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In addition, 403 news items older than 72 hours were left out; they are not listed.

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• Audit of 11 Coding Harnesses Finds No Shared Agentic Framework - Extrapolator AI: The explanation is available in the Finnish edition.
• Your SKILL.md Is 70% Stuff the Model Already Knows - Nikolay Petrov, Intel: The explanation is available in the Finnish edition.
• 225,000 Lines of Tests, Written and Merged by Agents - Kush Agrawal, Duolingo: The explanation is available in the Finnish edition.
• Silicon Valley's herd mentality in cozying up to Trump backfired as Democrats may seek retribution, China closes the AI gap, and anti-Big Tech sentiment grows: Left out in the newsroom's selection.
• Tel Aviv- and SF-based Edelbyte, which is building a data analytics platform designed for AI agents, emerges from stealth with $70M across a Series A and a seed: Left out in the newsroom's selection.
• Plurai, founded by ex-Nexar employees to use synthetic data and digital twins of corporate IT environments to assess AI agents, raised a $13M seed led by Team8: Left out in the newsroom's selection.
• Plurai wants to help AI agents work better using the same approach that helped get self-driving cars to roads: Left out in the newsroom's selection.
• Rox, which develops AI agents to automate customer research and outreach, raised a $100M Series B led by General Catalyst and March Capital at a $1.3B valuation: Left out in the newsroom's selection.
• Salt Lake City-based energy storage startup Torus raised a $500M Series C led by Magnetar to build shipping container-sized AI data centers at 1MW to 20MW sizes: Left out in the newsroom's selection.
• London-based AI chip startup Fractile raised $720M from Thrive, Founders Fund, and others, sources say at a $7B post-money valuation, up from ~$1.1B in May: Left out in the newsroom's selection.
• With $720M round, Britain’s Fractile gets a leg up in the race for AI chips: Left out in the newsroom's selection.
• AI数据中心初创公司Torus完成5亿美元融资，推出集成储能系统的模块化数据中心: Left out in the newsroom's selection.
• Plurai: $13 Million Seed Funding Led By Team8 To Advance AI Agent Simulation And Reliability Platform - Pulse 2.0: Left out in the newsroom's selection.
• Plurai Raises $13M Seed and Opens AI Agent Simulation Platform - Unite.AI: Left out in the newsroom's selection.
• [AINews] Mercor $750m Series D at $20B valuation, $3B run rate: Left out in the newsroom's selection.
• Wesleyan Media Project: political campaigns spent ~$187M on ~300 AI-generated or AI-enhanced ads in the midterms; ~90% of tracked AI ads were for GOP candidates: Left out in the newsroom's selection.
• Game developer House House confirms using AI during Big Walk's final development, sparking an intense debate among Independent Games Festival judges and jurors: Left out in the newsroom's selection.
• Big Walk used AI to fix a bug. Now the indie gaming world is having a reckoning.: Left out in the newsroom's selection.
• German defense tech giant Helsing launches Clarity, an intelligence platform using military-customized AI agents to rival Palantir's Maven and Anduril's Lattice: Left out in the newsroom's selection.
• Helsing unveils Clarity, a sovereign software platform for military intelligence - Helsing: Left out in the newsroom's selection.