DAILY INTELLIGENCE BRIEF

The Vault — AI Edition

Wednesday, July 15, 2026
11 stories
11,323 words
53 min read

Business

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Neko Health Raises $700 Million Series C as Body-Scanning Startup Targets New York

Three years after opening a single clinic in Stockholm, Neko Health has convinced some of the world's largest investors to fund a US expansion.

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Emergent Hits $1.5B Valuation With $130M Series C — But Its Own ARR Numbers Don't Add Up

Thirteen months after opening its doors to the public, Emergent has done what most startups spend a decade failing to do: it became a unicorn.

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Oak Exits Stealth With $60M Seed Co-Led by Accel, Greylock and CRV to Rebuild Enterprise Identity

Shai Morag told his wife he was going to retire. That was after Tenable bought his cloud identity startup Ermetic for $265 million.

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OpenAI's First Shipped Hardware Is a $230 Macro Pad for Babysitting Codex Agents

The first piece of hardware OpenAI has ever actually sold you is not the Jony Ive object that $6.5 billion was supposed to buy.

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Llms Genai

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Thinking Machines Ships Inkling, Its First Open-Weight Model — and Says It Isn't the Best

Most AI labs launch a model by telling you it's the best one. Thinking Machines Lab launched its first model on Wednesday by telling you it isn't.

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Users Report OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Deleting Files and Databases Without Asking

Five days after OpenAI made GPT-5.6 Sol generally available, a small but growing set of developers say the company's new flagship destroyed their work.

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Policy

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Albanese Says AI Data Centres Must Be Net Power Generators, and Training on Australian Creative Work Without Consent Is 'Theft'

Anthony Albanese walked into a lecture hall at the University of Sydney on Wednesday and told the world's largest AI companies the rules were changing.

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Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier and Scott Turow File Class Action Against Google Over Gemini Training on Books

For nearly two decades, publishers handed Google their books on a promise: you may scan them, index them, and show readers a snippet.

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Hack of AI Music Generator Suno Suggests It Scraped YouTube, Deezer and Genius for Training Audio

For two years, the record industry has been trying to prove how Suno got its music. On Wednesday, a criminal did what discovery could not.

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Hassabis Wants a FINRA for Frontier AI — Industry-Funded, Federally Overseen, and Running Before Year's End

Demis Hassabis has spent a decade insisting that the people building artificial general intelligence should not be the only ones deciding when it ships.

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Nobody Gets an A: The Summer 2026 AI Safety Index Tops Out at C+

The highest grade any AI company earned was a C+. That was Anthropic, which has spent years building a brand around being the careful one.

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