Anthropic is rumored to be acquiring Physical Intelligence, a robot foundation-model developer, according to an uncorroborated claim from Robert Scoble citing an unnamed investor. Physical Intelligenc…
YC-backed Agentcard launched a rewards program on July 17th that gives users tokens for every purchase made with an Agentcard, adding a loyalty layer to its product that lets AI agents spend money onl…
Hadrius, a New York compliance software company, raised $27 million in combined seed and Series A funding led by CRV with participation from Y Combinator and others, aiming to automate financial-servi…
In a head-to-head benchmark of 12 fresh text tasks, Kimi-K2.7-Code scored 103.5 against gpt-5.4's 101.5, with only 50% confidence that either model is better, resulting in a tie. Kimi edged ahead on c…
State Affairs announced $70 million in total funding on July 14 to expand its AI-powered policy and regulatory intelligence platform, backed by Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Tru Arrow Partners and A…
Parallel Web Systems, the AI search startup founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, has integrated its web search API into Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform as a preview grounding o…
Prolo, a London-based AI procurement platform for small and medium-sized construction firms, has raised £4.2 million in seed funding led by Triple Point Ventures with participation from a16z Scout Fun…
MIT researchers have published a non-generative test for CSAM-tuned AI models called Gaussian probing, which checks LoRA-adapted diffusion models by reading internal activations instead of producing i…
EdVisorly, a Los Angeles enrollment software company founded by Air Force veteran Manny Smith, raised $13.3 million in a Series A round led by Breachway Capital to expand its AI systems for college ad…
Whatnot acquired Shaped, a machine-learning company for real-time recommendations and search, to accelerate live-shopping discovery. Shaped founder Tullie Murrell and nearly a dozen engineers and AI r…
DeepSeek's 75% price cut on its V4-Pro model, reported in May 2026, exposes a deeper problem for AI founders: agentic products consume tokens far faster than model prices drop, according to a VentureB…
Saturn Cloud founder Sebastian Metti announced a partnership on July 15 with YC-backed Lilac, adding Lilac's idle GPU network as a capacity provider for Saturn's token factory platform. The deal lets …
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling on July 15th, its first trained-from-scratch foundation model, making the full weights available under an Apache 2.0 license for developers to fine…
OpenAI introduced GPT-Red on July 15th, an internal automated red-teaming model designed to find prompt injection vulnerabilities at scale and feed those attacks back into the training of production m…
Arbital Health launched Arbital Flex on July 15, 2026, a self-serve actuarial AI software for payors and providers to analyze value-based care contracts, claiming it cuts time to insight from months t…
Hacked Suno source code reviewed by 404 Media reveals the AI music company scraped YouTube Music, Deezer, Genius, Pond5, Jamendo, Freesound, IMSLP, MuseScore and podcast RSS feeds to build training li…
Kimi-K2.7-Code defeated gpt-5.4-mini 100.0 to 98.8 in a head-to-head test of 12 fresh text tasks, with an 83% confidence verdict and a 6-3-3 win-loss-tie record. The evaluation, scored by gpt-5.4, fou…
OpenBox AI has joined Temporal's AI partner ecosystem and shipped an integration that injects runtime governance checks into Temporal workflows for long-running enterprise agents, announced July 13. T…
Refer, an AI recruiting startup founded by Andre Hamra, has raised a previously unannounced $7.5 million seed round, bringing total disclosed funding to about $10 million. The San Francisco-based comp…
Float, a Stockholm-founded fintech led by CEO Cedric Notz, has raised EUR4.5 million in Series A funding led by CHAPTERS Group AG to build an AI-native financial platform for European startups, shifti…