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Mistral's New Search Tool Lets AI Dig Deep Into Your Company's Documents, Not Just Skim the Surface
Agentic Search replaces single-pass document lookup with a multi-step reading loop, tripling accuracy on financial filings in benchmark tests.

Slack Adds Dedicated AI Coding Channels So Teams Can Build Software Together
Slack Code lets you tag an AI coding assistant directly inside a channel, watch it write and revise code in real time, and approve the finished work before anything goes live.

Airlines Are Using AI 'Brains' to Price Every Seat in Real Time
Virgin Atlantic is among the carriers testing AI market models that weigh hundreds of variables at once to set ticket prices on the fly. Here is what that means for travellers.

Binance lets AI agents trade your crypto for you, but you are in charge of the safety net
The world's largest crypto exchange has launched Agent OS, which lets AI tools buy and sell on your behalf. Most of the guardrails are ones you have to set yourself.

Replit puts OpenAI's cheaper GPT-5.6 Luna behind its free coding tier
The online coding platform is handing free users an AI assistant that plans and prototypes apps, betting that falling model prices finally make software creation a mass activity.

AI agents at companies with safety guardrails fail more often, and that is actually the point
A July 2026 survey of 101 enterprises found that companies running a governed context layer report their AI agents giving confidently wrong answers at more than twice the rate of companies that have no such layer. The reason is not that the guardrails make things worse. It is that they make failures visible for the first time.

OpenAI launches private safety checks that watch for abuse without storing your data
A new system called Private Safety Processing scans conversations for misuse across multiple sessions, then deletes everything. It is a direct shot at Anthropic, which keeps customer data for 30 days under its newest policy.

SpaceX Tried to Buy AI Coding Startup Cognition. Its CEO Says That's Not True.
Bloomberg reported a takeover approach. Cognition's CEO shot it down publicly within hours. What we actually know, and what it tells us about how much money is flowing into AI coding tools.

TerraPower's nuclear plant stores heat in molten salt. That could make it ideal for AI data centres.
The Bill Gates-founded startup plans to announce its first data centre deal this year. Its trick: keeping the reactor running flat-out while banking spare heat for the moments when demand spikes.

Calendly Launches a Meeting Note-Taker to Compete in a Crowded Market
The scheduling app wants to do more than book your meetings. Now it will record them, summarise them, and help with the work that comes after.

Wall Street Wants to Turn Nvidia Chips Into a New Asset Class. Here's Why That's Complicated.
Six of the world's biggest financial firms are joining Nvidia to bundle $500 billion in chip financing. The pitch is that GPUs are now investable assets like buildings or bonds. The catch: Nvidia's own CEO said something very different about chip lifespans just last year.

Hollow-core fiber could let data centers spread farther apart without slowing down
Relativity Networks just raised $22 million to commercialize a cable technology that moves data 30% faster than standard glass-core lines, giving AI campuses more room to grow without paying a speed penalty.

OpenAI's Greg Brockman says the company's staff exits are not unusual. Here is what happened.
Two senior executives left OpenAI within days of each other. President Greg Brockman told CNBC the departures are less dramatic than they look from the outside.

NVIDIA Will Back a $600 Billion AI Computing Deal with OpenAI Anchored by a 20-Year Ohio Campus
The chipmaker is guaranteeing portions of lease and power costs at a giant data centre site in Portsmouth, Ohio, where OpenAI will run what NVIDIA says could eventually hold 1.5 million of its processors per generation.

Cursor launches its own code-hosting platform as GitHub racks up outages
The AI coding startup rolled out 'Origin' this week, giving developers a place to store and collaborate on code without relying solely on GitHub, which suffered a six-hour worldwide outage on the very same day.