Arcee AI raises at least $150 million in a Series B at a $1 billion pre-money valuation, with Vista Equity Partners, Cambium Capital, and Emergence Capital backing expansion of its models, products, and U.S. Department of Energy partnership.
Enactic launches OpenArm, a fully open-source 7DOF humanoid arm for physical-AI research, with a $6,500 bimanual system and a standardized OpenArm Cell for reproducible teleoperation, imitation-learning, simulation, and contact-rich real-world experiments.
Gitlawb launches OpenClaude, an open-source terminal coding agent that works with cloud APIs and local AI backends, including Gemini, Ollama, Bedrock and OpenAI-compatible providers, while its --bg mode runs prompts in detached sessions with logs stored in ~/.openclaude/bg-sessions/.
Google releases ARTEMIS, an open-source platform that converts natural-language requests into Android automation, linking real devices to Antigravity, Codex, Claude Code and Windsurf via MCP, with a Pro mode designed for workflows of more than 100 steps.
DreambigOu releases ELI5, a Claude Code skill that tailors explanations for children, managers, engineers and parents, with its evaluation reporting an 83.3% pass rate versus 41.6% without the skill.
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan urges regulators to leave AI-model distillation alone, arguing that frontier labs can retain a price premium even as open-weight alternatives proliferate amid Anthropic and OpenAI accusations against Chinese AI firms including DeepSeek.
President Xi Jinping says China will lead BRICS artificial-intelligence cooperation by creating an open-source AI community to support large-language-model development, alongside training programs and a proposed digital ecosystem cloud platform.
Tencent launches TeamAI, an open-source CLI tool that unifies AI coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex under a shared, git-based team knowledge system featuring automatic experience sharing, a searchable knowledge base, and a live usage dashboard.
A GitHub skill called 'i-have-adhd' has exploded to 34.8k stars, forcing AI coding assistants like Claude, Gemini, and Cursor to ditch verbose fluff and deliver direct, action-first responses using 10 strict output rules.
PrivateGPT relaunches as a full production API, allowing developers to build private, local AI apps with RAG, MCP, and text-to-SQL capabilities — no cloud dependency required — backed by over 57,500 GitHub stars since going viral in 2023.