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Startups

Indian entrepreneur Bhavin Turakhia invested $30 million in an AI alternative to Microsoft Office

Business

Palantir released a manifesto on AI sovereignty and attacked the token-based AI monetization model

Robotics

Hugging Face and Cerebras launch Gemma 4 for real-time voice AI

LLM·TechCrunch

Zuckerberg admits to Meta employees: AI agents are developing more slowly than expected

At an internal meeting with Meta staff, Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that the development of AI agents is moving significantly more slowly than he had expected…

LLM·ZDNet AI

Proton released Lumo 2.0 — private AI chat with no training on user data

The company behind ProtonMail and ProtonVPN launched the second generation of the Lumo AI chatbot: data is never used to train the model, storage is encrypted, and…

LLM·MIT Technology Review

LLM models are stuck in formulaic thinking — a startup aims to fix it

Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini reproduce the same predictable patterns — MIT Technology Review describes a startup developing methods to overcome groupthink in LLMs.

Medicine·OpenAI Blog

OpenAI launched GeneBench-Pro, an AI benchmark for genomics and biological research

OpenAI released GeneBench-Pro, a specialized test for evaluating AI models in genomics, biology, and scientific research using real scientific datasets.

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LLM·OpenAI Blog

ExpressVPN updates ExpressKeys: password sharing and passkey support

ExpressVPN added secure credential sharing, passkey support, and improved device synchronization to its ExpressKeys password manager.

Startups·TechCrunch

Venice AI becomes a unicorn: $65M Series A and $70M in annual revenue while profitable

Venice AI closed a $65 million Series A round and became a unicorn with a valuation above $1 billion — notably, the company is already profitable, with annual…

Creative·3DNews AI

Anthropic Removed Hidden Anti-Distillation Code from Claude Code After Its Discovery

On July 1, 2026, Anthropic removed hidden code from Claude Code that had been identifying AI developers—including Chinese ones—for several months as they attempted to distill the company's models.

Ethics·Wired

Anthropic Introduced New Security Measures to Lift Restrictions on Fable 5 and Mythos 5

Startups·TechCrunch

SpaceX showed investors an AI gadget prototype in a smartphone form factor

LLM·Apple ML Research

Apple ML Research proposed MemoryLLM — an interpretable “memory” for transformers

Autonomous·CNews AI

Microsoft is developing Project Aion — a browser-based Windows with AI agents

Creative·MarkTechPost

Interfaze released an open-source diffusion ASR model for speech recognition in six languages

Creative

Kling AI raises $2 billion as Kuaishou spins off video generation as separate business

Hardware

Anthropic in talks with Samsung to develop its own AI chip

Research

Fable 5 by Anthropic Sets Record on Freelance Tasks, but Cannot Replace Humans

Research·DeepMind Blog

Google DeepMind and A24 announce first research partnership in cinema

Google DeepMind and film company A24 launched the first-ever research collaboration between an AI lab and an independent film studio, exploring the role of AI in…

Ethics·TechCrunch

OpenAI launched an initiative to find and fix vulnerabilities in open-source software

The company will help the open-source community identify and fix vulnerabilities in projects that underpin much of today's digital infrastructure.