Databricks announced a $188 billion valuation on July 17 in a Coatue-led round, up 40% from $134 billion five months earlier, capping a 19-month period of repeated mega-rounds that has reshaped its identity from big-data analytics platform to AI infrastructure provider.
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Nokia launched the industry's first commercial AI-RAN platform on July 15, built on its anyRAN software and NVIDIA's Aerial system, delivering over 20% spectral efficiency gains with a roadmap to double capacity by 2028 through a software subscription model.
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oogle Vids is adding personal AI avatars built from a user’s selfie and voice recording, alongside Gemini Omni-powered video editing tools.
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Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs have outlined an AI bioresilience plan spanning misuse prevention, faster outbreak detection, and scientific response.
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Anthropic is getting attention for an AI commercial that feels less like a product ad and more like a short film about the unease surrounding powerful technology.
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OpenAI may be preparing a screen-free smart speaker built around ChatGPT, signaling a quieter but important move into consumer AI hardware.
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The United States is bringing AI companies and federal agencies together to find software vulnerabilities faster and strengthen critical infrastructure security.
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Meta is pushing deeper into developer AI with Muse Spark 1.1, a multimodal model aimed at coding, agents, enterprise workflows, and lower-cost API access.
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OpenAI has introduced GPT-5.6 and ChatGPT Work, pointing toward a future where AI assistants complete tasks across tools instead of only answering prompts.
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