AI News — July 23, 2026
Daily news briefing for 23rd July 2026. Track model releases, research breakthroughs, startup funding updates, and AI signals published on this day.
All Stories Published on July 23 (70)
Multi-turn Attacks Broke AI Models 88% of the Time - Single-turn Testing Missed It, Cisco AI Security Lead Warns at VB Transform 2026
When Cisco ran 6,986 multi-turn attacks against 15 flagship models , attackers who adapted across the conversation broke through as often as 88.3% of the.
Insurance Startup Corgi Reportedly Raised More Money at $4B - Its Third Round in 8 Weeks
In the AI-funding frenzy, many startups are raising back-to-back rounds at ever-increasing valuations - but even by those standards, Corgi stands out.
Google Just Had Its First Negative Cash Flow Quarter Due to Massive AI Spending
Google continues to report big quarterly revenue, but its AI spending has skyrocketed.
AI Chip Startup Etched Defies Skeptics, Hits $10.3B Valuation From Big-name Investors
Etched, founded by three Harvard dropout, has created new chips and memory components that speed up inference on any AI model -- no GPU required, it says.
The Rise and Rise of Billion-Dollar-Plus Rounds
So far this year, 60% of global startup funding across stages - around $320 billion - went to rounds of $1 billion or more, per Crunchbase data, with such.
Travis Kalanick's Industrial Automation Startup Atoms Raises $1.7B in Funding
Atoms, a startup led by Uber Technologies Inc. co-founder Travis Kalanick, has closed a $1.7 billion investment. The company disclosed in its Wednesday funding announcement that Andreessen Horowitz led the raise.
Is On-Prem Making a Comeback?
While cloud migration previously offered unmatched speed and cost efficiency, decision-makers now perceive localized systems as offering superior long-term.
Orcas Team up to Ram Sunfish Until They Explode
"We think this may help younger orcas feed more easily, or it could also just be for fun.".
IBM Acquires Quantum Computing Research Lab HRL
IBM Corp. today announced plans to acquire quantum computing research company HRL Laboratories LLC. IBM is buying the lab from General Motors Co. and Boeing Co. It didn't disclose the purchase price. The company expects to close the transaction by the end of the quarter.
AI Infrastructure Systems Redefine the AMD-Nvidia Rivalry as Inference Reshapes the Market
The race to build AI infrastructure systems has moved beyond chip specifications into a battle over entire rack-scale platforms, as inference and agentic workloads redefine what counts as a computer.
[AINews] "Laguna S 2.1 Released: Cheaper Than Deepseek V4 Flash, Better Than V4 Pro"
a quiet day lets us highlight a new neolab win.
LISA: Linear-Indexed Sparse Attention for Efficient Long-Context Reasoning
Recent advances in long chain-of-thought reasoning model such as DeepSeek-R1 have led to increasingly longer inference context lengths under the test-time.
OpenAI Launches Health in ChatGPT a Day After Lawsuit Seeks to Block It
OpenAI Group PBC today launched Health in ChatGPT, a feature that lets people connect their medical records and Apple Health data to the chatbot - one day after a lawsuit accused the company of handing out dangerous medical advice and asked a California court to halt the product until independent.
Best Practices for Applying Amazon Bedrock Guardrails to Code Generation Workflows
In this post, we explain how Amazon Bedrock Guardrails can be configured for code generation workflows with coding assistants to overcome these constraints.
AI Kill Switch Act Would Let Trump Admin Order Shutdown of Rogue AI Systems
Bill would let Homeland Security chief decide when an AI should be shut down.
AegisAI, Founded by Former Google Security Execs, Lands $36M to Stop AI-driven Spear Phishing
The Series A was led by Battery Ventures, bringing AegisAI total funding to $49 million.
Evaluating AI Agents: a Production Blueprint with Strands and AgentCore
Together, Motorway and AWS built an end-to-end evaluation pipeline that reduced incorrect results from 1 in 8 queries to 1 in 50 and cut issue detection time.
Building Trade Assistant: How Jefferies Optimized Front Office Trading Operations with AI
In this post, we explore how Jefferies overcame these challenges with a solution built on Strands Agents, an agent harness SDK for building AI agent that.
Building Multi-Region Visualizations with Highcharts in Amazon Quick
This post shows you how to build multi-Region carrier performance dashboards in Quick Sight using Highcharts custom visualizations to overcome native chart.
Detecting Silent Agent Failures with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Optimization
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore optimization surfaces silent behavioral failures in production AI agent: the ones that pass every health check but still deliver.
Agentic Retrieval for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base
This post focuses on why classic retrieval falls short on multi-part questions, how the AgenticRetrieveStream API works (including request construction and.
