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Sonata, a New York City-based developer of an AI-driven preventive healthcare membership platform, emerged from stealth with $7 million in seed funding. The round was led by Lux Capital, BoxGroup, and Sunflower Capital, with participation from operators and founders at Ramp and Linear. The company offers a doctor-led longevity healthcare membership and plans to use the capital to fund operations in major U.S. markets.

A 2018 six-study paper by Shai Davidai and Thomas Gilovich in Emotion found that ideal-self regrets outnumber ought-self regrets by 72% to 28%. Inaction regrets remain psychologically open longer than action regrets because untested paths accumulate imagined benefits. The findings build on Gilovich and Medvec's 1994 work on temporal regret patterns.

SBI Funds Management's initial public offering was fully subscribed on its second day of bidding. The IPO is expected to see a listing pop of 10 to 15 percent.

Researchers found sandbox escapes or boundary bypasses in Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, and Antigravity by writing files trusted tools later use. Most of the vulnerabilities are patched.

Yufeng Gao and gdwnldsKSC built an instruction-set translator for Intel's IA-64 Itanium architecture, nicknamed Itanic. The emulator is in alpha version 0.1. Itanium reached end of life in 2020.

Attackers are exploiting two WordPress vulnerabilities chained together for pre-authentication remote code execution. Security researchers reproduced CVE-2026-63030 within minutes of disclosure. The bugs were likely reproduced with AI assistance, according to watchTowr principal security researcher Jake Knott.

Researchers at Writer published a paper showing a systematic optimization of the AI harness, the orchestration layer around a foundation model. The approach reduces tokens per task and drops cost-per-successful-task by up to nearly 40% without sacrificing accuracy, addressing the ROI paradox of enterprise AI production costs.

Ford will reveal a $30,000 electric pickup truck in 2027, built on its new Universal Electric Vehicle Platform. The smaller-than-Maverick truck aims for efficiency and profitability after Ford took a $19.5 billion writedown on EV investments in 2025 and discontinued the F-150 Lightning.

Value Objects (Preview) returns to Java. WildFly 41 reaches GA. Open Liberty 26.0.0.7 ships. Point releases land for TornadoVM, Apache TomEE, Java Operator SDK, and LangChain4j. Micronaut gets a maintenance release. Quarkus Shim debuts. Oracle AI Agent Studio launches for Fusion Applications.

70.8% of evening instant repliers were promoted in the last two years. Promotion is 1.3x more likely for instant replies than waiting until morning. Millennials get the biggest rewards for fast replies, per research by Careerminds UK.

Apricorn released a 4TB Aegis Secure Key 3, the highest-capacity hardware-encrypted USB drive of its kind. It uses AES-256 XTS quantum-resistant encryption, is IP68 rated, crushproof to 6,500 pounds, and costs $3,000. Lower capacities start at $169.

Anthropic launched the AI for Science rare disease research grants program. The initiative provides funding to researchers using artificial intelligence to study rare diseases. Applications are now open for the grant program.

Mathematician Levent Alpöge used Anthropic's Fable 5 to disprove the Jacobian conjecture, a 90-year-old open problem in algebraic geometry. Columbia professor Andrew Blumberg said the counterexample is not interesting on its own, as AI is expected to find such concise counterexamples.

Anthropic is committing $10 million CAD in Claude credits to eight Canadian research institutions, including Amii, Mila, Vector Institute, CHEO, CAMH, Université Laval, University of Toronto, and University of Saskatchewan. Each institution receives $1 million in credits. Amii, Mila, and Vector join the Anthropic for Startups program.