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…
A VentureBeat Research survey of 573 technical leaders at companies with 100+ employees found that 86% of enterprises operating their own GPUs run those chips at 50% utilization or less, revealing a w…
Sysdig documented JADEPUFFER, a ransomware-style database extortion operation that used an AI agent to automate much of the intrusion chain, according to a July 1 technical report. The attack exploite…
Known, a San Francisco dating startup founded by Stanford dropouts Celeste Amadon and Asher Allen, charges users $15 per date arranged by its AI agents, aiming to align revenue with real-world meeting…
Hello Patient's billing AI agent, named Pete, has replaced voicemail on Piedmont Urgent Care by WellStreet's centralized Georgia billing line, handling over 20,000 patient billing calls a month with n…
ASSET Research Group and Sudipta Chattopadhyay published a proof-of-concept attack called Ghostcommit that hides a prompt-injection instruction inside a PNG image, passes AI code review, and later ind…
Laws of Motion is shutting down its direct-to-consumer womenswear brand to focus entirely on licensing its AI-powered sizing technology to other apparel retailers. The company, which raised $5 million…
YC-backed startup Moss is hiring a senior SDK engineer to build the integration layer for its real-time semantic search platform, which claims sub-10 ms retrieval for conversational AI. The company ha…
Paris-based voice AI startup Gradium extended its seed financing to $100 million, adding Nvidia as a new investor and opening a San Francisco Bay Area office. The company, founded by former Kyutai res…
Reve released Reve 2.1 on July 10, upgrading its 4K image generation model with improved prompt comprehension, world knowledge, and foreign-text rendering while maintaining its layout-based architectu…
Puncture Robotic showcased its HAIRO hair-transplant robot at the World Congress for Hair Research in Seoul, positioning the system for international expansion after receiving China's first Class III …
Jimmy Cai, co-founder of Bay AI Circle, is launching AGI Summit SF 2026, a two-day conference at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco scheduled for July 18-19, targeting 15,000-plus attendees, 200…
Tencent is in talks to become the largest shareholder of AI agent startup Manus after Beijing ordered Meta to unwind its roughly $2 billion acquisition of the company. The deal would reset Manus' owne…
Benchmark partner Peter Fenton predicts open-weight AI will dominate token usage within two years, driven by developer-led adoption and cost pressure. The forecast suggests premium pricing for proprie…
EverMind launched Raven Agent on July 9, a self-improving AI agent harness built on its open-source EverOS memory operating system. The product aims to advance agents beyond one-off sessions by enabli…
Helsing asked employees to switch out of an employee stock option plan in May 2026 as the European defense-AI company works toward its largest financing yet, Bloomberg reported. The change moves staff…
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas predicted on July 11, 2026 that top-tier AI model costs could fall 3-4x within six months and that a locally-runnable Opus-grade model would arrive within 12 months. Y …
Collectly announced on July 9 that its AI revenue cycle platform and Billie billing agent are now available in Connection Hub on Epic Showroom, enabling health systems to automate patient billing whil…
Tyler Maran and Anna Pojawis scrapped their AI startup OmniAI after a $3.2 million seed round to launch Monumint, a conversational AI agent company for banks and credit unions. The founders pivoted be…
CollectWise, a Y Combinator-backed AI debt collection startup, is hiring its first founding account executive at $300,000-$375,000 OTE to scale beyond founder-led sales after reaching a $2 million ann…