Daily AI Grants Roundup – July 14, 2026

Promptwatch raises €6M in seed funding led by Seed + Speed Ventures to help brands track and improve visibility in AI search results.

Nous Research, the startup behind the open-source Hermes agent, is finalizing a new round of funding led by Robot Ventures, with significant participation from USV and other prominent investors at a $1.5 billion valuation, according to three sources with knowledge of the…

UK startup Valarian closes $50M Series A led by NEA for sovereign AI infrastructure serving enterprise and defence customers worldwide.

Singapore-based video-generation startup PixVerse said today that it has closed its Series C extension, with a total of $439 million raised in the round.. The company told TechCrunch that, with the new tranche of funding, its valuation has crossed over $2 billion.. With the…

Posted: Rebecca Bellan Reflection inks $1B compute deal with Nebius Reflection AI, a U.S.. startup vying to develop open models , has signed a $1 billion compute deal with European AI infrastructure company Nebius.. Nebius , formerly the international arm of Russian tech…

For several weeks this summer, the AI industry was fixated on Anthropic’s latest frontier models and Washington’s fight to control who was granted access to them.. But while everyone was watching the frontier, developers kept building — and they weren’t waiting around for…

In a recent interview, Instagram head Adam Mosseri said he can see a time in the future, perhaps only a year or two, when putting limits on Meta employees’ AI token spend will become necessary.. “I think that you can imagine, at least in a year or two … that the burn rate of…

Google Images, the tech giant’s image search engine, is taking on Pinterest with its latest redesign that turns the site into a browsable, dynamic gallery of images from across the web.. Google is also adding a way for users to create AI images right in Search, as it…

New York became the first state to halt data center construction after Gov.. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order today that temporarily bars the state from approving new permits for large projects.. Hochul’s order applies to data centers 50 megawatts or larger, potentially…

Spotify is taking another step to infuse AI technology into its listening experience, with Tuesday’s news that Premium users will now be able to have interactive conversations with the app to choose what music or other audio they want to hear.. The feature is initially…

Since the large language model (LLM) explosion started, companies have been trying to solve the problem of overflowing inboxes by using AI to categorize emails and draft replies that sound like you.. Email client Superhuman is launching a new version of its auto-draft feature…

A pattern is emerging among people who’ve already made it big.. They’re rolling up their sleeves again, seemingly out of fear of missing AI’s defining moment and, presumably, the irresistible allure of making even more money — potentially a lot more.. Tom Blomfield, who…