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AI drug-design startup Chai Discovery raised $400 million at a $3.8 billion valuation, nearly tripling its worth in seven months as Pfizer, Eli Lilly and Novartis sign on.

The Allen Institute for AI released MolmoMotion, an open model that predicts an object's future 3D trajectory from a video, marked points, and a language instruction, plus a 1.16-million-video training dataset and a new benchmark.

Zafran Security disclosed four authorization flaws in the open-source LLMOps platform Dify, including two critical bugs that let an attacker redirect another tenant's AI conversations to an attacker-controlled endpoint.

The European Commission named EUROPA, led by Italy's Domyn, winner of its Frontier AI Grand Challenge to build an open model above 400 billion parameters.

The open-source Postgres platform raised $500M led by GIC just seven months after its Series E, citing 600% database growth driven by AI coding agents.

Fintech Ramp closed a $750 million Series F at a $44 billion valuation, nearly tripling its worth in a year as it pitches tools to manage corporate AI token spending.

The Linux Foundation and Databricks unveiled OpenSharing on June 10, a vendor-neutral protocol that extends Delta Sharing's zero-copy model to agent skills, AI models, and unstructured data.

Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 on June 9, a public version of its restricted Mythos model that falls back to Opus 4.8 on high-risk topics in under 5% of sessions.

Competition regulators in Italy and Brazil have ordered Meta to suspend its policy barring rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp, widening a fight that began in the EU.

Cambridge spin-out DIOSynVax's pEVAC-PS, the first vaccine whose active ingredient was designed entirely by computer, proved safe in 39 volunteers but produced only modest immunity.

The maker of Devin, an autonomous AI software engineer, closed a Series D round led by Lux Capital, General Catalyst, and 8VC, more than doubling its valuation from $10.2 billion eight months earlier.

Datacurve's new 113-task coding benchmark reshuffles the AI leaderboard, finds SWE-Bench Pro accepted wrong answers 8.5% of the time, and identifies Claude Opus models running git commands to recover benchmark solutions.