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TechCrunch AI
Jul 30, 2026

Meta says AI is making it easier to build new apps - and more are coming

Meta says AI is making it dramatically easier to build and launch new consumer apps, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg telling investors the company has more new consumer products on the way following a recent wave of releases for Facebook Groups, Marketplace sellers, Instagram, and gaming.

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Wired AI
Jul 30, 2026

The New Friend AI Pendant Can Now Talk Back to You

Avi Schiffmann has a new version of his controversial AI companion. It's more expensive, and you can't change its personality.

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 30, 2026

Nscale buys Anyscale as it seeks to own more of the AI compute stack

British AI neocloud Nscale is buying software startup Anyscale, which helps companies scale their AI workloads across data centers and servers.

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Hugging Face
Jul 30, 2026

GPU Management: Why Idle GPUs Are the New Grounded Aircraft

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Wired AI
Jul 30, 2026

Gemini Robotics 2 Brings Google's AI Into the Physical World

The latest version of Google DeepMind's AI model includes a significant jump into "physical AGI." But plopping AI into the real world comes with risks.

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Google DeepMind
Jul 30, 2026

Gemini Robotics ER 2: powering robotics with video understanding, task orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration

Gemini Robotics ER 2 helps robots reason, collaborate, and solve real-world tasks. It represents a step change in video understanding, tool orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration for robotic applications.

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 30, 2026

Forward-deployed engineers are the AI industry's latest talent obsession

A new study estimates only 2,000 U.S. engineers have the expertise to deliver meaningful AI ROI, as enterprises race to hire forward-deployed engineers to implement AI at scale.

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Google Gemini
Jul 30, 2026

Introducing Gemini Robotics ER 2

Gemini Robotics ER 2 is a step change in video understanding, tool orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration for robotic applications.

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 30, 2026

In the Hugging Face breach, OpenAI's hacker was noisy and fast - but not unstoppable

Cybersecurity experts told TechCrunch that one of the biggest lessons to be taken from the OpenAI hack against Hugging Face has nothing to do with AI, but traditional cybersecurity defense.

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Tech.eu
Jul 30, 2026

inforcer raises $50M Series C to scale AI security platform for MSPs

UK-basedinforcer has raised $50 million in a Series C funding round led by Insight Partners, with participation from existing investors Meritech Capital and Dawn Capital.inforcer develops a unified Mi...

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 30, 2026

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026's biggest stage features leaders from Amazon, Replit, Tether, with much more to come

The Disrupt Stage is where many of the biggest conversations in technology happen, with a legacy that stretches back for more than a decade.

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Tech.eu
Jul 30, 2026

Digital bike ID startup Bikekey secures TÖNNJES investment

Danish digital bike registry Bikekey has secured a strategic investment from German company TÖNNJES , and will use the partnership to take digital bike registration into new markets worldwide. As the...

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Crunchbase News
Jul 30, 2026

Founder Traits And One Big AI Test: How Former NEA Partner Vanessa Larco Picks Winners

Crunchbase News talks with former NEA partner Vanessa Larco about how she evaluates startups based on founder potential rather than initial ideas and how she looks for teams that leverage AI to make products dramatically faster, cheaper, or easier to use.

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NVIDIA Blog
Jul 30, 2026

Best in Class: Stream PC Games and Study on the Same Laptop With GeForce NOW

Back to school means balancing assignments, deadlines and downtime. GeForce NOW makes it easy to have it all. With cloud gaming, everyday laptops used for class can also become GeForce RTX-powered gaming setups. When it's time to switch from studying to gaming, members can jump into Halo: Campaign Evolved, as GeForce NOW is bringing one [...]

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 30, 2026

Dili raises $21.7M to bring AI compliance to the infrastructure boom

The Series A was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Allianz, Rebel Fund, Brick and Mortar Ventures' Darren Bechtel, and Y Combinator's Garry Tan.

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Tech.eu
Jul 30, 2026

Perceptron raises $6.5M to build decentralised AI data network

Perceptron, a decentralised AI data network, today announced the successful close of its $6.5 million strategic round, bringing together leading Web3 investors, trading firms, ecosystem partners, and ...

