Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella cautions enterprises that they pay twice for AI—once for usage and again for the data they provide—urging them to build proprietary learning environments.
Canva’s new Code 2.0 lets users build interactive websites, apps, and experiences with plain‑language prompts, adding drag‑and‑drop editing and faster generation to its design platform.
The AI‑driven biotech startup secured $400 million, with backers including OpenAI, Pfizer and Eli Lilly, to accelerate antibody design.
Instalily AI secured $60 million Series B to support its AI‑forward‑deployed engineer product, targeting enterprise systems and data‑model maintenance.
Anthropic’s new tokenizer for its Sonnet 5 model increases token counts, making the same content more costly to process and complicating AI pricing models.
Valarian, a European defense‑focused cloud sovereignty startup, raised $50 million to provide governments and enterprises with alternatives to U.S. cloud providers, strengthening infrastructure independence.
Southeast Asia’s leading insurtech, PolicyStreet, secured an additional $5 million in its Series C round, bringing total funding to $26 million to expand its embedded insurance ecosystem.
The insurer unveiled a new brand platform centered on transparency, renaming its jingle to “You Have Farmers” and rolling out a nationwide campaign on July 13.
Ivorian fintech Djamo secured $17 million in a round that makes it the largest equity raise ever for a startup in Côte d’Ivoire, expanding its mobile‑banking platform across West Africa.
Japanese lawmakers passed legislation mandating social media platforms to flag AI-generated content in elections, aiming to curb misinformation.
The new Inkleaf notebook opens to two 10.3‑inch E‑Ink panels, enabling simultaneous reading and note‑taking for the first time.
OpenAI launches GPT‑5.6, a new family of models offering higher performance per token across coding, knowledge work, cybersecurity, and science, with advanced safety safeguards.
San Francisco‑based AI startup Hostie secured $12 million in Series A funding to grow its AI‑powered virtual concierge that handles calls, texts and reservations for restaurants.
Google Sheets now correctly imports 3D bar charts from Excel, fixing a long‑standing conversion issue that had rendered such charts flat and misleading for enterprise users.
The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency approved a federal trust bank charter for Circle, boosting confidence in its stablecoin USDC and strengthening regulatory oversight.
Google‑owned Waze introduces Gemini‑powered conversational reporting and personalized navigation, expanding its AI integration across the app.
Meta launches Muse Spark 1.1 with a paid API tier at roughly 25 % of rival prices, marking its first move to monetize AI models and undercut competitors.
AI optimization startup Refiant launched Protea, a suite of long‑context models with a 10 million‑token window, the largest publicly available yet.
Satya Nadella criticizes AI labs for restricting distillation, calling it hypocritical and urging companies to own their AI infrastructure.
CleanTechnica reports Tesla’s net profit per vehicle fell 40% from 2025 to 2026, raising concerns about the company’s profitability trajectory.