Daily AI Grants Roundup – July 15, 2026

Bringing research to life through human stories MRC Content Manager 15 July 2026 It’s the end of an era for our MRC Insight blog which is closing, along with other UKRI blogs.. But science storytelling is here to stay.. Stories that make us feel, hope and wonder.. Stories…

Indian AI coding startup Emergent has raised $130 million in a Series C funding round at a $1.5 billion post-money valuation, a five-fold jump in six months.. The funding round was led by private equity firm Creaegis.. New investors MNI Ventures-Claypond, Sentinel Global, and…

Voice AI startups’ biggest unlock has been handling calls for enterprises in areas like sales, marketing, and customer support.. Large organizations are offloading calls to voice model developers like ElevenLabs and Deepgram ; infrastructure companies like Vapi , Retell, and…

Miles Wang , an OpenAI researcher whose work includes using AI to accelerate scientific and biological discovery, is leaving the ChatGPT maker to launch a new startup focused on developing AI models for drug discovery, according to four people with knowledge of his plans…..

Posted: Zack Whittaker Microsoft patches record number of security vulnerabilities, citing its use of AI Microsoft released a record number of security patches for Windows, Office, and other tech product lines this week, citing the use of AI to aid the discovery of code…

Posted: Sarah Perez Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba’s Qwen AI Apple Intelligence, the iPhone maker’s generative AI offering, is coming to China.. On Wednesday, Reuters reported that China’s regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China,…

AI models are becoming ever more capable, but exactly what enterprise adoption will look like remains a big question.. In a bid to shape that future, labs like Anthropic and OpenAI have spun up separate businesses dedicated to deploying AI engineers to their customers’…

A new iOS app called Reelful uses AI to automatically turn photos and video clips from your camera roll into polished TikTok- and Instagram Reels-style videos for social media.. Reelful is designed for people who want to create social content, but find traditional video…

Vint Cerf says his favorite place is where he’s never been before.. One of the architects of the protocols behind the open internet, Cerf left Google after 20 years last week, but he’s not done thinking about the digital future.. Starting today, he’s advising Innovation Labs,…

While Kylie Jenner serves as a human billboard for Meta’s AI glasses, pop star Lorde isn’t buying it.. During a set at the Mad Cool Festival in Madrid last week, Lorde had some choice words about the new technology, which many security experts have deemed a privacy nightmare…

OpenAI’s first foray into hardware devices is reported to be a mobile smart speaker with integrated AI capabilities that can sync with ChatGPT and provide other home AI services.. Bloomberg reported Tuesday that the device — which is still currently under development — is…

OpenAI pushed back Tuesday against allegations made by Apple in a trade secret lawsuit , suggesting the complaint lacks merit.. “While we take these allegations seriously, we’re not aware of any evidence that this complaint has merit,” OpenAI said in a statement, first shared…