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CuspAI raised $450 million in Series B funding at a $2.6 billion valuation, led by Kleiner Perkins and NEA, to build AI-powered materials discovery for chipmakers. The company launched a 48-member AI Materials Foundry co…
Netflix paid $587 million to acquire Ben Affleck's AI startup InterPositive, which the actor founded in 2022, as the streaming giant invests in creator-led AI tools for visual effects and post-production. Affleck will jo…
A founder of Appsrow AEO Analyzer reports that after launching on Product Hunt, the product received 120 users and 65 product submissions but generated little traffic, highlighting the challenge of converting launch inte…
David Vélez, founder and CEO of Nubank, and Robin Vince, chairman and CEO of BNY, have joined the boards of the OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC, bringing experience in leading global financial institutions and usi…
London-based robotics company Humanoid raised $152 million in a Series A round at a $1.35 billion post-money valuation, becoming Europe's first pure-play humanoid robotics unicorn. The round was led by Prime Movers Lab a…
Humanoid, a UK robotics startup founded by Artem Sokolov, raised a $152 million Series A at a $1.35 billion post-money valuation, bringing total funding to $270 million, to fund beta deployments and start mass manufactur…
Poolside released Laguna S 2.1, a 118-billion-parameter open-weight coding model that matches or exceeds larger rivals on agentic coding benchmarks and runs on a single Nvidia DGX Spark desktop system. The San Francisco …
Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and Block, announced Buzz, a new open-source group chat platform for teams and AI agents, on Tuesday. Built by Block, Buzz aims to challenge Slack and GitHub by merging workflows, inclu…
Analysts at Bank of America and UBS advise investors to stick with AI hardware stocks despite a volatile July that briefly pushed chip stocks into a bear market. BofA says new open-source models like China's Kimi K3, lau…
Fei-Fei Li announced on July 21st, 2026, that robotics simulation startup SceniX is joining World Labs, an organization focused on accelerating spatial-intelligence research. SceniX, founded by Yunzhu Li, Changxi Zheng, …
Xaira Therapeutics has developed X-Cell, an AI model for drug discovery that predicts gene expression changes by training on information-rich causal data from its X-Atlas dataset, overcoming the scaling limitations of mo…
Gritt, an AI-powered robotics system, is building infrastructure on-site with top 10 U.S. EPCs today, claiming a 4X efficiency gain with no added labor. The company says 41% of the U.S. construction workforce will retire…
Gritt has raised $32 million in combined pre-seed and Series A funding for AI-powered robotic systems that attach to existing construction equipment to install solar panels up to four times faster than manual crews. The …
Skyfall AI emerged from stealth and is acquiring early-stage SaaS startups with monthly recurring revenue under $20,000, offering up to $1 million per acquisition and deploying its AI as CEO to operationalize the busines…
China's Moonshot AI announced its Kimi-K3 open-weight model, which outperformed Anthropic's Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol on the Frontend Code Arena benchmark, intensifying the global AI arms race. The Kimi-K3 API cos…
Adam Jacob, co-founder of Chef, has raised $6.25 million for Swamp, a startup building deterministic AI-agent automation for operational workflows. The SEC filing by Elder Swamp Club Inc. shows $6,249,998 sold toward a $…
Short interest in US stocks has hit a record high, with S3 Partners reporting that short interest across all S&P 500 stocks is about 3.7% of free float, the highest since the firm began tracking in 2010. The surge reflec…
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon expressed skepticism about the AI spending boom, saying the huge investments may not pay off as investors expect, but he praised SpaceX's plan for space data centers as potentially viable. …
Cursor doubled usage limits for its own models on all paid plans on July 16, 2026, but excluded third-party models like Claude and GPT, as announced by Lee Robinson on X. The move comes as Moonshot AI launched the open-w…
Gritt launched out of stealth on July 21 with $32.4 million in total funding, including a $26 million Series A led by Obvious Ventures, to retrofit construction equipment like skid steers and forklifts with robotic arms …