British AI cloud upstart Nscale said on July 30 that it has agreed to acquire Anyscale, the San Francisco software company behind the open-source Ray framework.
Meta's advertising machine is still running hot. The number investors fixated on was smaller: free cash flow of just $784 million, gutted by an AI buildout.
San Francisco startup Freehand said on July 29 that it has raised $75 million to expand a fleet of autonomous AI agents that already run supply-chain spending for some of the world's largest companies.
Every sales floor has them: the handful of reps who close deals nobody else can. Encore AI has raised $30 million to bottle that instinct and hand it to a machine.
Microsoft and Mistral have deepened a two-year-old alliance into a multibillion-dollar bet that the next wave of enterprise AI will be won on where and how that power can be controlled.
Google is quietly reshaping Gemini from a chatbot that writes text into a tool that writes working software, with a new 'App' artifact that turns documents into an interactive application.
Ant Group's robotics arm has thrown a fully open, general-purpose 'robot brain' into the race to build software that can run almost any machine.
The era of the all-you-can-code Copilot subscription is over. GitHub retired the flat 'premium request' model and replaced it with metered billing denominated in AI Credits.
One of the world's largest IT services firms just made itself a preferred distribution channel for Anthropic's Claude, installed as a Global Premier Partner.
When engineers wire several LLMs into a team, they almost always fix the plumbing in advance. DyTopo argues the map of who-talks-to-whom should be redrawn every round.
A paper posted to arXiv on July 29 puts the bet that AI can automate its own research to an unusually honest test, and the early answer is a qualified no.
Robotics researchers want to bring inference-time reasoning to machines that move in the physical world, without the latency that made chatbot-style chain-of-thought a poor fit.
For decades, the International Mathematical Olympiad was a stress test that machines flunked. That barrier has now fallen twice over.
The EU threw down its biggest bet yet on catching the US and China in AI, opening a formal call for tenders to build seven AI 'gigafactories' across the bloc.
On July 15, 2026, China became the first country to carve out a dedicated regulatory category for AI agents, jointly issued by the CAC, NDRC and MIIT.
Hundreds of millions of Chinese users who built AI companions woke up on July 15 to find the machines switched off, the day China's first companion-AI rulebook took effect.