AI — Page 59
Models, agents, infra, applied AI.
- OfficeCLI Gives AI Agents a Local Handle on Word, Excel and PowerPoint
The open-source iOfficeAI project is building the document layer agents need after chat, with no verified company, founder, or funding disclosed.
- OpenAI puts GPT-Live into ChatGPT Voice
The new full-duplex voice models can listen while speaking, delegate harder work to GPT-5.5 and will come to the API later.
- Perception AI raised $11 million and is shipping a 22-DOF robotic hand
The robotics company is entering a crowded humanoid manipulation race with one verified claim: a many-jointed hand has moved from demo to shipment.
- SonarSource study finds clean code cuts coding-agent token use, not pass rates
The May 19th arXiv preprint tested Claude Code on paired repositories and found fewer tokens and file revisits on cleaner code.
- Techstars and Emirates NBD make enterprise banking access the pitch for AI founders
The July 6th partnership gives selected AI and FinTech teams a path into Emirates NBD pilots, with no disclosed capital commitment.
- Agent Gateways Are Turning Into Enterprise AI's New Control Layer
Arcade, Manufact and Nutanix are converging on the same enterprise problem: who controls the tools, models and spend behind AI agents.
- Runway opens Paris research hub with a $30 million France bet
The France office starts with 10 employees and puts Runway closer to European AI researchers working on world models and physical AI.
- Deyan Ginev's ar5iv Is Still Chasing arXiv's Paper Firehose
A June 6th status post puts April 2026 papers in ar5iv, with the harder claims around speed and AI-assisted development still unbenchmarked.
- OpenComputer turns Slack threads into durable agent sessions
The agent infrastructure product is pushing Slack from notification surface to shared runtime control plane for long-running AI work.
- $150 and an afternoon for a multiplayer shooter is the AI coding story
A $150 Claude Fable 5 run produced a multiplayer capture-the-flag prototype in an afternoon, turning an AI coding demo into a cost-of-software question.
- DeepSeek is developing its own AI inference chip, Reuters reports
Liang Wenfeng's AI lab is moving toward hardware as export controls and inference costs reshape China's model race.
- Figma buys Bud team to pull AI agents closer to the design canvas
Bud, formerly Orchids, will shut down its products by July 18th as Kevin Lu's YC-backed team moves into Figma.
- comma.ai bans Anthropic as an AI vendor after CTO warns of cloud token dependence
Harald Schaefer told employees to stop sending company spend to Anthropic and invest instead in comma.ai's own inference stack.
- OpenAI backs EU AI content labeling code as August deadline closes in
The June 11th endorsement ties OpenAI's provenance work to a voluntary path for meeting EU AI Act transparency rules.
- Google adds background tasks and remote MCP to Gemini Managed Agents
The July 7th update moves Gemini's agent API closer to a hosted worker layer for long-running, tool-heavy jobs.
- Meta's Muse Image gives Wang's superintelligence lab its first image model
Muse Image plans, searches the web and edits across turns inside Meta AI, Instagram Stories and WhatsApp chats.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.