A reverse engineering analysis by user Lon alleges that Anthropic's Claude Code client can silently switch requests from Claude Fable 5 to Claude Opus 4.8, bypassing user controls and notifications, w…
PDW Holdings, a Huntsville defense drone manufacturer co-founded by Matt Higgins and Ryan Gury, received a conditional loan commitment of up to $820 million from the U.S. Department of War's Office of…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman previewed an unreleased model family called 'Astra' to Washington policymakers, pitching a system designed to coordinate multiple AI agents over long periods, according to The In…
Plasma AI released Plasma Wiki, an open-source command-line tool that gives AI coding agents a deterministic way to inspect project knowledge stored in Markdown files, avoiding the need to load entire…
Amazon completed its $50 billion investment in OpenAI, the largest piece of OpenAI's record $110 billion financing round announced February 27 at a $730 billion pre-money valuation, according to the F…
MemTensor, a Shanghai AI developer founded by former Alibaba data executive Xiong Feiyu, released the Metis family of models (4B, 9B, and 27B) that maintain memory inside the model backbone instead of…
Google is backing away from its planned standalone AI Studio mobile app one day before its scheduled release, despite claiming roughly 800,000 preorders across iOS and Android. The company announced o…
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Harvard University introduced Explorative Modeling (XM), a training method that generates K candidate outputs per example and backpropaga…
Google AI Studio reported roughly 800,000 pre-registrations for its mobile app, then announced it is pursuing an "entirely different approach" to mobile software building, suggesting a shift away from…
Tracer, a San Francisco AI lab founded by Adam Rida, launched Echo on July 31st, an adaptive inference system that coordinates multiple open-weight models and returns a single answer through an OpenAI…
Supabase, the Postgres-based development platform founded by Paul Copplestone and Ant Wilson, launched Supabase Evals on July 31st, an open-source benchmark for measuring how well AI coding agents bui…
E J Ziyad launched UML (Universal Memory Layer) on July 31 as a shared memory system for Claude, ChatGPT, coding agents, and custom apps, using a graph-based architecture to store and retrieve durable…
Argo IQ, a Los Angeles startup founded by Trenton Hughes, claims its revenue has grown tenfold since February 2026 after shifting from AI workflow monitoring to done-for-you growth operations, though …
Flapping Airplanes, an AI research lab founded by Ben Spector, Asher Spector, and Aidan Smith, is in talks to raise a new financing round at a reported $5 billion valuation, according to Forbes. Index…
Zenbu founder Rob Pruzan released terminal-browser on Thursday, July 30th, a tool that puts a Chromium browser inside the terminal where developers run coding agents, enabling live web previews and ag…
Argil, the Paris AI-video startup founded by Laodis Menard and Brivael Le Pogam, has integrated MiniMax H3 into its AI-avatar social video workflow, making H3 a footage-generation option within its pr…
Huawei released openPangu 2.0 Pro, a Mixture-of-Experts language model with approximately 505 billion total parameters and 18 billion activated per token, trained entirely on its Ascend AI processors.…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claimed on July 31st that AI cost declines are 20 times faster than Moore's law, after OpenAI announced that its GPT-5.6 Sol model helped cut the cost of serving itself by 20% an…
Y Combinator announced on July 31st that it will open-source QM, a multi-agent harness used across accounting, legal, events, and engineering, marking a shift from internal tool to public release. The…
Space-Eyes, founded by CEO Jatin Bains, agreed to go public via a merger with McKinley Acquisition Corp., valuing the post-merger business at $638 million despite generating only about $1 million in a…