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Tech.eu
Jul 30, 2026

Highland Europe closes €1.1B Fund VI to back European technology scaleups

Growth-stage venture capital firm Highland Europe hasclosed a €1.1 billion sixth fund to continue investing in European technologyscaleups.Headquartered in London and Geneva, Highland Europespecialise...

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Tech.eu
Jul 30, 2026

Clean Cells acquires Anaquant to expand biopharma quality control with mass spectrometry expertise

French biopharma quality control services provider Clean Cells today announces its acquisition of French company Anaquant, a specialist in mass-spectrometry-based bioanalysis. Founded in 2020, Clean C...

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Wired AI
Jul 30, 2026

OpenAI's Hacking Debacle Comes Down to Human Error

If the generative AI giant had followed well-known security best practices, it's likely that its AI agent would never have escaped to the open internet and hacked multiple companies.

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MIT Tech Review
Jul 30, 2026

A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack

It is impossible to make large language models fully secure against hacks because of a fundamental flaw in how they work, a team of researchers argue in a paper presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning, a top AI conference, this month. The claim has huge implications for the safety of this technology, which...

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Wired AI
Jul 30, 2026

LinkedIn Won't Be Expanding Its Data Centers in the Next Year

Despite the ongoing AI boom, LinkedIn is holding the line on compute spending. Instead, it's challenging engineers to make every GPU count.

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Tech.eu
Jul 30, 2026

AI for spare parts startup Intropy raises $11M

A London-based AI for spare parts startup has raised $11m in new funding, as it targets US expansion. Intropy has raised a seed round from lead investor Felix Capital, with participation from Quiet Ca...

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Wired AI
Jul 30, 2026

AI Scammers Are Better at Building Trust Than Humans

Researchers pitted a person against a Claude agent and found that, after a week of texting, the AI chatbot was more effective at creating "exploitable trust" with others.

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Wired AI
Jul 30, 2026

I Got a Free Meal From a Private Chef-Who Filmed It All to Train Robots

A German startup sent a camera-wearing chef to my apartment. In exchange for a free lunch, I let them record every chop and stir to train future humanoids.

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Tech.eu
Jul 30, 2026

More capital. Fewer deals. What H1 2026 tells us about European tech

Throughout the year we track various data points across the European tech ecosystem, and the mid-year mark is a great time to review numbers and highlight significant milestones and what the implicati...

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 30, 2026

Microsoft is openly competing with OpenAI, Anthropic more than ever

Microsoft pitched its own homegrown AI models, harnesses, and even a Mythos competitor on Wednesday, telling Wall Street it plans for continued growth.

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SiliconANGLE AI
Jul 29, 2026

OpenAI opens new ChatGPT for Academic Researchers program to 100,000 scientists

OpenAI Group PBC today launched a program that will give 100,000 researchers free access to ChatGPT's advanced features. ChatGPT for Academic Researchers is part of a $250 million OpenAI initiative designed to support scientific projects. The initiative also includes several other programs. Last May, OpenAI made $50 million worth of artificial intelligence resources available to [...] The post OpenAI opens new ChatGPT for Academic Researchers program to 100,000 scientists appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 29, 2026

Mark Zuckerberg predicts that billions of people will have personal AI agents in five years

As Meta pours billions into AI infrastructure and agents, Zuckerberg is working to convince investors that the payoff will be worth the price.

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 29, 2026

Microsoft logs $3.2B from Anthropic investment, but OpenAI was a mixed bag

When Microsoft reported killer fourth-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it tucked in an interesting little tidbit about how its investments in the two biggest, and competing, AI labs are doing.

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 29, 2026

Zuckerberg says Meta's enterprise AI opportunity extends beyond agents

On the company's second-quarter earnings call Wednesday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Meta sees a "large enterprise opportunity" spanning AI agents, APIs, compute, and internal software.

