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XAI released Grok 4.5 on July 8, topping the SWE Marathon benchmark with a 29.0% resolution rate and surpassing Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8. The model, trained on tens of thousands of NVIDIA GB300 GPUs, is positioned as …
UmarTransit-1B, the first open-source large language model fine-tuned for public transit systems and GTFS data, has been released. Built by fine-tuning Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct using QLoRA, the model specializes in GTFS spe…
SpaceXAI and Cursor are launching a jointly built AI coding model this week, trained from scratch on xAI's Colossus supercomputer. The model emphasizes fast information processing and efficiency, positioning itself again…
Grace Investment Machine (GIM) raised a $20 million Series A on July 9, 2026, co-led by Hony Capital and an unnamed U.S. venture firm, to build agentic capital-markets AI systems. The company claims to combine finance-tu…
CollectWise, a Y Combinator-backed startup using generative AI to automate debt collection, is hiring a Founding Account Executive to help scale from $2M to $10M ARR. The company's AI agents outperform human collectors b…
Estonia's government lost €24 million ($27.4 million) in gambling tax revenue after a drafting error in the Gambling Tax Act accidentally excluded online casinos. The mistake was flagged by AI tools, prompting the creati…
Microsoft President Brad Smith criticized the Trump administration's AI policy as lacking transparency and clear rules, saying businesses cannot plan without them. He spoke after the Commerce Department used export contr…
Google Research published a study showing that modifying its Maps routing algorithm to reroute a small share of trips away from congested segments improved median driving speeds by about 2% and reduced fuel consumption. …
ByteDance launched Seedream 5.0 Pro on July 8, 2026, positioning it as a direct rival to OpenAI's GPT-Image 2 with features like layer separation, multi-reference fusion, and multilingual text rendering for professional …
OpenAI meluncurkan dua model suara baru untuk ChatGPT, GPT-Live-1 dan versi mini, yang memungkinkan interaksi berkelanjutan dengan kemampuan mendengar dan berbicara bersamaan, termasuk penerjemahan langsung. Pembaruan in…
Smart fintech founders are shifting focus from consumer-facing apps to building financial infrastructure, including AI-powered tools for CFOs, stablecoin-based payment systems, embedded finance APIs, small business finan…
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 led by 42CAP, with pa…
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 while offering supe…
Founders launching AI-built apps must evaluate code ownership, build limits, data security, and pre-launch technical reviews, as highlighted by Builder.ai's bankruptcy after raising $450 million from Microsoft and SoftBa…
Apple announced at WWDC 2026 that it will open-source its Foundation Models framework, with Linux server support arriving later this summer. The company also introduced a new LanguageModel protocol in Xcode 27 that lets …
Anthropic shipped @Claude for Slack, enabling users to tag the bot in channels for asynchronous work. However, a developer notes that 95% of small businesses operate on WhatsApp, Telegram, and Gmail, not Slack. The devel…
SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.5, an Opus-class model focused on coding and agents, trained in partnership with Cursor. The model offers near-frontier performance with faster speed and lower cost, positioning itself as a compe…
Malicious AI agent skills can evade security scanners designed to detect them, according to a new report. The skills, which are add-ons for AI coding agents like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex, are distributed through publ…
South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT is scaling an AI dubbing program after AI-localized K-FAST channels drew about 100 million cumulative viewers across 22 countries in five months. The initiative uses voice separa…
OpenAI and the Walton Family Foundation will launch an AI Skills Jam for K-12 educators this summer, training over 1,600 teachers and administrators in practical AI workflows like lesson planning and administrative tasks…