GeForce NOW Sets Sail with 'Path of Exile: Curse of the Allflame' Joining the Cloud
Lock in and load up the cloud. GFN Thursday brings fresh updates and new adventures, all ready to play without waiting for downloads.
ServiceNow Bets $40 Million on Indian Banking Software Specialist to Expand Its Financial Services Push
ServiceNow's investment gives BusinessNext a strategic partner to expand its AI-powered banking software globally.
NVIDIA AI Supercomputer Comes Online at Naval Postgraduate School
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang today visited the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, to commission an NVIDIA DGX GB300 system - bringing.
AegisAI Banks $36M as AI Spear-phishing Surges Fivefold in a Year
Email security startup AegisAI Inc. today said it has raised $36 million in new funding to counter a fast-growing class of artificial intelligence-generated email attacks that no amount of employee training can reliably stop.
Abstract Security Raises $25M Series a Extension, Recurring Revenue up 380%
Composable security operations startup Abstract Security Inc. today said it has raised a $25 million Series A extension, capital it will put toward widening in-stream threat detection and pushing its artificial intelligence tooling deeper into the security operations workflow.
Ropedia Raises $22M to Scale Human-centric Data Collection for Embodied AI
Singapore-based robotics data infrastructure firm Ropedia Pte. Ltd. today announced it raised $22 million in Pre-Series A funding to scale up its collection of real-world, multimodal interaction data to fuel artificial intelligence robotics models developed by technology companies.
Microsoft Launches New In-house AI Models It Says Cut Costs up to 89% Versus OpenAI
Microsoft AI released two new in-house models into public preview on Wednesday - MAI-Image-2.5-Pro , its highest-fidelity image generator to date, and.
AMD Takes on Nvidia with Its Helios AI Rack-scale System
AMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this year.
Forgot Your Google Password? Now You Can Log in with a Selfie.
Google's selfie videos can be used for account access, AI Avatars, and age verification.
Anthropic Updates Claude Voice Mode with More Capable Models
Claude's new voice model will let you reschedule your meeting or draft an email.
Meta's New Feel-Good AI Ad Uses a Song About the World Ending
The clip feature the David Bowie track "Five Years," which includes lyrics such as "Earth was really dying (dying).".
Black Forest Labs Launches FLUX 3 Capable of Generating Images and 20-second Video with Audio - but in Limited Release to Start
Black Forest Labs (BFL) is expanding its FLUX family beyond image generation with today's launch of FLUX 3 , a multimodal frontier model trained to.
Runway Launches AI Model Router as Generative Media Gets Crowded
The Media Router is a tool that automatically selects the best image, video, or audio generation model for a request based on whether a developer prioritizes.
OpenAI Makes ChatGPT Health Available to All US Users
Users can also integrate their personal data from services like Apple Health, Function, and MyFitnessPal.
Supercooled Kidneys Have Been Transplanted Into Pigs in a "landmark Achievement"
When it comes to organ donation, time is everything. As soon as an organ has been carefully removed from a donor's body, it starts to deteriorate.
Meta Launched a New AI Optimism Ad Set to a Song About Human Extinction
David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live.
An AI Now Judges Every Move Rubrik's Agents Make, Its AI Chief Said at VB Transform 2026 - but No One's Measured If the Judge Is Right
At a CISO roundtable organized by Anthropic's chief information security officer, Dev Rishi asked a simple question: Did everyone in the room have their AI.
Edtech Platform Raises $4.5M to Help Teach Students How to Vibe Code
Imagi announced a $4.5 million seed round, with investors including Brighteye Ventures, Day One Capital, and artist Will.i.am.
Google's Gemini Nears Billion-user Milestone
Gemini had over 750 million monthly users in February.
AI Arms Race in Line for a Reckoning After OpenAI Hacking Incident
Aggressive training techniques sharpens threat of bad behavior by leading models.
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The Download: Energy Transmission and US Threats Against Chinese AI
This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. The power line that.
How AI Helps Scientists Design the Next Generation of Medicines
Designing and developing a new medicine is an expensive, failure-prone scientific challenge.
My Week of Transparent Living with Apple's 'More Clear' Liquid Glass Setting
I cranked Apple's iOS 27 beta to maximum transparency on my iPhone and enjoyed every warped second.
Remember Jibo? Its Successor Is a Wearable That Turns Your Life Into AI Slop
With "blessings" from the original Jibo founders, iKairos is a wearable or desk-mounted "AI journal" that turns your family moments into AI images and video.
Open Co-design Networking Underpins AMD's Helios Strategy at Scale
AI infrastructure is undergoing a fundamental shift as the unit of deployment moves from the server rack to the entire data center, making open co-design networking a first-class design priority rather than an afterthought.
