NeuralStackAdept Raises 1.4 Billion Series D at 18 Billion Valuation
Adept closed a 1.4 billion Series D round on July 14 at an 18 billion valuation. Investors include Thrive Capital and existing backers from prior rounds. The funds will expand its action-taking AI agents for enterprise workflows.
Mistral AI Unveils Mistral Large 3 with 2M Context Window
Mistral AI released Mistral Large 3 on July 15 featuring a 2 million token context window and 92 percent MMLU score. The model supports native multilingual reasoning across 28 languages with improved tool use. This positions Mistral as a stronger European alternative to US frontier labs.
Hugging Face Releases Transformers 5.0 with Native vLLM Integration
Hugging Face shipped Transformers 5.0 on July 13 with built-in vLLM inference support. The update adds automatic quantization and 35 percent faster token generation. Over 180,000 models on the Hub are compatible immediately.
UK Introduces AI Safety Testing Mandate Effective October 2026
The UK government published new AI safety testing rules on July 14 effective October 1. Developers of models above 10^26 FLOPs must submit third-party evaluations. Non-compliance carries fines up to 6 percent of global revenue.
Stanford Researchers Achieve 94 Percent on GPQA with New Architecture
Stanford University researchers published a new architecture on July 11 that scores 94 percent on GPQA. The model uses dynamic sparse attention and requires 60 percent less compute than dense transformers. The paper details training on 2.1 trillion tokens.
Amazon Web Services Launches Bedrock 3 with Agent Builder
AWS released Bedrock 3 on July 14 introducing a visual agent builder and 12 new foundation models. The update supports multi-agent orchestration and native integration with SageMaker. Customers can now deploy production agents in under 30 minutes.
Cloudflare Mitigates July 10 DDoS Attack on 1.2 Million Sites
Cloudflare blocked a record 3.8 Tbps DDoS attack on July 10 targeting 1.2 million customer sites. The assault originated from compromised IoT devices across 140 countries. No customer data was accessed during the six-hour event.
Perplexity AI Raises 1.6 Billion Series E at 18 Billion Valuation
Perplexity AI closed a 1.6 billion Series E round on July 13 at an 18 billion valuation. The round was led by a16z and included new participation from Fidelity. Funds will expand real-time search infrastructure and enterprise API offerings.
Cohere Releases Command R+ 2 with 5M Context Window
Cohere launched Command R+ 2 on July 12 featuring a 5 million token context window and improved multilingual support. The model scores 92 percent on MMLU and processes enterprise documents 40 percent faster than prior versions. It targets legal and financial sectors seeking long-document analysis without external retrieval.
Amazon Announces Q3 2026 Rollout of Custom Trainium3 Chips
Amazon Web Services will deploy Trainium3 chips across all US regions starting September 15. The new silicon delivers 2.8 times higher training throughput than Trainium2 at equivalent power draw. AWS customers can access the chips through EC2 Trn3 instances with per-second billing.
Oracle Reports July 11 Breach Affecting 1.4 Million Cloud Tenants
Oracle confirmed a July 11 intrusion that exposed records of 1.4 million cloud tenants. Attackers accessed customer metadata and limited configuration data through a compromised internal dashboard. The company has isolated affected systems and begun mandatory password resets for all impacted accounts.
Inflection AI Raises 1.9 Billion Series E at 22 Billion Valuation
Inflection AI closed a 1.9 billion dollar Series E round on July 11 at a 22 billion post-money valuation. Microsoft and NVIDIA led the round with participation from existing backers. The capital funds expansion of its personal AI agent platform to 50 million users by year end.