Issue #11August 17, 202621 links

DeepSeek ships agent harness in developer preview

DeepSeek released its Harness agent framework in developer preview, publishing the source code at the same time and implementing every agent capability as a swappable plugin. Recurrent Energy raised $695.0M, which the company says gives it flexibility to accelerate its shift to a develop-to-own model in North America and Europe.

Interesting

davidepiffer.com

AI Isn’t Outthinking Mathematicians. It’s Out-Remembering Them.

The key advantage may not be superior reasoning, but a virtually unlimited symbolic working memory.

Mathematics

blog.google

How Google is Making Private AI Practical with Homomorphic Encryption

Today we're excited to showcase HEIR, the latest powerful tool added to our Private Computing Toolkit. HEIR is an open source compiler that unlocks cryptographically-sec…

Cool As F Homomorphic Encryption

scrimba.com

Learn to code with Scrimba

Scrimba is the fast way of learning to code! Our interactive courses and tutorials will teach you React, Vue, Angular, Web Development, Node.JS, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and more.

Learning AI Courses

ordinaryabundance.com

Ordinary Abundance

A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.

Cool

Dev Tools

mixedbread.com

Mixedbread

The Search API for your data. Turn your documents into discoverable and understandable context for AI.

Search search API

geoffreylitt.com

Understanding is the new bottleneck

Agents can write code faster than we can absorb it. Here's why it still matters for humans to understand what they build — and some techniques for doing that efficiently: explainer docs, quizzes, micro-worlds, and shared spaces.

Code Review Hud

deepseek.com

DeepSeek Harness developer preview: Everything is a plugin

DeepSeek Harness is now available in developer preview to developers building agent harnesses worldwide, with the source code released at the same time. Every agent capability is implemented as a plugin that can be swapped or recomposed.

Harness Engineering AI

Cool Company Raises

YC S26

Mass Magnetics launches at YC (Summer 2026)

USA-made magnetics for aerospace, robotics and defense.

Hard-Tech Drones Manufacturing YC Industrials

$7.9M

Riven Systems raises a $7.9M Seed round

Riven Systems is a NYC-based industrial chemistry startup that provides an AI platform for optimizing domestic critical minerals processing. The platform integrates autonomous laboratories, computational modeling, and AI within real-world infrastructure to enhance processing chemistry for domestic producers. It aims to replace legacy systems with modular, feedstock-specific solutions. Led by CEO Chip Breitenkamp and CTO Orion Archer Cohen, Riven Systems focuses on developing innovative processing solutions.

Artificial-Intelligence Machine-Learning New System Ventures Clai Lightscape Partners Alumni Ventures+3 more

YC S26

Akon Labs launches at YC (Summer 2026)

Nervous System for AI Agents

Deep-Learning Generative-AI SAAS YC B2B

YC S26

Bernard launches at YC (Summer 2026)

AI employees that run home appliance repair companies

Home-Services AI B2B YC

YC S26

Magma launches at YC (Summer 2026)

Monetize your agent's traces.

Reinforcement-Learning Data-Engineering AI YC B2B

YC S26

Pennant launches at YC (Summer 2026)

The Corporate Governance OS for Public Markets

Fintech Investing Investments YC AI

YC S26

Meteoric launches at YC (Summer 2026)

Drones that clear clouds over solar farms

Hard-Tech Renewable-Energy Climatetech YC Industrials

$695.0M

Recurrent Energy raises a $695.0M round

This structure provides Recurrent Energy significant flexibility to execute on its growth plans and accelerate its transition to a develop-to-own model in its core markets in North America and Europe, capturing the full value of the projects developed in low-risk markets. As of the first quarter of 2023, Recurrent Energy has a total global solar PV project pipeline of 25 GWp and 47 GWh of battery storage of which 14 GWp and 12 GWh respectively have interconnections granted, with a large majority of the pipeline being developed from greenfield. Recurrent Energy is one of the world's largest and most geographically diversified utility-scale solar and battery energy storage platforms, with a track record of 9 GW of solar and 3 GWh of battery storage power plants now in operation in 29 countries across five continents.

Energy Renewable-Energy Solar Wells Fargo Nord/Lb Mitsubishi Ufj Financial Group, Inc.+1 more

$118.0M

Blubird raises a $118.0M round

Blubird is an all-in-one SaaS platform that simplifies and automates funding, cap table management, and token deployment for Web3 startups and traditional projects. It provides tools to help projects grow and sustain vibrant communities. The platform aims to empower its users with accessible and efficient solutions for their business needs.

Software SAAS Enterprise-Software $100M+Information-Technology-Services

$14.0M