Sunday, 26 July 2026
DeepSeek pauses $1.5B round after leaked chat
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DeepSeek suspended talks for a round targeting a $71B valuation after unverified leaked comments on founder Liang Wenfeng's chip access went viral.
Ex-SentinelOne raises $100M to police agents
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Neo, founded by SentinelOne's former COO and detection lead, raised $75M on top of a 2025 seed to build a control layer for enterprise AI agents.
Meshy raises $400M, largest AI-3D round yet
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Meshy closed a $400M Series B at a $1.5B valuation, the largest funding round to date for AI-generated 3D content, with ARR growing roughly 12x year over year.
Genesis AI in talks for $500M robotics round
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Genesis AI is negotiating a $500M raise at a $3B valuation for its robot foundation model, roughly 29 times the size of its entire seed round a year ago.
FLUX 3 unifies image, video, audio, robots
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Black Forest Labs' FLUX 3 trains one model jointly on images, video, and audio, and is already driving soft-body manipulation in Audi's production lines.
Moonshot to open-source Kimi K3 weights
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Moonshot says it will publish Kimi K3's full 2.8T-parameter weights July 27, eleven days after an API-only launch, the largest open-weight release yet.
Tao's ICM talk: AI already proves math
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Terence Tao's ICM 2026 lecture cites a May test where four AI systems solved 7 of 10 novel research-level math problems at publication quality.
World Foundation raises $52.5M for World ID
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Sam Altman's World Foundation raised $52.5M in a Pantera-led token sale to expand World ID, now at 39 million signups, integrating with Zoom and Tinder.