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We just raised a $120 million Series C at a $1.2 billion valuation, led by @khoslaventures, to pursue the full-stack approach to legal AI. Blackstone, Bain Capital, Craft Ventures, Coatue, Vanguard, New York Life, TIAA, Tony James, and Jeff Hammes (former Chairman of Kirkland &”
https://x.com/johnjnay/status/2074485345593245833
Anthropic names former Fed Chair Bernanke to its independent trust
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/09/anthropic-fed-chair-bernanke-independent-trust.html
TeraWulf shares surge on $19B Anthropic AI infrastructure lease deal
https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/terawulf-shares-surge-19b-anthropic-161300778.html
Microsoft Replaces OpenAI, Anthropic With Own AI in Some Apps – Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-07/microsoft-replaces-openai-anthropic-with-own-ai-in-some-apps
Anthropic and OpenAI will increasingly be able to serve weaker versions of frontier AI (Haiku, Instant) at very low cost And owning the full range of intelligence means they might provide “organizations of models” delivering lower cost/higher performance than any 3rd party could”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2074201073795874969
EXCLUSIVE: EXCLUSIVE Meta to put AI chip into production in September as it looks to double computing capacity, memo shows | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/meta-put-ai-chip-into-production-september-it-looks-double-computing-capacity-2026-07-09/
Meta’s Watermelon AI Model Has Caught up to GPT-5.5, Alexandr Wang Says – Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-model-catches-up-openai-gpt-5-says-2026-7
xAI Is Dead. Long Live SpaceXAI
https://gizmodo.com/xai-is-dead-long-live-spacexai-2000782034
Announcing AutomationBench-AA, our independent leaderboard for Zapier’s AutomationBench, testing whether AI agents can automate real SaaS workflows while adhering to business rules We partnered with @zapier to run AutomationBench-AA on their private benchmark subset. This”
https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/2074194764510208230
Enterprises don’t just need agents that perform. They need agents they can shape, govern and improve as their business evolves. That’s the idea behind our work with LangChain. Read more:”
https://x.com/nvidia/status/2074872091388903774
Most agentic retrieval demos assume clean, well-structured documents. Enterprise reality is often different, consisting of messy PDFs where critical information is buried across tables, figures, and complex layouts. That’s why we teamed up with @lancedb to explore how LiteParse”
https://x.com/llama_index/status/2074170470119752084
UMA is a Paris-based startup designing general-purpose mobile and humanoid robots with human-level dexterity. UMA stands for Universal Mechanical Assistant Concept: Early prototype:”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2074565441205506515
Announcing our $130M Series A to build the Open Superintelligence Stack Led by Radical Ventures, with NVIDIA, Intel Capital, Dell Capital, and existing investors Train, deploy, and continuously improve your own models using our stack. Own your intelligence.”
https://x.com/PrimeIntellect/status/2074899489190785419
Continual learning is probably the biggest barrier to explosive AI adoption (& may have big implications for recursive self-improvement as well) As long as you deal with amnesiac models that require humans to do the learning for them, adoption will be gated by human processes.”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2072727258352001341
We raised $130M @ $1B for our series A To build the open superintelligence stack for everyone Pre-training concentrated frontier AI in a handful of labs. RL changes who can build frontier AI and just works across almost any verifiable domain. We want to enable everyone to”
https://x.com/vincentweisser/status/2074909109229584400
$130M Series A to Build the Open Superintelligence Stack
https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/series-a
It continues to be extremely cool that OpenAI enables third parties to run safety assessments on unreleased models and then publish their findings, even when those findings are at times very inconvenient for the business. Praiseworthy, and the kind of thing every company should”
https://x.com/yonashav/status/2075286161241612664
We’re introducing Provisioned Throughput: reserved inference capacity for frontier open models, with token-based pricing and a 99% uptime SLA. Serverless simplicity, guaranteed capacity, up to 90% lower cost vs. Opus 4.8. Get started with MiniMax M3 + GLM-5.2, read more 🧵”
https://x.com/togethercompute/status/2074756085785722930
One thing worth watching is if SpaceX/Tesla/etc will be able to pull off the organizational change needed to take advantage of also being an AI Lab. Anthropic & OpenAI are “AI native,” but large existing firms have to reorganize around AI & that’s hard. Will SpaceX be able to?”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2075096019407175783
Based on strong positive feedback from customers in our beta test program, @SpaceXAI will make Grok 4.5 available to the public tomorrow. It is an Opus-class model, but faster, more token-efficient and lower cost.”
