Figma acquired the team behind Bud, an AI agent builder formerly known as Orchids, to strengthen its AI prototyping capabilities. The deal, reported by TechCrunch on July 7, 2026, will shut down Bud a…
Comma.ai CTO Harald Schaefer announced on July 7th that Anthropic is now a banned vendor at the autonomous-driving software company, citing concerns over user sovereignty and high usage costs. Schaefe…
OpenAI endorsed the European Commission's voluntary Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content on June 11, 2025, committing to use provenance tools like C2PA Content Credentials and Synt…
Google announced new Managed Agents features in the Gemini API on July 7, including background tasks, remote MCP, function calling, and credential refresh, aiming to reduce production deployment compl…
Meta released Muse Image on July 7, its first image-generation model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, led by Alexandr Wang. The model integrates web searching and planning capabilities into Meta AI, …
Monogram, co-founded by Eren Bali, launched a visual AI iPhone app and announced a $40 million seed round led by DST Global and Lux Capital. The app generates interactive visual interfaces from AI res…
Predio launched a pay-per-call JSON and MCP service that wraps Spain's public Catastro cadastral data into machine-readable APIs for proptech teams, real estate operators and AI agents, bypassing the …
A developer claims to have built a multiplayer first-person capture-the-flag shooter in one afternoon using Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 model for $150, with an additional 3-4 hours of debugging. The de…
Anthropic extended promotional access to its Claude Fable 5 model for paid users through July 12th, giving subscribers five more days before the model stops being treated as a partially bundled subscr…
Former Facebook employees Alexandre Roche and Serkan Piantino proposed on Threads that Meta should adopt top Chinese open models like GLM-5.2, build superior tooling around them, and leverage its dist…
AI4Eyes has been accepted into the MEDTEQ+ Avise Program and awarded $700,000 to validate its AI-powered dry eye platform in real-world clinical settings within Quebec's health system. The one-year pr…
Anthropic's $65 billion Series H round, led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital, accounted for nearly half of Q2 2026 venture funding, highlighting extreme concentration in…
Luffy AI, a UK startup developing adaptive AI control software for industrial systems, raised GBP 8.1 million in Series A funding led by BGF with participation from MIG Capital AG and existing investo…
Gyre Energy, an AI-powered industrial cooling startup founded by Oxford MBAs, raised over $1.3 million in pre-seed funding led by Speedinvest to deploy its technology in cold-chain warehouses. The com…
Ray Kurzweil announced RAI, a digital twin built from his lifetime knowledge and intellectual framework, through a joint venture between Kurzweil Technologies and Praxis AI. The AI product is schedule…
Highloop LLC's Strata app delivers AI-powered backcountry route planning with a plain-English safety verdict of go, watch, or avoid, drawing on avalanche bulletins, slope data, and live weather via An…
Cody Churchwell launched FedFinder on June 30, an AI-powered contract intelligence platform designed to help small and midsize government contractors identify federal opportunities before they are pub…
Aureka, led by Dr. Weian Zhao, released Open Drug Discovery Engine (OpenDDE), an open-source biomolecular foundation model for AI-driven therapeutic discovery. The model focuses on co-folding and stru…
General Intuition and Kyutai released MIRA on July 6th, a playable multiplayer world model that simulates a four-player Rocket League-style match in real time using a 5B-parameter diffusion transforme…
GMI Cloud reported on July 7th that Tencent's Hy3 model outperformed GLM 5.1 and DeepSeek V4 in a small internal web design test, highlighting a shift in developer workflows toward task-specific open …