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• Eren Bali's Monogram raises $40M for a visual AI app

  The Udemy and Carbon Health co-founder is betting that AI's next bottleneck is the interface, not another foundation model.

• Predio wraps Spain's Catastro in JSON for agents that cannot live with SOAP

  The self-serve service adds REST, MCP, machine-readable pricing and a paid ParcelGuard report layer on top of public cadastre data.

• Anthropic extends Claude Fable 5 access for paid users through July 12th

  The five-day reprieve keeps Fable 5 inside weekly plan limits before Anthropic pushes heavier usage toward credits.

• Former Facebook insiders sketch a low-cost AI endgame on Threads for Meta

  The exchange points to a Zuckerberg-style strategy Meta already knows well: use distribution and open models to squeeze frontier-model margins.

• AI4Eyes wins $700,000 MEDTEQ+ award to test its dry eye AI in clinics

  The Montreal eye-care startup will spend the one-year Avise project generating real-world evidence with a Quebec health evaluator.

• Duke Yan's Bidbus raises $15M to make dealers compete for used cars

  Ibex Investors led the Series A as the Los Angeles marketplace expands beyond California and Texas.

• Dario Amodei's $65B Anthropic round reveals how narrow the AI funding boom is

  Crunchbase says North American startups raised $392B in H1, with Anthropic, OpenAI and a few AI leaders carrying the market.

• Luffy AI raises GBP 8.1M for adaptive industrial control software

  The UK industrial AI startup will use the Series A to move motor-control pilots into customer partnerships.

• Proxima Fusion raises EUR411 million as Francesco Sciortino turns stellarators into Europe's industrial fusion bet

  Google and RWE joined the round as Proxima pushes Alpha, its Munich-area net-energy demonstrator, toward the early 2030s.

• Porelio raises EUR 2.4 million to take lab-born water treatment materials into factories

  The Berlin spin-out says its FOMS adsorbents can recover palladium faster and remove persistent PFAS where activated carbon struggles.

• Gyre Energy raises over $1.3M as Oxford founders take AI cooling into cold-chain warehouses

  The pre-seed, led by Speedinvest, backs a 2024 startup using thermal storage to cut power bills without replacing cooling systems.

• Ray Kurzweil's RAI turns his life's work into a governed AI twin

  Kurzweil Technologies and Praxis AI will show RAI on July 10th at the UN AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva.

• Strata puts an AI safety verdict in the backcountry planning stack

  Highloop LLC's iOS app turns avalanche bulletins, slope angle, weather and route data into go, watch or avoid guidance.

• Cody Churchwell's FedFinder brings AI contract intelligence to small GovCon teams

  The one-week-old platform pairs pre-RFP signals, NAICS fit, past performance and outreach data for organization-priced plans starting at $3,000 a year.

• Aureka Opens Its Drug Discovery Model as AI Biotech Moves Toward Lab-Linked Systems

  Founder and CEO Dr. Weian Zhao is putting OpenDDE in public view while Aureka keeps its wet-lab data flywheel proprietary.

• General Intuition releases MIRA, a playable Rocket League world model

  The 5B-parameter demo runs four-player matches at 20 fps and arrives weeks after the AI lab raised $320 million.

• GMI Cloud Says Tencent Hy3 Beat GLM And DeepSeek In A Small Web Design Test

  The GPU cloud provider tested four open models on three webpage prompts, a narrow but useful read on where design coding is moving.

• Browserbase turns its browser infrastructure into a one-call agent API

  Paul Klein IV's Browserbase Agents product lets developers describe a web task in plain English and run it without hosting the agent loop.

• Meta glasses are a privacy fight aimed at the wrong target

  The backlash against Meta's AI eyewear treats camera glasses as new, while phones, cars, airports, and photo apps already normalized machine vision.

• Johnny Carni's WaiV Robotics wants to make ship-launched drones recoverable

  The London maritime robotics venture has raised $7.5 million and is taking a predictive landing system from R&D into market, with a June U.S. launch ahead of the Energy Drone & Robotics Summit.

• Coursera cuts jobs after Udemy merger as $115 million synergy target starts hitting payroll

  The online learning platform disclosed $8 million to $11 million in severance-related costs less than two months after closing the deal.

• CurifyLabs raises $14 million Series A to push automated compounding into more U.S. pharmacies

  Sandwater and HealthCap co-led the round as the Helsinki company spends on U.S. operations, supply chain and product development.

• Anthropic Found a Hidden Workspace Inside Claude

  The July 6th paper introduces J-space, a Jacobian-lens readout Anthropic says can expose hidden goals and evaluation awareness inside Claude.

• SpaceXAI makes Musk's AI consolidation even more confusing

  The @SpaceXAI account switch gives Musk's AI operation a clearer brand, but not a clearer corporate structure, product map or accountability trail.