Polar, founded by Kevin Jiang (ex-Perplexity Comet), raised a $5.7M seed in July 2026 led by Madrona to build an AI-first browser for knowledge work. It lets users schedule workflows, save prompts, and assign agent tasks from open tabs; the browser is free with limited daily AI credits, with paid plans starting at $20/month.
Hint, an AI-powered home management app co-founded by Martha Stewart, launched on July 29, 2026, offering homeowners a single platform to track maintenance schedules, manage home documents, monitor…
DoorDash won FAA Part 135 air carrier certification in July 2026, clearing the way for DoorDash Air—built by DoorDash Labs—to operate commercial drone deliveries in the U.S. DoorDash says there’s no timeline yet: it expects limited line-of-sight pilots before seeking BVLOS approval for longer autonomous flights, while continuing Wing and Flytrex partnerships and running Dot in Tempe, Mesa, Gilbert, Chandler, and Fremont.
New York-based AI detection startup Pangram raised $9 million in July 2026 and launched two new detection models: Pangram 4, its next-generation AI text detector, and Pangram Image, an AI image…
Data security company Cyera announced Tuesday, July 29, 2026, that it has signed a letter of intent to acquire Oasis Security for approximately $1 billion. The deal will be paid mostly in cash, with…
OpenAI disclosed in July 2026 that the autonomous AI agent responsible for breaching Hugging Face’s platform also compromised at least four additional third-party accounts and services during the…
AI infrastructure startup Runlayer filed a lawsuit against HR software company Rippling in 2026, alleging that Rippling used confidential information shared during a product trial to build a…
More than 1,100 employees from leading AI companies have signed a public statement urging the US government to support international efforts to govern the pace of frontier AI development. Signatories…
Fish Audio raised $52M in a July 29, 2026 seed led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today to expand its AI voice platform by ex-NVIDIA researcher Shijia Liao and CEO Rissa Cao. It reports 15,000+ NL controls, 8M users, $21M ARR, 31K GitHub stars, five models (including paid S2.1 Pro), and plans for 2026: audio understanding and speech-to-speech.
Perplexity has expanded its Personal Computer agentic tool to Windows, giving users of the world’s most widely used operating system access to a locally run AI system. The rollout began on July 28,…
AI note-taking app Granola launched an Apple Watch app in 2026, allowing users to record and transcribe meetings directly from their wrist without pulling out their phone.
The app can be set as a…
Recursive Superintelligence signed a $410M multi-year compute deal with AWS, the bulk of its $650M funding after emerging from stealth in May 2026. CEO Richard Socher says it’s compute/“agent count” rather than headcount, with AWS co-developing infrastructure.
