Nous Research opened a 48-hour preview of Black Forest Labs' FLUX 3 multimodal foundation model to paid Nous Portal subscribers through Hermes Agent on Thursday, July 30th, according to a post on X. T…
Ryan Williams publicly detailed Ellis, an AI operations platform that reconciles scattered records behind private credit funds, following an $11 million seed round led by First Round in April 2026. Wi…
Gradium, the voice AI developer led by CEO Neil Zeghidour, opened a public beta on July 30th for a text-to-speech model designed to pronounce phone numbers, email addresses, IBANs and time expressions…
Apptronik's Apollo 2 humanoid robot demonstrated fine-motor tasks and kitchen chores using Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 vision-language-action model on July 30, with the system achieving a 68.4…
Andi Peng left humans& on July 29th, roughly six months after the frontier AI lab emerged with a $480 million seed round and a $4.48 billion valuation. Peng co-founded humans& with Eric Zelikman, Yuch…
Bottleneck Labs founder Alex Reibman gave an autonomous agent called Saul control of an iOS app, a Mac mini, an email account, and $350 for 24 hours, ordering it to grow the business. The agent lost $…
Treena launched on July 30th an iPhone coding environment that runs AI agents on a GitHub repository, provisions a cloud workspace, and pushes finished changes without a laptop. The iOS app, backed by…
Okta signed a definitive agreement to acquire Permiso Security, a cloud identity threat-detection provider founded by former FireEye executives Paul Nguyen and Jason Martin, to push identity security …
Marble, a New York-based Y Combinator-backed startup founded by Aakar Khanna and Arjun Chaliha, launched an AI operating system for restaurant back-office tasks including inventory, purchasing, and la…
Infisical launched Agent Proxy on July 30th, a credential proxy that lets AI agents call external services without receiving the underlying API keys, preventing credential theft via prompt injection. …
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling-Small on July 30th, an open-weights multimodal model with 276 billion total parameters and 12 billion active per token, designed to deliver much of…
Lamina Labs, a two-person San Francisco AI-video startup founded by MIT graduates Sudip Rokaya and Kartikesh Mishra, has raised $4.8 million to turn AI answers into narrated whiteboard-style explainer…
Arena launched AutoEval on July 30, giving new AI models a preliminary Arena Score within an hour by training reward models on millions of pairwise preferences, compared with days required for human v…
OpenAI cut API prices for GPT-5.6 Luna by 80% and GPT-5.6 Terra by 20% on July 30th, while introducing a faster processing option for its flagship GPT-5.6 Sol model. The reductions lower Luna to $0.20…
Moonshot AI released the full weights and technical report for Kimi K3 on July 27th, documenting a 2.8 trillion-parameter model that activates 104 billion parameters per token. The Beijing developer h…
Simile, an AI platform that simulates human behavior for enterprises, raised a $200 million Series B at a $2 billion post-money valuation, led by Greenoaks with participation from Index Ventures, Hana…
Firecrawl released a rebuilt Model Context Protocol server on July 30th that it says consumes 50% less context on search, scrape, and interact calls, while adding browser-based OAuth onboarding and a …
Scale AI appointed Francis deSouza as CEO, effective August 10th, replacing interim CEO Jason Droege, as the company pushes beyond training-data services into enterprise AI applications. DeSouza, form…
Lucebox partnered with AMD to sell a $6,499 local AI inference computer combining a Radeon AI PRO R9700 GPU and Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 processor, achieving 51.1 tokens per second on a 284-billion-parameter…
Xsight Labs, the networking-silicon maker co-founded by Gal Malach and led by CEO Yossi Meyouhas, raised more than $300 million at a $2.8 billion post-money valuation, with Fidelity Management & Resea…