Daily AI Grants Roundup – July 10, 2026

MRC funding update Executive Chair, Medical Research Council 5 February 2026 An update on MRC funding during UKRI’s transition, what’s changing, and the next steps for paused opportunities and reopening timelines.. On 1 February, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Chief…

Posted: Connie Loizos An AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100M fundraise There’s something almost too perfect about this one, via Bloomberg .. Lyzr, a three-year-old, Jersey City, New Jersey, startup that helps enterprises build AI agents, used its own AI agent to…

Posted: Julie Bort Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium raises $100M seed, backed by Nvidia Gradium, a Paris-based startup that offers voice AI models, reopened its seed round to new investors, including Nvidia, and has now raised $100 million total for the round, it said…

Posted: Lucas Ropek OpenAI says GPT 5.6 is the ‘preferred model’ for Microsoft Copilot 365 amid breakup chatter Earlier this week, Bloomberg reported that Microsoft was replacing some of OpenAI’s software with its own in-house models to cut costs.. Those in-house models,…

2 executive, is stepping down from her full-time role, The Wall Street Journal reports .. In a staff note Thursday, Simo said her ongoing medical leave has proven longer and harder than expected, and that she’ll transition to a part-time advisory role instead.. Simo joined…

OpenAI unveiled its newest family of models on Thursday, introducing a set of heavyweight programs into an increasingly crowded field of AI offerings.. GPT-5.6 comes in three variants: Sol (considered its workhorse), Terra (a more intermediate option), and Luna (its…

OpenAI is sunsetting Atlas, the AI-powered browser it launched in October with ChatGPT at its core.. But it’s not giving up on the idea that AI should help people browse the web.. Instead, it’s taking some of the agentic browsing features it tested in Atlas and redistributing…

Should Anthropic trust Elon Musk to host its models?. After users on X implied that Musk could wake up one day and simply boot the AI lab from SpaceX’s servers as a way to kneecap a rival, Musk replied with glowing praise for the AI lab.. He said that such a trick was “not my…

Three years ago, Sequoia partner David Cahn was one of the first people to do the math and put a number on the implications of Silicon Valley’s titanic spend on AI infrastructure.. In 2023 , he was reacting to Nvidia’s reported annual GPU revenue of $50 billion.. Starting…

Meta publicly launched a new version of Muse Spark on Thursday, a multimodal AI model designed for agentic coding that aims to compete with similar products offered by OpenAI and Anthropic.. Spark 1.1, the first version of which was announced in April , can engage in…

The New York Times and The Daily News claim that OpenAI has been lying about its ability to search customer chat log data and training datasets for their copyrighted works.. It’s the latest escalation in a two-year lawsuit against the AI firm for allegedly violating copyright…

Google is rolling out a new feature aimed at helping people understand when an ad they’re seeing was made using AI technology.. AI makes it easier for businesses to create ads, place their brand’s products in various settings, and save money on real-world e-commerce…