Bending Spoons’ IPO kicked off strong on July 1, 2026, with shares rising nearly 40% to close at $40.50 vs. a $29 offer price, valuing the firm at $25.7B after raising $1.68B. SEC filings show Q1 2026 revenue of $601M and net income of $27.4M, up from a $259M revenue period with a $112M net loss a year earlier, with subscriptions at 84% of revenue.
A group of AI researchers launched FLARE-AI (Flaw Reporting for AI) in 2026, a crowdsourced website designed to let users report and track harmful behavior from AI systems — from chatbots generating…
Together AI, an AI neocloud provider that rents out Nvidia GPU clusters and other AI-specific infrastructure, announced on Wednesday, July 1, 2026, that it has raised an $800 million Series C round…
Cloudflare says AI firms have until Sept. 15, 2026 to split “mixed-use” crawlers for traditional search from those used for AI training/agents, or face automatic blocks on publisher sites. From that date, default settings block them on ad pages for new customers, new sites, and all free-tier sites; owners can change settings.
On July 1, 2026, Venice AI says its client-side encryption and external proxy mean user input isn’t stored on its systems, even as it runs 200+ open-source models and routes to OpenAI/Anthropic. The $65M Series A led by Dragonfly values it at $1B; it’s profitable with $70M+ run-rate revenue, 3M+ active users, and 1.7M API calls/day.
Google added Gemini Spark to macOS on July 1, 2026, with local-file workflows (like converting invoices to a budgeting spreadsheet) and real-time topic tracking for sports scores, stocks, breaking news, and weather. The update brings Google Tasks and Keep plus integrations for Canva, Dropbox, Instacart, OpenTable, and Zillow Rentals; multi-step phone-to-desktop instructions are “soon.”
A security researcher discovered in April 2026 that Anthropic’s AI tool Claude Opus 4.7 could help him break into Front Gate Tickets’ systems and freely issue tickets to nearly every major US music…
UK-based self-driving tech startup Wayve announced in 2026 that it is launching an $85 million tender offer, allowing employees to sell a portion of their vested equity. The offer is being led by…
Vinton Cerf will retire from Google next week as chief internet evangelist after 20+ years, announced by Dave Patterson at the 2026 Open Frontier conference. The 83-year-old co-created TCP/IP in the 1970s and joined Google in 2005, earning a Turing Award and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Ex-DeepMind DeepStack founders behind Prague’s EquiLibre raised a Series A valuing it at $500M+ (Creandum; June 30, 2026). With Tower Research Capital, its reinforcement-learning agents trade billions daily on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq and claim zero negative crypto months since 2025.
OpenClaw’s free, open-source AI agent platform launched iOS and Android apps on June 30, pairing phones with the OpenClaw Gateway to route requests to agents and their tools. Created by Peter Steinberger (joined OpenAI in Feb 2026), it gained buzz via MoltBook before researchers found the project was partly human impersonation.
Google says Nano Banana 2 Lite can generate images in 4 seconds and costs $0.034 per 1,000 images—aimed at high-volume creator workflows. Released June 30, 2026 via AI Studio, Gemini API, and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.
