AI News

July 05, 2026 · 05:57 PM UTC

  1. Bending Spoons' Nasdaq IPO caps its 50+ deals across 10+ years that transformed the Italian startup into a highly leveraged internet company with ~$4.4B in debtft.com

    Bending Spoons' Nasdaq IPO caps its 50+ deals across 10+ years that transformed the Italian startup into a highly leveraged internet company with ~$4.4B in debt — Nasdaq listing caps more than a decade of deals that transformed an Italian start-up into a global internet company

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  2. Sources: Uber halts plans to launch food delivery in five of the seven European countries it had targeted for expansion as it pursues a Delivery Hero takeoverft.com

    Sources: Uber halts plans to launch food delivery in five of the seven European countries it had targeted for expansion as it pursues a Delivery Hero takeover — Ride-hailing company will no longer launch in five of its seven planned new markets this year — Uber has paused the majority …

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  3. Chainalysis: addresses linked to Iran, Russia, North Korea, and other US-sanctioned entities received $100B+ in crypto last year, almost 8x the amount in 2024wsj.com

    Chainalysis: addresses linked to Iran, Russia, North Korea, and other US-sanctioned entities received $100B+ in crypto last year, almost 8x the amount in 2024 — Blacklisted entities handled $100 billion in crypto in 2025, financing terrorism and weapons — Iran, Russia, North Korea …

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  4. NY-based LinqAlpha, which provides AI-powered market research tools for hedge funds, raised a $22M Series A co-led by AVP, Atinum Investment, and GFT Ventures (Sofia Chesnokova/Tech Funding News)techfundingnews.com

    NY-based LinqAlpha, which provides AI-powered market research tools for hedge funds, raised a $22M Series A co-led by AVP, Atinum Investment, and GFT Ventures — - LinqAlpha, an AI research platform for hedge funds and asset managers, has raised $22 million in a Series A round led by AVP, Atinum...

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  5. OpenAI’s apparent failure to visit key site raises questions over UK investmenttheguardian.com

    Source calls UK- and OpenAI-touted plans in 2025 for Stargate's ~£20B Cobalt site a PR stunt; OpenAI and Nscale failed to visit Cobalt or lodge planning forms — Exclusive: £20bn of ‘potential’ £30bn AI investment touted by UK ministers appears to have been hypothetical

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  6. Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fablegithub.com
  7. What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitortechcrunch.com

    Mistral AI, which offers some open source AI models, has raised significant funding since its creation in 2023, with the ambition to “put frontier AI in the hands of everyone.”

  8. nvidia/LocateAnything-3B — vision-language modelhuggingface.co

    4B parameter vision-language model. 1,247,265 downloads. 2,615 likes on HuggingFace

  9. baidu/Unlimited-OCR — vision-language modelhuggingface.co

    3B parameter vision-language model. 1,044,217 downloads. 1,735 likes on HuggingFace

  10. CoplayDev/unity-mcpgithub.com
  11. empero-ai/Qwythos-9B-Claude-Mythos-5-1M-GGUF — vision-language modelhuggingface.co

    9B parameter vision-language model. 1,533,844 downloads. 1,527 likes on HuggingFace

  12. yuxinlu1/gemma-4-12B-agentic-fable5-composer2.5-v2-3.5x-tau2-GGUF — language modelhuggingface.co

    12B parameter language model. 355,871 downloads. 1,023 likes on HuggingFace

  13. deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-DSpark — language modelhuggingface.co

    889B parameter language model. 12,580 downloads. 381 likes on HuggingFace

  14. langchain-ai/openwikigithub.com
  15. GPU Survivors: Can You Survive a 1T Parameter Inference Run?dev.to

    Survive endless waves of OOD data, prompt injections, and adversarial token splits inside a GPU Core while scaling your model architecture to 1T parameters.

  16. If your GPU can run inference, it should be able to fine-tune too. [P]github.com
  17. openai/codex-plugin-ccgithub.com
  18. Changes to LLM pricing: Ambientdev.to

    Model price changes detected for Ambient. Details below.

  19. Proposal: Use semantic compression as input diffusion to read sessions larger than the context window [R]dev-boz.github.io
  20. Suffix BWT vs cyclic shift BWT, and fast computationpurplesyringa.moe
  21. LangChain + OpenAI-Compatible APIs: Debug Base URL Before RAG or Agentsdev.to

    When a LangChain app fails after switching to an OpenAI-compatible API gateway, the problem is often...

  22. New Google commercial imagines a Declaration of Independence written with help from AItheverge.com

    "Group project, but make it 1776." That's how a new commercial for Google Workspace opens. And things only get cringier from there. The clip imagines what it would be like if the founding fathers turned to Google's collaboration tools and Gemini to help them draft the Declaration of Independence...