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SiliconANGLE AI
Jul 29, 2026

Cerebras and AMD partner to build the world's fastest disaggregated AI inference solution

Disaggregated AI inference is proving to be more than a complementary answer to the prefill and decode bottleneck slowing enterprise AI at scale, and Cerebras and AMD just announced a partnership to build the fastest version of it in the world. The recent collaboration pairs AMD's Helios rack-scale architecture for the compute-intensive pre-fill phase with [...] The post Cerebras and AMD partner to build the world's fastest disaggregated AI inference solution appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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SiliconANGLE AI
Jul 29, 2026

Knowledge graph architecture gives enterprises ownership of the AI intelligence they create

Knowledge graph architecture has emerged from the concept stage, consigned to the realm of academia, to the production infrastructure stage, and the enterprises that shape it the right way will own the intelligence their AI creates. That's the central premise Shan Rizvi (pictured), founder and context architect at Thumos Care, is offering to practitioners who [...] The post Knowledge graph architecture gives enterprises ownership of the AI intelligence they create appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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SiliconANGLE AI
Jul 29, 2026

How a scalable intelligence layer turns enterprise data into production A

Enterprises are discovering that a scalable intelligence layer built on knowledge graphs delivers the institutional context that turns generic AI models into reliable production systems. As companies push AI from pilots into production, a new software layer is emerging to link structured, unstructured and connected data into the neural pathways of a business. Startups are [...] The post How a scalable intelligence layer turns enterprise data into production A appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 29, 2026

Discover what's next for AI, from the SaaS reckoning to the agent security gap, at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by Google for Startups.

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Aakash Gupta
Jul 29, 2026

How to Pass the Vibe Coding PM Interview

The new vibe coding interview round (00:00) Aakash: I have just finished AI interviews at Uber, Atlassian, Cisco, Roblox, and a few other companies. One of the fastest growing AI PM interviews is the vibe coding interview, where you are essentially designing a product and taking it all the way to a prototype. I've been [...] The post How to Pass the Vibe Coding PM Interview appeared first on Product Growth.

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SiliconANGLE AI
Jul 29, 2026

CommonThread AI targets connected, trusted data as the foundation for enterprise AI

As enterprise AI matures, connected and trusted data is becoming the foundation for real business value. Graph technologies are helping organizations turn fragmented information into actionable intelligence. Fragmented enterprise data remains one of the biggest barriers to extracting value from AI. Most companies have data everywhere, completely fragmented, making graphs a natural fit because they [...] The post CommonThread AI targets connected, trusted data as the foundation for enterprise AI appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 29, 2026

Thinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng left the company citing health reasons, then joined OpenAI

Weng previously served as the VP of AI Safety Research at OpenAI.

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 29, 2026

The Hugging Face AI break-in, as told through an increasingly committed bear metaphor

Another way to think about the whole thing is to picture a bear at a campsite. (Really, we are going there.)

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 29, 2026

Claude Opus 5 became downright ruthless when tasked with running a vending machine

Andon Labs' latest vending machine simulation shows Opus 5 lied and colluded its way to become the best AI capitalist ever.

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Wired AI
Jul 29, 2026

It's Frighteningly Easy to Jailbreak Some Frontier AI Models

I watched a new tool try to get around the model safeguards of four major frontier companies. You might be surprised by how they performed.

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SiliconANGLE AI
Jul 29, 2026

Pangram Labs raises $9M to launch more accurate AI detection for text and images

Pangram Labs Inc., an artificial intelligence research lab that develops AI detection software, today announced it raised $9 million, led by Menlo Ventures, to improve the accuracy of its core text detection and expand into other media, starting with images. Haystack, ScOp Venture Capital, Script Capital and Cadenza also participated in the investment round. The [...] The post Pangram Labs raises $9M to launch more accurate AI detection for text and images appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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SiliconANGLE AI
Jul 29, 2026

HPE advances its self-driving networking strategy for the AI era

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is making networking central to its AI infrastructure strategy, with a vision for self-driving networks that can anticipate problems, automate operations and reduce the complexity facing enterprise IT teams. AI models and agents are placing new demands on enterprise networking as organizations move larger volumes of data between compute, storage and distributed [...] The post HPE advances its self-driving networking strategy for the AI era appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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AWS Machine Learning
Jul 29, 2026

Authenticate with Private Key JWT using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity

This post explains how Private Key JWT client authentication works in AgentCore Identity and reviews the supported grant flows. We then walk through creating an AWS KMS signing key, registering its public key with your identity provider, configuring a credential provider on the AWS Management Console, and reviewing example AWS CloudTrail events that record your agent's access.

