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• Sunbird relaunches iMessage on Android after 2023 security shutdown

  Danny Mizrahi's open beta asks users to trust a rebuilt relay system with their Apple IDs and private conversations.

• Cloudflare's AI Gateway links identity to spending anomaly detection

  Cloudflare's AI Gateway ties verified identities to model spending, while User Insights compares session costs with a 30-day baseline.

• Yann LeCun joins 224 Ventures as AI investment firm launches with $100M-plus

  The AI-focused investment operation is launching with more than $100 million in assets under management, according to Bloomberg.

• AISI says Anthropic's Mythos 5 used fake identities to push malicious code

  AISI recorded 19 out-of-scope actions during a July 28 cyber evaluation, including a Mythos 5 agent's use of fake identities to pressure an open-source maintainer.

• Nucleus exits stealth with a claimed 90-day humanoid factory deployment

  Melvin Schwarz is building a control layer for putting third-party humanoid robots to work in existing industrial sites.

• Claude helped build a Bluetooth phone finder after MDM disabled Find My

  1X engineer Ben Zhang recovered his phone with the meter, then released a Swift tool refined across 13 Claude-coauthored commits.

• GFiber drops SMS and Google Voice integration from its home phone service

  Existing numbers, hardware and calling will remain, but customers must manage voicemail and call history through a new GFiber portal.

• Five Rust teams adopt LLM rules to protect human code review

  Jynn Nelson's policy allows private AI assistance, tightly controls generated code, and lets reviewers close noncompliant pull requests.

• Tencent brings Hy3 global through WorkBuddy, Miora and TokenHub

  Tencent's August 5 rollout brings the model to WorkBuddy, Miora and TokenHub, with free WorkBuddy access through August 31 and Apache 2.0 weights for developers.

• EXCLUSIVE: Four Days After a Pay Complaint, Cobot Fired Its Only Woman in Sales

  Alison Tran alleges the $500 million robotics startup reassigned her healthcare pipeline to men, then opened another healthcare account role.

• Arc Institute opens 2026 Virtual Cell Challenge with zero-shot cell predictions

  The August 20th competition will test gene-knockdown predictions across multiple cell lines using newly generated experimental data.

• Dnotitia wins FMS award as it pitches VDPU to storage partners

  CEO MK Chung is using the FMS recognition to recruit vendors for joint AI storage products, building on early work with KT Cloud and hardware manufacturers.

• NVIDIA opens Alpamayo 2 Super for commercial AV model development

  NVIDIA is opening Alpamayo 2 Super for commercial model development and redistribution, but has disclosed no customers or deployments.

• TareBio joins YC's summer batch with a cancer vaccine program

  Physician-scientist Eta Atolia is turning years of neoantigen and synthetic-biology research into a Los Angeles biotech.

• Alibaba's Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro entered limited cloud preview in July

  The model targets text-heavy production assets, though Alibaba Cloud still documents invitation-only access and a one-request-per-minute limit.

• AI reaches 82% of journalists as deeper newsroom adoption looks inevitable

  Coding showed how quickly useful AI assistants can become standard workflow; journalism's adoption is already broad, even as UK first-draft use remains at 10%.

• Ambrook raises $30M Series B to expand beyond farm accounting

  Lachy Groom led the Series B as Ambrook expands into construction, trucking and other family-run industries.

• Psylo founders disclose three WebKit proxy leaks affecting iCloud Private Relay

  Mysk shipped Psylo 1.3.1 to close the paths, which the researchers say can expose a device's IP address or DNS infrastructure.

• Original reporting drove 71% of RuntimeWire reads in the last 30 days

  The share excludes unclassified early articles and uses a strict test that treats any cited news publication as press-sourced.

• Google will restore Familiar Faces on Walmart's Onn cameras

  Google says an update will restore paid face recognition on Walmart's cameras, which start around $23 and store face biometrics in the cloud.

• Military GPS jamming disrupted a medevac flight before fatal New Mexico crash

  Investigators documented a lost GPS signal and resumed jamming minutes before impact, but have not determined the crash's probable cause.

• OpenAI discloses two cyber evaluations where models reached real systems

  GPT-5.6 Sol used public tokens and tunneling services in one test; an unnamed model exploited a real website in another.

• MiniMax H3 draws local apps and training tools within 48 hours

  Maestro added desktop support as developers pushed H3 onto a gaming GPU and offline Macs beyond MiniMax's tested setups.

• Palona AI discloses $28.3 million financing for restaurant automation push

  The filing lifts disclosed funding to $38.3 million as Maria Zhang, Tim Howes and Steve Liu push Palona deeper into restaurant operations.