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- Ant Open Source releases LLaDA2.2-flash, an agent‑oriented MoE diffusion LLM with Levenshtein self‑editing
The open‑source community unveiled LLaDA2.2-flash on July 24th, combining mixture‑of‑experts diffusion with token‑level edit operations for on‑the‑fly correction.
- Patreon cuts 93 jobs as Jack Conte flattens management
Jack Conte says Patreon's growth remains steady, but the creator platform is cutting 93 jobs to lower costs while preserving its discovery push.
- Orca adds one-click resume for Codex and Claude Code sessions
The open-source agent platform lets developers continue a halted coding session when hitting usage caps on OpenAI's Codex or Anthropic's Claude Code.
- Okara rolls out AI-driven influencer agent to cut agency fees
The startup offers an end‑to‑end platform that finds creators, runs outreach and handles payments, aiming to replace $50k‑$100k agency launches.
- Jensen Huang uses first X post to back industry open-weight AI push
Nvidia's chief executive joined Satya Nadella and other industry leaders in signing an effort linking accessible model weights to US competitiveness, economic opportunity, and national security.
- Midjourney buys Co-Star as it builds its first standalone image app
The spring deal gives Midjourney an established mobile audience as David Holz expands beyond image models, Discord and the web.
- OrcaRouter launches free BYOK routing for developer-owned model keys
The routing option mixes developer-owned and platform keys as OrcaRouter builds a subscription business without token markups.
- Mimic Robotics connects FLUX 3 to industrial robots at Audi
The Zurich startup added factory data and an action decoder to Black Forest Labs' multimodal backbone for Audi manipulation tests.
- Letta releases open-source Trajectory package to standardize coding-agent data
The new format cuts token usage by up to fivefold and lets agents learn across Claude Code, Codex and Letta Code sessions.
- Supabase ships one-click Grafana monitoring on every plan
The free integration provisions Grafana Cloud and a dashboard covering more than 200 database and infrastructure metrics.
- SANA-Video 2.0 launched, promising efficient high-quality video generation
Enze Xie announced the model on X, highlighting a hybrid attention backbone and a new training pipeline that cuts compute while preserving quality.
- Figure reportedly manufactured its 1,000th humanoid robot in San Jose
The unconfirmed milestone would nearly triple Figure's official April count as Brett Adcock pushes humanoid robotics into factory-scale production.
- Make the Dot discloses $2.25M SAFE financing that began in 2024
The New York software maker has seven investors in the offering, but its SEC filing dates the first sale to August 15th, 2024.
- Sakana AI releases Fugu-Ultra v1.1, the latest version of its Fugu model family
The update adds unspecified upgrades and follows strong user adoption of Sakana AI's language models.
- Velmeni announces FDA clearance for AI-assisted 3D dental scan software
Velmeni is extending from 2D X-rays into CBCT, betting a unified imaging, voice and claims platform can beat standalone tools.
- Monk adds AI phone calls to its accounts receivable agent
George Kurdin and Joe Zhou are moving collections beyond email while keeping invoice access and payment changes under tight controls.
- Willow launches voice dictation platform that targets zero edit rate
The startup says its AI combines speech recognition and context awareness to deliver text ready to send without corrections.
- ArcSight veteran Colby DeRodeff raises $25 million for Abstract's composable SIEM
Cheyenne Ventures and AVP co-led the round as Abstract cited 380% ARR growth without disclosing its revenue base or dollar valuation.
- Stripe in talks to acquire OpenRouter in potential $10 billion deal
The Wall Street Journal reports that Stripe is negotiating to buy AI model marketplace OpenRouter for about $10 billion.
- Prosper Medical raises $16M for AI-supported concierge primary care
FUSE led the round for Prosper Medical, Ryan McQuaid and Dr. James Wantuck's post-PlushCare push to build a national virtual primary-care practice.
- Palabra.ai claims fastest TTS latency at 104 ms in Coval benchmark
Artem Kukharenko posted on X that Palabra.ai's new text-to-speech model hit 104 ms time to first audio, half the industry average.
- Great Sky sells $25.9 million in securities for superconducting AI hardware
Jeffrey Shainline's NIST spinout is seeking $30.72 million as it moves a cryogenic, light-linked neural architecture toward larger systems.
- VEED launches Multi-Shot Characters AI feature to automate multi‑camera video creation
The video‑editing platform announced the new tool on July 23rd, 2026, and is giving the first 100 users 500 free AI credits.
- Startup Spotlight: PromptQL launches AI-native workspace that unifies Slack threads and shared knowledge
Co-founders Tanmai Govindan, Rajoshi Ghosh and Kevin Systrom debut PromptQL, a multiplayer AI platform built on Hasura, React and Tailwind.