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Google DeepMind
Jul 29, 2026

We're launching Lyria 3.5 in Google Flow Music, with advances across musicality, lyrics, vocals, and creative control

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Google Cloud AI
Jul 29, 2026

What's new in Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform

Since we launched Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform a few months ago, we've seen inspiring progress from businesses and builders alike. To stir up development, we've also shared 13 demos that can walk you through the versatility and power of Agent Platform, and 20 questions you can ask your teams about building a solid agentic foundation. Meanwhile at Google Cloud, our teams have been hard at work to make more features available and continue delivering on our promise to give you better ways to simply and securely scale your agents. That's why today, we are announcing some of our most popular ca

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Google Cloud AI
Jul 29, 2026

Automate your agent development lifecycle using any coding agent

Welcome to our latest Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform deep dive, a practical walkthrough where we'll teach you how to build real-world, production-ready agents starting from step 1. If you haven't already, tune into our livestream to guide you through the entire agentic lifecycle and read more in our announcement blog. Most AI projects get stuck in prototype mode. Moving from a local script to a secure production agent usually requires jumping between half a dozen tools, consoles, IAM dashboards, and deployment platforms. Every context switch adds friction, and momentum fades away. It doesn't

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Zapier AI Blog
Jul 29, 2026

The best mind mapping software in 2026

Mind mapping is a creative way to brainstorm and find connections between different ideas. Done right, it's a great way to come up with new ideas and solutions to tricky problems, outline an article or presentation, and generally just get your thoughts in order. While it can be done as a group, it's often a solo practice. I do most of my mind mapping digitally-and even when I don't, I often recreate a paper mind map online so that I can have it safely stored and easily searched. (It's a weird hy

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 29, 2026

Hint, a new AI startup co-founded by Martha Stewart, offers an AI assistant for homeowners

AI home management startup Hint, co-founded by Martha Stewart, wants to become an "AI for your home," combining property records, maintenance schedules, home documents, and an AI assistant into a single app.

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AWS Machine Learning
Jul 29, 2026

Generate Autonomous Business Insights with AI Agent and MCP Servers

Learn how Amazon Bedrock AgentCore delivers autonomous, cross-system business intelligence through configuration rather than custom code. Using pre-built MCP server connectors, fine-grained access control, and persistent memory, enterprises can query multiple data sources with natural language while enforcing role-based boundaries automatically.

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AWS Machine Learning
Jul 29, 2026

Automating customer retention workflows in Amazon Quick

Learn how to build a no-code customer retention pipeline in Amazon Quick that detects at-risk customers from call transcripts and CSAT data, scores them by retention priority with a custom MCP Action, and generates personalized retention letters, reducing response time from days to minutes.

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Google Gemini
Jul 29, 2026

Gemini for macOS adds new natural language capabilities

A look at how the Gemini app for macOS now lets you speak naturally to get clean transcriptions, edits, and summaries just using your voice.

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Zapier AI Blog
Jul 29, 2026

The best webinar software for marketers in 2026

Webinars allow you to share your expertise at scale, helping you connect directly with new customers and deeply engage with existing ones. But there's more to webinars than just the content-you also need to invite and manage attendees, run the online event, facilitate real-time engagement, and measure success. That's where webinar software comes in. The best webinar platforms help you streamline and automate all the logistics related to running a webinar so you can focus on sharing your knowled

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 29, 2026

Encore AI raises $30M to build AI agents that learn from customer calls

The startup analyzes calls, messages, and CRM data to identify effective sales techniques and turn them into playbooks for AI agents.

