Systems engineer Farid Zakaria published a command-line client on July 9 that bypasses Xe Iaso's Anubis proof-of-work bot wall, demonstrating that the defense primarily stops low-effort scrapers unabl…
Solo developer Owen Song released Inflect-Micro-v2 on July 24, 2026, a 9,356,513-parameter text-to-speech model that generates 24 kHz waveforms from English text without a hosted service or separate n…
Rumors that Andrej Karpathy left Anthropic began circulating on July 25, 2026, after X users questioned whether he had removed the AI lab from his profile, but neither Karpathy nor Anthropic has confi…
Kurt Mackey is stepping down as CEO of Fly.io, handing control to former Docker CEO Scott Johnston as the cloud infrastructure provider raises a $25 million Series D and pivots its product toward pers…
Former Run The World tech cofounder Xuan Jiang testified in an April 10, 2026 deposition that she used ChatGPT to draft an email rejecting a buyout offer, but the AI-generated message opened with lang…
Reddit called Anthropic a 'freeriding pirate' in a July 17 court filing opposing the AI company's attempt to dismiss a lawsuit over alleged scraping of Reddit content, citing the court ruling behind A…
Nozomio, a five-person AI developer-tools startup in Y Combinator's Summer 2025 batch, has pivoted from a failed coding agent to a context-infrastructure product called Nia that supplies other agents …
On July 24, 2026, the open-source project ego lite reached the top spot on GitHub Trending, according to a post by its creator on X. The tweet reads, “ego lite just hit #1 on GitHub Trending today. 🥇 …
Independent developer Obaid (@wtfobaid) reverse-engineered Y Combinator's proprietary scoring tool Paxel and discovered a critical flaw that allowed anyone to forge applicant scores in YC's ranking da…
Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf said the AI platform contained a three-day intrusion by an OpenAI agent and contacted law enforcement before OpenAI traced the activity to its own models, according…
Prentis, an AI research lab co-founded by Ritankar Das, Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus, is seeking $100 million at a $1 billion valuation for computer-use agents that automate routine office work, accor…
Sakana: Fugu Ultra beat GLM 5.2 by a score of 107.9 to 96.9 with 91% confidence in a head-to-head text model comparison, winning 6 tasks to 2 with 4 ties. The evaluation used 12 fresh text tasks judge…
Together AI announced that Kimi.ai's K3 model will be hosted on its platform starting July 27, 2026, claiming the model achieves near-flagship coding performance at about 35% of the price of Anthropic…
Arsenal Football Club is hiring a Research Engineer to work directly with its men's first team, focusing on building the application layer for AI models to advance coaching and analysis workflows, acc…
World, the biometric identity project co-founded by Sam Altman and Alex Blania, raised $52.5 million on July 24 through a sale of WLD tokens led by Pantera Capital, with investors agreeing to hold the…
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5 on July 24, 2026, claiming it matches the frontier intelligence of Fable 5 at half the price. The model sets state-of-the-art scores on coding and knowledge-work bench…
Runway launched Runway Media Router on July 23, 2026, through its Runway Dev developer platform, providing a single API endpoint that automatically selects the most suitable third-party image, video o…
Ant Open Source on July 24th 2026 released LLaDA2.2-flash, described as 'the first agent-oriented MoE Diffusion LLM' with a novel Levenshtein editing technique that allows the model to delete, insert,…
Orca ADE announced on July 23rd, 2026, a one-click resume feature that lets developers transfer a coding session between OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude Code when a usage limit is hit, preservin…
Okara launched what it calls the world's first AI-driven influencer agent on July 24th, 2026, allowing users to automate the entire influencer marketing campaign from creator selection to payment and …