Are Everyday People Using AI Agents? Yes, but Nobody Trusts the Buy Button

AI agents are reaching ordinary shoppers, workers, and families—but adoption means supervised delegation, not autonomous living.

GLM-5.3 Got Better at Coding and Accidentally Learned Exploitation Chains

Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 boosts coding through post-training, doubles exploit scores, and delays open weights for two weeks while safety catches up.

Form Energy Raised $750 Million to Turn Rust Into a Grid Personality

Form Energy raised $750 million for 100-hour iron-air batteries. The grid needs storage. AI data centers have opinions.

Aureka Raised $100 Million to Teach AI Biology. The Cells Were Not Consulted.

Aureka raised $100 million in Series B funding to build AI drug-discovery infrastructure. The science is promising; biology remains unimpressed.

Anthropic Wants to Buy Decart for $6 Billion. Compute Has Become the Product.

Anthropic is reportedly in talks to buy Decart for $6 billion, betting that AI’s next moat is faster, cheaper compute—not another chatbot.

Google Just Made Losing Your Keys Part of the Pixel Ecosystem

Google’s $29 Pixel Tag joins the Pixel 11 launch as a useful, slightly sinister bet that losing things is the gateway to ambient AI.

Ohio Attorney General Wants the Roblox Lawsuit. Child Safety Was the Growth Hack.

Ohio seeks to lead a Roblox securities lawsuit after two pension funds lost $21.5 million. The alleged growth strategy looks increasingly indefensible.

LinkedIn’s HDR Company Logos Turn Networking Into a Tiny Corporate Flashbang

LinkedIn’s glowing HDR company logos hijack XDR displays for attention. Here’s when the stunt started, how it works, and why it must go today.

Suno Partners With BMG to Make AI Music Legal Enough for a Cambridge Startup

Cambridge AI music company Suno partnered with BMG on a new industry-developed model, turning copyright pressure into a serious licensing bet.

Source Foundry Raised $400 Million to Make Chipmaking Less Impossible

Source Foundry raised $400 million to build faster, cheaper chipmaking tools. The AI hardware bet is serious, expensive, and mildly unhinged.

Google Turns the Pixel 11 Into a Gemini Field Office

Google’s Pixel 11 turns Gemini into a phone-wide assistant. The useful bits are real; the $899 bill and ambient omniscience are real too.

Ribbon Built a Super-App for Global Indians. It Ran Out of Runway.

Ribbon is closing its e-money accounts after expected funding failed, exposing the capital, safeguarding, and regulatory plumbing behind fintech super-apps.