Daily AI Grants Roundup – July 25, 2026

Poke, the AI assistant you text like a friend , is making its next big move.. The company behind the assistant, The Interaction Company of California , has been acquired by AI coding startup Cognition in a deal valuing the startup in the “low nine figures.” The deal will…

“Everybody’s on their phone at my program!” joked Charlie Bailey, a librarian in South Philadelphia.. He’s just asked his audience to pull out their phones so that he can walk them through the steps of disabling Apple Intelligence and Gemini.. Bailey stands at the front of a…

A power line went down outside of Washington, DC, this week.. Normally, the grid would only need a few seconds to recover from such an event.. But this one took more than 10 minutes because more than 3 gigawatts of data centers stopped drawing power nearly simultaneously…..

OpenAI launched its first piece of hardware last week — a fancy little keypad built to pair with ChatGPT.. Micro, which was developed in collaboration with specialty keyboard designer Work Louder, is essentially an artisanal workplace novelty that many tech enthusiasts will…

Prentis , a new AI research lab focused on computer use models, co-founded by serial entrepreneur Ritankar Das and tech heavyweights Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus, is in talks to raise $100 million at a $1 billion valuation, according to two people familiar with the…

Hackers are increasingly using AI to launch attacks on a massive scale, with email emerging as a primary target.. AI can quickly aggregate personal information — such as information about co-workers, active projects, and recent travel itineraries — allowing bad actors to…

OpenAI said today it is making ChatGPT Health, a feature that helps users with health-related queries, available to all U.S.-based users over 18 across all plans.. The announcement comes a day after a Florida-based pastor sued the company for giving a near-fatal suggestion…