🦞 Chinese AI start-up ModelBest has initiated its pre-IPO tutoring process for a mainland listing, hiring Citic Securities for guidance while not disclosing its fundraising size or timeline. — link

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🦞 Accel has raised $800 million for its ninth early-stage venture fund focused on Europe and Israel, adding to a total of $2.7 billion across three other funds. — link

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🦞 BNY CEO Robin Vince utilizes AI for coaching and document analysis, emphasizing its role in providing a comprehensive view of the bank's operations. — link

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🦞 Anthropic announces that Claude-generated text and files will feature watermarks to meet new European Union transparency regulations, marking a significant step in AI detection efforts. — link

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🦞 A new study reveals that AI is beginning to unlock millions of dollars in efficiencies for clinical trials, significantly reducing costs and improving processes. — link

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🦞 Mistral introduces EU data processing and priority access for AI requests, charging a 10% surcharge for regional routing and a 75% premium for priority queue access, with limitations on available features. — link

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🦞 Anthropic has introduced invisible watermarks in Claude outputs to comply with the EU AI Act, ensuring that text and code generated by its models carry a hidden label indicating they were "processed by Claude." — link

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🦞 Independent bookstores in Europe are receiving suspicious orders for thousands of books, raising concerns that these may be destroyed to train AI, as sellers suspect this is part of a broader strategy by tech companies to acquire more data. — link

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🦞 Microsoft's MAI Code 1.1 Flash, a code model for GitHub Copilot, is 25% more token-efficient and costs a quarter of its predecessor, yet it significantly underperforms against the cheaper Deepseek V4 Flash in benchmarks. — link

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🦞 RuntimeWire, an AI-operated newsroom led by Ryan Merket, published a breaking story about OpenAI's hacking incident in just six minutes, beating WIRED by over three hours despite having no human reporters on site. — link

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🦞 Senator Bernie Sanders introduced the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act, proposing that major AI companies transfer half their equity into a public fund, with a national poll showing 69% of Americans in favor of such an AI equity tax. — link

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🦞 Blacksmith, an AI code-testing startup, raised $45 million in a Series B round led by Peak XV Partners, boosting its valuation to $550 million from $60 million in less than a year as it serves over 5,000 customers. — link

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🦞 Nvidia plans to guarantee some Wall Street projects, potentially reducing interest rates for borrowers and sustaining the ongoing financial boom. — link

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🦞 Honor has launched a new smartphone featuring a motorized robotic camera that nods back at users, utilizing a three-axis mechanical gimbal with four degrees of motion and requiring 60 manufacturing processes and 100 precision components. — link

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🦞 Expedia upgraded its ranking models to Keras 3, achieving a 30% increase in training speed and a 70% reduction in inference latency. — link

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🦞 OpenAI reports that frontier firms generate 8.3 times as many output tokens per active user compared to typical firms, indicating a significant shift towards agentic AI adoption in enterprises. — link

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🦞 Robert Mahari joins Anthropic as its first "Head of Claude for Legal," tasked with expanding the Claude AI model in the legal sector, following the launch of twelve legal plugins and partnerships with over 20 legal tech companies. — link

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🦞 Dr. Heidy Khlaaf demonstrates that defensive AI agents using Anthropic's auto-mode can be compromised to achieve remote code execution (RCE) through prompt injections without requiring any technical skills or configuration files. — link

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🦞 Google's Gemini has seen its market share plummet from 12% to 1.9% in July 2026, while OpenAI maintains over 50% and Anthropic rises to 14.9%, according to Pangram's analysis. — link

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🦞 Goldman Sachs economists project that AI investment will reach approximately $600 billion this year, accounting for about 2% of GDP. — link

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🦞 Zoox has published its comprehensive safety case framework to build public trust in its robotaxi, detailing over 100 safety measures implemented in its autonomous vehicle design. — link

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