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AI nuclear power firm Fermi finally has a new CEO

Fermi, an AI‑driven nuclear power startup, announced the appointment of a new CEO as it moves toward commercial deployment of its AI‑optimized reactors.

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AWS cracks down on engineers' EC2 use as AI agents push CPU demand higher

Amazon Web Services is tightening limits on internal EC2 instance usage to manage rising CPU demand from AI workloads.

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SpaceXAI debuts Grok 4.6, overtaking Kimi K3’s performance

SpaceXAI released its latest frontier AI model, Grok 4.6, which surpasses competitor models in benchmarks and offers a lower‑cost API for enterprise use.

Google debuts SL2T, an AI model that’s designed to understand sign language

DeepMind’s new SL2T model brings multilingual sign‑language‑to‑text capability to Pixel 11, enabling real‑world sign‑language dictation on Gboard and Live Transcribe.

Visoid secures $2.5M to expand architectural visualisation platform

Norwegian AI startup Visoid raised $2.5 million in a seed round to enhance its AI‑powered platform that turns architectural 3D models into high‑quality visualisations.

CodeRabbit bags $143M to help companies get a grip on the explosion of AI-generated code

CodeRabbit Inc. closed a $143 million Series C round, adding an Agentic Change Management layer to help teams govern AI‑generated code.

HSBC Asset Management invests in London-founded Model ML

HSBC’s asset‑management arm backs Model ML, a London‑based AI automation startup for financial services, after the company raised over $100 million in total funding.

Defense tech Hadrian raises $1.37 B at $8 B valuation

Hadrian secured a fresh $1.37 billion round, valuing the defense‑automation firm at nearly $8 billion, while expanding its automated manufacturing capabilities.

xAI co‑founder raises $1.1B for River AI to build an open AI stack

River AI, a new startup spun out of xAI, secured $1.1 billion in a Series A to offer an open‑weight AI platform that lets enterprises train, own and run custom models.

Microsoft to unveil Maia 300 AI chip this fall, targets 300,000 units

Microsoft plans to release its next‑generation Maia 300 AI chip in September, aiming to produce up to 300,000 units this fall as part of its custom silicon strategy for Azure AI workloads.

General Catalyst leads $1.1B round into 2-month-old River AI

River AI, founded by xAI co‑founder Igor Babuschkin, secured $1.1 billion in a seed/Series A round to build a new AI stack focused on personal, trainable agents.

SpaceXAI has released 'Grok Bot,' an AI agent that works 24/7

SpaceXAI launched an early beta of Grok Bot, an AI agent that operates websites and apps on users’ behalf, powered by a dedicated cloud PC.

Omilia Raises $67 M Series B to Scale Agentic Contact‑Centre AI

The conversational‑AI company closed a $67 million Series B led by Expedition Growth Capital to expand its self‑learning platform for enterprise contact centres.

SentientX Unveils New Brand and Launches Its Most Advanced Human Identity Bank Release Yet for the AI Era

SentientX refreshed its brand identity and launched the latest version of its Human Identity Bank platform, offering AI‑powered protection for voice, image, and likeness.

Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models

Anthropic announced it will embed watermarks in all text output from its Claude models to comply with the EU AI Act’s transparency requirements.

What’s new in Power Platform: July/August 2026 feature update

Microsoft’s Power Platform blog details new AI‑powered features, including a data grid modern control and AI‑assisted UI automation for Power Automate.

OpenAI Expands Daybreak with Two Tiers and a New Cybersecurity Model

OpenAI announced on August 10, 2026 that its Daybreak program will now offer a general‑purpose ‘Blue’ tier and a specialized ‘Red’ tier, along with a new GPT‑5.6‑Cyber model designed to reduce refusals on advanced security tasks.