Full-stack AI Competition Shifts From Components to Platforms
Global adoption of artificial intelligence has reshaped many landscapes over the past few years, including the competitive dynamics of the technology industry itself. There was a time when the best semiconductor or cloud services model could dictate much of the market.
AMD Debuts Next-generation AI Infrastructure for Frontier Models, Agentic Workloads and Autonomous Robots
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is pushing harder than ever to grab even more market share from Nvidia Corp. in the artificial intelligence chip industry.
How AI Agents on CoreWeave Help Process F1® Radio in Near Real Time
CoreWeave and Aston Martin Aramco Formula One™ Team built a near real-time AI platform that transcribes 40 live radio channels to turn race-day audio into split-second strategy.
Databricks and Microsoft Expand Azure Partnership Into the 2030s
Databricks Inc. and Microsoft Corp. today said they're extending their strategic partnership into the 2030s as the companies seek business from enterprises building artificial intelligence applications grounded in proprietary data and business context.
Partnering with Etched: Building the Inference Machine
The post Partnering with Etched: Building the Inference Machine appeared first on Sequoia Capital .
Liquid-Cooled Switching Doubles AI Network Bandwidth Per Rack
CoreWeave deploys liquid cooled switching for NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 delivering 100% higher switching performance at 1.64 Pb/s per rack compared to air cooled switches.
NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 on CoreWeave: 10x More Tokens Per Megawatt Than Blackwell
CoreWeave publishes first-ever measured silicon performance of NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72, marking a new milestone in AI infrastructure.
A Data Center Should Make Its Community Stronger
Discover how responsible AI infrastructure can create lasting community value through local engagement, economic investment, and sustainable development.
Agentic AI Compute Reshapes Cloud Economics as AMD Targets Surging CPU Demand
Agentic AI compute has become the defining workload of the cloud's next era, reshaping how hyperscalers, neoclouds and enterprises architect their infrastructure.
AI Infrastructure Buildout Reshapes the Enterprise Stack From Silicon to Systems
The AI infrastructure buildout has become the defining story of the enterprise technology cycle, pushing compute, storage, networking and data into a wholesale redesign.
Real-time Speech Intelligence Startup Cast Insights Raises $4.5M to Track the World's TV, Radio and Podcasts
Cast Insights, a startup that's building a real-time competitive intelligence layer for ephemeral speech, launched its platform today after closing on $4.5 million in a pre-seed funding round.
NowSecure Adds AI-native Testing to Keep Pace with AI-built Mobile Apps
Mobile app security company NowSecure Inc. today introduced a set of artificial intelligence-native feature for its testing platform, including a chat assistant, a Model Context Protocol server and new detection for vulnerabilities specific to AI-powered mobile apps.
Senior White House Official Accuses Moonshot AI of Copying Anthropic's Leading Frontier Model
A senior White House official has accused Chinese artificial intelligence startup Moonshot AI of using so-called "distillation" techniques to essentially pirate the capabilities of Anthropic PBC's most powerful models in its own, open-source AI systems.
When Kubeflow Meets Cilium: Debugging 60% Idle GPUs in Kubernetes
The symptom that made no sense The first time we saw it, we didn't trust the dashboard.
The Future of AI Is Community Driven and Open
Kubernetes has become the de facto operating system for AI.
Inside the Model Factory - Eiso Kant, Poolside AI
and this is just the beginning.
AWS Turns Security Hub Into an AI and Multicloud Security Control Plane
By extending Security Hub to Microsoft Azure and adding artificial intelligence-specific protections, Amazon Web Services Inc. is positioning its security stack as the foundation for securing enterprise AI at scale.
AI Infrastructure Demand Is Outrunning Even the Boldest Supply Chain Playbooks
AI infrastructure buildouts are moving so fast that plans made just months ago are already obsolete, forcing hardware makers to rewrite how they design, source and ship the systems powering the next generation of AI factories.
OpenAI Introduces Presence to Help Enterprises Build AI Agents
OpenAI Group PBC today introduced a product called Presence that enterprises can use to build artificial intelligence agents. The company is using the software to power its call center.
Alphabet's Stock Sinks After It Bumps up AI Infrastructure Spending yet Again
Google parent company Alphabet Inc. delivered better-than-expected revenue for the second quarter today, thanks to strong growth in its cloud business - but the stock sank in extended trading after it missed expectations on earnings and lifted its forecast for capital expenditure.
Physical AI Emerges as AMD Ventures' Next Major Focus Beyond the Data Center
Physical AI is becoming the next major inflection point in AI, as machine intelligence moves beyond cloud data centers and into robotics, industrial automation and other embedded systems that operate in the real world.
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