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ChipAgents Hits $134M as AI Agents Speed Chip Design
ChipAgents added $60 million on July 29, expanding its Series A to $134 million after deploying agentic AI at more than 120 semiconductor companies.
Groundcover Raises $100M for AI Agent Observability
Observability startup groundcover raised $100 million on July 29 at a $500 million valuation to monitor AI agents running live in production.
Liquid AI Encoders Hit 8K Context on CPU 3.7x Faster
Liquid AI's new LFM2.5-Encoders run 8,192-token inputs on a plain CPU roughly 3.7x faster than ModernBERT-base, from just 230M parameters and open weights.
ChatGPT Health Puts Labs and Meds in One Private Tab
OpenAI's ChatGPT Health is live for US adults, connecting Apple Health and medical records in a sandbox built with input from 260+ physicians.
LLM Quantization Guide: GGUF vs AWQ vs MLX in 2026
A practical guide to LLM quantization formats — GGUF, AWQ, GPTQ and MLX — with VRAM math, quality trade-offs and picks for every kind of machine.
Newsroom AI Workflows That Give Reporters Time Back
OpenAI detailed on July 27 how Business Insider, WELT, and Le Monde use AI for one-tap listening, fact-checking layers, and faster translation.
Cognizant Claude Rollout Trains 40,000 Enterprise Staff
Cognizant became an Anthropic Global Premier Partner on July 27, embedding Claude across its enterprise platforms after training 30,000 associates.
Rare Disease Research Grants Offer $50K in Claude Credits
Anthropic's AI for Science program offers rare disease researchers up to $50,000 in Claude credits over six months, with applications closing August 2.
Anthropic Economic Index Connector Answers AI Job Questions
Anthropic's free Economic Index connector lets Claude answer plain-English questions about how AI is used across occupations, states, and tasks.
Laguna S 2.1 Open-Weight Coding Model Fits One Desktop
Poolside's Laguna S 2.1 packs 118B parameters, activates just 8B per token, scores 70.2% on Terminal-Bench 2.1, and runs on a single desktop.
Microsoft and Mistral Expand Their Sovereign AI Deal
Microsoft and Mistral expanded their partnership July 21, adding thousands of NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs to bring sovereign frontier AI to Europe.
Cursor Router Auto-Picks the Cheapest Capable Model
Cursor Router, launched July 22, routes each coding request to the cheapest capable model, delivering frontier quality at up to 60% lower cost.
Inflection Pi Journeys Personalizes AI to Life Stages
Inflection AI launched Pi Journeys on July 21, an assistant that reshapes itself around life stages like new parenthood, caregiving, or a career change.
Claude Opus 5 Brings Frontier Coding at Half the Cost
Claude Opus 5 arrives at $5 per million input tokens, delivering near-frontier coding performance at half the cost of Anthropic's Fable 5 model.
AMD Invests Up to $5B in Anthropic's AI Compute Push
AMD will invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic and deploy 2 gigawatts of Instinct MI450 GPUs, with the first gigawatt of Helios racks live in early 2027.
OpenAI Opens a ChatGPT Program for Small Businesses
OpenAI's ChatGPT for Small Business bundles free training, in-person AI academies, guides, and small-business agents as Work and Codex reach 10M users.
OpenAI Presence Puts Enterprise AI Agents on Guardrails
OpenAI launched Presence on July 22, an enterprise platform for voice and chat AI agents with guardrails, approved actions, and human escalation built in.
Anthropic Economic Futures Fund Opens $200M Research Push
Anthropic committed $200 million to external research on AI's economic impact, plus a new Claude connector that lets anyone query its Economic Index data.
Gemini 3.6 Flash Trims Output Tokens by 17% for Devs
Google's Gemini 3.6 Flash uses 17% fewer output tokens at equal quality, costs $1.50 per million input, and jumps to 49% on the DeepSWE benchmark.
Inkling Is a 975B Open-Weights Model Under Apache 2.0
Thinking Machines released Inkling, a 975B-parameter Apache 2.0 model with 41B active, a 1M-token context window, and native four-modality reasoning.
CuspAI Raises $450M to Speed Up Materials Discovery
CuspAI raised $450M at a $2.6B valuation and launched an AI Materials Foundry with 45+ partners including NVIDIA, Meta, Samsung and Lam Research.
Qwen3.8-Max Benchmarks: What to Watch in the Preview
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max preview brings 2.4 trillion parameters and multimodal input, but no benchmark table yet. Here's the baseline to measure it against.
NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Edge Puts World Models Inside Robots
NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Edge is a 4-billion-parameter world model doing spatial reasoning on Jetson and RTX hardware, adaptable to a robot in about a day.
SAP Closes Prior Labs Deal on Tabular Foundation Models
SAP completed its Prior Labs acquisition at over 1 billion euros and will invest another 1 billion by 2030 in open tabular foundation models.