Manus launched Branch on July 9th, a feature that lets users split a single AI chat into parallel sessions while retaining context. The tool aims to streamline agent workflows by allowing one research…
Marker, an AI writing startup co-founded by former DeepMind creative lead Jon Steinback and Ryan Bowman, emerged from stealth with a $13 million seed round led by Index Ventures and backed by LocalGlo…
OpenAI scheduled a 10 a.m. Pacific livestream for July 9th without specifying the product, a deliberate tactic to concentrate attention and prevent competitors from preparing. The announcement follows…
Y Combinator-backed Context.dev launched a unified API that bundles web scraping, brand data extraction, and screenshot capture for AI agents, replacing the need for developers to build custom data pi…
Jeff Morgan and Michael Chiang's Ollama raised a $65 million Series B led by Theory Ventures, bringing total funding to $88 million. The open-source AI developer tool, used by over 8.9 million develop…
Meta released Muse Spark 1.1, a new agentic and coding model, to developers via the Meta Model API at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens, undercutting competitors like …
Whering, a UK digital wardrobe platform, raised $7 million in seed funding co-led by eBay Ventures and Google AI Futures Fund. The company plans to use the capital to develop AI-assisted styling and r…
Display.dev, a Tallinn-based agent document platform founded by Ott Ilves and Carl Rannaberg, raised EUR 470,000 in pre-seed funding from Outlast Fund, FIRSTPICK, Curiosity VC, and angel investor Henr…
A 44-author robotics group led by Tianxing Chen released RoboDojo, an open benchmark for testing generalist robot manipulation policies across simulation and physical robots, evaluating 30 policies an…
Clemens Wessendorff's ARC Intelligence raised EUR4 million in seed funding for an AI-native finance platform that connects ERP, CRM and other enterprise systems into one control layer. The round was l…
SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.5 on July 8, a coding-focused AI model priced at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, with Elon Musk claiming it rivals Claude Opus 4.7 in performance…
Auxilius, a Germany-based AI governance, risk and compliance automation startup, raised EUR 1.3 million in pre-seed funding led by High-Tech Gruenderfonds with participation from Techstars. The compan…
Panora, a French AI software startup for insurance brokers, raised $5 million in seed funding led by Isai and joined by Kima Ventures, 100in, 199 Ventures, and the founders of Pennylane. The company a…
In a head-to-head test of AI video generation, Gemini Omni Flash scored 17.6 to AnimateDiff Turbo's 3.6, demonstrating superior scene construction and prompt obedience across two tasks involving a bak…
Artificial Analysis launched AutomationBench-AA on July 7, 2026, an independent leaderboard for Zapier's AutomationBench that grades AI agents on final-state outcomes of simulated SaaS workflows. The …
SpaceXAI's Grok 4.5 ranked fourth on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, scoring 54 behind Fable 5, GPT-5.5, and Opus 4.8. The model showed strong cost efficiency at $0.31 per task and competitiv…
MeetKai co-founder and CEO James Kaplan signed an MOU with Albania's National Agency for Information Society to advance plans for a joint venture building Albanian-language AI models and sovereign inf…
Sourcerer, a San Francisco-based startup founded by Peter Cetale and Robert Magee, aims to replace traditional procurement software by acting as the supplier of record for physical goods, using AI age…
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5, a new AI model trained alongside coding tool Cursor, aimed at coding and technical tasks. Cursor co-founder Michael Truell called it an "Opus-class model" that is fast and …
OfficeCLI, an open-source command-line suite from the iOfficeAI GitHub organization, enables AI agents to read, create, edit, and automate Microsoft Office files without a local Office installation. T…