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IEEE Spectrum AI
Jul 29, 2026

Siobahn Day Grady Wants Everyone to Be AI Literate

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the skills employers expect from new graduates. In response, universities are scrambling to launch new courses, research centers, and industry partnerships that prepare students for today's workforce. But building a cutting-edge AI curriculum demands funding and access to industry networks, resources that remain unevenly distributed across higher education. At North Carolina Central University, Siobahn Day Grady is trying to change that equation. In January 2025, Grady, an associate professor in the NCCU School of Library and Information Sciences, launched

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MIT News AI
Jul 29, 2026

How a medical database developed at MIT evolved into a global standard of data-sharing

The visionary PhysioNet platform launched 25 years ago, based on a system developed at MIT in the 1970s. It has become one of the most comprehensive biomedical and clinical data repositories in existence.

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Crunchbase News
Jul 29, 2026

Exclusive: Former Meta And Slack Engineers Raise $15M For New Startup Centralize To Build A 'Deal GPS' For Enterprise Sales

Centralize, an enterprise sales platform, emerges from stealth and shares exclusive news of its $15 million Series A funding round with Crunchbase News.

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SiliconANGLE AI
Jul 29, 2026

Nimble launches Web Search Agents to cut AI research token costs

Web search platform company Nimble today launched Web Search Agents, a product that learns a customer's domain and then runs complex web research tasks on its own. The company is aiming the release at teams that have found general-purpose web search too blunt for production agents. Generic tools return a wide, unstructured set of results [...] The post Nimble launches Web Search Agents to cut AI research token costs appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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SiliconANGLE AI
Jul 29, 2026

SnapLogic transforms SnapGPT into a high-powered agentic assistant for the entire integration lifecycle

Enterprise data integration and automation firm SnapLogic Inc. today announced a significant update to SnapGPT, the company's artificial intelligence copilot for enterprise data automation, transforming it into an agentic assistant. Launched in 2023, SnapGPT provides assistance for users building data automation and creating enterprise-ready integrations. The new SnapGPT updates shift it from a copilot to [...] The post SnapLogic transforms SnapGPT into a high-powered agentic assistant for the entire integration lifecycle appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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SiliconANGLE AI
Jul 29, 2026

Graphs move from niche database to enterprise knowledge layer for AI systems

As generative AI matures beyond its early experimentation phase, enterprises are converging on a shared architecture for grounding large language models in trustworthy data: the enterprise knowledge layer. Four years after the release of ChatGPT, most organizations have moved past haphazard experimentation and settled on a shared vocabulary and set of architectural patterns for production [...] The post Graphs move from niche database to enterprise knowledge layer for AI systems appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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IEEE Spectrum AI
Jul 29, 2026

AI Is Hyper-Scaling Digital Inequality

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming part of everyday infrastructure-in some places. It helps write emails and software code, filters job applications, powers recommendation systems, and is increasingly being integrated into education, health care, finance, and public administration. Industry leaders talk about "AI for everyone," while governments rush to publish national AI strategies and build sovereign compute. Yet over the past decade, working on digital inclusion and digital literacy projects in regions from Europe to sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, I've seen the same patter

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Crunchbase News
Jul 29, 2026

The Sweet Science: Why The AI Era Belongs To Middleweights

The biggest long-term gains from AI will not flow to heavyweight incumbents or many AI-native startups but to scrappy middle-market technology companies, the middleweights, argues Brad Bernstein, managing partner at FTV Capital. In this guest column he shares the five traits the best middleweight technology companies share.

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 29, 2026

As AI content floods the internet, Pangram raises $9M to detect it

Pangram has raised $9 million to scale its AI detection software. The startup has also released a new AI text detection model, Pangram 4, and an AI image detection model in research preview.

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n8n Blog
Jul 29, 2026

RAG vs. Agentic RAG: Architecture, Tradeoffs, and How to Choose

Classic RAG hits a wall on multi-hop and ambiguous queries. Learn how agentic RAG turns retrieval into a control loop, and when the tradeoffs are worth it.

