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Anthropic's $65 billion Series H round, led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital, accounted for nearly half of Q2 2026 venture funding, highlighting extreme concentration in AI investment. The …
An AI must receive information about its environment and have ways to affect it to solve real-world tasks. The concept of 'actual entanglement' measures how much information an AI has about its environment, while 'minimu…
The Chinese government is considering restricting overseas access to its most advanced AI models and limiting foreign funding of domestic AI startups, which could end the era of cheap open-weight AI models from China. Su…
Nobel laureate Christopher Pissarides dismissed the idea that artificial intelligence will restore rapid productivity growth in Western economies, arguing that the fast-growth years may be over. Speaking at a conference,…
A new pancreatic cancer drug, Daraxonrasib, has doubled median survival rates for patients with advanced metastatic disease, earning a standing ovation at a major oncology conference. The breakthrough, combined with the …
Amazon is raising $25 billion through a bond sale, which ultimately priced at $37 billion in USD due to strong investor demand, to fund capital expenditures for Amazon Web Services and its AI infrastructure. The offering…
Envirotech Vehicles closed its merger with Azio AI on July 2, 2026, ahead of schedule, accelerating its pivot to AI data centers and enterprise GPU compute. The combined company targets the $487 billion AI infrastructure…
Former Tesla scientist Rémi Cadene launched UMA, a Paris-based startup building a lightweight, AI-powered humanoid robot called Northstar for manufacturing, logistics, and homes. The company has secured backing from top …
DeepSeek is developing its own AI inference chip to reduce reliance on Nvidia and Huawei hardware, according to a Reuters report citing three sources. The move aims to control serving costs and latency amid U.S. export c…
DeepSeek is developing its own AI inference chip to reduce dependence on Nvidia and Huawei, according to a Reuters report citing three sources. The Chinese lab has been in talks with chip-design and foundry partners for …
Cryptography expert Filippo Valsorda argues that hybrid signatures combining classical and post-quantum schemes are often not worthwhile due to hidden costs, despite their apparent simplicity. He states that pure ML-DSA …
Mulot, an open-source AI agent framework, uses open-weights LLMs like GLM-5.2 to drive a headless Chromium browser with a Burp-style toolkit, achieving 87% on OverTheWire Natas and 73% on Root-Me Web-Server challenges. T…
UMA, a Physical AI company, unveiled its first humanoid robot design and Real-Time Learning architecture at Machina Summit, enabling robots to learn skills through demonstration rather than manual programming. The compan…
AI search now favors brands with strong reputations, consistent messaging, and trusted third-party validation, requiring marketers to shift focus from visibility to being chosen. A single AI prompt compresses the user jo…
Anthropic published research on July 6, 2026, revealing that its Claude AI model contains a small set of internal neural patterns called J-space, identified using a Jacobian-based technique named J-lens. Editing these pa…
A new interactive tool called AI Power Atlas has been released to help policymakers analyze countries' AI strengths, weaknesses, and dependencies across six levers of power including compute, model capability, talent, da…
Ant Group's embodied AI unit, Robbyant, launched LingBot-Depth 2.0 and LingBot-Vision, claiming the models enable robots to accurately perceive transparent objects like glass and mirrors. The company says LingBot-Vision …
CNCF Ambassador Lin Sun of Solo.io wrote on July 7, 2026 that sandboxing alone is insufficient for running large-scale AI agent fleets, contrasting the Kubernetes SIG Apps project agent-sandbox with the newer agent-subst…
Scientists at National Taiwan University measured the transfer length of metal contacts in 2D-material transistors to be just 2-3 nanometers, far smaller than previous estimates. This finding suggests that contacts can b…
Meta researchers released SWE-Together, a benchmark built from 11,260 real developer-agent sessions that tests AI coding agents on collaborative performance under user corrections, not just one-shot task completion. Clau…