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Satellite manufacturer K2 Space has raised $500 million in a Series D round that values the company at $6.8 billion, as Bloomberg first reported on July 30, 2026. Kleiner Perkins and Iconiq co-led the round, with Lightspeed Venture Partners, Alphabet's growth fund CapitalG, and Altimeter Capital Management among the other backers. The valuation is the part worth sitting with. K2 announced a $250 million Series C at a $3 billion valuation in December 2025, led by Redpoint. Seven months on, a new…

AI has fundamentally accelerated software development, yet it has barely changed how software organizations operate. That mismatch is quietly becoming the biggest constraint on enterprise AI. For years, engineering teams needed more resources to keep up with demand. Today, small teams use AI to generate code, test, and accelerate the path from idea to implementation. Developers are clearly shipping code faster, but whether this consistently translates into better outcomes remains murky. This…

CoreWeave and Leidos said on July 30, 2026 that they will team up to deliver secure AI cloud services for U.S. intelligence and defense agencies, with CoreWeave's platform running inside data centers accredited to handle classified material and Leidos owning the integration work around it. The division of labor is specific. CoreWeave plans to supply purpose-built infrastructure, high-speed networking, AI-optimized storage and cloud-native orchestration for both training and inference workloads…

Nscale, the AI cloud operator that builds its own data centers and generates its own power, has agreed to buy Anyscale, the company behind the Ray distributed-computing framework. The acquisition, announced on July 30, 2026, puts a workload-orchestration layer on top of Nscale's GPU fleet and moves Anyscale's roughly 200 staff across the United States, Europe and India into the London-based company. It is expected to close in the second half of 2026, subject to closing conditions and regulatory…

Amazon's engineering teams have found cases where moving work from hand-written code to AI models blew through project budgets, including $1.8 million spent running Anthropic's Claude Sonnet on a job that never shipped. Senior engineers laid the cases out for staff at an internal meeting on July 28, 2026 and described the results as "catastrophically expensive," the Financial Times reported, citing multiple people familiar with the presentation. They told colleagues they are now building…

At DVC, we've spent a decade watching the AI market up close — backing companies and working closely with the portco founders. This year, we decided to share the framework we’ve built with the world. This is how the State of AI Report was born: a living, continuously updated analysis of the AI economy across every layer, from silicon and energy to foundation models and applications. We update it with AI and review it personally — because in a market that moves this fast, a static annual…

In the AI gold rush, I see two distinct categories of solutions: vitamins and painkillers. A vitamin is something that helps you write better copy or polish a slide deck, which only boosts your productivity so much. A painkiller, however, is a matter of systemic survival. It can help you fix an issue before it gets out of hand or deal with a global outage, like when one CrowdStrike change crashed roughly 8.5 million Windows PCs in July 2024. When embracing AI, it’s better to go after the…

Check Point announced the AI Network Firewall on July 30, 2026, putting prompt- and agent-level inspection inside its firewall software release R82.20 and running it from the gateways customers already operate. The capability is available now. The gap it targets is one enterprise security teams have lived with since generative AI reached the workplace. A conventional firewall can establish that an employee reached an AI service. It cannot establish what went into the session. Prompts, file…

Tencent has released AngelSpec, an open-source torch-native framework for training speculative-decoding draft models across six architectures. It introduces DFly, a block-diffusion drafter with hybrid target conditioning and a hidden-correction autoregressive head, and integrates D-cut for runtime-adaptive verification budgeting. On HY3-295B-A21B with TP=8, DFly-8 delivers a 1.98–2.40× speedup over autoregressive decoding across concurrency 4 to 64.

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Marktechpost AI has released Token Saver, an open-source MCP extension for Claude Desktop that uses local Hybrid RAG to slash PDF token consumption by up to 99% while ensuring absolute document privacy.

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Three terms now compete for the same line in AI engineering job descriptions. Prompt engineering is the established one. Loop engineering entered the AI vocabulary in late 2025 and dominated developer discussion through June 2026. Graph engineering followed roughly six weeks later. They get used interchangeably. Should they be? The three are not competing techniques. […]

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Moonshot AI has open-sourced MoonEP, an Expert Parallelism (EP) communication library for distributed Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) workloads. The team announced the release as a library built to make expert-parallel communication more efficient at scale. It ships under an MIT license. MoonEP arrived as part of Kimi K3 Open Day. Alongside the K3 model weights and technical […]

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Meta put consumer AI agents at the center of its revenue plan on July 29, 2026, when it reported second-quarter results and then used much of the earnings call to lay out a consumer agent business that has not launched yet. CEO Mark Zuckerberg told investors that personal agents will be "the foundation for our next wave of products and revenue lines in the months and years ahead," and said the company would have more to share soon. Zuckerberg sorted Meta's AI work into three buckets on the…

Have you ever typed something private into an AI chatbot and wondered where that information actually goes? Maybe it was a work document, a personal idea, or even a sensitive question you didn’t want attached to your name. With AI becoming part of everyday life, that feeling of “what happens to my data after I hit send?” is becoming harder to ignore. In fact, a Pew Research Center survey found that 70% of Americans who have heard of AI have little to no trust in companies to make responsible…

Shahid Hanif, CEO and Co-Founder of Shufti, is a technology entrepreneur with extensive experience building identity verification, fintech, blockchain, and decentralized software platforms. He co-founded Shufti in 2017 and spent more than seven years as Chief Technology Officer, leading the in-house development of its artificial intelligence-driven biometric and document verification technology before becoming CEO in December 2024. Hanif is also the founder of Developers Studio, a blockchain…

ChipAgents has secured an additional $60 million in Series A2 financing, expanding its Series A round to $134 million as semiconductor companies explore how autonomous AI agents can shorten demanding chip design and verification cycles. B Capital joined the financing as a new investor, alongside existing backers Bessemer Venture Partners, Micron, MediaTek, Ericsson, ScOp Venture Capital, and others. The new capital arrives six months after the initial close of the company’s Series A and follows…

Cloud observability company groundcover has raised $100 million in Series C funding as it looks to expand a platform designed to help engineering teams and AI agents understand increasingly complex production environments. The round was led by One Peak, with participation from Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital and existing investors Zeev Ventures, Angular Ventures, Heavybit and Jibe. It brings groundcover’s total funding to $160 million. The financing follows a year in which the company says it…

Wiring a widely deployed hospital prediction model to automatic pages for critical-care teams was associated with an 18% reduction in the risk-adjusted odds of in-hospital death, according to a study of 23,132 high-risk patients published in NEJM AI on July 29, 2026. Researchers at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and RWJBarnabas Health tracked the rollout across 11 New Jersey hospitals, from an academic medical center down to community non-teaching facilities. The model is the Epic…

Eliyan Corporation says it has closed a $145 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation, with the round led by Seligman Ventures and joined by two new strategic investors drawn from optical networking: Cisco Investments and Lumentum. The Santa Clara company announced the financing on July 29, 2026, and said the capital will fund an expansion beyond its electrical chiplet interconnect business into electro-optical links for AI systems. Umesh Padval, managing partner at Seligman Ventures, joins…

MoonPay has put a payment vault inside Claude and ChatGPT. PayBox is live as of July 29, 2026, and it lets a user tell an AI assistant to swap tokens, fund a wallet, pay a merchant or hold a dinner reservation, with the money moving from the user's own wallet or card after a passkey tap. The company announced the launch as what it calls the first payment vault built for AI. There is no custody handoff to a hosted wallet or a platform account: MoonPay says neither the AI agent nor MoonPay itself…