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Bezos backs CuspAI as startup hunts for new chip materials with Nvidia

Jeff Bezos’ Bezos Expeditions invested in British AI‑materials startup CuspAI, which partners with Nvidia to discover new semiconductor and clean‑energy materials.

China delivers a one‑two punch to America’s AI dominance

Moonshot and Alibaba unveiled new AI models that rival OpenAI and Anthropic, tightening the tech race between the U.S. and China.

Hugging Face says an AI agent hacked its infrastructure, and it used AI to fight back

The open‑source AI platform disclosed a cyberattack carried out by an autonomous AI agent and used its own tools to investigate the breach in hours.

Feyn AI Releases SQRL, a Text-to-SQL Model Family That Inspects the Database Before Writing a Query

Feyn AI’s new SQRL family can probe a database before generating SQL, boosting accuracy for ambiguous queries.

Kimi K3 overwhelms capacity just days after launch, suspends new consumer subscriptions

Moonshot AI’s new Kimi K3 model exceeded demand, forcing the company to pause new consumer subscriptions to preserve service quality for existing users.

OpenAI Acquires a Second Company to Help Enterprises Deploy AI in Core Business Operations

OpenAI’s deployment arm has acquired Northslope, an applied‑AI firm, to deepen its enterprise AI offerings and expand its forward‑deployed engineer model.

ReliaQuest and OpenAI Announce Partnership to Accelerate Agentic Cyber Defense

ReliaQuest joins OpenAI’s Daybreak Cyber Partner Program to integrate advanced AI models into its GreyMatter platform, boosting enterprise cyber‑defense capabilities.

RedBear AI Completes Hundreds of Millions of Yuan Series A+ Financing, Expands from B2B Services to B2C Applications Based on AI "Memory Science"

RedBear AI has closed a Series A+ round of hundreds of millions of RMB, pushing its valuation to nearly 3 billion RMB and expanding its focus from B2B to B2C AI‑memory‑driven applications.

Adapter Launches New 'Cognition' Layer for AI Tools

Founder Adam Ghetti unveils Adapter, a knowledge‑graph infrastructure that lets developers build AI tools with better data control and lower costs.

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Capital One releases VulnHunter, an open-source AI tool that finds software flaws before hackers do

Capital One has launched VulnHunter, an AI-powered security scanner that maps out potential attack paths and proposes fixes before code goes live.

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DeepSeek reportedly in talks to raise $1.5B, then IPO

The Chinese LLM developer is preparing for a 2027 IPO and a $1.5 billion funding round at a $71 billion valuation, following a $7 billion round last month.

Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape — and starts blocking them

Patreon, the membership platform for creators, is cracking down on AI scraping of its content for training purposes, working with Cloudflare to block AI bots that train on creators’ work without permission.

China’s Moonshot throws down the gauntlet with Kimi K3, the world’s largest open‑weights model

Moonshot AI announced Kimi K3, a 2.8‑trillion‑parameter LLM that outperforms leading proprietary models and will be released to the public on July 27.

Elorian AI Raises $55 M Seed for Visual Reasoning

Ex‑DeepMind researcher Andrew Dai’s stealth venture, Elorian AI, secured $55 million in seed funding to build AI that reasons natively in the visual medium.

SpaceX open‑sources Grok Build after data‑retention controversy

Following backlash over inadvertent data uploads, SpaceX’s AI arm has released the Grok Build CLI to the public, pledging zero data retention and greater user privacy.

Nvidia reveals new AI model Cosmos 3 Edge and expands Japan’s physical AI ecosystem

Nvidia unveiled Cosmos 3 Edge, a world‑model for robots and vision AI, and announced a partnership with Japanese firms to build a physical AI ecosystem in Japan.

Meta now alerts parents if their teen discussed suicide or self‑harm with its AI chatbot

Meta announced it will notify parents when teens mention self‑harm in its AI chatbot, adding a safety layer to its AI services.

Former OpenAI CTO releases frontier AI model "Inkling"

Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab unveils a 975‑billion‑parameter open‑weights model, the largest American LLM to date, offering developers a highly permissive Apache‑licensed alternative to proprietary systems.

GPT‑Red: Unlocking Self‑Improvement for Robustness

OpenAI unveiled GPT‑Red, an automated red‑teamer that trains its own models to find and fix vulnerabilities, boosting GPT‑5.6’s resilience to prompt injections.