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Mirendil signs $100M+ Google Cloud deal for self-improving AI
Mirendil, an AI lab founded by ex-Anthropic and Google researchers, signed a multiyear $100M+ Google Cloud deal for TPU and GPU access to train self-improving AI.
Anthropic tightens biology safeguards for its Fable 5 model
Anthropic rebuilt Fable 5's safety classifier, cutting false positives on benign biology questions by 85% while keeping dual-use content blocked.
Persona AI sends humanoids to Korea after a welding demo
Persona AI shipped humanoids to South Korea to prepare for deployment in HD Hyundai shipyards. Earlier, a Gen 1 robot completed a teleoperated weld in Houston.
Nucleus deploys teleoperated humanoids to a factory in under 90 days
European startup Nucleus exited stealth and deployed Unitree G1 humanoids to a German factory in under 90 days. It sells no robots, billing hourly for teleoperated work.
ACT-2 folds laundry at 99.1% success with zero per-home data
Sunday Robotics unveiled ACT-2, a manipulation model that folded laundry across 25 unseen homes at 99.1% success, with no per-home data or fine-tuning.
Meta launches Muse Code agent and Muse Spark 1.2 model
Meta launched its Muse Code coding agent and the Muse Spark 1.2 model to challenge Anthropic and OpenAI, competing mainly on price rather than capabilities.
Anthropic builds its own team to design custom AI chips
Anthropic has confirmed an in-house team to design custom AI chips. It wants to co-design silicon with its Claude models to cut cost and latency as demand grows.
MacPaw taps Liquid AI: on-device AI for Mac developers
MacPaw and Liquid AI are building a local AI stack for macOS — Liquid Foundation Models with the Elix engine and Mnemos memory. The first product is a local version of the Eney assistant, with the technology later reaching developers through Setapp.
Hark unveils Handoff, a browser agent for real-world tasks
Hark unveiled Handoff, an AI agent that operates websites inside a dedicated virtual computer and, the company says, leads browser-agent benchmarks at a fraction of rivals' price.
Jeff Dean leaves Google to launch Discovery Loop
Jeff Dean is leaving Google alongside three top researchers to launch Discovery Loop on August 5, 2026 — a public benefit corporation automating scientific discovery with AI.
Runware builds a portable data center for AI inference
Runware has launched the Sonic Inference Pod — a modular, portable data center built solely for AI inference. The company deployed ten units across the US, Europe and Asia-Pacific, betting on distributed compute closer to the user.
Nvidia moves fast: OSAA shows results a week after launch
A week after forming, the Open Secure AI Alliance (OSAA) — 120-plus companies led by Nvidia — has shown its first tools for securing AI, including the Garak scanner and the SAFE working group under the Linux Foundation.