Thursday, 23 July 2026

Cursor Router classifies each coding request and picks the model for it, trained on 600,000+ live requests, with Intelligence, Balance, and Cost modes.

Travis Kalanick's industrial robotics holding company Atoms raised $1.7 billion led by a16z, reuniting him with Uber as an investor.

Inference-chip startup Etched doubled its valuation in about seven months, closing a Sequoia-led Series C weeks after booking its first $1B in chip orders.

The newly formed Little Tech Association, backed by Y Combinator and Proton, asked Trump officials not to impose a blanket ban on Chinese open-weight AI models.

OpenAI reopened ChatGPT Health nationwide with Apple Health and medical-record integration via b.well, six months after a limited pilot drew weak feedback.

AMD and Anthropic signed a chip-and-investment deal: up to 2 gigawatts of Instinct MI450 GPUs for Anthropic, up to $5 billion in AMD equity investment.

Runway's new Media Router picks the best image, video, or audio model for a job across its own and third-party models as the market gets crowded.

BlackRock's GIP, Abu Dhabi's MGX, and an Nvidia/Microsoft-backed group closed the largest-ever data center M&A deal, buying Aligned's 6.4GW portfolio.

NVIDIA commissioned a DGX GB300 at Naval Postgraduate School, the first deployed in the US military, for weather, cybersecurity, and operations research.

Sundar Pichai said the Gemini app reached 950 million monthly active users on Alphabet's Q2 earnings call, adding roughly 200 million users in four months.