AI News — July 28, 2026
Daily news briefing for 28th July 2026. Track model releases, research breakthroughs, startup funding updates, and AI signals published on this day.
All Stories Published on July 28 (41)
Cyera to Buy Nonhuman Identity Startup Oasis Security for a Reported $1B
Data security company Cyera Ltd. revealed today that it is set to acquire nonhuman identity management startup Oasis Security Ltd. in a deal Israeli media report is worth about $1 billion. Neither company disclosed terms.
PayPal Tops Q2 Estimates and Raises Full-year Forecast Amid Stripe Takeover Bid
Shares in PayPal Holdings Inc. closed regular trading up 4% today after the payments company beat expectations on revenue and earnings in its second quarter and raised its full-year profit forecast, less than two weeks after a $53 billion buyout offer from Stripe Inc.
Bot-detection Startup Spur Nabs $200M From Insight
Spur Intelligence has raised a $200 million round from Insight Partners for its tech that can identify legit human traffic from bots.
Recursive Superintelligence Signs $410M Compute Deal with Amazon
Recursive's emphasis on self-improving AI systems means much of the budget that would traditionally go toward headcount and operations is put straight into.
AI Seed Investors Flock to Cybersecurity
Startups at the intersection of AI and security have raised $855 million across more than 150 reported seed-stage rounds this year, per Crunchbase data.
Study: Dinosaurs Were Charbroiled After Chicxulub Impact
"We're in the realm where we might be essentially killing off everything within that first hour or two.".
AI Model Compression Startup Multiverse Raises $570M at $1.7B Valuation
Multiverse Computing SL, a startup working on technology that compresses artificial intelligence models so that they run more efficiently on less hardware, announced Monday it raised $570 million in Series C funding.
Cursor Makes Its Biggest India Push yet Ahead of SpaceX Acquisition with Localized Pricing
Cursor says India is now its third-largest market globally and plans to expand local hiring and enterprise sales.
Chinese Memory Maker CXMT Jumps 460%+ in First Day of Trading
Shares of ChangXin Memory Technologies Inc. closed 466% higher in their trading debut on the Shanghai Stock Exchange today. The stock jump follows an initial public offering in which CXMT, China's largest memory maker, sold about 6.8 billion shares for 8.66 yuan apiece.
1Password Aims to Cut Standing Access Risks for AI Agents
Identity security company 1Password today launched 1Password Privileged Access, a product that gives engineers and AI agent a single task's worth of access to critical infrastructure and nothing that outlasts it.
HeyDonto Launches DFT Labs to Pursue Physics-based Machine Learning Capabilities
Artificial intelligence startup HeyDonto AI Technology today announced that it has established DFT Labs, a research subsidiary dedicated to pursuing a physics-based framework for machine learning.
How AgentCore Gateway Supports the MCP 2026-07-28 Spec
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) published its 2026-07-28 specification, the largest revision since launch: MCP is now stateless, with a governed extensions.
Market Surveillance Agent with LangGraph and Strands on AgentCore
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Fish Audio Raises $52M Seed to Build AI Voice Models for Creators and Enterprises
Since launching last year, the startup today has more than 8 million people using the open source or hosted version of its models, and now generates annual.
Exclusive: Co-Founded by Former Whoop CTO, Throne Science Raises $10M to Track Gut Health From the Toilet
Throne Science, a startup that makes an AI-powered toilet camera to track gut health and hydration, has raised $10 million in a Series A round led by Will.
Fish Audio Makes a Splash After Raising $52M Seed Funding for AI Voices
Fish Audio, an ambitious artificial intelligence startup that began life as a weekend project in its founder's bedroom, said today it has raised an impressive $52 million in seed funding to try and establish voice as the default interface for every AI model.
Greyparrot Raises $27M to Bring Physical AI to Recycling as Packaging Grows More Complex
Recycling intelligence platform Greyparrot.ai Ltd. today announced it raised $27 million in Series B funding led by Om Elite Assets Investment to scale its infrastructure globally.
Act Security Raises $60M to Take Action Against Agentic Access Sprawl at the Infrastructure Layer
Cloud security startup Act Security Ltd. says it's primed and ready to help enterprises safely deploy artificial intelligence agents at large scale after raising $60 million in funding across two rounds.
Quantum Computing Startup ZuriQ Gets $25.5M to Scale 2D Trapped-ion Processor Design
Investors are throwing money at quantum computers again, with the Swiss startup ZuriQ AG becoming the latest beneficiary of their largesse after closing on a $25.5 million seed funding round.
