Google Research introduced SensorFM on July 9th, a wearable health foundation model trained on over one trillion minutes of sensor data from five million consented Fitbit and Pixel Watch users. The mo…
AI training data startup Mercor is in early talks to raise new capital at a $20 billion valuation, double its October 2025 valuation, as co-founder Brendan Foody reports annualized revenue run rate ha…
Matt Shumer, co-founder of OthersideAI, demonstrated on July 9th that OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol autonomously generated a voxel-based Manhattan scene over nearly a week without human intervention, showcasin…
Neurotech startup Aleph published a silent-speech prototype that uses submental ultrasound to image tongue motion and convert it into text, achieving a 15.6% word error rate on an open-vocabulary test…
Muse Spark 1.1 defeated Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 in a head-to-head benchmark, scoring 104.5 to 94.5 across 12 text tasks. The win was driven by Muse's superior instruction-following on constrained,…
OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 on July 9th with three tiers—Sol, Terra, and Luna—priced at $5, $2.50, and $1 per million input tokens respectively, positioning the model as an operating layer for long-runnin…
Manus launched Branch on July 9th, a feature that lets users split a single AI chat into parallel sessions while retaining context. The tool aims to streamline agent workflows by allowing one research…
Marker, an AI writing startup co-founded by former DeepMind creative lead Jon Steinback and Ryan Bowman, emerged from stealth with a $13 million seed round led by Index Ventures and backed by LocalGlo…
OpenAI scheduled a 10 a.m. Pacific livestream for July 9th without specifying the product, a deliberate tactic to concentrate attention and prevent competitors from preparing. The announcement follows…
Y Combinator-backed Context.dev launched a unified API that bundles web scraping, brand data extraction, and screenshot capture for AI agents, replacing the need for developers to build custom data pi…
Jeff Morgan and Michael Chiang's Ollama raised a $65 million Series B led by Theory Ventures, bringing total funding to $88 million. The open-source AI developer tool, used by over 8.9 million develop…
Meta released Muse Spark 1.1, a new agentic and coding model, to developers via the Meta Model API at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens, undercutting competitors like …
Whering, a UK digital wardrobe platform, raised $7 million in seed funding co-led by eBay Ventures and Google AI Futures Fund. The company plans to use the capital to develop AI-assisted styling and r…
Display.dev, a Tallinn-based agent document platform founded by Ott Ilves and Carl Rannaberg, raised EUR 470,000 in pre-seed funding from Outlast Fund, FIRSTPICK, Curiosity VC, and angel investor Henr…
A 44-author robotics group led by Tianxing Chen released RoboDojo, an open benchmark for testing generalist robot manipulation policies across simulation and physical robots, evaluating 30 policies an…
Clemens Wessendorff's ARC Intelligence raised EUR4 million in seed funding for an AI-native finance platform that connects ERP, CRM and other enterprise systems into one control layer. The round was l…
SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.5 on July 8, a coding-focused AI model priced at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, with Elon Musk claiming it rivals Claude Opus 4.7 in performance…
Auxilius, a Germany-based AI governance, risk and compliance automation startup, raised EUR 1.3 million in pre-seed funding led by High-Tech Gruenderfonds with participation from Techstars. The compan…
Panora, a French AI software startup for insurance brokers, raised $5 million in seed funding led by Isai and joined by Kima Ventures, 100in, 199 Ventures, and the founders of Pennylane. The company a…
In a head-to-head test of AI video generation, Gemini Omni Flash scored 17.6 to AnimateDiff Turbo's 3.6, demonstrating superior scene construction and prompt obedience across two tasks involving a bak…