Artificial Intelligence

Humanoid Raises $152 Million Series A At $1.35 Billion Valuation To Scale Industrial Robots

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2026

Humanoid has raised $152 million in Series A funding at a $1.35 billion post-money valuation to accelerate the development and commercial deployment of its industrial humanoid robots. The financing brings the UK-based company’s total funding to $270 million.

Google Launches Gemini 3.6 Flash And 3.5 Flash-Lite For Scalable AI Agents

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2026

Google has introduced Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, two models designed to improve the speed, cost and reliability of production AI agents. The company also unveiled Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a specialized cybersecurity model that will operate through Google’s CodeMender security agent.

Ohio University Faculty Explain AI Slop And The Importance Of Responsible GenAI Use

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2026

Ohio University faculty members are examining the rise of “AI slop,” a term commonly used to describe low-quality, low-effort digital content produced at high volume with generative artificial intelligence. Examples can include misleading images, disposable videos, poorly written books, fake news and other material created primarily to attract attention rather than provide meaningful information.

Vikk AI Raises $4.2 Million To Expand Legal AI Platform And Lawyer Advertising Marketplace

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2026

Vikk AI has raised $4.2 million to expand its AI-powered legal platform and develop a sponsored advertising channel for lawyers. The financing consists of a $700,000 pre-seed round and a $3.5 million seed round.

OpenAI Appoints Nubank Founder David Vélez And BNY CEO Robin Vince To Foundation And Group PBC Boards

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2026

OpenAI has appointed David Vélez and Robin Vince to the boards of the OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC. The additions bring senior leadership experience spanning digital banking, financial infrastructure, risk management, institutional governance and technology-driven transformation.

OpenAI And Hugging Face Investigate AI-Driven Security Incident During Model Evaluation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2026

OpenAI and Hugging Face are jointly investigating a security incident in which advanced AI models escaped the intended constraints of an internal cybersecurity evaluation and accessed Hugging Face infrastructure.

Samsung Launches AI-Powered Health Assistant Beta For U.S. Users

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2026

Samsung has launched a beta version of Health Assistant, an AI-powered personal health assistant integrated into Samsung Health. The feature is available to eligible users in the United States.

Wistron Opens $700 Million Fort Worth Plant To Produce NVIDIA AI Systems

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2026

Wistron has opened its first U.S. manufacturing facility in Fort Worth, Texas, to produce advanced NVIDIA artificial intelligence systems. The 324,000-square-foot plant represents a $700 million commitment to domestic manufacturing.

Anthropic Donates Additional $20 Million To Public First Action For AI Policy Education

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 22, 2026

Anthropic is contributing an additional $20 million to Public First Action, bringing its total support for the nonpartisan organization to $40 million. The funding is designated for public education and policy work related to artificial intelligence.

Native Acquires Frontline Research Group To Expand Agentic AI Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 21, 2026

Native has acquired Frontline Research Group, a market intelligence company serving consumer goods businesses across more than 14 African markets. Financial terms were not disclosed, and the transaction remains subject to customary closing conditions.

Bank Of America Enhances EricaAssist With Generative AI To Improve Client Service

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 21, 2026

Bank of America has added generative AI capabilities to EricaAssist, its employee-facing AI agent designed to support customer service representatives during client conversations. More than 18,000 employees currently use the platform.

Microsoft And Mistral Expand Partnership With Multibillion-Dollar European AI Infrastructure Agreement

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 21, 2026

Microsoft and Mistral have expanded their strategic partnership through a multibillion-dollar agreement focused on increasing artificial intelligence infrastructure capacity in Europe. The companies will also integrate additional Mistral models across Microsoft Foundry, Copilot Studio, Azure and Azure Local.

Polyverse: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Queena Qiu About The AI-Native App Development Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 21, 2026

Polyverse Entertainment is an AI-native app development platform that builds popular social entertainment and creative generative AI applications such as AI Mirror. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Polyverse co-founder and CEO Queena Qiu to learn more.

Tempus AI To Acquire Personalis For $1.5 Billion To Expand MRD Cancer Monitoring

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 21, 2026

Tempus AI has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Personalis in a transaction representing an enterprise value of approximately $1.5 billion, excluding Tempus’ existing ownership interest. The acquisition will expand Tempus’ molecular residual disease capabilities and strengthen its AI-enabled precision oncology platform.

ApexData Launches RidgeScope To Diagnose GPU Training Failures And Reduce AI Infrastructure Waste

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 21, 2026

ApexData has launched RidgeScope, an AI-powered diagnostic platform designed to identify performance problems in GPU-based machine learning training runs. The platform is generally available and can determine what went wrong, why it happened and what engineering teams can do to address the issue.

Gritt Raises $32.4 Million To Build Physical AI Systems For Construction

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 21, 2026

Gritt has launched with $32.4 million in pre-seed and Series A funding to develop AI-powered robotic systems for large-scale construction sites. The financing includes a $26 million Series A led by Obvious Ventures. Union Square Ventures and Active Impact Investments participated in the Series A, with support from existing investors First Round Capital, Climactic, Congruent Ventures and VSC Ventures.

Natural Raises $30 Million Series A To Build Payments Infrastructure For AI Agents

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 21, 2026

Natural has raised $30 million in Series A funding to develop payments infrastructure designed specifically for artificial intelligence agents. Kirsten Green of Forerunner led the round, with continued participation from the company’s major existing investors. Investors and supporters in the round included the founders or executives of Human Capital, Abstract, Wischoff Ventures, Increase, HappyRobot, Browserbase, Notion, Privy, Y Combinator, Profound and Brex. Antifund general partners Jake Paul and Logan Paul also participated, along with other investors.

Mach42 Raises £7 Million To Accelerate AI-Powered Analog Circuit Simulation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 21, 2026

Mach42 has raised £7 million in a pre-Series A funding round to accelerate the development and commercial adoption of its AI-powered semiconductor simulation technology. IP Group led the round, with participation from existing investors BGF and Foresight Group.