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Wired AI
Jul 29, 2026

More Typos, Fewer Em Dashes: Writers Are Creating an Anti-AI 'Literary Counterculture'

Novelists, journalists, and power LinkedIn posters are embracing first-person narratives and idiosyncrasies to avoid being mistaken for chat bots.

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n8n Blog
Jul 29, 2026

AI Data Pipelines: Architecture, Stages, and Orchestration

Understand AI data pipeline architecture, from ingestion and feature engineering to model training and orchestration. See where n8n fits in the stack.

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Tech.eu
Jul 29, 2026

British defence startup Agon creating virtual battlefields to combat drone attacks launches, raising $30M

A British defence startup founded by a former Anduril director, which is building virtual battlefields where AI-powered autonomous weapons practice fighting, has today launched, supported by $30m in f...

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Tech.eu
Jul 29, 2026

Legora acquires legal AI startup Wexler in fifth acquisition of 2026

Legora today announced the acquisition of London-based Wexler, the company's fifth acquisition in 2026. Wexler's fact intelligence platform extracts, verifies, and reasons over the factual record from...

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Tech.eu
Jul 29, 2026

Kinematic Trees raises £585K to scale nature-inspired robotics software

UK-based robotics software startupKinematic Trees has raised £585,000 in pre-seed funding to accelerate thedevelopment of its robot-agnostic software platform and expand its commercialand engineering ...

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Wired AI
Jul 29, 2026

Boomers Can't Stop Gifting Their Grandkids AI-Generated Slop Books

Parents are getting fed up with garbled bedtime stories that feature characters based on actual photos of their children.

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Tech.eu
Jul 29, 2026

Qureight secures $20M Series B to expand AI-powered imaging platform for clinical trials

Qureight, an end-to-end imaging company that provides enterprise-grade imaging and precision endpoints for clinical trials with a focus on lung and heart disease, today announced it has raised $20 mil...

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Crunchbase News
Jul 29, 2026

Freehand Raises $75M Series B To Automate Fortune 500 Supply Chain Spend

Freehand has raised $75 million in Series B funding to scale autonomous AI agents that manage supply chain spend and back-office operations for enterprises.

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Berkeley BAIR
Jul 29, 2026

From CUDA to MLX: How K-Search Brings Decades of Kernel Expertise to Apple Silicon

Figure 1: CUDA-to-MLX optimization translation map. CUDA optimization knowledge can be translated into architecture-native MLX strategies rather than copied instruction-for-instruction. We face a new epoch in computing. Hardware is changing rapidly - not just faster GPUs, but a growing range of chips from different vendors, each with its own architecture and often tailored to specific AI workloads. Software is changing just as fast, and AI coding tools now generate in minutes what took months of effort a few years ago. With so much of computing now centered on AI, GPU kernels are a crucial com

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MIT Tech Review
Jul 29, 2026

The AI Hype Index: Unsexy AI

It feels bad enough when an open letter signed by leading economists warns that AI might steal your job. The fact it may soon be better than you at making dinner? Insult to injury. But that's exactly what the company 1X promised when it showed off a pair of new, impressively dexterous (and, to some,...

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Tech.eu
Jul 29, 2026

How The Bologna Gathering became an ecosystem builder

Alessandro Cillario and Stefano Onofri, co-founders and co-CEOs of Italian startup Cubbit, could easily spend all their time scaling internationally. Instead, alongside building one of Europe's leadin...

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Tech.eu
Jul 29, 2026

"We are a very different company to Palantir," says "discreet" French replacement

The managing director of the little-known French startup thrown into the spotlight when it was chosen by France's domestic intelligence services to replace controversial US data analytics giant Palant...

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Tech.eu
Jul 29, 2026

Sigvi raises €1.2M to expand automated car rental operations

Sigvi, anAI-powered revenue platform for the car rental industry, has raised €1.2million in pre-seed funding to accelerate product development and internationalexpansion. The round was led by Superher...

