Daily AI Grants Roundup – July 24, 2026

Humanoid, a UK robotics startup, raised $152M in Series A funding at a $1.35B valuation, backed by Prime Movers Lab, Schaeffler, and Bosch.

Runway no longer wants to be just another AI model company .. It wants to become the infrastructure layer for generative media.. On Thursday, the startup launched Runway Media Router through Runway Dev , its developer platform, released earlier this month, that provides API…

Paper, a design platform built for the AI coding era, has raised $34 million in a Series A led by Accel and ICONIQ to expand its team and product.

Opus 5 will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases

Several AI companies, including Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, and Nvidia, have signed an open letter urging policymakers not to impose broad “premature restrictions” on open-weight AI models.. The letter comes as Washington debates how the U.S.. should respond to…

Attie , Bluesky’s AI assistant that lets you build custom social feeds without programming, is evolving into an open-ended research tool.. The company this week said it’s added a new feature to the AI assistant, called Quests, that lets users ask it for information and news…

Posted: Amanda Silberling Midjourney acquired the astrology app Co-Star Midjourney , an AI lab best known for its LLM-powered image and video generators, has acquired the social astrology app Co-Star , according to Bloomberg .. The deal terms were not disclosed.. Co-Star ,…

‘AI communism’, rogue models, and the why Kimi K3 spooked Wall Street Chinese AI lab Moonshot’s open model Kimi went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do with how the U.S.. Meanwhile, an unreleased OpenAI model wandered outside…

Posted: Ivan Mehta OpenAI’s new voice mode makes it to the ChatGPT desktop app OpenAI on Thursday said it has updated its ChatGPT desktop app to add support for ChatGPT Voice, allowing users to talk to the app to control AI agents and perform tasks on their computer.. The new…

For months, AI giants have devised special vetted programs and strict guardrails to limit the use of their models by malicious hackers.. But these limits are now hindering the work of legitimate network defenders, as well as that of offensive cybersecurity researchers…..

Chipmaker AMD is taking aim at competitor Nvidia with its latest hardware release: a rack-scale system designed to power computing needs of the world’s largest AI labs.. At the company’s sold-out Advancing AI conference in San Francisco on Thursday, AMD Chair and CEO Dr…..

Weeks after OpenAI rolled out a new family of conversational models and updated ChatGPT’s voice mode , rival Anthropic is making its move to make Claude more voice-friendly with a new update.. The company said Thursday that users can choose between Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku…