Paris-based voice AI startup Gradium extended its seed financing to $100 million, adding Nvidia as a new investor and opening a San Francisco Bay Area office. The company, founded by former Kyutai res…
Reve released Reve 2.1 on July 10, upgrading its 4K image generation model with improved prompt comprehension, world knowledge, and foreign-text rendering while maintaining its layout-based architectu…
Puncture Robotic showcased its HAIRO hair-transplant robot at the World Congress for Hair Research in Seoul, positioning the system for international expansion after receiving China's first Class III …
Jimmy Cai, co-founder of Bay AI Circle, is launching AGI Summit SF 2026, a two-day conference at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco scheduled for July 18-19, targeting 15,000-plus attendees, 200…
Tencent is in talks to become the largest shareholder of AI agent startup Manus after Beijing ordered Meta to unwind its roughly $2 billion acquisition of the company. The deal would reset Manus' owne…
Benchmark partner Peter Fenton predicts open-weight AI will dominate token usage within two years, driven by developer-led adoption and cost pressure. The forecast suggests premium pricing for proprie…
EverMind launched Raven Agent on July 9, a self-improving AI agent harness built on its open-source EverOS memory operating system. The product aims to advance agents beyond one-off sessions by enabli…
Helsing asked employees to switch out of an employee stock option plan in May 2026 as the European defense-AI company works toward its largest financing yet, Bloomberg reported. The change moves staff…
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas predicted on July 11, 2026 that top-tier AI model costs could fall 3-4x within six months and that a locally-runnable Opus-grade model would arrive within 12 months. Y …
Collectly announced on July 9 that its AI revenue cycle platform and Billie billing agent are now available in Connection Hub on Epic Showroom, enabling health systems to automate patient billing whil…
Tyler Maran and Anna Pojawis scrapped their AI startup OmniAI after a $3.2 million seed round to launch Monumint, a conversational AI agent company for banks and credit unions. The founders pivoted be…
CollectWise, a Y Combinator-backed AI debt collection startup, is hiring its first founding account executive at $300,000-$375,000 OTE to scale beyond founder-led sales after reaching a $2 million ann…
Bun, the JavaScript toolkit with over 22 million monthly CLI downloads, is being rewritten from Zig to Rust, founder Jarred Sumner announced on July 8. The rewrite, aided by Anthropic's Claude Fable 5…
XAI's Grok Build terminal coding agent contains an undocumented Doom-like mini-game accessible via the /gboom command, confirmed by RuntimeWire testing on July 10th. The Easter egg is absent from publ…
In a head-to-head comparison of AI video generation models, Gemini Omni Flash decisively defeated AnimateDiff with a score of 34.8 to 14.6, winning all four tasks with 97% confidence. Gemini Omni Flas…
Insilico Medicine's AI-discovered lung fibrosis drug, Rentosertib, has entered Phase III clinical trials for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, marking a rare late-stage test for AI drug discovery. The co…
ZML released LLMD, a free inference server for open large language models that runs across Nvidia CUDA, AMD ROCm, Google TPU, Intel oneAPI and Apple Metal, aiming to decouple AI workloads from proprie…
In a head-to-head test of 12 text tasks, OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Pro scored 112.0 to xAI's Grok 4.5's 106.1, winning 5 tasks to 3 with 4 ties, giving OpenAI a narrow but real edge. Sol Pro excelled in im…
OpenAI claims its GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra model produced a candidate proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture, a 50-year-old open problem in graph theory, using 64 subagents in under an hour. The proof, p…
Melius, a startup led by CEO Joowon Kim, launched a visual canvas for AI agents that replaces chatbots with node-based creative production. The tool integrates with agent protocols like MCP to let ext…