AI News Archive: July 3, 2026 — Part 8
Sourced from 500+ daily AI sources, scored by relevance.
- Zero-Computational Path to High-Resolution Robotic Touch
A new study introduces a soft robotic sensing skin made from mechanochromic materials. The polymer automatically converts mechanical strain into distinct structural color fields, allowing a low-cost camera to map micro-scale pressure variations in real time without computational reconstruction algorithms.
- Claude Fable 5 isn’t permanently leaving subscriptions, Anthropic says
Anthropic says Claude Fable 5 won't be accessible via Claude subscriptions after July 7, but it's not a permanent change, and the company expects the model to return outside the usage-based plan soon. [...]
- When I lost access to Fable, I had a backup plan. Now that it's back, I'm even more certain that my fail-safe strategy works.
When I lost access to Fable, I had a backup plan. Now that it's back, I'm even more certain that my fail-safe strategy works. Business Insider
- Claude Fable relaunch disappoints users with nerfed performance
Claude Fable, the company's most powerful model, is now available to all users, but early impressions are disappointing, as it appears to be nowhere near the original release. [...]
- Kuaishou shares jump after Tencent joins $2.8 billion raise for Kling AI subsidiary
Kuaishou shares rose as much as 6.89% at Friday's Hong Kong market open before paring gains to trade around 0.75% higher.
- Alibaba, Tencent back Kuaishou's Kling AI in $2.8 billion fundraise
Chinese tech giant Kuaishou's AI video unit, Kling AI, has secured over 19 billion yuan ($2.80 billion) in funding from investors including Alibaba and Tencent. This significant investment values the popular AI video arm at $15 billion pre-money, highlighting strong investor confidence in China's booming AI sector. Kling AI's revenue quadrupled year-on-year in the March quarter, signaling robust growth.
- Unitree IPO to test valuations as venture capital floods China robotics
Unitree Robotics has secured approval from China’s securities regulator for a Shanghai initial public offering that is poised to set a valuation benchmark for China’s sizzling embodied AI sector. The nod from the China Securities Regulatory Commission came about a month after the Hangzhou-based company cleared a review by the Shanghai Stock Exchange’s listing committee. Unitree is now finalising its underwriting plan, pricing and share subscriptions for a potential debut as early as late...
- Microsoft launches new enterprise AI business with $2.5B investment
Microsoft launches new enterprise AI business with $2.5B investment YourStory.com
- Kuaishou’s Kling AI raises nearly $3 billion in funding
Kling AI, Kuaishou’s AI video generation business, raised nearly $3 billion in external funding on July 2, with its post-money valuation expected to reach $18 billion. The financing will support Kling AI’s transition to independent commercial operations. The round was co-led by CPE, Guofang Venture Capital, BlueFive, Tencent, CITIC Securities and Zhongguancun Science City Fund […]
- Tencent joins reported $3 billion funding round for Kuaishou’s Kling AI
Kuaishou’s AI video generation platform, Kling AI, is reportedly close to completing a $3 billion funding round, with Tencent participating in the investment. Upon completion, Kling AI is expected to be valued at $18 billion. In May, foreign media reported that Kuaishou was planning to spin off Kling AI and launch an IPO as early […]
- Kuaishou Secures Nearly $3 Billion for AI Video Unit
Kuaishou Secures Nearly $3 Billion for AI Video Unit Caixin Global
- Kuaishou’s Kling AI seeks $3b in debut funding round
Kuaishou described Kling AI, launched in June 2024, as an independent AI product for video generation.
- Abu Dhabi’s BlueFive Capital co-leads near $3bln funding round for Chinese video generator KlingAI
BlueFive Capital says the funding is part of its strategy to deepen investments in China
- Chinese AI video maker Kling raises $2 billion as it gears up for Hong Kong IPO
Kuaishou has raised about $2 billion from investors for its AI video division, Kling. The article Chinese AI video maker Kling raises $2 billion as it gears up for Hong Kong IPO appeared first on The Decoder .
- OpenAI offers feds a stake, Anthropic gets out of AI model jail and Meta wants to be a neocloud
OpenAI reportedly has floated giving the U.S. government a 5% stake in the company, perhaps the start of a series of such stakes in other AI companies as well. This no doubt has traditional anti-industrial-policy Republicans, all apparently dead now, spinning in their graves, because it’s a dumb idea for all sorts of reasons — […] The post OpenAI offers feds a stake, Anthropic gets out of AI model jail and Meta wants to be a neocloud appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
- What is GLM 5.2? The new Chinese AI model that’s rivalling Anthropic
China's GLM-5.2 rivals Claude and GPT-5.5 and was released a day after the US export ban on Anthropic models.
- Claude Fable 5 is leaving subscriptions, but maybe not for good
Claude Fable 5 is leaving subscriptions after July 7, but Anthropic says it plans to bring the model back when capacity allows.
- Claude Fable 5, Explained: Why Anthropic Ships its Most Powerful Model in Two Versions
The same model now exists twice — one version anyone can use, one version almost nobody can. Here’s what Fable 5 actually is, in plain… Continue reading on Towards AI »
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