Funding
Blacksmith hits unicorn valuation after Sequoia leads Series C (opens techcrunch.com)
Blacksmith runs continuous-integration infrastructure for building and testing code; its $66M Series C, led by Sequoia, values it at $1B.
Launch
Recursive launches Flint, a laptop coding model it says was largely built by AI (opens techcrunch.com)
Recursive released Flint, a free coding model small enough for a laptop, which it says was built largely by its own AI research system.
Launch
Show HN: Omnara – Open-source alternative to Claude Managed Agents (opens github.com)
An open-source API for durable agents: Omnara runs the agent loop and provides sandboxes, secrets, permissions and RBAC.
Launch
Resend Inboxes (opens producthunt.com)
Create shared inboxes, connect your agents, build workflows
News
The bridge to agent-scale Git infrastructure (opens github.blog)
GitHub says it has copied 99.99999% of its repositories to Azure and explains how it will move the rest.
AnalysisOpinion
Claude Mods: Flipping the Harness Inside Out (opens latent.space)
Claude Mods is an early form of the Attention Interface. It flips the agent harness paradigm from the harness facing the machine, to the harness facing the human.