AI News Archive: July 7, 2026 — Part 13
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- Building an AI-Powered Operating System for the Gym Floor: Two NUS Computing Graduates Rethinking How Fitness Businesses Run
Building an AI-Powered Operating System for the Gym Floor: Two NUS Computing Graduates Rethinking How Fitness Businesses Run NUS Computing
- ElevenLabs to open Toronto office and double Canadian headcount by end of 2026
Max Lemmens will lead AI voice startup’s expansion efforts as new Canadian GM. The post ElevenLabs to open Toronto office and double Canadian headcount by end of 2026 first appeared on BetaKit .
- Alberta is open-sourcing its AI playbook for government
Province releases series of white papers explaining how it used Claude, Gemini to upgrade government systems. The post Alberta is open-sourcing its AI playbook for government first appeared on BetaKit .
- Meet Cohere Transcribe Arabic
The world’s most accurate open-source model for Arabic speech recognition.
- Ez-XBRL Solutions Named a 2026 Gartner® Coolest Vendor Innovations in AI-Driven Disclosure and Regulatory Reporting
Ez-XBRL Solutions Named a 2026 Gartner® Coolest Vendor Innovations in AI-Driven Disclosure and Regulatory Reporting Toronto Star
- Rocket Doctor AI Inc. Appoints Financial Growth Strategist Andrew Lau as Chief Financial Officer to Help Accelerate U.S. Expansion
Rocket Doctor AI Inc. Appoints Financial Growth Strategist Andrew Lau as Chief Financial Officer to Help Accelerate U.S. Expansion Toronto Star
- WELL Health Announces Proposed TSXV Listing and Concurrent Financing for WELLSTAR, One of Canada’s Leading Healthcare Software and AI Platforms
WELL Health Announces Proposed TSXV Listing and Concurrent Financing for WELLSTAR, One of Canada’s Leading Healthcare Software and AI Platforms Toronto Star
- Lock the Sensor, Lock the Response: The Power of Building the Autonomous Public-Safety Stack
Lock the Sensor, Lock the Response: The Power of Building the Autonomous Public-Safety Stack Toronto Star
- Muslim Council of Elders joins UN-led global dialogue in Geneva to shape ethical AI governance
Muslim Council of Elders joins UN-led global dialogue in Geneva to shape ethical AI governance Gulf News
- UAE certifies world's first commercial vertiport for air taxis
UAE certifies world's first commercial vertiport for air taxis
- This simple AI trick can turn any YouTube video into notes
This simple AI trick can turn any YouTube video into notes
- iOS 27 beta reveals new privacy feature for Apple Intelligence
iOS 27 beta reveals new privacy feature for Apple Intelligence
- Teaching soft robots the sense of touch - MBZUAI
Teaching soft robots the sense of touch MBZUAI - Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
- North American Startup Funding Shattered Records In First Half Of 2026, Driven By AI
North American Startup Funding Shattered Records In First Half Of 2026, Driven By AI Crunchbase News
- Meta’s AI Data Center in Cheyenne Isn’t Even Open Yet. It Has Already Triggered a Wastewater Crackdown
The Wyoming city has stopped taking some data center wastewater after tracing a rare bacterium to a Meta-linked project.
- The Head of Claude Code Says Your Startup Needs These 5 Employee Archetypes
Job titles like ‘engineer’ and ‘designer’ are melting into something new. Here’s how to build your hiring plan around the roles that actually matter, not the resume.
- Tidal Will Allow AI Music to Stay on Its Platform—With 1 Major Catch
The streaming platform recently unveiled its policy on AI-generated music, something that it now views as a “living document.”
- This Simple Claude Hack Will Summarize All Your Newsletters and Create a Daily Briefing. Here’s How to Do It
If you feel overwhelmed by the number of newsletters you receive, there’s a Claude trick you should know about.
- After a brief slump, iRobot announced 5 new Roombas and a wet dry vacuum. Is it redemption arc time?
No, iRobot didn't go out of business after bankruptcy. On July 7, iRobot announced five new Roomba robot vacuums and a cordless mop.
