LimX Dynamics Raises $200M Pre-IPO, Eyes Public Listing
Shenzhen humanoid-robot maker LimX Dynamics closed a nearly $200 million pre-IPO round on July 14, valuing it at about $2.1 billion as it pushes toward a stock listing.
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China Completes First Commercial Brain-Computer Interface Surgery
A Shanghai hospital implanted China's first commercially approved brain-computer interface on July 13, giving a paralyzed patient thought-controlled hand movement.
Read more →Germany Rules Google AI Overviews, Perplexity Are Publishers
Germany's media regulator ordered Google and Perplexity to follow press law, ruling that their AI-generated search answers count as the companies' own editorial content.
Read more →Anthropic in Talks to Lease $10B in Compute From Meta
Anthropic is in early talks to lease up to $10 billion in computing power from Meta over two years, The New York Times reported, as the AI compute shortage reshapes rivals into partners.
Read more →Toyota-Backed Walden Robotics Raises $300M, Hits $1.1B Valuation
Walden Robotics, a robotics startup spun out of Toyota's research lab, emerged from stealth with $300 million in seed funding and a $1.1 billion valuation, backed by Toyota and Nvidia.
Read more →OpenAI Built an AI That Attacks Its Own Models to Harden Them
OpenAI says its new internal system, GPT-Red, found prompt-injection exploits far faster than human red-teamers and used them to make GPT-5.6 six times more resistant to attacks.
Read more →China Launches WAICO, a 29-Nation AI Governance Alliance
China's [Xi Jinping](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Jinping) unveiled the World AI Cooperation Organization in Shanghai on July 17, a 29-country body meant to set shared global rules for AI.
Read more →Google Renames NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, Adds Code Execution
Google has rebranded its research tool NotebookLM as Gemini Notebook and added a feature that lets it write and run code to analyze users' own documents.
Read more →NVIDIA Enlists Japan's Robotics Giants for Physical AI Push
NVIDIA said more than 20 Japanese manufacturers and robotics firms, including FANUC, Sony and SoftBank, are building on its Cosmos world-model platform for real-world AI.
Read more →China's New AI Agent Rules Take Effect Nationwide
Rules requiring human sign-off for consequential AI agent decisions and mandatory filings in high-risk sectors took effect across China on July 15, following a policy issued by three national regulators.
Read more →Moonshot AI Unveils Kimi K3, a 2.8-Trillion-Parameter Open Model
China's Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open model with a 1-million-token context window — a system the company calls the world's first open 3-trillion-class AI model.
Read more →Georgia's National AI Team to Compete at IOAI 2026 in Kazakhstan
Eight Georgian students trained through a nonprofit's AI Olympiad course, backed by TBC Bank, will represent Georgia at the International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence in Astana this August.
Read more →Fireworks AI Raises $1.5B Series D, Hits $17.5B Valuation
Fireworks AI closed a $1.5 billion Series D at a $17.5 billion valuation, saying its infrastructure now serves over 40 trillion tokens a day for specialized AI models.
Read more →China Approves Apple Intelligence, Powered by Alibaba's Qwen
China's internet regulator cleared Apple Intelligence for release, with Alibaba's Qwen model powering the assistant's text and image features on iPhones sold in the country.
Read more →Indian AI Coding Startup Emergent Raises $130M, Hits Unicorn Status
Emergent, an Indian platform that lets non-coders build software with AI agents, raised a $130 million Series C led by Creaegis, valuing it at $1.5 billion.
Read more →Nvidia, Japan Unveil National AI Factory With 27,500 Rubin GPUs
Japan's government and a 44-company consortium called Noetra partnered with Nvidia to build a 140-megawatt AI factory powering open foundation models for robotics and manufacturing.
Read more →DeepMind CEO Hassabis Proposes FINRA-Style AI Watchdog
Demis Hassabis called for a US-led, industry-funded body to test frontier AI models before release, arguing AGI is now only a few years away.
Read more →Cybersecurity Startup Oak Raises $60M for AI Identity Platform
Oak emerged from stealth with $60 million in seed funding to build an AI-native identity system that tracks access for human, machine, and AI agent accounts across the enterprise.
Read more →Blackstone, Apollo, KKR Invest $5.34B in Williams' AI Power Plants
A Blackstone-led investor group is funding 49% of five natural-gas power plants that pipeline giant Williams is building largely to supply electricity to AI data centers.
Read more →Daniel Ek's Neko Health Raises $700M, Nears $7B Valuation
Neko Health, the AI-assisted preventive health-scanning startup founded by Spotify's Daniel Ek, raised $700 million in Series C funding as it prepares to open its first US clinic in New York.
Read more →PrismML's Bonsai 27B Becomes First 27B AI Model to Run on a Phone
PrismML has released Bonsai 27B, a 27-billion-parameter open-weight model compressed to under 4GB, small enough to run natively on a phone while keeping most of its reasoning ability.
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