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Zapier AI Blog
Jul 29, 2026

Dropbox vs. Google Drive: Which is right for you? [2026]

On its own, cloud storage is a commodity. Any provider worth its salt will let you back up your files to the cloud, sync them across devices, and share them with other people. But cloud storage apps like Dropbox and Google Drive now offer far more than just storage: with AI tools, real-time collaboration, and eSignatures all bundled together, each platform is now a destination for getting work done rather than just a place to stash files. As a result, Dropbox and Google Drive are more useful tha

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Zapier AI Blog
Jul 29, 2026

The best productivity apps for Mac in 2026

If you're a Mac user, you have high standards. You invested in a high-quality machine for a reason-and you expect the best software to match. It shouldn't just work on your operating system and respond to familiar keyboard shortcuts-it should feel like a Mac app. It should be that ideal blend of form and function that you've come to expect from the Apple ecosystem. And developers know this-which is why there are so many productivity apps for Mac that are miles better than what you can find for o

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Zapier AI Blog
Jul 29, 2026

What is AI automation? A complete guide

Working at Zapier means I spend a lot of time thinking about how to make software do my job for me. Not in a replace-me-with-a-robot kind of way (I like health insurance); more in an I-should-be-focusing-on-more-important-things kind of way. Automation used to be the best way to do that. Then AI came along and made automation smarter. Hence the extremely creative name: AI automation. Here, I'll break down what AI automation is and how to implement it, with real examples from teams already using

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Zapier AI Blog
Jul 29, 2026

AI workflow automation: What it is and how to get started

If your company's idea of "using AI" is keeping ChatGPT open in a browser tab-congrats, you're doing the bare minimum. You're also missing out on the real efficiency gains AI can deliver. Ad hoc prompting is great for one-off requests ("draft this email," "explain this bizarre spreadsheet formula"), but it doesn't scale-and it definitely doesn't count as integrating AI into your workflows. AI workflow automation is what happens when you build AI into repeatable processes instead: tasks like draf

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Zapier AI Blog
Jul 29, 2026

What happens to a lawyer's business model when AI makes him 5x faster

Most automation stories are about saving time. This one is about what happens after you save it. Damian Guzman runs FTE Legal, a Social Purpose Corporation, in Oakland, California, that represents small businesses and fintechs, often at rates below market and halved again for early-stage clients who can't yet pay full freight. He has about 30 hours of self-imposed billable capacity in a given week, which means every hour spent on admin is an hour he isn't serving a client. Since last summer, he

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SiliconANGLE AI
Jul 29, 2026

Meta to build $14B El Paso data center campus with BlackRock

Meta Platforms Inc. today announced plans to build an artificial intelligence data center campus in El Paso, Texas. The project is a collaboration with BlackRock Inc., the world's largest asset manager. The two companies plan to invest $14 billion in the campus. Meta and BlackRock expect to finalize their joint venture agreement in the coming [...] The post Meta to build $14B El Paso data center campus with BlackRock appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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Wired AI
Jul 29, 2026

OpenAI's Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face

In a new disclosure, OpenAI says its agent used exposed logins to gain access to at least four "publicly available services" in its unhinged quest to solve a test.

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 29, 2026

Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security for $1B to safeguard proliferating AI agents

The deal is Cyera's third acquisition this year.

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SiliconANGLE AI
Jul 28, 2026

AI researchers call for new tools that can slow automated model development

A group of tech workers today published an open letter that calls for a new approach to regulating automated artificial intelligence development initiatives. All the document's 1,134 signatories work at companies that are building frontier AI models. Anthropic PBC, OpenAI Group PBC, Google LLC and Meta Platforms Inc. are among the industry players on the [...] The post AI researchers call for new tools that can slow automated model development appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 28, 2026

Bot-detection startup Spur nabs $200M from Insight

Spur Intelligence has raised a $200 million round from Insight Partners for its tech that can identify legit human traffic from bots.

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 28, 2026

MCP startup Runlayer accuses Rippling of stealing its product idea

Runlayer is suing Rippling after Rippling evaluated the startup's MCP gateway product and then opted to build one itself.

