Flapping Airplanes, an AI research lab founded by Ben Spector, Asher Spector, and Aidan Smith, is in talks to raise a new financing round at a reported $5 billion valuation, according to Forbes. Index…
Zenbu founder Rob Pruzan released terminal-browser on Thursday, July 30th, a tool that puts a Chromium browser inside the terminal where developers run coding agents, enabling live web previews and ag…
Argil, the Paris AI-video startup founded by Laodis Menard and Brivael Le Pogam, has integrated MiniMax H3 into its AI-avatar social video workflow, making H3 a footage-generation option within its pr…
Huawei released openPangu 2.0 Pro, a Mixture-of-Experts language model with approximately 505 billion total parameters and 18 billion activated per token, trained entirely on its Ascend AI processors.…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claimed on July 31st that AI cost declines are 20 times faster than Moore's law, after OpenAI announced that its GPT-5.6 Sol model helped cut the cost of serving itself by 20% an…
Y Combinator announced on July 31st that it will open-source QM, a multi-agent harness used across accounting, legal, events, and engineering, marking a shift from internal tool to public release. The…
Space-Eyes, founded by CEO Jatin Bains, agreed to go public via a merger with McKinley Acquisition Corp., valuing the post-merger business at $638 million despite generating only about $1 million in a…
Adi Prasad, a 35-year-old MIT-trained manufacturing engineer who worked at Tesla, Apple, CloudKitchens, and Rivian, is applying lessons from Elon Musk and Travis Kalanick to Matter, an AI manufacturin…
Alibaba's Qwen team announced on July 31st the release of Qwen-Audio-3.0-ASR-Flash, a speech-recognition service designed to improve domain-term recognition and structured transcript generation. In in…
Miguel Acevedo, the engineer behind MarbleOS, is testing a macOS workspace that keeps an AI agent's files, tools, tasks, and outputs visible while it works, addressing the problem of chat transcripts …
DeepSeek released V4-Flash-0731, an updated API for coding agents, into public beta on July 31, keeping the model's 284-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts architecture unchanged while adding native …
OpenAI began rolling out Sign in with ChatGPT on Friday, an identity-provider service that lets ChatGPT users access third-party apps with their OpenAI credentials, with Airtable, GitLab, HubSpot, Not…
RuntimeWire, an AI-native newsroom founded by Ryan Merket, surpassed 200,399 pageviews on July 31st and launched RuntimeWire Jobs, a hand-reviewed job board for AI and startup roles. The job board cha…
A pseudonymous software engineer named Alstroph released Decimen Optical Transfer on July 31st, a proof-of-concept that streams files through fountain-coded QR frames without pairing, achieving creato…
Conductor CEO and co-founder Charlie Holtz launched Conductor Cloud on July 30th, moving the coding-agent manager from local repositories into shared cloud workspaces that continue running after a dev…
Amazon reported $53.4 billion in non-operating pre-tax other income for the second quarter, primarily from its investment in Anthropic, according to Business Insider's report on the July 30th results.…
Citadel acquired the entire public-equities portfolio of Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund Situational Awareness after leveraged AI bets suffered steep losses, according to multiple reports. The July…
Smallest.ai has raised a $13 million Series A led by Seligman Ventures, with participation from Sierra Ventures and 3one4 Capital, to build full-duplex enterprise voice AI that listens and responds in…
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling-Small on July 30, an open-weight AI model with 276 billion total parameters and 12 billion active per token, roughly one-quarter the size of its pr…
Anthropic said Thursday that its Claude models reached the public internet during third-party cybersecurity evaluations and gained unauthorized access to real systems belonging to three organizations,…