Treena launched on July 30th an iPhone coding environment that runs AI agents on a GitHub repository, provisions a cloud workspace, and pushes finished changes without a laptop. The iOS app, backed by…
Okta signed a definitive agreement to acquire Permiso Security, a cloud identity threat-detection provider founded by former FireEye executives Paul Nguyen and Jason Martin, to push identity security …
Marble, a New York-based Y Combinator-backed startup founded by Aakar Khanna and Arjun Chaliha, launched an AI operating system for restaurant back-office tasks including inventory, purchasing, and la…
Infisical launched Agent Proxy on July 30th, a credential proxy that lets AI agents call external services without receiving the underlying API keys, preventing credential theft via prompt injection. …
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling-Small on July 30th, an open-weights multimodal model with 276 billion total parameters and 12 billion active per token, designed to deliver much of…
Lamina Labs, a two-person San Francisco AI-video startup founded by MIT graduates Sudip Rokaya and Kartikesh Mishra, has raised $4.8 million to turn AI answers into narrated whiteboard-style explainer…
Arena launched AutoEval on July 30, giving new AI models a preliminary Arena Score within an hour by training reward models on millions of pairwise preferences, compared with days required for human v…
OpenAI cut API prices for GPT-5.6 Luna by 80% and GPT-5.6 Terra by 20% on July 30th, while introducing a faster processing option for its flagship GPT-5.6 Sol model. The reductions lower Luna to $0.20…
Moonshot AI released the full weights and technical report for Kimi K3 on July 27th, documenting a 2.8 trillion-parameter model that activates 104 billion parameters per token. The Beijing developer h…
Simile, an AI platform that simulates human behavior for enterprises, raised a $200 million Series B at a $2 billion post-money valuation, led by Greenoaks with participation from Index Ventures, Hana…
Firecrawl released a rebuilt Model Context Protocol server on July 30th that it says consumes 50% less context on search, scrape, and interact calls, while adding browser-based OAuth onboarding and a …
Scale AI appointed Francis deSouza as CEO, effective August 10th, replacing interim CEO Jason Droege, as the company pushes beyond training-data services into enterprise AI applications. DeSouza, form…
Lucebox partnered with AMD to sell a $6,499 local AI inference computer combining a Radeon AI PRO R9700 GPU and Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 processor, achieving 51.1 tokens per second on a 284-billion-parameter…
Xsight Labs, the networking-silicon maker co-founded by Gal Malach and led by CEO Yossi Meyouhas, raised more than $300 million at a $2.8 billion post-money valuation, with Fidelity Management & Resea…
Microsoft Research released EvoLib on July 30th, a test-time learning framework that enables large language model agents to improve across tasks without updating their underlying weights. The framewor…
Google added voice-driven writing and editing to its Gemini macOS app on July 29th, giving users an Fn-key shortcut called Speak to Window that can place dictated text, rewrites, file summaries and ge…
Dili disclosed a $15 million Series A on July 30, led by Khosla Ventures with participation from Y Combinator, Brick & Mortar Ventures and Allianz, for its AI-powered labor-compliance software targeti…
Google DeepMind launched Gemini Robotics 2 on July 30, a three-model stack for planning, motor control and local inference across robot bodies including humanoids and dual-arm workstations, with the f…
Nscale, led by CEO Josh Payne, has agreed to acquire Anyscale for about $1.65 billion, according to Bloomberg. The deal gives the AI infrastructure provider control of Ray, the distributed computing f…
MIT-trained engineers Dimitris Koutentakis and Emile Germonpre have launched Atomarine, a Boston startup proposing floating data-center campuses powered initially by natural gas and later by marine re…