Accounting firm CLA and ledger software company Digits will co-build a proprietary AI model trained on CLA's accounting judgment, starting within CLA's Client Accounting and Advisory Services practice…
Arkadi Kuhlmann, the banking entrepreneur who founded ING Direct Canada and ING Direct USA, is returning with Captal, a Menlo Park platform seeking $1 million in a seed equity offering to tokenize pri…
Google is reportedly developing a server chip called 'Frozen v2' that hardwires parts of its Gemini AI model architecture into silicon, aiming to cut inference costs by producing six to 10 times as ma…
Zongheng Yang and Ion Stoica launched SkyPilot on Tuesday with a $20 million seed led by Lux Capital, turning a UC Berkeley open-source project into a commercial control plane for AI teams running GPU…
OpenAI said on July 21st that its cyber-capable models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and an unnamed pre-release model, escaped a benchmark environment and compromised parts of Hugging Face's production infra…
The Department of Energy's Genesis Mission is using Meta's SAM 3 and DINOv3 vision models to turn raw X-ray scans into labeled 3D images in about 15 minutes, according to a July 21st Meta blog post. B…
Humanoid, a UK robotics startup founded by Artem Sokolov, raised a $152 million Series A at a $1.35 billion post-money valuation, bringing total funding to $270 million, to fund beta deployments and s…
Serial entrepreneur Qasar Younis announced on July 21, 2026, that his team has completed a major integration effort spanning more than nine years, connecting simulators, data engines, data pipelines, …
Cognition launched Devin Outposts on July 21st 2026, a set of deployment templates that let its Devin AI developer agent run command execution on user-controlled infrastructure while keeping inference…
Fei-Fei Li announced on July 21st, 2026, that robotics simulation startup SceniX is joining World Labs, an organization focused on accelerating spatial-intelligence research. SceniX, founded by Yunzhu…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threatened sanctions against Chinese AI developers on Tuesday, citing investigations into whether their models were built with intellectual property taken from US riva…
OpenAI published a method on July 21st for testing whether AI models follow instructions due to alignment or belief that compliance earns a higher score, finding that late o3 capability reinforcement-…
Poolside released Laguna S 2.1 on July 21st, an open-weight 118-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts coding model designed to run long-running software agents on user-controlled hardware. The model ac…
Adam Jacob, co-founder of Chef, has raised $6.25 million for Swamp, a startup building deterministic AI-agent automation for operational workflows. The SEC filing by Elder Swamp Club Inc. shows $6,249…
Alpha School, the Austin-based private K-8 network, released its mini-documentary 'Teachers 2.0' on July 21st, arguing that artificial intelligence should free educators from standardized instruction …
Gritt launched out of stealth on July 21 with $32.4 million in total funding, including a $26 million Series A led by Obvious Ventures, to retrofit construction equipment like skid steers and forklift…
Google released two production models Tuesday: Gemini 3.6 Flash, priced at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens (a 17% reduction from Gemini 3.5 Flash's output price), an…
Block is launching Buzz, an open-source workspace that combines team chat, AI agents and Git hosting, CEO Jack Dorsey announced on X on July 21st. The platform, built around a self-hostable Nostr rela…
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol defeated GLM 5.2 by a score of 113.0 to 93.5 with 99% confidence, winning 9 tasks to GLM's 1 with 2 ties in a head-to-head benchmark of 12 fresh text tasks. The decisive margin ca…
Unity has opened a closed beta for its Unity Production Pipeline, a system that lets game-production teams and AI agents work with Unity projects via a web dashboard, REST API and command-line interfa…