- Alberta Tech on what AI gets right and where it still falls short for creators
Alberta Tech reflects on leaving software engineering behind, building an audience through tech humor, and explaining AI with nuance.
- Stop fighting with PDFs thanks to this $40 AI-powered editor
Conquer PDFs once and for all with a lifetime subscription to PDNob Pro PDF Editor, now only $39.97.
- Elon Musks xAI has a new name. You can probably guess it.
xAI has now officially been renamed SpaceXAI.
- UN Secretary General Calls for Global Ban On AI ‘Killer Robots’
Others, meanwhile, argue that the US has a moral obligation to build powerful autonomous weapons systems—lest our adversaries get there first.
- China Built Cheap AI. Now It’s Building a Great Wall Around It
In Beijing as in Washington, AI has become a critical—and jealously guarded—national resource.
- Meta built an AI detection tool to ID images and video created with its new models
Meta's new AI detector has rate limits for some reason.
- Intel patent reveals new XBM memory architecture that ditches HBM's costly silicon interposer — backend-transistor DRAM stack uses UCIe links and built-in repair to ease AI's memory bottleneck
Intel’s XBM patent proposes an HBM alternative that uses backend-transistor DRAM, UCIe chiplet links, and repair logic to reduce packaging costs and complexity.
- AMD Ryzen AI Halo First Look: Giant Local AI Power in a Pint-Sized Box
AMD Ryzen AI Halo First Look: Giant Local AI Power in a Pint-Sized Box PCMag Middle East
- Ookla Says AI Changes How You Should Judge 5G Networks
Ookla Says AI Changes How You Should Judge 5G Networks PCMag Middle East
- Why the New Google Home Speaker With Gemini is a Major Smart Home Upgrade
Why the New Google Home Speaker With Gemini is a Major Smart Home Upgrade PCMag
- Three insights you may have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of the ‘Scaling the Agentic Era’ event
As artificial intelligence agents move from proof-of-concept tools to production systems, the cost of every generated token is becoming a direct business concern. The shift is pushing infrastructure providers to focus not just on raw performance, but on efficiency, throughput and the economics of running agentic workloads continuously at scale. That pressure is reshaping how […] The post Three insights you may have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of the ‘Scaling the Agentic Era’ event appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
- Storage gets promoted in the agentic AI era
The year 2026 could be remembered as the moment when storage technology received a massive promotion. The reason is that the current transition from simple chatbots to agentic AI systems has raised the stakes for context memory, the relevant information autonomous systems needs to understand and process a task. Supplying agents with data to support […] The post Storage gets promoted in the agentic AI era appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
- What to expect at the AMD Advancing AI event: Join theCUBE July 22-23
Enterprise artificial intelligence infrastructure has become as critical to AI success as the models themselves. As organizations move AI into production, attention is increasingly shifting toward the infrastructure, software and ecosystems required to support deployment at scale. Those themes are reflected across Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s recent announcements and executive discussions ahead of its Advancing […] The post What to expect at the AMD Advancing AI event: Join theCUBE July 22-23 appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
- Picus Security launches autonomous platform to validate exposures in one loop
Cybersecurity validation startup Picus Security Inc. today launched the Picus Autonomous Exposure Validation Platform, a system that merges breach and attack simulation, autonomous penetration testing and exposure validation into a single automated loop. The platform is aimed at a question security teams struggle to answer when a critical vulnerability drops: Can this actually be exploited against […] The post Picus Security launches autonomous platform to validate exposures in one loop appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
- Assail launches Sidewinder, an offensive security AI that fixes its own mistakes
Autonomous security company Assail Inc. today launched Sidewinder, a rebuilt version of its Ares offensive security platform that runs on a new 31 billion-parameter model designed to audit its own findings and repair its own mistakes without human intervention. Sidewinder is a full second-generation redesign of Ares, which Assail introduced in January, with a new […] The post Assail launches Sidewinder, an offensive security AI that fixes its own mistakes appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
- CyberProof launches agentic MXDR to automate two-thirds of investigations
