Daily AI Grants Roundup – July 21, 2026

Construction robotics startup Gritt launched with $32.4M in funding to automate labor-intensive tasks on solar farms and job sites.

On Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S.. would examine open source models from China for signs of intellectual property theft, threatening sanctions against Chinese AI companies if IP theft is established.. “We’ve seen a lot of talk about open source models…

The UK facility powering a global neutrino experiment 16 January 2026 If you were to ask anyone on the streets of Daresbury village where the DUNE factory was, you’d be met with puzzled looks.. Yet tucked away on the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC)…

Music streaming company Deezer has been tracking the number of AI-generated tracks uploaded on the platform since last year, and the number has constantly gone up .. Today, the company said that AI music now represents more than 50% of downloads.. Deezer said that…

Championing EDI in bioscience Chair, BBSRC Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Expert Advisory Group 16 January 2026 Reflections on advancing BBSRC’s work through its Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Expert Advisory Group.. As part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), the…

One of the most important things happening on Earth today is the solar energy build-out.. Around the world, companies and countries are racing to deploy solar and batteries to achieve energy independence and limit the effects of climate change.. That build-out, though, is…

Anthropic can finally start cutting checks to a group of authors and book publishers that sued the AI lab over copyright infringement.. A federal judge gave final approval Monday of Anthropic’s landmark $1.5 billion settlement of a class action copyright lawsuit, Reuters…

Chris Fall, the director of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), has resigned, the agency confirmed to multiple news outlets.. He was appointed just three months ago after the last appointee, Collin Burns, left in less than a week, The Washington Post reported…

Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is designing a new server chip to help its in-house Gemini models operate more efficiently.. The new chip, internally dubbed “Frozen v2,” is slated to be released sometime in 2028, The Information reported , citing anonymous sources…..

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is one of the basic building blocks of AI interoperability, giving AI models a secure way to access external data sources and services.. It’s the plumbing that lets a chatbot reach into your calendar, your database, or your internal tools,…

Nearly a year ago, Elon Musk-owned X announced it would begin rebuilding the Android version of its app, which had not held up well compared with its iOS counterpart.. On Monday, the company shipped the refreshed app, which is now available to download.. The new Android…

The impressive capabilities of Chinese lab Moonshot’s Kimi K3, the biggest open-weight large language model, have kicked off a debate that conflates two things: the economic possibilities of American AI giants and the future of LLMs as a technology.. OpenAI’s head of…