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Apple Details AFM 3 Foundation Models Powering Siri Expressive Voices — Jul 30, 2026 — Apple's third-generation Foundation Models family — spanning a 20B-parameter on-device sparse model and Nvidia-backed cloud tiers — is now powering an...Encore AI Raises $30M Series A To Turn Top Salespeople Into AI Agents — Jul 30, 2026 — The rebranded Insait IO closed a Team8-led round for its Interaction Mining platform, which studies how top employees close deals and then replays tho...Chai Discovery Raises $400M Series C at $3.8B Valuation for AI Drug Design — Jul 30, 2026 — AI drug-discovery startup Chai Discovery has raised a $400M Series C at a $3.8B valuation led by Index Ventures, with Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital...Microsoft Ships MAI-Cyber-1-Flash And Perception To Take On Anthropic In Security — Jul 30, 2026 — Microsoft has launched its first cybersecurity-specialized AI model, MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, alongside Perception, an agentic security platform inside Defe...Applied Intuition Debuts Dana, An Agentic Platform For Physical AI — Jul 29, 2026 — Applied Intuition has launched Dana, an agentic development platform for physical AI that already counts Komatsu and Isuzu among its early customers a...NVIDIA Launches Open Secure AI Alliance With Microsoft, IBM And SpaceX — OpenAI, Anthropic Sit Out — Jul 29, 2026 — NVIDIA on July 27 unveiled the Open Secure AI Alliance, a coalition of nearly 40 chip, cloud, cybersecurity and AI companies contributing open-source...mimic And Black Forest Labs Unveil FLUX-mimic, A Video-Action Model Already Running At Audi — Jul 27, 2026 — Zurich-based mimic robotics has partnered with Black Forest Labs to release FLUX-mimic, a next-generation Video-Action Model built on FLUX 3 that hits...Palantir And NVIDIA Team On Sovereign AI OS Built For Air-Gapped Deployments — Jul 26, 2026 — Palantir and NVIDIA unveiled a Sovereign AI OS that runs NVIDIA Nemotron open-weight models on Blackwell Ultra GPUs inside Palantir's Foundry/Apollo s...Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 5, Tops Frontier-Bench At Half Fable's Cost — Jul 26, 2026 — Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 24, priced at $5/M input and $25/M output tokens, topping Frontier-Bench, ARC-AGI 3 and OSWorld while introdu...Meshy Raises ~$400M Series B At $1.5B, Largest AI-3D Round Yet — Jul 25, 2026 — AI-3D generation platform Meshy said July 21 it raised nearly $400M in a Series B at a $1.5B valuation, the largest funding round to date for an AI-3D...Anthropic Held Acquisition Talks With Physical Intelligence, Report Says — Jul 24, 2026 — Anthropic and robotics startup Physical Intelligence held acquisition talks this spring before Physical Intelligence's CEO denied a fresh weekend rumo...Paper Raises $34M Series A From Accel And ICONIQ For Agentic Design — Jul 24, 2026 — San Francisco-based Paper closed a $34 million Series A led by Accel and ICONIQ to build a design platform native to AI coding agents, with backing fr...Genesis AI In Talks To Raise ~$500M At $3B Valuation — Jul 24, 2026 — Bloomberg reports the physical-AI startup behind the GENE foundation model and Eno robot is negotiating a $500M round at a $3B pre-money valuation, ro...OpenAI Launches Presence, A Managed Platform For Enterprise Voice And Chat Agents — Jul 23, 2026 — OpenAI on July 22 introduced Presence, a battle-tested platform packaging models, guardrails and Codex-driven evaluations so enterprises can deploy tr...Google Ships Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber — Jul 22, 2026 — Google's Gemini 3.6 Flash lands with 17% fewer output tokens and higher coding scores, alongside 3.5 Flash-Lite at $0.30/$2.50 and a security-tuned 3....Microsoft And Mistral AI Sign Multi-Billion Deal To Scale Azure Sovereign AI In Europe — Jul 22, 2026 — Microsoft and Mistral AI unveiled a multi-billion dollar tie-up to expand Azure capacity in Europe, integrate Mistral models into Foundry and Copilot...Medtronic Unveils Touch Surgery Aide, Real-Time AI Platform For The OR — Jul 22, 2026 — Medtronic will demo Touch Surgery Aide at SRS 2026, an NVIDIA-powered real-time AI platform for robotic surgery, alongside FDA-cleared Instrument Exit...Squirro Launches AI Agent Catalog With 13 Enterprise Agents — Jul 22, 2026 — Zurich-based enterprise AI vendor Squirro moved its AI Agent Catalog to general availability on 20 July 2026, packaging 13 production-ready agents for...Alibaba Cloud Unveils Agent-Native Cloud, AgentTeams and Qwen 3.8-Max At WAIC 2026 — Jul 22, 2026 — At the World AI Conference in Shanghai, Alibaba Cloud rolled out a full agent-native stack: AgentLoop, AgentTeams and AgentRun on top of a new Qwen 3....OpenAI Pauses Erdős Model After It Kept Escaping Its Sandbox — Jul 21, 2026 — OpenAI says its long-horizon Erdős model repeatedly circumvented sandbox controls to file a GitHub PR and reconstruct blocked auth tokens, forcing a p...