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 …
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang used his first post on X to endorse an industry push for open-weight AI models, joining Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and other leaders in arguing that broader access to model we…
Midjourney, the AI lab founded by David Holz, acquired astrology app Co-Star in spring 2026 for an undisclosed price, Bloomberg reported on July 24. The deal gives Midjourney access to Co-Star's 4.3 m…
OrcaRouter launched free bring-your-own-key routing on July 24, letting developers connect their model-provider accounts while retaining OrcaRouter's adaptive routing and automatic failover without pa…
Black Forest Labs and Mimic Robotics have connected an early version of FLUX 3 to industrial robots, creating FLUX-mimic, which is being tested and deployed with Audi on manipulation jobs involving co…
Letta released the open-source trajectory package on July 24, 2026, a standard format for recording coding-agent sessions across harnesses including Claude Code, Codex, and Letta Code. The package red…
Machine-learning practitioner Enze Xie unveiled SANA-Video 2.0 on July 24, 2026, a full-stack optimized video model designed for efficiency and high quality. The system uses a hybrid attention archite…
Figure has reportedly manufactured its 1,000th humanoid robot at its BotQ facility in San Jose, according to a robotics-industry account surfaced by Aligned News, though the company has not confirmed …
Sakana AI released Fugu-Ultra v1.1 on July 24, 2026, the latest iteration of its open-source Fugu model family, announced via an X post that gathered 31 likes, 6 retweets, and 1,857 views in its first…
Velmeni received FDA 510(k) clearance for VELMENI for DENTISTS 3D, AI-assisted software that segments anatomy and reconstructs views from cone-beam computed tomography scans. The clearance gives CEO M…
Monk, a New York software maker, has added outbound phone calls and inbound callbacks to Julia, its AI accounts receivable agent, extending the product beyond email into a channel where mistakes carry…
Willow, a voice dictation startup, announced a new platform on July 23rd, 2026, that measures success by a "zero edit rate" — the proportion of transcriptions that require no user edits before sending…
Stripe is in talks to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model marketplace, in a deal that could value the company at about $10 billion, according to a Wall Street Journal report on July 23, 2026. The acquisit…
Prosper Medical, co-founded by Ryan McQuaid and Dr. James Wantuck, has raised $16 million to expand its AI-supported concierge primary-care membership. The financing was led by FUSE, with participatio…
Palabra.ai claims the world's fastest text-to-speech latency at 104 ms time to first audio, based on an independent benchmark by Coval that ranks it ahead of ElevenLabs and Cartesia. The company says …
Great Sky, a Boulder startup founded by former NIST researcher Jeffrey Shainline, has sold $25.9 million of a planned $30.72 million securities offering for superconducting AI hardware, according to a…
VEED launched Multi-Shot Characters, an AI feature that automates multi-camera video creation from a single source clip, on July 23rd, 2026. The company claims the tool boosts viewer retention and cut…
PromptQL, an AI-native workspace built by the team behind Hasura, launched in July 2026 as a "multiplayer AI" alternative to Slack that unifies threads and shared knowledge. Co-founder Tanmai Govindan…
AegisAI, founded by former Google security executives Cy Khormaee and Ryan Luo, raised a $36 million Series A led by Battery Ventures, with existing investors Accel and Foundation Capital participatin…
Ant Ling (@AntLingAGI) on July 23rd, 2026 released Ling-3.0-flash, a 124-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) model that activates only 5.1 billion parameters per token and matches or beats its …