Monid founder Shengkun Ye on July 20th launched pay-per-use access to public social media data, giving AI agents a single interface for reading posts, comments, profiles and engagement signals across …
Skyfall AI, co-founded by former Microsoft AI leaders Sam Pasupalak and Kaheer Suleman, plans to acquire a small B2B SaaS or e-commerce business for up to $1 million and hand its operations to an AI s…
Microagi, a robotics startup founded by former Formula 1 engineers, raised a $55 million seed round led by Hummingbird Ventures to expand Atlas, its system for collecting factory-floor data, training …
Nooklab founder Raymond Zhao unveiled a concept for a low-distraction AI screen on July 20th, pitching a physical assistant that captures voice and context, remembers commitments, and helps carry them…
Generative Bionics CEO Daniele Pucci and chief AI officer Alessio Del Bue launched the functional Gene.01 humanoid robot on July 20th, six months after its CES concept debut, featuring distributed ski…
Hugging Face closed two dataset-processing vulnerabilities after an attacker exploited a malicious dataset to reach several internal clusters and obtain service credentials in mid-July. The breach, di…
Spotnana, the New York travel infrastructure company founded by Sarosh Waghmar, released a multi-agent AI architecture on July 20 that automates routine work for corporate travel agents, including ref…
Ramp opened a closed beta for Ramp Router on July 20th, a gateway that directs AI requests across approved models and tracks costs, which the company says cut its internal large language model costs b…
Cognition acquired TierZero, an AI production operations startup founded by Anhang Zhu and Yun Park, to integrate TierZero's incident response and infrastructure automations into its Devin software en…
A-Comm Technologies founder and CEO Krystal Gracier opened the draft A-Comm Evidence Protocol (AEP) for public comment on July 13th, proposing a tamper-evident record for AI agent transactions that me…
Infinity, a San Francisco-based AI infrastructure startup, announced a $15 million seed round at a $100 million post-money valuation to scale its platform that automates the adaptation of inference so…
IG market analyst Tony Sycamore estimated that Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 model erased a combined $314 billion from valuation estimates for OpenAI and Anthropic, according to a Bloomberg report on July 20.…
Tempus AI Inc. announced on Monday its intent to acquire Personalis Inc. for approximately $1.5 billion, a deal aimed at integrating Personalis' cancer testing capabilities into Tempus' AI-enabled pre…
Empirical Security has raised a $25 million Series A led by Brightmind Partners to tailor exploit predictions to each customer's environment, bringing its disclosed funding to $37 million. The Chicago…
Your360 AI disclosed $1.4 million in SAFE financing from seven investors toward a $2 million target, according to a July 20, 2026 SEC Form D filing. The voice-based workplace coaching platform, founde…
Neo, a Boston-based cybersecurity startup founded by former SentinelOne executives Nick Warner and Shlomi Salem, emerged from stealth on July 20 with $100 million in cumulative seed and Series A fundi…
Y Combinator and Together AI have partnered to launch a dedicated GPU cluster for YC-backed startups, addressing the critical shortage of compute resources for AI model training. The initiative, annou…
Gpt-oss-120b defeated DeepSeek-V4-Pro 106.3 to 93.7 across 12 text tasks, winning 10 of 12 matchups with 99% confidence, according to a head-to-head benchmark scored by gpt-5.4. The open-source model …
ETH Zurich spin-off goNEON has secured CHF150,000 (approximately EUR160,000) from Venture Kick to develop an agentic AI platform for infrastructure planning. CEO Raphael Eder and CTO Dr Lukas Ballo pl…
CuspAI, a Cambridge, UK-based materials discovery startup, raised $450 million in Series B funding on July 20, achieving a $2.6 billion valuation two years after founding. Kleiner Perkins and NEA co-l…