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.
WhatsApp adds browser audio/video calling to WhatsApp Web (announced July 2026), with a new Calls tab for call history and favorites plus screen sharing and call reactions. New features include device call transfer, group-call waiting rooms (“Require approval to join”), background noise suppression, and HD video in the first few seconds.
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.
AI coding startup Cursor introduced a India-specific subscription plan in July 2026, pricing it at ₹649 per month (about $7) — well below its standard $20-per-month Pro tier — as the company moves to…
Over July 26–27, 2026, “site:claude.ai/share” reportedly let Google surface shared Claude chats and Artifacts, including health records, private documents, and children’s names/phone numbers. Anthropic traced it to its share-chat URL feature (“Anyone with the link can view”) and says it doesn’t share chat directories or sitemaps for indexing; Google says site owners control indexing.
A July 2026 suit in N.D. California says Apple allowed a fake iOS Sparrow Wallet on the App Store, costing plaintiffs James Ramirez (~$875k), Christopher Ellis (~$840k) and Jalen Delgado (~$120k) $1.8M+. Apple says impersonators violate its guidelines and are removed quickly.
Microsoft unveiled its first cybersecurity-specialized AI model and a new agentic security platform at a small event in San Francisco on Monday, July 28, 2026, entering a field that already includes…
Meta began rolling out its Meta AI chatbot to Threads direct messages on Monday, July 28, 2026, giving users a private way to interact with the AI assistant within the app.
While Threads users in…
Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the AI lab founded by former OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, announced in July 2026 a long-term partnership with Nvidia that includes a multi-billion dollar investment…
Robotics startup Enigma emerged from stealth in July 2026 after raising a $70 million seed round led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Sarah Guo’s Conviction Partners. The…
Snapchat’s “Now Playing” rolls out July 27, 2026, streaming users’ live Spotify listening to Snap Map only during an active past-24-hour window: sharing auto-pauses if Snapchat hasn’t been opened in 24 hours and can be paused for 3 hours, 24 hours, or indefinitely. Users must link Spotify to show what’s playing to friends in real time, and Spotlight discoveries can be saved to Spotify or opened via the track page; Canada is listed as coming soon.
