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Daily AI briefings

A short editorial roundup of each day in AI — what happened and why it mattered — with a link to every story from that day.

The day in AI — 19 July 2026

Sunday, 19 July 2026

Sakana AI is having a remarkable week, with five separate announcements positioning the Japanese startup as the quiet architect of practical AI systems. The company published a Nature Machine Intelligence paper on Evolutionary Model Merge, showing how evolutionary algorithms can...

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The day in AI — 18 July 2026

Saturday, 18 July 2026

Sakana AI's ambitious expansion dominated the week, raising $200 million at a $2.7 billion valuation to pursue efficient AI for Japanese enterprises rather than compete in the large-model arms race. The Tokyo-based company announced partnerships with Google, Citigroup, and Datado...

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The day in AI — 17 July 2026

Friday, 17 July 2026

The morning's biggest story isn't a single headline but a pattern: enterprise AI is maturing into infrastructure, and the companies building that infrastructure are becoming invaluable. Databricks hit a $188 billion valuation—up from $134 billion five months prior—by positioning...

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The day in AI — 16 July 2026

Thursday, 16 July 2026

The open AI ecosystem is finally catching up to proprietary scale. Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter sparse mixture-of-experts model with a 1-million-token context window and native vision, claiming 6.3x faster decoding and outperforming other open models on...

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