Daily AI Grants Roundup – July 07, 2026

The Franklin’s path to purposeful innovation Director of The Rosalind Franklin Institute 11 September 2025 Paul Matthews at The Rosalind Franklin Institute discusses a year of progress and renewed purpose.. It has been a year since I wrote about my first 100 days as director…

Brothers Patrick and Ryan Coughlin, each with impressive careers in the tech industry (Patrick worked in national cyber defense, and at Splunk and Cisco; and Ryan with consumer products at Apple and Spotify), have launched a new kind of security startup.. Savi Security seeks…

Claude Cowork — Anthropic’s Claude Code-style agent for general knowledge work — is coming to your phone.. Claude Cowork launched as a desktop app in January, but starting Tuesday it is available on web and mobile for Max subscribers.. With the update, users can start a task…

builder of autonomous vehicles, revealed today that more than 100 of its self-driving ATVs have been deployed in conflict zones in Ukraine for the past nine months, in what the company believes is the largest deployment of autonomous ground vehicles in combat by any U.S.. “I…

Last week, researchers at cloud security firm Sysdig said they’d documented the first known case of “agentic ransomware.” It was an extortion operation, dubbed JadePuffer, in which an AI agent — not a human — handled the technical execution of a real-world cyberattack from…

South Korean memory chipmaker SK Hynix, rival to Samsung and U.S.-based Micron , is planning to sell nearly 17.8 million shares in a U.S.. IPO, the company said on Monday .. Should its shares sell well (and there’s indication that they will), the company could raise around…

Known for its cloud infrastructure that allows developers to deploy agents without managing servers, Vercel has quietly become one of the most central companies in AI software.. The company currently sees 6 million deployments a day, half of them triggered by coding agents,…

Posted: Sarah Perez You can now customize Siri’s pace and expressivity in the latest iOS 27 beta With the latest iOS 27 developer beta, Apple is giving testers an early look at one of the upcoming improvements to its AI-powered Siri : the ability to adjust how quickly and…

Microsoft said Monday that it has eliminated about 4,800 roles, or 2.1% of its global workforce, adding to the string of AI-related layoffs hitting the tech world.. The company said the roles being cut are “not being replaced by AI,” but acknowledged that “ AI is changing how…

Consider this a belated PSA: A recent change to Google’s privacy settings is allowing the company to store more of your data, including media such as “images, files, and audio and video recordings,” to improve its AI models.. In other words, if you upload any media to…

Posted: Amanda Silberling Reddit is using LLMs to solve a problem LLMs largely created It’s easier than ever for bad actors to spew spam across the internet as powerful large language models (LLMs) become effortlessly accessible.. If you’ve spent about 10 minutes on the…