Meshy, a 3D generation platform, has raised nearly $400 million in Series B funding at a valuation exceeding 10 billion yuan, the company disclosed on July 20th. The round, backed by new investors inc…
Kai-Fu Lee's 01.AI is seeking a pre-IPO financing round before pursuing a Hong Kong listing in 2027, Bloomberg reported on July 20. Lee plans to close the round around the publication of 01.AI's first…
Independent developer Pedro Shakour released grok-build-ios on July 18th, an open-source SwiftUI client that lets developers control xAI's Grok Build coding agent from an iPhone. The app communicates …
LlamaIndex is offering $100 in builder credits to every accepted participant at the You.com Agentic Hackathon in San Francisco on July 24, giving the data-framework startup a direct route into new age…
Z.ai's GLM-5.2 leads open-weight language models as of July 20th with a score of 51 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, seven points ahead of its nearest rivals. Chinese labs dominate the t…
Pointhound founder Jay Reno operated the travel startup with four full-time human staffers while 750,000 people used its products in 2025, The Wall Street Journal reported on July 19. Reno told the Jo…
White House AI and crypto special adviser David Sacks attacked cybersecurity restrictions on American AI models on July 19, citing a developer's claim that Chinese model Kimi K3 fixed 15 security bugs…
Netflix paid approximately $587 million in cash for Ben Affleck's AI filmmaking startup InterPositive, according to a regulatory filing disclosed in July 2026. The acquisition, completed in March, bri…
Alibaba's Qwen team previewed Qwen3.8, a 2.4 trillion-parameter AI model, on July 19th, claiming it trails only Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 among frontier systems, but withheld technical details such a…
Christopher 'CJ' Pais, creator of the desktop dictation tool Handy, released transcribe.cpp on June 30 as an MIT-licensed C/C++ library that unifies local speech-to-text inference across macOS, Window…
Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS Preview beat Eleven v3 in a head-to-head text-to-speech comparison, scoring 27.0 to 24.0 with 88% confidence. The model won 2 of 3 tasks, including believable news readin…
Cribl acquired CardinalOps on July 14th for an estimated $100 million, adding an Israeli detection-engineering team as CEO Clint Sharp pushes the telemetry vendor into security operations. The acquisi…
UC Berkeley assistant teaching professor Phillip Kerger used OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Pro to derive a new lower bound in convex optimization, then formalized the result in the Lean theorem prover. The 36-…
Z.ai, the Tsinghua University spinout co-founded by Tang Jie and CEO Zhang Peng, reached a July sales pace that would annualize to $1 billion, according to Bloomberg, which would make it the first Chi…
LinkedIn senior director of AI platform and infrastructure Animesh Singh said the professional network has shifted roughly 80% of one agent workflow into scripted, deterministic code after finding tha…
An independent test of DeepSeek-V4-Pro found sharply different behavior depending on whether prompts contained cyber or biology content, raising new questions about whether some requests were being an…
DeweyLearn raised $5 million in Series A funding led by SJF Ventures to scale its multimodal AI that grades real-world skills by observing performance against institutional rubrics. The company, named…
Beacon Security announced a $13 million seed round on July 16, led by Notable Capital, to build a data layer that enables security teams to trust AI agents for detection, investigation and response. T…
Apoorv Shankar has raised $5.5 million for Aina, an AI hardware company he founded after leaving Ultrahuman, to build devices that control AI agents rather than just record users. The round was led by…
Fal added Bria AI's Product Dimensions API to its model gallery on July 16, giving developers a hosted endpoint that turns a product photo and supplied measurements into a marketplace-ready image with…