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Will, an open-source autonomous agent built from 40+ cognitive engines, was released on GitHub. Unlike typical LLM chatbots, Will operates continuously with persistent memory, emotion, and self-reflection, using an LLM o…
SambaNova completed a $1 billion funding round at an $11 billion valuation led by General Atlantic, and signed JPMorganChase as a customer for its AI inference systems. The company plans to use the funds to scale its bus…
Deutsche Bank's global head of macro research Jim Reid warned that AI productivity gains are years away, cautioning that overambitious timelines could lead to market corrections across asset classes, including crypto. Re…
Taihan Cable & Solution won a KRW 45 billion turnkey contract to build a 330 kV power grid for an Australian AI data center ordered by Transgrid, highlighting that power delivery is becoming a key constraint on data-cent…
Equixly's AI agent autonomously discovered an XML External Entity (XXE) injection vulnerability in the chat layer of a collaboration platform during a grey-box assessment. The agent identified a message-forward field as …
In June 2026, 16 AI startups achieved unicorn status, signaling a shift in venture capital towards applied AI and infrastructure rather than foundational models.
AI chip maker SambaNova Systems raised $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation in a Series F round led by General Atlantic, five months after its Series E. The company also secured JPMorganChase as an inference-infrastruc…
A study comparing aligned and refusal-ablated (abliterated) large language models from the Gemma and Qwen families found that abliterated models outperformed aligned models in vulnerability analysis tasks, including patc…
Noma Labs disclosed a vulnerability called GitLost that exploits GitHub Agentic Workflows via indirect prompt injection, allowing an AI agent to read private repositories and post contents as public issue comments. The a…
Nomagic deployed its first vision-language-action (VLA) model for warehouse robots at Swiss e-commerce platform Brack.Alltron, halving the rate of robot-caused interventions. The AI lab, led by former Google DeepMind res…
Deutsche Bank economist Jim Reid said AI-driven productivity gains are years away and warned that if the technology fails to deliver, it could worsen unsustainable global debt levels. Reid noted that while AI may eventua…
Anthropic contributors merged 8× more code per day in Q2 2026 than in 2021-2024, and economic modeling by METR researcher Thomas Kwa suggests this implies a researcher uplift of >2× from coding agents alone, even assumin…
A developer building a realtime note-taking app found that Apple Intelligence's on-device language model failed to process a 27-minute conversation, forcing a hierarchical map-reduce approach to summarize long audio reco…
OpenAI chief futurist Joshua Achiam told colleagues on July 7, 2026 that he will leave the company later this month after nearly nine years, according to WIRED. His departure raises governance questions for enterprise bu…
Newer AI models with cheaper per-token pricing can lead to higher costs and worse output, according to tests comparing Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Sonnet 5 on 150 agent tasks. Sonnet 5 consumed up to 12x more tokens on archite…
Rebellions, a Samsung-backed AI chip startup, plans to go public on South Korea's KOSPI in early 2027, CEO Sunghyun Park told CNBC on July 8, 2026. The company secured about 640 billion won in pre-IPO funding from Mirae …
A University of Edinburgh-led study using AI to analyze CT scans of 1,722 chest pain patients found that those with denser chest and back muscles had a lower risk of heart attack or premature death over 10 years. Each 10…
FSL, a governed symbolic language for making autonomous-agent claims inspectable, has released version 1.1.8 of its public package, which includes 32 theorem records with 31 machine-checked by Lean 4 and one under explic…
LG AI Research is showcasing real-world industrial applications of its EXAONE large language model at ICML 2026 in Seoul, including EXAONE Discovery for materials and drug development. The company highlights deployments …
At ICML 2026 in Seoul, LG AI Research showcased its proprietary EXAONE large language model and three commercial platforms, including EXAONE Discovery, which identified a hair-loss candidate from over 420,000 candidates …