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Simile Raises $200 Million Series B at $2 Billion Valuation

Simile raised a $200 million Series B led by Greenoaks Capital at a $2 billion valuation to expand its human behavior simulation platform.

July 30, 2026

Elix and University of Vienna Sign AI Drug Discovery Research Agreement

Elix, Inc. and the University of Vienna have signed a joint research agreement to use AI and NMR based structural biology in drug discovery for intrinsically disordered proteins and cancer related targets.

July 30, 2026

Bridgit Adds AI Agents for Construction Workforce Planning

Bridgit introduced AI agents and an MCP connection for its construction workforce planning platform, adding tools that can build teams, find assignments, summarize project changes, create org charts, and prepare workforce schedules.

July 30, 2026

Reco Adds Runtime Security Controls for AI Agents

Reco has expanded AI Runtime with Browser Guard, prompt and tool call analysis, and Smart Remediation. The new capabilities add browser visibility, runtime inspection, and action recommendations for AI agent security findings.

July 30, 2026

Lantronix and DoD Solution Begin Production of Edge AI Drone Platform for Ukraine

Lantronix and DoD Solution have completed integration of DoD Solution's AURA AI autonomy platform with Lantronix's Open-Q 6490CS edge compute solution, with initial production now underway for drone systems used in Ukraine.

July 30, 2026

S&P Global Market Intelligence Adds Farsight AI Workflows to Capital IQ Pro

S&P Global Market Intelligence will add Farsight's AI powered financial workflow capability to Capital IQ Pro later this year. The tool will help bankers and investors create pitch decks, confidential information memoranda, and valuation materials using firm templates and past work.

July 30, 2026

LightSource Launches AI Workforce for Direct Materials Sourcing

LightSource has launched LightSource AI Workforce, a set of five AI capabilities for direct materials sourcing. The tools cover data analytics, item ingestion, RFQ setup, supplier activation, and award optimization.

July 30, 2026

heytruffle Raises Funding for Restaurant AI Phone Concierge

heytruffle, formerly RestoHost, raised funding from Preface Ventures to expand its managed AI phone concierge for restaurant groups in the United States.

July 30, 2026

REcore Leads Project NexusRE as NorthstarMLS Wins Inman Award

REcore is leading Project NexusRE toward alpha and beta testing after NorthstarMLS won the Inman Innovator Award for work on listing data governance in AI systems.

July 30, 2026

ADA Acquires Algonomy for Retail AI Decisioning

ADA has completed its acquisition of Algonomy, adding retail AI decisioning technology to its platform and expanding the combined business to 34 markets.

July 30, 2026

Dasher Neuroscience Completes Recruitment for YA-101 Phase 2 Trial

Dasher Neuroscience has completed recruitment of 90 patients for a global Phase 2 trial of YA-101 in multiple system atrophy. The company expects top line clinical data in the first quarter of 2027.

July 30, 2026

FAR.AI Launches AI Security Leaderboard for Frontier Model Safeguards

FAR.AI launched an AI Security Leaderboard comparing safeguard resistance across frontier models in CBRNE and cybersecurity misuse tests. Its first results found hundreds of universal jailbreaks in Grok 4.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro, and none in Claude Fable 5 or GPT-5.6 Sol.

July 30, 2026

FAR.AI Opens First International Office in Singapore

FAR.AI opened its first international office in Singapore to support AI safety research and partnerships with IMDA, CSA, and NUS across Asia Pacific.

July 30, 2026

Study Finds ML Can Aid Blood Test for Rare Adrenal Tumors

A Samsung Medical Center study presented at ADLM 2026 found ML may improve interpretation of plasma free metanephrine tests for PPGL, but later analysis showed shortcut learning affected the results.

July 30, 2026

AI Tool Linked to Lower Hospital Deaths in RWJBarnabas Study

RWJBarnabas Health and Rutgers University researchers found that an AI early warning system helped detect clinical decline earlier in hospitalized patients. The study found deaths among high risk patients fell from 23.1 percent to 18.6 percent after implementation.

July 30, 2026

Daydream launches AI fashion search for retailer websites

Daydream launched Powered by Daydream, a program that lets fashion brands and retailers add its natural language search and visual discovery tools to their own websites.

July 30, 2026

Outmarket AI Launches Data Intelligence Platform for Insurance Agencies

Outmarket AI launched a Data Intelligence Platform that combines agency management system data with policy, proposal, and loss run documents for natural language analytics.

July 30, 2026

Defense Unicorns and Paramify Partner on Federal Compliance Automation

Defense Unicorns and Paramify have partnered to integrate Paramify's compliance automation platform into the Unified Defense Stack for federal and defense customers.

July 30, 2026

Pentera Adds AI Native Web App Testing to Security Platform

Pentera has added AI native web application testing to its security validation platform, with beta access for selected customers and general availability planned for Q4 2026.

July 30, 2026

HD Hyundai and Fraser Industries to Modernize U.S. Shipyards

HD Hyundai's HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering signed an MOU with Fraser Industries to modernize U.S. shipyards with robotics, automation, AI, digital platforms, and workforce training.

July 30, 2026

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