Issue #12August 18, 202610 links

ConnectDER raises $35.0M Series D for meter adapters

ConnectDER raised a $35.0M Series D for its meter socket adapter, which the company says cuts the cost and interconnection time for residential solar, EV charging and home battery storage. Daring Fireball published a critique of watermark text adulteration in Claude, calling the practice a perversion of writing.

Interesting

daringfireball.net

Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing

It’s unacceptable for a tool to sacrifice an iota of clarity, coherence, meaning, quality, etc. for the purpose of embedding hidden clues within the text to suggest its provenance. The idea that anything other than *my* needs should factor into the generation of text *for me* is patently offensive.

Watermarks AI Slop Detection

vectoral.com

Who Are the Token Brokers?

A look at the brokers buying unused AI credits from startups and reselling them — the marketplaces, the bulk-discount routers, and the message boards where off-market inference changes hands

Inference Markets AI

Dev Tools

trychert.com

Chert

Chert is a YC-backed AI company building iMessage infrastructure for reaching people at scale, with quality, trust, and personalized interaction.

Communications Imessage Facetime

harnessrouter.ai

HarnessRouter

HarnessRouter is an AI agent API and backend layer for bringing agent harnesses such as Codex, Claude Code, and Hermes into products through one integration.

Harness Engineering AI

platform.claude.com

System Prompts

See updates to the core system prompts on [claude.ai](https://claude.ai) and the [Claude iOS app](https://anthropic.com/ios) and [Claude Android app](https://anthropic.com/android).

System Prompts Claude AI

Cool Company Raises

YC F26

Veeza AI launches at YC (Fall 2026)

AI travel agent for people with weak passports, starting with visas.

Aiops Consumer AI YC

YC S26

Standard Medical launches at YC (Summer 2026)

A primary care clinic where AI earns clinical autonomy

Health-Tech Telehealth Digital-Health YC Healthcare Primary-Care

YC S26

Kandor launches at YC (Summer 2026)

Making health insurance invisible

Artificial-Intelligence Fintech Healthcare YC

$35.0M

ConnectDER raises a $35.0M Series D round

ConnectDER (www.ConnectDER.com) represents the next generation in US-based resource technology product development. Our signature product, the ConnectDER Meter Socket Adapter, dramatically cuts down the cost and interconnection time for solar energy, EV charging, and home battery storage, putting clean, resilient power within reach of millions of homeowners. With a pipeline of exciting innovations, we’re only just getting started on our journey to transform how the world makes and consumes its energy.

Manufacturing Energy $10M+

YC S26

Dream launches at YC (Summer 2026)

Pocket-sized AI cameras that catch asset damage.

Artificial-Intelligence Hardware Machine-Learning YC Computer-Vision B2B

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