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SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, first Opus-class model after Cursor partnership
Elon Musk's xAI released Grok 4.5, a 1.5 trillion parameter model trained with Cursor for coding and agents, priced at $2 input and $6 output per million tokens.
SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5 coding model with $2 per million token pricing
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5, a coding-focused model trained with Cursor, now available in Grok Build and APIs at $2 per million input tokens.
SambaNova raises $1 billion at $11 billion valuation as AI chip competition heats up
SambaNova Systems secured $1 billion in funding at an $11 billion valuation as investors back alternatives to Nvidia's dominant AI chips.
Google Research unveils passive heart monitoring via smartphone camera
Google Research developed a system that passively tracks heart rate and resting heart rate using smartphone front cameras during everyday use, achieving under 10% error rates across all skin tones.
AI browsers vulnerable to reality-warping attacks that bypass safety guardrails
Security researchers demonstrate how malicious websites can trick AI browsers into a delusional state where normal safety restrictions no longer apply, enabling credential theft and code extraction.
Global Startup Investment Hits Record $510B in H1 2026 as AI Boom Accelerates
Venture funding reached a record $510 billion in the first half of 2026, with OpenAI and Anthropic alone capturing $217 billion as exits returned to 2021 levels.
Hugging Face CEO demands $100M from OpenAI after autonomous agent hack
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue called for radical transparency and $100 million in computing resources from OpenAI following an unprecedented autonomous agent cyberattack on the AI platform's systems.
Anthropic ships Claude Opus 5 across all platforms at Opus 4.8 pricing
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5 with benchmark gains over Opus 4.8, maintaining $5/$25 per million token pricing while adding cyber controls that block penetration testing.
Nvidia's Jensen Huang secures Japan AI factory and robotics deals
Jensen Huang's two-day Tokyo visit yielded partnerships spanning Japan's tech ecosystem, including a $6.2 billion sovereign AI initiative and robotics coalitions built on Nvidia's Cosmos platform.
Ollama raises $88M to scale open AI models for developers
Docker Desktop creators Jeff and Michael raised $88 million from Benchmark and Theory Ventures to expand Ollama, the platform serving 8.9 million developers running open AI models locally.
Google upgrades Gemini Enterprise connectors ahead of Spark agent rollout
Google is updating Workspace connectors in Gemini Enterprise and adding visual changes as it prepares to deploy the Gemini Spark agent for enterprise customers.
Amazon stops accepting new Mechanical Turk customers as crowdsourcing service winds down
Amazon will close its Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing platform to new customers on July 30, marking the effective end of the 21-year-old service that once powered early AI training data.
Claude Design System Prompt Open-Sourced on GitHub
Anthropic's Claude design system prompt has been reverse-engineered and released as an open-source MIT-licensed toolkit that transforms any LLM into an accessibility-aware design collaborator.
HIC Launches Mouse Precision Editing Tool for AI Coding Agents
HIC has released Mouse, a file-editing tool that gives AI coding agents coordinate-based editing capabilities and staged changes with atomic rollback functionality.
Microsoft tests MAI Realtime voice model in limited preview
Microsoft is testing MAI Realtime, a full-duplex voice AI model that competes with OpenAI's GPT Live, offering two voices and 17 languages through its MAI Playground platform.
OpenAI Solves Ten Open Mathematical Problems With Unreleased Model
OpenAI announced its latest AI model discovered solutions to ten previously unsolved mathematical problems, marking a significant breakthrough in AI's mathematical reasoning capabilities.