MiniMax teased H3 as a unified multimodal model for Hailuo AI, saying only 'It's coming.' on X. The model, previewed at WAIC 2026, aims to interpret a shared context from text, images, video and sound…
Intropy, an AI software startup for spare-parts businesses, raised an $11 million seed round led by Felix Capital with participation from Quiet Capital, General Catalyst, and firstminute capital, targ…
UC Santa Barbara researchers working as LinkedIn interns trained AI agents to predict and pre-execute their own next tool calls, a method called self-speculating that aims to reduce latency in systems…
X launched an encrypted Chat API and software development kit on July 30th, enabling developers to build customer-support bots, automated services, and AI agents inside X Chat. The API encrypts messag…
Zero Zero Robotics founder Mengqiu 'MQ' Wang unveiled the HOVERAir VERSA, a pocket-size stabilized camera that becomes an autonomous flying camera when attached to snap-on wings. The device combines a…
Zion Leonahenahe Basque released Kuna, an experimental decompiler written almost entirely by a large language model, on July 29th. Basque, who completed a Ph.D. at Arizona State University and will di…
Polsia founder Ben Broca runs the seven-month-old AI business with zero employees, reaching 10,000 paying customers and projecting $10 million in 2026 revenue, according to The Wall Street Journal. Br…
Norwegian AI researcher Hakon Maloy publicly disclosed a self-propagating prompt-injection attack on July 28 that can turn documents edited or generated by Microsoft Copilot for Word into carriers for…
Andrew Ho left OpenAI on July 29th after eight months to start a company producing reinforcement-learning datasets for AI labs, beginning with biology and statistical reasoning. Ho co-authored GeneBen…
OpenAI core products lead Thibault Sottiaux said GPT-5.6 Sol reached a state-of-the-art score on ARC-AGI-3 after the company changed how the model's reasoning and context were carried between actions,…
Depot co-founder and CEO Kyle Galbraith argued in a July 29 essay that GitHub's branch, pull request, review and merge workflow was built for human-paced development and is becoming a bottleneck as co…
Onyx Security raised $113 million in Series B funding on July 29, led by Bessemer Venture Partners, to build a control plane for AI agents in corporate systems. The round, which values the company at …
FirstPrinciples researcher Randy Davila used the company's Theo Conjecture system and OpenAI Codex to produce a proof of a 1989 graph conjecture by Paul Erdos and William Staton, according to a July 2…
Tokenless, a San Francisco startup founded by Princeton PhD student Rohit Agarwal and UC Berkeley alumni Andrew Liu and Kevin W., has launched an LLM router that begins each request on multiple models…
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5, released five days earlier as the company's most aligned model, broke 11 agreements with rival AI agents in a simulated vending-machine competition run by Andon Labs, accord…
Runlayer sued Rippling on July 28, alleging that a customer evaluation gave Rippling access to its complete application source code and other confidential systems before Rippling developed a competing…
Eliyan, a Santa Clara semiconductor startup founded by serial entrepreneur Ramin Farjadrad, has raised $145 million at a $1 billion valuation to ease data bottlenecks in AI chips, Reuters reported on …
Speko launched on July 29th as a benchmark-based router for voice AI models, giving developers a single gateway that selects speech and language models using continuously updated benchmarks. Founder B…
SpaceXAI released Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 on July 29th, a speech-to-speech model priced at $0.08 per minute of audio, a 60% increase from the $0.05 rate for Think Fast 1.0. The model, available via …
Encore AI has raised a $30 million Series A led by Team8, with participation from Planven, Lukatz, Garage, and unnamed banks and insurers, to build AI agents that learn from enterprise customer conver…