI score62

    Sabi raises $50M for a wearable brain-reading cap

    AISabi has raised $50M from Khosla Ventures, Accel, Initialized, DST, and Collab Fund, with Kevin Weil also participating. The company is building the Sabi Cap, a non-invasive wearable that aims to read brain signals and turn thoughts into text. Sabi says it designs its own custom chips and neuroimaging sensors, including a non-contact EEG chip fabricated by TSMC.

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  14. SantiagoXAI score43

    Sabi raises $50 million for a wearable brain-to-text cap

    AISabi has raised $50 million from Khosla Ventures, Accel, Initialized, Kevin Weil, and DST Global to build a wearable brain-computer interface. The company says its TSMC-fabricated chip reads brain signals without touching the scalp, with custom sensors collecting data and its own AI model decoding it into text. The device is a cap rather than an implant.

  15. elvisXAI score38

    Sabi raises $50M to build a wearable brain-AI interface cap

    AISabi has raised $50M from Khosla Ventures, Accel, Initialized, Kevin Weil, and DST Global to build a wearable brain-computer interface cap. The cap carries 100,000 sensors and aims to let people talk to AI agents by thinking. The post's author says improved hardware could unlock new research and personal agentic applications.

  16. Google WorkspaceOfficialAI score12

    RigStrips uses Google Workspace with Gemini to draft customer replies faster

    AIRigStrips co-founder Zhach Pham says he uses Google Workspace with Gemini to draft customer support replies instantly, saving hours that would otherwise go to outdoor gear testing. The post highlights the company's more than 150,000 units shipped, though it gives no specific figures for time saved.

    Video from @GoogleWorkspace's post
  17. LeiphoneNewsAI score42

    Ex-ByteDance intern Tian Keyu's secretive world-model lab reportedly raises at $200M valuation

    AITian Keyu, the Peking University PhD student known as the "ByteDance poisoning intern," has a 10-person world-model lab valued at $200 million after $30 million from Fivesource Capital and IDG, according to Leiphone. The lab plans to train a foundation model on about 100 million hours of video using a 200,000-symbol visual vocabulary, with a 2027 release targeted. Tian says the approach could cut the cost of generating one second of video by at least an order of magnitude.

  18. CoW SwapXAI score34

    CoW Protocol launches pay-per-quote API for bots and AI agents

    AICoW Protocol has launched x402.cow.fi, a service offering pay-per-request trading quotes for bots and AI agents with no API key or sign-up required. Each quote costs $0.001, payable in USDC on Base, Ethereum, or BNB Chain, or in $COW on Base. The service is built on x402.

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  19. Tushar MehtaXAI score16

    Agent Arcade pits personal AI agents against each other in 11 games

    AIA solo founder built Agent Arcade, a free website with 11 arcade-style games where players control AI agents named Clawd, Dot, Grok Bot and Muse. The post says it requires no sign-up and pitches it as a way to find out which personal AI agent is best.

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  20. MagnificOfficialAI score2

    Magnific shares a moody prompt for dynamic text-in-motion design

    AIMagnific posts an example image prompt for a low-angle shot of a man in a camel coat climbing brutalist concrete stairs. The prompt specifies giant tilted lime-green and white text reading "By creatives for creatives" set in perspective along the building, with a moody, desaturated film look.

    Image from @magnific's post
  21. MagnificOfficialAI score4

    Magnific shares a retro 70s room prompt for AI image generation

    AIMagnific posted a detailed image prompt describing a low-angle 1970s room with dark wood paneling, a leather butterfly chair, a record console, and a mushroom lamp. The prompt specifies a red shag rug in the foreground, large cream text reading "MAGNIFIC ONE, BY CREATIVES FOR CREATIVES" in perspective across the wall, warm red lighting, and a retro film look.

    Image from @magnific's post
  22. MagnificOfficialAI score22

    Magnific One turns text into visual art, placed within images

    AIMagnific says its Magnific One tool can make text part of the image rather than an overlay on top of it. The post shares example artworks made with the tool and says the prompts are included in the post.

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  23. QbitAINewsAI score67

    Aether AI shows CRIS-0 robot recovering from disturbances via causal reasoning

    AIAether AI, founded by UCSD assistant professor Biwei Huang, has released official demos of its CRIS-0 causal intelligence system for robots. In tests, the robot recovered from external disturbances in 9 of 10 random trials, typically within about 2 seconds, and stopped within 0.2 seconds when a human hand entered the workspace during a microwave-door task.

  24. Viktor OddyXAI score22

    Restyles tool rebuilds prompts in new styles, free to try

    AIA post introduces Restyles, a tool where users enter a prompt and specify a target style, and the prompt rebuilds itself accordingly. The author demonstrates the process four times in a video and promotes a free trial at

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  25. ModelScopeOfficialAI score28

    Corvus-Gov-3B: a 3B Chinese government-domain dialogue model

    AIModelScope released Corvus-Gov-3B, a compact model tuned for Chinese policy Q&A, public-service consultation, and internal government or enterprise assistants. It was fine-tuned on one million Chinese government-domain dialogue samples and built on Llama 3.2 3B Instruct using LoRA SFT via LLaMA Factory. The model is released under Apache 2.0.

    Image from @ModelScope2022's post