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Google Vids Adds Personal AI Avatars, Turning Google Workspace Into a Video Studio

Google Vids now lets users create a personal AI avatar cloning their face and voice from a selfie and voice sample, built on the Gemini Omni multimodal model.

AI AgentsJuly 17, 2026

Insilico Medicine and Bora Pharmaceuticals Ink AI Drug Alliance Worth Over $2.5 Billion

Insilico Medicine and Bora Pharmaceuticals announced a strategic alliance combining AI-driven drug discovery with manufacturing and commercialization capabilities.

AI AgentsJuly 17, 2026

Serial Founder Bhavin Turakhia Self-Funds $30M Bet to Rebuild Workplace Software Around AI

Bhavin Turakhia has self-funded Neo, an enterprise AI workplace platform, with $30 million and no outside investors

AI ResearchJuly 17, 2026

Kyutai and Mirelo Open-Source MuScriptor, a Transformer That Turns Raw Audio Into MIDI

Kyutai and Mirelo released MuScriptor, an open-weight decoder-only Transformer for multi-instrument music transcription to MIDI, in three sizes: 103M, 307M, and 1.4B parameters.

EthicsJuly 17, 2026

Google DeepMind's Bioresilience Push Scales to 15+ Partnerships as AI Models Learn More Biology

Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs have built over 15 partnerships in 12 months with groups including Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the UK AI Security Institute, CEPI, and the Francis Crick Institute.

AI AgentsJuly 17, 2026

Agave Raises $15M to Automate Construction's Back-Office Paperwork

Agave closed a $15 million Series A co-led by Accel, with Y Combinator continuing to participate, bringing total funding to over $20 million since its 2021 founding

AI AgentsJuly 17, 2026

India's Digital Push Hits a Wall: Government Flags AI Payment Risks, WhatsApp Usernames, and Data Leaks in One Week

CERT-In's Digital Threat Report 2025-26 proposes mandatory human oversight and audit trails for agentic AI payments above set thresholds, responding to protocols like Coinbase's x402, Cloudflare's agent-payment tools, Pine Labs' P3P, and NPCI's upcoming Unified Agent Protocol.

LLMsJuly 16, 2026

Why Some AI Skills Compound and Others Stall: Grant Sanderson's 'Grindability' Thesis

Grant Sanderson told Dwarkesh Patel that 'grindability', not just verifiability, determines how fast AI improves in a domain.

AI AgentsJuly 15, 2026

Develo Bags $14M to Rebuild Pediatric Practice Software Around AI

Develo raised $14 million led by Blueprint Equity, with Villain Capital, Z21 Ventures, and Bienville Capital also participating.

AI AgentsJuly 15, 2026

A Fake Kidnapping Call Inspired a $7M Startup to Fight AI Voice Scams

Savi Security launched its iPhone and Android app on July 7, 2026, after raising $7 million in seed funding led by Acrew Capital, with Magnify Ventures, TTCER, and Resolute Ventures also participating.

HardwareJuly 15, 2026

Solos Bets on Featherweight Glasses and Privacy Shields to Take On Meta

Solos unveiled the AirGo A6, an audio-only smart glasses model weighing about 19 grams, roughly half the weight of its own A5 and far lighter than Meta's recently announced glasses (54-60g).

EthicsJuly 15, 2026

Inside Amazon's Warehouses, a Journalist Finds the Human Cost of "Efficient" AI

FT journalist Sarah O'Connor's new book 'We Are Not Machines' investigates the human labor hidden behind AI and warehouse automation.

HardwareJuly 15, 2026

Whitehall to Decide Fate of Brick Lane Datacentre After Council Rejection

Tower Hamlets council rejected a 5,200 sq metre datacentre proposed for the former Truman Brewery site on Brick Lane, primarily intended for high-frequency trading infrastructure.

TechnologyJuly 15, 2026

Verified Gemini & Cloudflare R2 Integration

Google Gemini Provider wired correctly.

Artificial IntelligenceJuly 15, 2026

Gemini Image & Cloudflare R2 E2E Test: Autonomous AI Agents in 2026

Google Gemini image generation integrated into news pipeline.

Developer ToolsJuly 13, 2026

Figma Goes Full-Stack: Code Layers, AI Motion Graphics, and WebGPU Shaders Headline Config 2026

Figma's Code Layers feature enables bidirectional sync between the design canvas and code repositories, replacing the traditional design handoff model.

AI AgentsJuly 13, 2026

Agentic Loops Reshape AI Development: Continuous Code Evolution at Scale

Boris Cherny announced that AI 'loops' represent a significant advancement in AI development, enabling autonomous code generation and refinement.

AI AgentsJuly 13, 2026

AI-Equipped Drone Makes First Rescue in Australian Alpine Wilderness, Locating Missing Hikers in Under Five Hours

Two men in their 20s went missing on June 23, 2026, on the Dead Horse Gap track in Kosciuszko National Park, NSW, and were found within five hours.

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