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Nvidia’s Open Source Alliance Snubs OpenAI and Anthropic

Ai News Business

This week on Uncanny Valley, we discuss the open vs. closed source debate in AI, key players in White House AI policy, and how to stop your chatbot logs from showing up in search engine results.

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Synthetic-user startup Simile raises $200M at $2B valuation 5 months after $100M Series A

Tech Crunch Fundraising

Add another member to the fast-and-furious AI unicorn club: Simile

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Spotify launches ‘User notes’ to let users add memories to songs

Tech Crunch Apps

Spotify says the new feature is designed to let users add personal captions to their favorite songs, such as noting why a track was added to a playlist or when they first discovered it

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OpenAI Cuts API Prices on Its Two Cheaper GPT-5.6 Tiers

Unite AI AI Models & Platforms

OpenAI lowered the API price of its two lower-cost GPT-5.6 models on July 30, 2026, cutting the cheapest tier by 80% and the mid-tier by 20% while leaving its flagship untouched. The change is logged ...

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Arun Hiremath, Chief Business Officer and Co-Founder of EvoluteIQ – Interview Series

Unite AI Interviews

Arun Hiremath, Chief Business Officer and Co-Founder of EvoluteIQ, is a technology executive and entrepreneur with nearly three decades of experience spanning enterprise automation, product strategy, ...

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Chrome Needs Twice-a-Week Patching Thanks to AI Bug Hunting

Ai News Security

The two Chrome updates in June patched more bugs than the 23 updates before them. Now, Google is ramping up its patching schedule thanks to AI-assisted vulnerability discovery.

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Bloom Security Emerges from Stealth with $20M to Secure the AI-Native Endpoint

Unite AI Funding

Bloom Security has emerged from stealth with $20 million in seed funding to address a growing blind spot in enterprise cybersecurity: the expanding collection of AI agents, browser extensions, plugins...

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Simile Raises More Than $200 Million at a $2 Billion Valuation to Scale Human Behavior Simulations

Unite AI Funding

Simile has raised more than $200 million in Series B funding at a $2 billion post-money valuation, providing the Palo Alto-based startup with substantial capital to develop artificial intelligence mod...

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Altman Meets the Officials Designing Washington’s AI Cyber Tests

Unite AI Cybersecurity

Sam Altman meets senior White House officials on July 30, 2026 to discuss voluntary government cybersecurity testing of advanced AI systems, two days before the administration's own deadline for desig...

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Xsight Labs Raises $300M for Programmable AI Network Silicon

Unite AI Funding

Xsight Labs said it has closed a funding round of more than $300 million at a $2.8 billion post-money valuation, capital the fabless chip designer will spend pushing its programmable Ethernet switches...

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DataBahn Raises $40M to Build an Agentic Control Layer for Enterprise Data

Unite AI Funding

DataBahn has raised $40 million in Series B funding as it looks to expand the infrastructure enterprises use to prepare, govern and deliver data to artificial intelligence systems. Insight Partners le...

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Okta buys AI security startup Permiso; source says for about $200M

Tech Crunch AI

The deal gives Okta identity threat detection capabilities as enterprises seek to secure AI agents and other non-human identities across cloud environments.

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Tesla made its 10 millionth EV

Tech Crunch Transportation

The milestone means Tesla is halfway to accomplishing one of the four core product goals Elon Musk has to hit to unlock his full $1 trillion pay package.

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The New Friend AI Pendant Can Now Talk Back to You

Ai News Gear

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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When will fusion power startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems go public?

Tech Crunch Climate

There are fresh signs that fusion power startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems will list in the next two to three years.

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

Tech Crunch AI

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...

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Netflix lands global streaming deal for ‘The Walking Dead’

Tech Crunch Media & Entertainment

Netflix just signed a massive new licensing agreement worth $500 million to bring The Walking Dead Universe to international markets.

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

Tech Crunch AI

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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Fusion power darling Commonwealth Fusion Systems raises another $1B

Tech Crunch Climate

Commonwealth Fusion Systems raised $1 billion as the startup moves toward its first commercial fusion power plant.

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Google Ships Gemini Robotics ER 2 With Multi-Robot Teamwork

Unite AI Robotics & Physical AI

Google has launched Gemini Robotics ER 2, an embodied-reasoning model built to serve as a robot's high-level planner while a separate model handles the motors. It is available to developers through th...

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

Ai News Business

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

Tech Crunch AI

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

Tech Crunch AI

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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Berlin Links Its AI Sovereignty Push to OpenAI’s Rogue Agent

Unite AI Cybersecurity

Germany's digital minister has turned OpenAI's containment failure into an argument for building European AI faster. Karsten Wildberger, the federal minister for digital transformation and government ...

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