An independent test of DeepSeek-V4-Pro found sharply different behavior depending on whether prompts contained cyber or biology content, raising new questions about whether some requests were being an…
DeweyLearn raised $5 million in Series A funding led by SJF Ventures to scale its multimodal AI that grades real-world skills by observing performance against institutional rubrics. The company, named…
Beacon Security announced a $13 million seed round on July 16, led by Notable Capital, to build a data layer that enables security teams to trust AI agents for detection, investigation and response. T…
Apoorv Shankar has raised $5.5 million for Aina, an AI hardware company he founded after leaving Ultrahuman, to build devices that control AI agents rather than just record users. The round was led by…
Fal added Bria AI's Product Dimensions API to its model gallery on July 16, giving developers a hosted endpoint that turns a product photo and supplied measurements into a marketplace-ready image with…
Anthropic is rumored to be acquiring Physical Intelligence, a robot foundation-model developer, according to an uncorroborated claim from Robert Scoble citing an unnamed investor. Physical Intelligenc…
YC-backed Agentcard launched a rewards program on July 17th that gives users tokens for every purchase made with an Agentcard, adding a loyalty layer to its product that lets AI agents spend money onl…
Hadrius, a New York compliance software company, raised $27 million in combined seed and Series A funding led by CRV with participation from Y Combinator and others, aiming to automate financial-servi…
In a head-to-head benchmark of 12 fresh text tasks, Kimi-K2.7-Code scored 103.5 against gpt-5.4's 101.5, with only 50% confidence that either model is better, resulting in a tie. Kimi edged ahead on c…
State Affairs announced $70 million in total funding on July 14 to expand its AI-powered policy and regulatory intelligence platform, backed by Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Tru Arrow Partners and A…
Parallel Web Systems, the AI search startup founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, has integrated its web search API into Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform as a preview grounding o…
Prolo, a London-based AI procurement platform for small and medium-sized construction firms, has raised £4.2 million in seed funding led by Triple Point Ventures with participation from a16z Scout Fun…
MIT researchers have published a non-generative test for CSAM-tuned AI models called Gaussian probing, which checks LoRA-adapted diffusion models by reading internal activations instead of producing i…
EdVisorly, a Los Angeles enrollment software company founded by Air Force veteran Manny Smith, raised $13.3 million in a Series A round led by Breachway Capital to expand its AI systems for college ad…
Whatnot acquired Shaped, a machine-learning company for real-time recommendations and search, to accelerate live-shopping discovery. Shaped founder Tullie Murrell and nearly a dozen engineers and AI r…
DeepSeek's 75% price cut on its V4-Pro model, reported in May 2026, exposes a deeper problem for AI founders: agentic products consume tokens far faster than model prices drop, according to a VentureB…
Saturn Cloud founder Sebastian Metti announced a partnership on July 15 with YC-backed Lilac, adding Lilac's idle GPU network as a capacity provider for Saturn's token factory platform. The deal lets …
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling on July 15th, its first trained-from-scratch foundation model, making the full weights available under an Apache 2.0 license for developers to fine…
OpenAI introduced GPT-Red on July 15th, an internal automated red-teaming model designed to find prompt injection vulnerabilities at scale and feed those attacks back into the training of production m…
Arbital Health launched Arbital Flex on July 15, 2026, a self-serve actuarial AI software for payors and providers to analyze value-based care contracts, claiming it cuts time to insight from months t…