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Agentic AIAlibaba Unveils Agent Native Cloud at WAIC, Betting on Agent Fleets
Alibaba Cloud used WAIC 2026 to launch Agent Native Cloud, a rearchitected stack built to run governed fleets of autonomous AI agents in production.
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Agentic AIAlibaba Cloud used WAIC 2026 to launch Agent Native Cloud, a rearchitected stack built to run governed fleets of autonomous AI agents in production.
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Agentic AISalesforce's Headless 360 MCP Server enters beta in July 2026, giving AI agents a compact four-tool gateway to the entire CRM platform.
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Agentic AIA new infrastructure layer called the agent gateway is consolidating fast, as Palo Alto buys Portkey and Solo.io hands agentgateway to the Linux Foundation.
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Agentic AIThe Model Context Protocol's biggest revision yet goes final on July 28, with a stateless core, enterprise auth and new extensions, plus security debates.
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RoboticsSoftBank has exercised its put option on Boston Dynamics, clearing the way for Hyundai to take full ownership of the humanoid robotics pioneer.
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RoboticsSoftBank exercises its put option and Hyundai moves to full ownership of Boston Dynamics, clearing the IPO deadline that once loomed over the robot maker.
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RoboticsChina's Unitree cleared its STAR Market IPO to raise about $618 million, offering a rare look at a profitable humanoid robot maker as the sector consolidates.
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Robotics1X Technologies unveiled tendon-driven hands with 25 force-controlled degrees of freedom for its Neo home humanoid, targeting 10,000 hands built this year.
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AI ResearchA wave of July frontier launches from OpenAI, xAI and Meta has pushed inference costs to record lows, reshaping how the industry competes on AI.
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AI ResearchMeta releases Muse Spark 1.1 with a 1M-token context window and computer use, and opens its Model API to developers at roughly a quarter of rival prices.
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AI ResearchThinking Machines released Inkling, a 975B-parameter Apache-2.0 open-weights model built for customization rather than topping frontier leaderboards.
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AI ResearchGoogle brings Gemini Omni and personal AI avatars to Vids, letting users generate and edit clips with prompts and star in videos from a selfie and voice clip.
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AI BusinessTogether AI has closed an $800M Series C amid a record H1 for venture capital, as enterprise demand pushes money into AI infrastructure and agents.
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AI BusinessChai Discovery raises a $400M Series C at a $3.8B valuation, nearly tripling its worth in seven months as AI drug design funding surges in 2026.
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AI BusinessTogether AI raised $800 million led by Aramco Ventures, doubling its valuation to $8.3 billion as investors back cheaper open-model AI infrastructure.
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AI BusinessAlphabet, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon report Q2 results in late July as investors ask whether $725 billion in AI capex is finally paying off in revenue.
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Policy & SocietyThe European Commission has published AI Act transparency guidelines as the rules take effect in August, with watermarking and disclosure duties looming.
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Policy & SocietyOn August 2, 2026, the EU AI Act's transparency rules take effect while the AI Omnibus defers high-risk obligations to December 2027. Here's what applies.
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Policy & SocietyIllinois enacted the AI Safety Measures Act, requiring annual third-party audits and 72-hour incident reporting as states fill the federal AI policy vacuum.
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Policy & SocietyThe FTC's proposed policy statement says hidden ideological steering of AI outputs may violate federal law, putting state AI rules like Colorado's on notice.
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Tools & GuidesA practical mid-2026 guide to the best AI productivity tools by category, plus a simple framework for picking the one that actually saves you time.
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Tools & GuidesWith frontier labs shipping model families split by cost, speed, and reasoning, here's a practical 2026 guide to matching the right AI model to each job.
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Tools & GuidesA practical 2026 guide to building an AI productivity stack by matching tools to your real workflow bottlenecks instead of chasing the hype.
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Tools & GuidesFrom ChatGPT and Claude to NotebookLM and Perplexity, here are the best free AI tools in 2026 for professionals and students, and how to combine them.
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