Tuesday, 4 August 2026
Nvidia and Dell back a $2.4B AI cloud upstart
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Seven-month-old Volta Infra raised funds at a $2.4B valuation with Nvidia and Dell backing, plus a reported $10B, six-year compute deal tied to Anthropic.
Cursor agents can now read your Gmail and Calendar
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Three new Cursor Marketplace plugins let coding agents search Drive, draft and send Gmail messages, and manage Calendar events directly.
Google Cloud adds a router across AI models
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API Gateway's model routing, now in public preview, lets developers point traffic at Gemini, Claude, or open models without hardcoding endpoints.
Horizon3 triples to $2B running AI pentests
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Horizon3's $250M Series E values it above $2 billion after its autonomous NodeZero platform ran 310,000 live-network attack simulations.
Mistral's new model reads your safety policy at runtime
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Shieldstral is a 3B open-weight safety classifier that takes a plain-language moderation policy as input, no retraining needed to change the rules.
Nvidia opens up a robotaxi model that explains itself
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Alpamayo 2 Super is a 32B open reasoning model for Level 4 robotaxis that outputs a plain-language explanation alongside every driving decision.
HappyRobot hits $1.2B running phone-call agents
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HappyRobot raised $150M as its AI agents handle freight calls, scheduling and emails for DHL, Uber and 150+ enterprise customers.
Obsidian Security hits unicorn status at $1.1B
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Obsidian raised an $85M Series D and is extending governance controls to Claude Code and Cowork, letting security teams restrict what coding agents touch.
Zenity raises $125M to police AI agents
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Zenity's Series C, backed by SoftBank and Intel Capital, funds a platform that inspects agent intent before execution rather than just prompts.
Anthropic names its first global affairs chief
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Anthropic hired Tino Cuéllar, a former California Supreme Court justice, as its first Chief Global Affairs Officer to manage government relations.
Bending Spoons buys Airtable for $1.285B
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Serial acquirer Bending Spoons will buy Airtable in an all-cash deal, its first purchase since going public, folding the no-code database into its portfolio.
FCC bans new foreign-made humanoid robots
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The FCC added advanced robotics and power inverters to its Covered List, blocking new imports of foreign humanoids and robot dogs over security risk.
Trump advisers to meet AI labs over rogue agents
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Meta, Anthropic, Google and OpenAI staff meet White House advisers on voluntary safety testing after agents from two labs breached other companies' systems.
Warp launches a standalone coding agent CLI
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Warp released a terminal-native agent CLI, extending its AI-powered terminal into a standalone coding agent developers can script and automate.
Valar Atomics raises $1B for reactors to power AI
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Valar Atomics raised a $1B Series B at a $6B valuation to mass-produce modular nuclear reactors sized for AI data centers.
UK chip startup OLIX raises $312M for photonic AI
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OLIX raised a $312M Series B for photonic AI inference chips, part of this week's wave of large AI infrastructure funding rounds.
Palantir's Karp calls frontier AI labs untrustworthy
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After a profitable quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp said frontier AI labs lack the trustworthiness enterprises need, calling the industry 'Marxist.'
Nvidia joins NSF's regional AI compute hubs
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Nvidia is participating in the NSF's State and Regional AI Infrastructure Hubs program to expand university access to AI compute and training.
Nvidia open-sources its GPU storage API
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Nvidia open-sourced its cuFile APIs and launched Storage-Next, aimed at the data-movement bottlenecks agentic AI creates for storage systems.
Interconnects launches a free open-model tracker
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Interconnects' new Artifacts Hub catalogs 792 open models with adoption data, plus a dashboard tracking downloads and derivatives by org and geography.
n8n adds workflow review and per-agent MCP limits
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n8n 2.34.0 adds an approve-or-request-changes review flow for workflows and scoped, per-agent MCP access permissions.