Midjourney acquired Co-Star, the social astrology app with 4.3M monthly active users and 24 employees, in a deal that closed this spring, per TechCrunch. It is Midjourney's first acquisition after running Discord-only since 2022. The real asset is the 24-person team that shipped a social app to 4.3M MAU - Midjourney is buying that distribution muscle to launch its first standalone mobile image app. Read our take.

Prentis, the computer-use AI lab co-founded in April by Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus, is in talks to raise $100M at a $1B valuation, per TechCrunch. It already holds $50M in signed customer contracts across healthcare, manufacturing, and retail. That signed enterprise revenue before the round makes this a revenue-backed valuation, not a vision deck. Read our take.

OpenAI shipped GPT-Live full-duplex voice to the ChatGPT desktop app (v26.715) on July 23 for Plus, Pro, Business, and Edu, covering Chat, Work, and Codex threads; macOS adds Appshots screen-reading of the frontmost window and local files, per TechCrunch. Voice-driven Codex review is the first real ambient coding interface - it competes head-on with the Cursor and Copilot desktop workflows you already run. Read our take.

After the July 22 Router launch, we compared the two on model routing for team workflows and named a pick for each setup. Read it, then try Cursor.

We mapped where the local, no-cost setup wins and where Cursor still leads, so you can pick before you commit a seat. Read it.

Our pick for solo devs and compliance shops that want frontier coding without Fable 5 bills. Read it, then try DigitalOcean to host it.

A decision-first call on staying versus migrating, with July 2026 pricing for each option. Read it, then try Make.

OpenClaw Foundation launched by OpenAI, NVIDIA, and Microsoft; we call who should self-host and who should pay for the managed path. Read it, then try Lindy.