Reaction Wheel Failures Leave Swift Rescue Mission Spinning in Orbit
"Preliminary investigation shows that two of Link's three reaction wheels currently are not operable.".
We Now Have a Better Understanding How OpenAI Hacked Into Hugging Face
10 days passed from OpenAI models exploiting JFrog Artifactory 0-day to release of a patch.
MCP Startup Runlayer Accuses Rippling of Stealing Its Product Idea
Runlayer is suing Rippling after Rippling evaluated the startup's MCP gateway product and then opted to build one itself.
Despite AI Hype, Google's Data Shows Workers Aren't Automating Themselves Away
Analysis of 15 million real AI interactions finds most tasks at most jobs are unaffected.
Ozlo's Sleepbuds 2 Build on Bose's Sleep Earbud Legacy
Ozlo's first major update to its sleep earbuds introduces longer battery life, improved connectivity, enhanced audio, and new sleep feature as the startup.
Snowflake Launches Cortex AI Gateway to Control AI Agents and Prevent Runaway Enterprise Costs
Snowflake announced Cortex AI Gateway on Tuesday, a centralized control layer designed to govern how AI agent - including those built by competitors like.
Anthropic's Dario Amodei Responds: Doesn't Oppose Open-weight Models, but Fears Chinese AI
Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei made his views clear about open-weight models and China's growing AI capabilities.
AI Researchers Call for New Tools That Can Slow Automated Model Development
A group of tech workers today published an open letter that calls for a new approach to regulating automated artificial intelligence development initiatives. All the document's 1,134 signatories work at companies that are building frontier AI model.
How Japan's 250% Training Surge Is Shaping Global AI Talent
The first KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan took place in Tokyo in June 2025 and kicked off a cloud native skills boom in the region.
Kubeflow Unveils New Cloud Native Innovations to Supercharge AI
The Kubeflow news coming out of Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 highlights several significant advancements and community initiatives.
Biggest Ever MCP Update Brings Metadata, Cybersecurity Enhancements
The developers of the Model Context Protocol, an open-source technology that underpins many artificial intelligence applications, today released a new version of the software. The release is described as the biggest update to the project since its launch.
Anthropic and Nvidia Come Out Against Blanket Bans on Open-weight AI Models
As the United States government debates new artificial intelligence rules and regulations, Anthropic PBC and Nvidia Corp. are drawing a line against blanket bans on open-weight models, urging regulators to focus instead on specific risks and misuse.
Cyera and Oasis: Stronger Together
The post Cyera and Oasis: Stronger Together appeared first on Sequoia Capital .
Bugcrowd Launches Savant Pathseeker for Continuous Agentic Pentesting
Crowdsourced cybersecurity company Bugcrowd Inc.
Tines Seeks to Tame 'wild Code' AI Sprawl
Workflow automation company Tines Security Services Ltd. today launched Tines 3B, an artificial intelligence-native platform for building, running and governing enterprise workflows, applications and agents.
Torq Unveils SOC Brain, a Self-learning Layer for Its AI SOC Platform
Security hyperautomation platform company Torq Ltd. today introduced Torq SOC Brain, a new layer of its artificial intelligence security operations center platform that trains on a customer's own investigation history and analyst decisions instead of treating every alert as a fresh problem.
Exclusive: Dymium Introduces Single Gateway to Govern Enterprise AI Use
Secure artificial intelligence infrastructure startup Dymium Inc. today introduced GhostAI, a gateway designed to apply security and governance policies across the models, data, context and tools used in enterprise AI systems.
Diagrid Catalyst 2.0 Adds Durable Execution to More Than 10 Agent Frameworks
Agent infrastructure startup Diagrid Inc.
Skyhawk Security Integrates AWS Continuum to Rank Exploitable Cloud Flaws
Cloud detection and response company Skyhawk Security (CNP) Ltd. today said its AI Red Team now ingests vulnerability findings from AWS Continuum and ranks them by whether an attacker could weaponize them as part of a broader cloud breach.
ZeroFox Debuts AI-first HNTR Platform, Starting with Executive Protection
Cybersecurity company ZeroFox Inc. today launched HNTR, an artificial intelligence-first platform that pulls the company's digital risk protection and threat intelligence products into one service.
5 Ways AI Mode in Search Helps You Enjoy the Real World
It might sound counterintuitive, but Search's AI tools can actually help you make the most of your time offline whether you want to book concert tickets or find the perf.
5 Ways to Host the Ultimate Dinner Party with Google Search
These AI feature can help you craft a menu, design a tablescape, and handle other party-planning tasks.