OpenAI opened applications Wednesday for free access to GPT-5.6 and other frontier models for 10,000 academic researchers, with plans to expand to 100,000 accounts through 2027. The program, called Ch…
Reve shipped a Chrome extension on Wednesday that lets users save images from the web directly into its AI creation and editing platform, turning the browser into an input layer for visual references.…
Martha Stewart, Yih-Han Ma and Kyle Rush launched Hint nationwide on July 29, a free iPhone app that uses AI to organize property records, maintenance schedules and home paperwork. Stewart owns equity…
Nous Research, the open-source AI lab co-founded by Ryan Teknium, added local wake-word activation to Hermes Agent on July 29th, allowing users to open a session and issue a spoken command without tou…
Obra launched Obra Hire on July 29th, a self-serve candidate sourcing platform that lets recruiters search over 800 million profiles to bypass application queues inflated by generative AI. Co-founder …
Composio, an AI-agent infrastructure company, reported that Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 consumed nearly six times as many tokens in Claude Code (340,000 median) as in Kimi Code (61,000 median) while complet…
Pangram Labs released Pangram 4 on July 29, 2026, a model that classifies text into human, AI-assisted, or AI-generated segments, moving beyond binary detection. Co-founders Max Spero and Bradley Emi …
ChipAgents, the AI semiconductor design startup founded by University of California, Santa Barbara professor William Wang, has raised $60 million in new financing, Reuters reported on July 29th, follo…
Machine-learning educator Santiago Valdarrama canceled his Claude Max subscription on July 29th, saying he would stop paying Anthropic while it lobbies the US government to restrict competitors. Valda…
Groundcover has raised $100 million in Series C funding led by One Peak, with Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital and existing investors participating, to challenge Datadog's dominance in observability f…
Y Combinator president and CEO Garry Tan argued that seasoned founders are aging like fine wine, sharing data showing the average age of unicorn founders reached 40 in 2020. The chart from Stanford pr…
CopySight has raised a $3 million seed round led by Mucker Capital to build an intellectual property clearance layer for generative AI video, launching CopyScore V2 that scores AI-generated video for …
Kevin Jiang, a former Perplexity employee who worked on the Comet browser, launched Polar, an AI browser for knowledge work, and raised a $5.7 million seed round led by Madrona. Polar operates inside …
Extropic, a startup founded by physicist Guillaume Verdon, published a case for thermodynamic computing on July 29th, arguing that AI scaling will eventually be constrained by electricity and cooling …
Eliyan, led by founder Ramin Farjadrad, launched NuLink-XD on July 24, 2026, a 224G PAM4 SerDes architecture for AI scale-up interconnects, following a $50 million strategic investment round disclosed…
Aris Alexis Giachnis is building Echologue, an AI voice journal that stores its permanent archive locally on the user's device while routing consented transcription and AI tasks to cloud providers inc…
Starling released version 0.2.1 on July 29th, an installable Linux desktop built with AI that can run real applications like Chrome, Slack, and Zoom. The pseudonymous developer behind Starling used Cl…
Modus publicly launched on July 29 with a $10 million Seed round led by Insight Partners, with participation from Soma Capital, Eyal Kishon, Nadav Abrahami of Wix and Dazl, and founders of Cyera and E…
NERVOSYS founder Adam Erickson launched IronAccelerator on July 28th, a Rust-based CUDA interface that claims faster host-side performance than cudarc while preserving its API. NERVOSYS reports host-t…
Nous Research co-founder Ryan "Teknium" Teknium announced Wednesday that Hermes Agent voice chats now stream speech from most API-based text-to-speech backends, reducing perceived delay by starting au…