CyberProof Inc., a co-managed security services company owned by UST Global Inc., today launched an agentic artificial intelligence service that it says can autonomously handle up to two-thirds of security investigations while leaving human analysts in control of critical decisions. The service, called CyberProof Agentic MXDR, is a form of managed extended detection and response […] The post CyberProof launches agentic MXDR to automate two-thirds of investigations appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
- Radware adds Claude Code protection and compliance reporting to agent security
Application and network security company Radware Ltd. today expanded its Agentic AI Protection product with compliance reporting, deeper visibility into artificial intelligence agent activity, and new protection for agents that run directly on developer machines, including Anthropic PBC’s Claude Code. As enterprises hand more of their operations to AI agents, security and compliance teams are […] The post Radware adds Claude Code protection and compliance reporting to agent security appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
- Former Impinj CEO Bill Colleran tapped to lead Seattle AI coding startup Adronite
Bill Colleran, a veteran technology executive who previously led Impinj and sold Innovent Systems to Broadcom, has joined Seattle-based AI coding startup Adronite as CEO. Read More
- Chicago software company plants flag in Seattle area as new leadership team seeks AI talent
Governance, risk and compliance software company LogicGate recently signed a lease in Bellevue with space for up to 25 employees and expects to have about 20 people working there by the end of the year. Read More
- Etzioni on AI: Does AI bolster or undercut democracy?
As America marks its 250th year, the debate over AI's impact on self-government hinges on a crucial tension: while pessimists fear the concentration of its power, optimists champion the democratization of its access. Read More
- An agent in the empty chair: Amazon vets launch Primitive Labs, using AI to model customer behavior
Founded by former Amazon AGI and AWS colleagues and backed by a16z Speedrun, Primitive Labs is building AI agents that stand in for a company's customers, letting product teams see how people will react to a new feature or design before it ships. Read More
- Health insurers’ AI vision
Health insurers are increasingly embracing artificial intelligence as part of their business models, bullish on the technology’s potential to revolutionize care and drive down costs.
- Why you should think twice before taking financial advice from AI
A growing number are asking AI about money, and some are getting burned
- London workers most exposed to AI jobs cull
Workers in London are more exposed to an artificial intelligence-induced jobs cull than in any other major city, according to the world’s leading economics think tank, while growth in hiring for AI talent has been lower than in the EU, Canada and the US. A new OECD report from the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation [...]
- 84% of Executives Prioritize AI—So Why Are Employees Still Losing a Full Day a Week to Manual Document Tasks?
New research report by Nitro reveals that enterprise AI has reached mainstream deployment, but productivity is lagging, with workers still spending 11+ hours a week on manual document tasks.
- Simpro Group Makes It RAIN — New Features and AI-Infused Enhancements Delivered at Record Speed
With Lightning’s Cooper AI at the center of AroFlo, BigChange and Simpro, the company is shipping dozens of new features and over 100 AI-infused enhancements — included for Lightning customers at no additional cost
- Kemi Badenoch: AI firms ‘won’t come here’ if Britain overregulates
Kemi Badenoch has warned Britain risks driving away the next generation of AI giants unless it lowers industrial energy costs or fixes London’s capital markets, arguing the UK cannot regulate its way to becoming a global tech leader. Speaking at the Politics UK Summit in Westminster on Monday evening, the Conservative leader said Britain was [...]
- New Smarsh Research Finds Enterprises Are Deploying AI Faster Than They Can Govern It
55% of enterprises are deploying AI, but only 26% say governance is keeping pace, creating growing compliance, security, and operational risk
- UMA Unveils Its Vision for the Next Generation of Humanoid Robots
At Machina Summit, UMA unveils the design of its first humanoid robot and introduces Real-Time Learning, a new AI architecture that enables robots to learn new skills through demonstration rather than programming.
- 5 ways the Dell AI Data Platform turns enterprise data into a production-ready AI foundation
5 ways the Dell AI Data Platform turns enterprise data into a production-ready AI foundation IT Pro
- Photo Upscaler AI
Photo Upscaler AI