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Firecrawl, which provides web scraping tools for AI agents, raised a $75M Series B led by Smash Capital (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)
Rabbit launches OS3, a cloud AI agent that connects to local apps and files on Windows, Mac, and Linux and works via web, Telegram, iMessage, or its R1 device (Julian Chokkattu/Wired)
Data security startup Cyera raised $400M from Goldman Sachs in a Series G extension, bringing its total funding since June 2025 to $1.94B (James Rundle/Wall Street Journal)
Microsoft says it will give DARPA on-site access to its latest quantum computing hardware, including the Majorana 2 chip, at its new Maryland research center (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
Sources: Scott Bessent is emerging as a frontrunner for the AI czar position; other names include WH OSTP Director Michael Kratsios and OPM Director Scott Kupor (Semafor)
TikTok US joins child safety initiative Lantern, which says members like Meta and X shared 2M+ signals of potentially violating behavior from 2023 through 2025 (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, both on TSMC's 2nm process, with two 5GHz prime cores and six 4GHz performance cores (Axel Metz/TechRadar)
San Francisco sues Trump Media & Technology, claiming its Truth API service violates California's Unfair Competition Law by creating an insider trading market (Heather Knight/New York Times)
Nat Friedman says Meta built Muse "from scratch" but was "heavily inspired" by OpenClaw, as users compare the two, including calling Muse "OpenClaw for normies" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
New York-based Ande, whose AI agents help businesses arrange corporate events for employees or customers, emerges from stealth with $52M in seed and Series A (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
ShinyHunters claims it used an Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day to hack FBI-related services and steal employee and applicant data; it also defaced the FBI jobs site (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
In his UN General Assembly speech, Trump rejects a "globalist scheme to control" AI, saying the US is "leading now over China by a lot and everyone else" (Financial Times)
Sources: Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers to build self-improving AI, is in talks to raise ~$1B led by Kleiner Perkins at a $5B valuation (Bloomberg)
GPT-6 Sol costs $2/1M input and $10/1M output tokens, and GPT-6 Luna costs $0.10/1M input and $0.50/1M output tokens, both about 50% cheaper than GPT-5.6 (Nat Rubio-Licht/The Deep View)
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, saying Sol makes about half as many mistakes as GPT-5.6 Sol and Luna matches GPT-5.6 Sol's performance at ~1% of the cost (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)

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