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SK Hynix raises $26.5B in record US IPO. Washington wants factories on home soil
SK Hynix debuted on Nasdaq on July 10, 2026, raising $26.5B in the largest-ever US IPO by a foreign company. The Korean HBM producer — a key NVIDIA GPU supplier — opened 14% above its IPO price. US officials are pressing the company to build fabs on American soil.
Unitree G1 in the OR: humanoid robot performs world-first live surgery
Surgeons at UC San Diego performed the world's first live-animal surgery using a humanoid robot. A teleoperated Unitree G1 removed the gallbladder from two live pigs — results published in Nature.
Ollama raises $65M — 9 million developers run AI locally
Ollama, the popular open-source tool for running AI models locally, closed a $65M Series B round led by Theory Ventures. The startup counts nearly 9 million monthly active users and is present in 85% of Fortune 500 companies.
Fidji Simo exits OpenAI: leadership gap opens ahead of possible IPO
Fidji Simo, OpenAI's No. 2 executive, is stepping down from her full-time role for health reasons. The departure creates a leadership gap at a critical moment — the company valued at $852 billion is exploring a possible IPO.
ACL 2026: XG-Guard spots rogue agents in LLM multi-agent systems
XG-Guard is the first unsupervised security framework for LLM multi-agent systems combining graph anomaly detection with token-level explainability. The ACL 2026 paper comes from Griffith University.
HOI-Edit and SCPE: new standards for evaluating human-object interaction image editing
Researchers from Peking University presented at ICML 2026 a comprehensive system for evaluating and optimizing human-object interaction image editing. The HOI-Edit, HOI-Eval, and SCPE trio improves I2V model performance by over 20 percentage points.
Meta Muse Spark 1.1 opens up via API to compete on code
Meta has opened Muse Spark 1.1 to US developers in a public preview of the new Meta Model API. The model is pitched at detecting and fixing complex bugs and at multi-agent workflows.
Meta to begin producing its own AI chips in September
Meta is set to start producing the latest generation of its own MTIA AI chips in September — designed with Broadcom and manufactured by TSMC — to cut GPU costs amid capex of $125–145 billion this year.
Tesollo initiates IPO and sets a new bar for humanoid hand durability
South Korean company Tesollo announced IPO preparations and closed its Series B round. Its five-fingered DG-5F-S hand weighs under 1 kg and costs 60% of its predecessor. The humanoid industry is still waiting for a manufacturer with a certified 10,000-hour MTBR.
Boston Dynamics deploys Atlas and Spot at the 2026 FIFA World Cup
Boston Dynamics deployed Atlas and Spot at the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Atlas mastered the Ghost Rabona soccer trick through motion capture and reinforcement learning in simulation. Spot is patrolling four US stadiums in support of security operations.
HalluSquatting: turning LLM hallucinations into botnets
Researchers detailed HalluSquatting — an attack that exploits LLMs’ tendency to hallucinate repository identifiers. By registering predictable fabricated names, attackers can mass-infect coding agents like Cursor and GitHub Copilot.
NVIDIA and Hugging Face bring GR00T 1.7 to the LeRobot platform
NVIDIA and Hugging Face have integrated Isaac GR00T 1.7 and the Isaac Teleop framework with the LeRobot platform, connecting 3 million robotics developers with 16 million AI builders. The upcoming Cosmos 3 is set to complete the full development cycle for humanoids.