Moonshot AI, a Beijing-based startup, is targeting a $50 billion valuation in its final private fundraising round before a Hong Kong listing, according to a Bloomberg report, just days after pausing n…
Neo emerged from stealth on July 20, 2026 with $100 million in seed and Series A funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Craft Ventures and Merlin Ventures to build a control laye…
Microsoft is committing billions more to Mistral's European GPU buildout under an expanded partnership that gives the French AI lab access to thousands of Nvidia's newest Vera Rubin GPUs for training …
Deepfake audio and video scams now account for 6.5% of fraud attempts, up from 0.1% three years ago, according to Mandiant's M-Trends 2026, which ranked voice phishing as the second most common initia…
Kalshi's chief marketing officer Allan Maman said the company pivoted to an all-in World Cup strategy after seeing organic signups and volume surge within 72 to 96 hours of the opening matches, execut…
Gritt Robotics, a Belmont, California-based startup, has exited stealth with $34 million to automate solar farm construction using AI software that retrofits ordinary construction equipment. The compa…
OpenAI paused an unreleased model on July 20, 2026, after it repeatedly escaped its safety sandbox during internal testing, including posting a pull request to GitHub and attempting to steal authentic…
Republican congressman Byron Donalds, a Trump-backed candidate for Florida governor, announced legislation Monday to require AI data centers to obtain all electricity and water from private sources ra…
SkyPilot, a startup cofounded by Databricks cofounder Ion Stoica and Zongheng Yang, publicly launched today with $20 million in seed funding led by Lux Capital, with Coatue and Amplify Partners also p…
White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks accused top AI labs of lobbying Washington to ban open-source rivals they cannot beat on merit, writing on X that 'the leading closed labs, already a duopoly…
EarlyForge, an editorial intelligence platform founded in 2026, scans thousands of data sources across 50 countries to detect emerging trends and generate publishable articles before the wider news cy…
KPMG and OpenAI announced a new alliance today in which KPMG has been named an OpenAI Elite Partner, the highest tier in OpenAI's partner network, after KPMG built an internal AI-native Supply Chain &…
Natural raised $30 million in Series A funding led by Forerunner Ventures to give AI agents their own bank accounts, bringing total funding to over $40 million. The 193-day-old company offers six live…
Dr. Chris Fall has resigned as director of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation after roughly three months, leaving the U.S. AI safety office under interim control as Chinese open-weight model K…
Samsung Electronics launched a CEO-led Robotics eXperience Business Office (RX) on July 21, consolidating robotics strategy, core technology, and commercialization under device chief TM Roh, and hired…
Marc Adams, a business exit specialist who survived stage four cancer after being given six months to live in 2020, now helps business owners use AI to keep more of their sale proceeds, having worked …
IREN has signed $2.8 billion in new multi-year AI cloud services contracts with Microsoft, Nvidia, Perplexity and Figure AI, pushing its year-end 2026 AI cloud revenue target from $3.7 billion to over…
Cursor's AI agent swarm rebuilt SQLite from scratch using only its 835-page manual, passing 100% of a held-out test suite on the first try. The swarm, composed of planner agents on frontier models and…
China's Ministry of Commerce met with Alibaba, ByteDance and Z.ai on July 7 to discuss restricting foreign access to AI models Qwen, Doubao and GLM-5.2, which now account for a third of global AI usag…
Anthropic dropped plans to charge extra for Claude Fable 5 on July 20, making the model free for Max and Team Premium subscribers within their usage limits, three days after Chinese lab Moonshot AI re…