Sunday, 19 July 2026

Cursor's Slack integration now shares its plan before starting, runs across multiple repos, and works across channels and threads instead of one at a time.

Google's AI Mode in Search can now link to Instacart, Canva and YouTube Music and take actions in them, not just answer questions about them.

Fireworks AI closed a $1.505B Series D led by Atreides, Index and TCV, crossing $1B in annualized revenue serving specialized, customer-tuned models.

The nonprofit Current AI, backed by governments and foundations, is funding open AI infrastructure and language tools built outside the major labs.

OpenAI published its case for giving teens access to ChatGPT under safeguards: age estimation, parental controls, Study Mode and break reminders.

Amazon Quick (QuickSight) dashboards now auto-render as a single-column, touch-optimized view on phones and tablets, with no author changes required.

Hugging Face published a guide for fine-tuning video and image models at scale by pairing NVIDIA's NeMo Automodel with its Diffusers library.

Multiple outlets, citing The Information, report Microsoft is building an AI security tool, Project Perception, to compete with Anthropic's Mythos.

Agility Robotics opened a 60,000-square-foot facility in Fremont, near Tesla's plant, to train its Digit humanoid robot, backed by $300M in secured orders.