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…
Hacked Suno source code reviewed by 404 Media reveals the AI music company scraped YouTube Music, Deezer, Genius, Pond5, Jamendo, Freesound, IMSLP, MuseScore and podcast RSS feeds to build training li…
Kimi-K2.7-Code defeated gpt-5.4-mini 100.0 to 98.8 in a head-to-head test of 12 fresh text tasks, with an 83% confidence verdict and a 6-3-3 win-loss-tie record. The evaluation, scored by gpt-5.4, fou…
OpenBox AI has joined Temporal's AI partner ecosystem and shipped an integration that injects runtime governance checks into Temporal workflows for long-running enterprise agents, announced July 13. T…
Refer, an AI recruiting startup founded by Andre Hamra, has raised a previously unannounced $7.5 million seed round, bringing total disclosed funding to about $10 million. The San Francisco-based comp…
Float, a Stockholm-founded fintech led by CEO Cedric Notz, has raised EUR4.5 million in Series A funding led by CHAPTERS Group AG to build an AI-native financial platform for European startups, shifti…
Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and ORCA Computing have demonstrated the first end-to-end hybrid quantum-classical pipeline for designing MHC class I-binding peptides, validat…
George Hotz's tinygrad claims to map PCIe Base Address Registers directly for NVIDIA and AMD GPUs, a low-level runtime approach that bypasses vendor driver APIs like CUDA and ROCm. The tinygrad runtim…
George Hotz, founder of tinygrad and comma.ai, published a July 12th blog post arguing that AI doom rhetoric is being used to justify high valuations for frontier AI labs, while the actual progress of…
LALAL.AI launched Lynx, a new voice isolation model that is 6x smaller than its prior flagship Andromeda and is now the default model in Voice Cleaner, according to a company announcement on July 13. …
Kimi-K2.7-Code defeated gpt-5.4-nano in a head-to-head benchmark of 12 text tasks, winning 7 tasks to 2 with a 95% confidence margin. The aggregate score was 104.0 for Kimi-K2.7-Code versus 92.8 for g…
Revenue Growth Agent expanded from AI meeting preparation into a broader sales execution system that carries buyer context through discovery, HubSpot workflows, proposals and Statements of Work, the C…
Promptwatch, an Amsterdam startup founded in 2025 by Gijs de Groot and Klaas Foppen, raised EUR6 million in seed funding to automate generative engine optimization (GEO) for brands. The round was led …
Reed Jobs has turned Yosemite from a 2023 oncology fund into a 17-person venture firm using AI, grantmaking and company formation to accelerate cancer science from university labs to clinical developm…
Robbyant released six embodied-AI models over four days spanning perception, action, world modeling and video, positioning the LingBot stack as a platform for robotics developers. The public artifacts…
Guthrie AI, a Philadelphia construction AI startup led by founder and CEO Ted Baumgardner, has raised a $4 million seed round led by Chicago Ventures to expand its Virtual Bid Assistant service for co…
PixVerse's R1 real-time world model aims to make AI video behave like a live, steerable environment rather than a rendered file, targeting gaming, livestreaming, and entertainment. The company, which …
Kimi-K2.7-Code defeated DeepSeek-V4-Flash in a head-to-head benchmark with an aggregate score of 112.4 to 99.8, winning 5 tasks to 3 with 4 ties and a 75% confidence lean. The evaluation, conducted by…