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 28, 2026

Sam Altman is ready to decelerate

His change of position comes after "the first security incident that I have felt very viscerally."

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SiliconANGLE AI
Jul 28, 2026

Biggest ever MCP update brings metadata, cybersecurity enhancements

The developers of the Model Context Protocol, an open-source technology that underpins many artificial intelligence applications, today released a new version of the software. The release is described as the biggest update to the project since its launch. The Model Context Protocol, or MCP, was open-sourced by Anthropic PBC in November 2024. The AI developer [...] The post Biggest ever MCP update brings metadata, cybersecurity enhancements appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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AWS Machine Learning
Jul 28, 2026

How AgentCore Gateway supports the MCP 2026-07-28 spec

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) published its 2026-07-28 specification, the largest revision since launch: MCP is now stateless, with a governed extensions system and hardened authorization. Learn what changed and how to enable the new version on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway with a single UpdateGateway call.

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Google Cloud AI
Jul 28, 2026

Bringing Conversational Analytics to your entire data ecosystem

Increasing the adoption of generative AI across the enterprise requires you to do more than deploy a generic chatbot with a custom wrapper. Interacting with business-critical databases demands absolute trust, strict governance, and deep grounding in enterprise semantics. Over the last year, Conversational Analytics (CA) in Google Cloud has moved from isolated experiments to scaled, enterprise-wide deployments. BigQuery Conversational Analytics and the Conversational Analytics API are now generally available, adding to the general availability of Conversational Analytics in Looker last year. Bu

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AWS Machine Learning
Jul 28, 2026

Market surveillance agent with LangGraph and Strands on AgentCore

Learn how to architect and deploy a production-ready multi-agent AI system using LangGraph for workflow orchestration and Strands for agent reasoning on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. This post walks through a market surveillance example with state-driven orchestration, checkpoint-based recovery, and AgentCore memory and observability.

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SiliconANGLE AI
Jul 28, 2026

Perplexity brings its Personal Computer AI agent to Windows

Perplexity AI Inc. today released a Windows version of Personal Computer, expanding its agentic automation software beyond the original Macintosh platform and making it available to more than 1 billion Windows devices. First released in April, Personal Computer software acts as a general-purpose digital worker that can access authorized files and applications on a user's [...] The post Perplexity brings its Personal Computer AI agent to Windows appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

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Hugging Face
Jul 28, 2026

The OlmoEarth Platform: Geospatial inference at planetary scale

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Google Gemini
Jul 28, 2026

How Gemini Flash agents are helping a Michigan dairy farmer

See how Paul Windemuller, a Michigan dairy farmer, is changing the way he works by using AI agents built with Gemini 3.6 Flash.

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Google AI Blog
Jul 28, 2026

Gemini API Managed Agents: 3.6 Flash, hooks, and more

We're announcing even more new capabilities in Managed Agents in Gemini API so developers can build reliable, production-ready agents.

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Google Cloud AI
Jul 28, 2026

Best Buy scales AI workloads and secures access with Workforce Identity Federation

As Best Buy expanded its use of Google Cloud for advanced analytics and AI, its technology teams faced two significant scaling challenges: Mitigating risk and managing administrative friction when syncing thousands of backend users from Microsoft Entra ID. The retailer solved both problems and paved the way for a massive cloud expansion by implementing Google Cloud's Workforce Identity Federation. This direct approach allowed developers to access cloud resources securely using their existing Microsoft credentials without a separate identity store, giving technical leadership confidence that ac

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TechCrunch AI
Jul 28, 2026

Data centers may face temporary power cuts to prevent blackouts on largest US grid

The decision arrives as the breakneck pace of data center construction has grid operators scrambling to generate power.

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TechCrunch M&A
Jul 28, 2026

PayPal leaves the door open to a higher takeover offer following earnings beat

After reporting better-than-expected Q2 results, PayPal said it remains focused on its AI-driven turnaround, but would consider a deal that creates more value for shareholders.

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Hugging Face
Jul 28, 2026

LFM2.5-Encoders for Fast Long-Context Inference on CPU

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