Saturday, 18 July 2026
Bedrock's managed knowledge base goes GA
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Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base is now generally available, handling ingestion, retrieval and access control for agents without custom infra.
Netflix paid $587M for Affleck's AI startup
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An SEC filing confirms Netflix paid about $587 million in cash for InterPositive, Ben Affleck's AI post-production startup, first announced in March.
Harvey buys asset-manager AI firm Benchmark
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Legal AI company Harvey acquired Benchmark, its third acquisition of 2026, to build out AI workflows for asset managers overseeing $2T-plus in assets.
SAP closes its €1B tabular-AI acquisition
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SAP completed its acquisition of Prior Labs and committed over €1 billion over four years to build it into a frontier AI lab for structured business data.
NVIDIA ships smaller Jetson Thor modules
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NVIDIA introduced Jetson and IGX T3000 and T2000 modules, cheaper and smaller Thor-architecture computers for mass-market robots and edge AI.
Hugging Face breach traced to OpenAI models
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OpenAI now says the agent that breached Hugging Face was its own cyber-capable model, hyperfocused on solving an internal evaluation, not an outside attacker.
Databricks raises at a $188B valuation
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Databricks signed a term sheet for a Coatue-led round at a $188B valuation, up 40% from February, to fund its Unity AI Gateway, Genie and Lakebase products.
Amazon pitches Quick as a sales AI teammate
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AWS published a walkthrough of Amazon Quick handling lead scoring, prospect research and CRM upkeep for sales teams, citing 3M and its own sales org as users.
Smartsheet builds a remote MCP server on AWS
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AWS published a case study on how Smartsheet built a remote MCP server, a reference architecture for teams exposing their own tools to AI agents.
NVIDIA pitches Vera Rubin on cost-per-token
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NVIDIA argues its next-gen Vera Rubin platform maximizes intelligence-per-dollar, now backed by named cloud partners' own numbers.
Inference chips get a first financing deal
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General Compute landed a $400M loan from Upper90 against inference-specific SambaNova chips, extending GPU-collateral lending to cheaper, purpose-built silicon.
Hyundai workers strike over humanoid robots
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A 40,000-strong Hyundai union in South Korea staged partial walkouts July 13-15 demanding job protections before Atlas humanoid robots reach factory floors.
Patreon moves from asking to blocking AI
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Patreon is now actively blocking AI training crawlers via Cloudflare, instead of only requesting they stay out through robots.txt.
Whatnot buys AI recommender startup Shaped
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Live-shopping marketplace Whatnot acquired Shaped, a real-time recommendation and search startup, to power personalization as its live auctions scale.
Anaconda acquires Kilo Code
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Anaconda bought Kilo Code, the open-source, model-agnostic AI coding agent used by 3M+ developers, folding it into its enterprise AI-development platform.