For most of the generative-AI boom, 3D was the corner of the field that investors admired but rarely bankrolled at scale.
London's Humanoid raised €133M at a €1.1B valuation to become Europe's first pure-play humanoid robotics unicorn.
Beijing's Moonshot AI is in talks to raise at up to $50B ahead of a Hong Kong IPO, powered by its top-ranked Kimi K3 model.
Microsoft will pour $10B into Japan through 2029, betting sovereign AI infrastructure is the next competitive moat.
Google shipped three Gemini Flash models on July 21 — cheaper, faster, more efficient — but the delayed 3.5 Pro was a no-show.
Google concedes Gemini 3.5 Pro is still late while touting its most ambitious pretraining run yet for Gemini 4.
Google gated Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber to governments and partners, joining Anthropic and Microsoft in a rare convergence on restraint.
Anthropic's new Cowork feature lets users record and narrate a task once, then have Claude turn it into a reusable skill.
Block launched Buzz, an open-source Nostr workspace where AI agents get their own cryptographic identities and sign their own work.
MIT engineers redesigned a lidar chip's antennas into different shapes to widen its field of view with no moving parts.
Substack rolled out Pangram AI detection the same week Epoch AI showed detectors miss up to 18% of style-imitated text.
A July preprint says self-correction, not model size or chain length, is what makes reasoning models succeed.
AI labs poured record sums into Washington in Q2 2026, with Anthropic's $1.97M outspending Nvidia as rules loom.
Meta says its AI moderates better than humans. At the scale of billions, 'better on average' still means countless wrongful bans.
A federal judge dismissed xAI's trade-secret suit against OpenAI with prejudice, finding no evidence of knowing misappropriation.