Browser Agent With $700M Backing Poised to Dominate Web Automation
browser agent: Hark launches Handoff, a browser-use AI agent backed by $700M in Series A funding that automates complex web tasks end to end.
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browser agent: Hark launches Handoff, a browser-use AI agent backed by $700M in Series A funding that automates complex web tasks end to end.
Google DeepMind removes Demis Hassabis from daily management, shifting him to research as its flagship Gemini model remains unreleased.
SpaceX spent $18.4 billion on Q2 capital expenditures, mostly on AI, sending shares lower despite 92% revenue growth and lifting Nvidia demand.
Sol Preview launched August 5 with GPT-5.6 gains in coding and cybersecurity, as agent security test failures raise safety concerns.
AI Compute firm CoreWeave plans three Indonesian data centers totaling 360 MW, marking its first major Asia-Pacific infrastructure push.
AMD posted 50% revenue growth and doubled data center sales in Q2 2026, but shares fell after results only narrowly cleared Wall Street’s lofty expectations.
Google’s official July 2026 AI recap lists more than 100 announcements spanning Gemini, Search, Cloud, and hardware, showing how the company ships AI across.
6B Model: Liquid AI’s LFM2.5-2.6B runs on a single phone chip and beats models up to 18B parameters on key benchmarks, reshaping the edge AI deployment race.
Safety Benchmarks show Mistral’s 3B Shieldstral beats models up to 7x larger, putting local multimodal moderation in developers’ hands.
OpenAI published internal message logs on August 3 to publicly dismantle Apple’s lawsuit, calling the litigation baseless and correcting claims about its.