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  23. These popular smartphones are in their last year of software supportengadget.com

    It's good to know how long your phone will get updates before you purchase.

  24. alibaba/page-agentgithub.com
  25. Nvidia Supplier Hon Hai’s Sales Beat on Continued AI Demandbloomberg.com

    Nvidia Corp.’s server assembly partner Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. reported a bigger-than-expected 40% jump in quarterly sales and said AI demand is growing further.

  26. Building Your First AI Agent in 2026: A Complete Hands-On Guidedev.to

    Let's Build an Agent Together You've read the theory. You understand the concepts. Now...

  27. cheahjs/free-llm-api-resourcesgithub.com
  28. LlamaIndex ‘legal-kb’: Agentic Retrieval over Index v2 with retrieve, find, read, and grep Toolsmarktechpost.com

    LlamaIndex’s legal-kb is a public reference app that gives agents filesystem-style access to a document knowledge base on Index v2. It exposes retrieve (hybrid semantic search), find, read, and grep as tools, with automatic per-file versioning and visual citations. The stack is TanStack Start, AI...

  29. Fast Software, the Best Software (2019)craigmod.com
  30. Upload your product docs to BizNode's knowledge base. Your Telegram bot instantly answers customer questions from your own datadev.to

    The 1BZ Ecosystem CopyGuard (protect) → IPVault (monetize) → SmartPDF (deliver) → DZIT (settle on Polygon) → BizNode (automate) AI business operator node — https://biznode.1bz.biz AI-interactive certified docs — https://smartpdf.1bz.biz Blog & insights — <

  31. Agent Runs now available in the Vercel MCP and CLIvercel.com

    Your agent can now inspect Agent Runs via the Vercel MCP and CLI for eve , the open-source agent framework. eve traces are automatically ingested when deployed to Vercel and available as Agent Runs. The new Vercel MCP tools and Vercel CLI commands le

  32. Open-source tool pxpipe hides text in PNGs to cut Claude Code and Fable 5 token costs up to 70%the-decoder.com

    The open-source tool pxpipe converts long text prompts for Claude Code into compact PNGs, exploiting the fact that Anthropic charges for images by pixel size, not text content. Developer Steven Chong reports cost savings of 59 to 70 percent, at the price o

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  33. Everything Announced at the Studio Trigger Anime Expo 2026 Panelgizmodo.com

    'Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2' revealed its opening theme, 'Delicious in Dungeon' season two finally got a release date, and the studio teased an intriguing new project.

  34. SigMap: 97% token reduction for AI coding sessionssigmap.io
  35. NVIDIA HORIZON: A Hands-Free Agent that Evolves Git Worktrees and Hits 100% RTL Benchmark Completionmarktechpost.com

    A hands-free NVIDIA agent framework hosts each RTL problem as a versioned repository, reaching 100% completion across benchmarks. The post NVIDIA HORIZON: A Hands-Free Agent that Evolves Git Worktrees and Hits 100% RTL Benchmark Completion appeared first on MarkTechPost .

  36. OpenAI cofounder envisions "almost no interface" future where nobody learns software anymorethe-decoder.com

    Greg Brockman admits ChatGPT's plugins, heavily marketed in 2023, failed "because the models weren't ready." Instead of app extensions, he sees the future in an invisible, context-aware agent. But OpenAI's own Codex is still light-years from that vision. The art

  37. OpenAI Agents SDK 0.13 to 0.17: Three Breaking Changes You Will Hitdev.to

    The OpenAI Agents SDK v0.13 to v0.17 window introduced three breaking changes. Two are silent — they change behavior without triggering errors at upgrade time. Here

  38. Scanning LangChain with AgentGuard: 380 Security Findings in the World's Most Popular Agent Frameworkdev.to

    We ran AgentGuard against 1,784 LangChain source files. 86 CRITICAL, 249 HIGH findings. Here is what we found.

  39. Jersey Mike’s IPO illustrates how bad the AI hype has becometechcrunch.com

    Just for kicks, I took a look at Jersey Mike's IPO documents. Surely a sandwich shop would have no need to mention AI. But lo and behold.

  40. Claude Reaches GA on Microsoft Foundry: European Enterprises Cannot Deploy Itinfoq.com

    AWS recently announced Amazon S3 Annotations, a feature that lets teams attach rich, searchable context such as summaries, classifications, compliance data, or AI-generated insights directly to S3 objects. Annotations can be updated independently of the object and queried across datasets, reducing...

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