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2074740539874775163
Apple veteran takes on Meta with $1 billion smart-glasses maker
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/06/apple-veteran-takes-on-meta-with-1-billion-smart-glasses-maker.html
Also this graph that shows what an “AI-pilled” startup looks like, and how uncommon it is even among startups: the answer when founders are asked “Without GenAI, how many additional employees would you need to hire to maintain your current output with no change in quality?
https://x.com/emollick/status/2075204815064330405
Dataiku Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™
https://pages.dataiku.com/2026-gartner-mq-ai-platforms-dsml
Hint for all AI Labs as they branch out from work for programming to general knowledge work: non-coders are not just dumber coders Taking away a bunch of options from your coding app does not make it better for knowledge work. We need more types of control & visibility, not less”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2075360888375120152
Seems to suggest that if it stops being the case that there’s 3 labs which are all roughly equally good, competing each others margins away, the provider of the best model could probably get away with charging *a lot* more than they currently are.”
https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/2075006567641239842
The practical guide to AI Adoption → 8 must-read articles #1: AI Feels Powerful. So Why Is the ROI Still Missing? #2: The Unsexy Truth of AI Adoption: A 5-Level Maturity Framework #3: How to Build an AI-Native Startup from Day One #4: There are no AI-native enterprises #5: AI”
https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/2073570084313006080
SambaNova valued at $11 billion after AI chip funding
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/08/sambanova-ai-chip-funding-valuation.html
Mercor is in talks for a $20B valuation | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/mercor-is-in-talks-for-a-20b-valuation/
This week, during Davos Tech Summit you can see a robotic startup that is tackling Europe’s old infrastructure… Critical infrastructure. From old hydro networks to the world’s shipyards. 60% of it hasn’t been touched in 40 years!!! No way this will not be done by robots! I’ve”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2072742852166381588
Big day for Ollama! When we started, open models and the open source AI ecosystem were in their early days with few believers. Our belief in open source has never wavered. With today’s fundraising announcement and our 9M+ active builders, we’re ready to scale open models into”
https://x.com/ollama/status/2075211168407503016
enterprises love muse spark 1.1″
https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/2075259648614264933
GPT‑5.6 improves artifact quality across presentations, documents, and spreadsheets, and works better with your templates. These editable artifacts can be exported to the tools professionals already use and refined as part of real enterprise workflows.”
https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2075271432041545782
GPT‑5.6 is available starting today across ChatGPT, Codex, and the OpenAI API. The rollout is starting globally now and will continue gradually toward full availability over the next 24 hours. In ChatGPT, Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users access GPT-5.6 Sol through”
https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2075271435573244008
Meet the Wishingrads. A family running a cereal business from their dining room with GPT-5.6.”
https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2075310022121472399
OpenAI buys Northslope to put its engineers inside your business
https://thenextweb.com/news/openai-northslope-acquisition-enterprise-ai-deployment
this goes extremely hard > We already saw that acceleration and stronger adoption during the internal testing period of GPT‑5.6, as average daily output tokens per active researcher were more than twice the highest level observed for GPT‑5.5″
https://x.com/eliebakouch/status/2075273299148341327
we have heard enterprises on their concerns about AI costs, and 5.6 sol is a huge step forward for dollars-per-task, as are terra and luna”
https://x.com/sama/status/2075267201058426944
Today, I shared with the OpenAI team that I have decided to leave my full-time role at OpenAI and transition to being a part-time advisor. Three months ago, I had to go on medical leave after a severe exacerbation of a chronic illness I’ve lived with for seven years. During that”
https://x.com/fidjissimo/status/2075353170927304861
The Bud team is joining Figma – Bud
https://bud.app/blog/bud-is-joining-figma
We toured Chestnut Robotics in Shanghai and sat down with co-founder & CTO Joe Dong. The Santa Clara, CA based startup has built a tendon-driven humanoid hand with all the actuators contained in the palm, weighing only about 400 grams. We discussed the hand design, their”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2075237578887008390
Managers, and their belief in the value of AI & how to use it, determines the value they actually get from AI. Neat paper looking at startups.”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2075067826231001223
I posted this on Feb 5th, saying that without coding data you are cooked 2 days later Elon started following the CEO of Cursor later in April SpaceX struck a deal giving it the option to buy Cursor June 16th they exercised that option Now Grok-4.5 is back at the frontier and”
https://x.com/scaling01/status/2074961445994074391
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