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Curated, sourced, no hype. en-us tosumanguha@gmail.com (Suman Guha) Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:54:42 GMT https://www.recodeai.co/news/anthropic-blackstone-implementation.html https://www.recodeai.co/news/anthropic-blackstone-implementation.html Breaking Wed, 15 Jul 2026 03:30:00 +0530 Ode, a $1.5B AI-implementation venture, launches with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, and Hellman & Friedman — a wager that services, not models, capture the value. https://www.recodeai.co/news/fli-ai-safety-index-2026.html https://www.recodeai.co/news/fli-ai-safety-index-2026.html Notable Wed, 15 Jul 2026 03:30:00 +0530 The Future of Life Institute's 2026 index grades labs on risk, transparency, and governance — Anthropic leads with a C+, while xAI, DeepSeek, and Mistral effectively fail. https://www.recodeai.co/news/tsmc-record-anthropic-samsung.html https://www.recodeai.co/news/tsmc-record-anthropic-samsung.html Notable Wed, 15 Jul 2026 03:30:00 +0530 TSMC's June revenue rose 68% YoY with N3 sold out through year-end, while Anthropic opens talks with Samsung for custom Claude inference chips to attack a $1.25B monthly compute bill. https://www.recodeai.co/news/anthropic-karpathy-blomfield.html https://www.recodeai.co/news/anthropic-karpathy-blomfield.html Interesting Wed, 15 Jul 2026 03:30:00 +0530 Andrej Karpathy, the former Tesla AI director and OpenAI founding member, and Monzo co-founder Tom Blomfield reportedly join Anthropic, with Blomfield on the compute team. https://www.recodeai.co/news/openai-chatgpt-work.html https://www.recodeai.co/news/openai-chatgpt-work.html Notable Tue, 14 Jul 2026 03:30:00 +0530 ChatGPT Work is an agent built to run multi-hour jobs with native Google Drive, Slack, and Salesforce connections, launched alongside a full-duplex GPT-Live voice mode. https://www.recodeai.co/news/gemini-3-5-pro.html https://www.recodeai.co/news/gemini-3-5-pro.html Interesting Sat, 11 Jul 2026 03:30:00 +0530 The GA date puts a third frontier release inside a two-week window alongside GPT-5.6 and Grok 4.5. https://www.recodeai.co/news/qualcomm-tenstorrent.html https://www.recodeai.co/news/qualcomm-tenstorrent.html Breaking Fri, 10 Jul 2026 03:30:00 +0530 Qualcomm is in early talks to buy the RISC-V AI-chip designer led by Jim Keller — a bet on open-standard silicon against the incumbent accelerator moat. https://www.recodeai.co/news/gpt-5-6-launch.html https://www.recodeai.co/news/gpt-5-6-launch.html Breaking Thu, 09 Jul 2026 03:30:00 +0530 After Washington requested early access and added oversight, OpenAI ships its GPT-5.6 line — with Sol tuned for biology, chemistry, and cybersecurity. https://www.recodeai.co/news/grok-4-5.html https://www.recodeai.co/news/grok-4-5.html Notable Thu, 09 Jul 2026 03:30:00 +0530 The new version emphasizes enhanced coding, agentic task handling, and knowledge work — launched the same day as OpenAI’s GPT-5.6. https://www.recodeai.co/news/lyzr-agent-fundraise.html https://www.recodeai.co/news/lyzr-agent-fundraise.html Notable Thu, 09 Jul 2026 03:30:00 +0530 Lyzr let its agent, SivaClaw, field 130+ investors, draft memos, and track slide attention — closing a $100M Series B at a ~$500M valuation. https://www.recodeai.co/news/agentprizm-memory.html https://www.recodeai.co/news/agentprizm-memory.html Interesting Thu, 09 Jul 2026 03:30:00 +0530 AgentMemory and AgentSkills pair a REST API with MCP infrastructure to give agents memory that survives across sessions. https://www.recodeai.co/news/claude-sonnet-5.html https://www.recodeai.co/news/claude-sonnet-5.html Notable Wed, 08 Jul 2026 03:30:00 +0530 Stronger long-run coding, tool use, and debugging at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output — before an August step-up to $3/$15. https://www.recodeai.co/news/google-ai-emissions.html https://www.recodeai.co/news/google-ai-emissions.html Notable Wed, 08 Jul 2026 03:30:00 +0530 The latest environmental report shows electricity demand up 37%, greenhouse emissions up 18%, and water use up 34% as AI infrastructure scales. https://www.recodeai.co/news/enterprise-agents-production.html https://www.recodeai.co/news/enterprise-agents-production.html Notable Wed, 08 Jul 2026 03:30:00 +0530 Quiq, Akeneo, and NTT Data ship agent control layers as Gartner projects 40% of enterprise apps will embed agents by year-end, up from under 5%. https://www.recodeai.co/news/meta-muse.html https://www.recodeai.co/news/meta-muse.html Interesting Tue, 07 Jul 2026 03:30:00 +0530 Photo restoration, style transformations, room restyling, and product photography — delivered inside the apps billions already use. https://www.recodeai.co/news/white-house-ai-standards.html https://www.recodeai.co/news/white-house-ai-standards.html Notable Tue, 07 Jul 2026 03:30:00 +0530 The administration is in advanced talks with AI companies to finalize voluntary standards for how frontier models are released. https://www.recodeai.co/news/south-korea-880b.html https://www.recodeai.co/news/south-korea-880b.html Notable Mon, 06 Jul 2026 03:30:00 +0530 A 10-year national plan, with Samsung and SK Hynix alone set to put $518B toward new fabrication sites. https://www.recodeai.co/news/taktile-series-c.html https://www.recodeai.co/news/taktile-series-c.html Notable Mon, 06 Jul 2026 03:30:00 +0530 The New York fintech automates loan approvals, fraud triage, claims, and onboarding for banks and insurers — Series C, $110M. https://www.recodeai.co/news/bespoke-labs-series-a.html https://www.recodeai.co/news/bespoke-labs-series-a.html Interesting Mon, 06 Jul 2026 03:30:00 +0530 A Series A led by Wing VC funds environments where AI agents can safely learn, test, and improve before they ship. https://www.recodeai.co/news/claude-science-grants.html https://www.recodeai.co/news/claude-science-grants.html Interesting Sun, 05 Jul 2026 03:30:00 +0530 Up to $30,000 in Claude API credits for 50 scientific projects, with Modal adding up to $2,000 in compute for select recipients. https://www.recodeai.co/news/h1-vc-record.html https://www.recodeai.co/news/h1-vc-record.html Notable Sun, 05 Jul 2026 03:30:00 +0530 Crunchbase counts a record first half, with more than 70% of Q2 capital flowing to AI companies. https://www.recodeai.co/news/claude-fable-5-export.html https://www.recodeai.co/news/claude-fable-5-export.html Interesting Wed, 01 Jul 2026 03:30:00 +0530 The Commerce Department lifted controls on July 1 after the model spent nearly three weeks offline for export review.