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Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
Backed by GV, Greycroft, Nvidia, and AMD at a $4.65B valuation, the Socher–Rocktäschel lab is betting recursive self-improvement is the fastest path to superintelligence.
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ChatGPT Pro users in the U.S. can now wire up Plaid and 12,000+ institutions, surfacing portfolios, spending, and long-range planning inside the chat.
TechCrunch
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Claude for Small Business ships 15 ready-to-run agentic workflows for payroll, invoice chasing, and lead triage, plus a 10-city free training tour kicking off in Chicago.
TechCrunch
Read more →Higgsfield's new agent orchestrates Claude Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5 Pro, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and video models like Kling 3.0 through a Hermes brain with three layers of memory and 40+ built-in tools.
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Dragoneer, Greenoaks, Sequoia, and Altimeter are co-leading a $30 billion round that nearly triples Anthropic's valuation in 90 days as annualized revenue races past $45 billion.
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Cisco doubled its AI hyperscaler order forecast to $9B, raised full-year revenue guidance, and announced a $1B restructuring to redirect investment toward silicon, optics, and security as the AI capex boom keeps reshaping incumbents.
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Sutter Hill, John Doerr, and National Grid Partners back GridCARE's bet that the AI economy is constrained by megawatts, not GPUs, and that physics-based AI can unlock 400+ MW from grids already operating at 30% utilization.
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Amazon is sunsetting its standalone Rufus chatbot and rolling its product expertise into Alexa for Shopping, a personalized agent that tracks prices, schedules reorders, and even buys items off Amazon through Shop Direct.
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Sam Altman pitches enterprises switching from Claude with 60 days of complimentary Codex access. Hours later, Anthropic boosts Claude Code weekly limits by 50% through July 13 — for free.
Business Insider / OpenAI / Anthropic
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Self-serve campaigns now start at a $50,000 minimum (down from $250,000), with conversion measurement and CPC bidding aimed at making ChatGPT a real Google Ads competitor.
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Cat Wu, head of product for Claude Code and Cowork, lays out a six-month roadmap built around proactivity: agents that learn your workflow and set up automations without being asked.
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Palmer Luckey's defense tech firm doubled its valuation in less than a year, capping a defense funding surge that has poured nearly $13.6 billion into the sector since January.
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OpenAI has carved out a majority-owned subsidiary, the OpenAI Deployment Company, seeded with $4 billion from a consortium led by TPG and valued at $10 billion at launch — and is acquiring London-based consultancy Tomoro to give it 150 forward-deployed engineers from day one.
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DeepMind's new hierarchical research agent has resolved Problem 21.10 from the Kourovka Notebook, a group theory question that had stood unsolved since 1965, and topped FrontierMath Tier 4 at 48% accuracy — but the team is also publicly flagging a 'reviewer-pleasing bias' that nearly let a flawed proof slip through.
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Demis Hassabis's Alphabet-backed drug discovery spinout has closed a $2.1 billion Series B led by Thrive Capital, with new money from MGX, Temasek, CapitalG and the UK Sovereign AI Fund — capital it says will push its IsoDDE platform from research curiosity to clinical pipeline.
Isomorphic Labs
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Google introduced Gemini Intelligence, a sweep of agentic Android features — cross-app task automation, a Chrome auto-browse tool, a Rambler voice-to-text rewriter and natural-language Create My Widget — debuting on the Samsung Galaxy S26 and Pixel 10 this summer ahead of Apple's AI reboot.
AWS is the first cloud provider to host the full Claude Platform — APIs, console, Managed Agents, Skills and all — natively inside a customer's AWS account, with consolidated billing, IAM access controls and same-day availability for new Anthropic releases across 17 regions.
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Google's Threat Intelligence Group says it has spotted the first confirmed case of cybercriminals weaponizing an AI-generated zero-day exploit, a Python script that bypassed two-factor authentication on a popular open-source admin tool — and that the campaign was disrupted before it could land.
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Dubai-based Lyrie.ai emerged from stealth with a $2 million pre-seed round and the release of Agent Trust Protocol, an open cryptographic standard for identifying, scoping and revoking autonomous AI agents that the company plans to submit to the IETF.
Tech Startups
Read more →OpenAI and Microsoft have agreed to cap the AI lab's revenue-sharing payments at $38 billion through 2030, according to The Information — a renegotiation that could save OpenAI tens of billions of dollars and clear a long-standing obstacle to a potential public listing later this year.
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Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released a research preview of TML-Interaction-Small, a 276B mixture-of-experts model that responds in under 0.4 seconds and listens while it speaks — outpacing GPT-realtime-2 and Gemini 3.1 Flash Live on the FD-bench latency test.
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Palo Alto-based Akool rebuilt its full stack for a 10-20x speedup, pushing generative video clips to 1-3 seconds and live streaming below 30ms per frame.
PR Newswire
Read more →A two-stage compression algorithm from Google Research cuts the KV cache 6x and accelerates attention 8x on H100s, with no fine-tuning and no measurable accuracy loss.
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The cash-and-equity partnership that was supposed to put a Perplexity-powered chatbot inside Snapchat collapsed in Q1, and Snap is now guiding 2026 with zero contribution from the deal.
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