Almost 90 new unicorns have been minted so far this year — here they are
With AI igniting an investor frenzy, more startups are achieving unicorn status every month.
AI News Brief — 5 July 2026
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Google just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think.
For a quarter century, the Google search box has been one of the most recognizable interfaces in computing: a thin white rectangle, a blinking cursor, a few typed words, and a list of blue links. On Tuesday, Google will formally retire that paradigm. At its annual I/O developer conference , Google announced a sweeping redesign of the search box itself — the literal text field where billions of queries begin every day — transforming it from a simple keyword input into a dynamic, AI-driven conversation starter that can accept text, images, PDFs, videos, and even open Chrome tabs as inputs. The company is also merging its AI Overviews and AI Mode features into a single, seamless search flow, eliminating the friction that previously forced users to choose between a traditional results page and an AI-forward experience. Liz Reid, Google's vice president and head of Search, called it "the biggest upgrade to our iconic search box since its debut over 25 years ago" during a press briefing on Monday. The announcement arrived alongside a blizzard of other news — new Gemini models , a personal AI agent called Spark , an intelligent shopping cart , a reimagined developer platfor
Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure
Railway , a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, announced Thursday that it raised $100 million in a Series B funding round, as surging demand for artificial intelligence applications exposes the limitations of legacy cloud infrastructure. TQ Ventures led the round, with participation from FPV Ventures , Redpoint , and Unusual Ventures . The investment values Railway as one of the most significant infrastructure startups to emerge during the AI boom, capitalizing on developer frustration with the complexity and cost of traditional platforms like Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud . "As AI models get better at writing code, more and more people are asking the age-old question: where, and how, do I run my applications?" said Jake Cooper, Railway's 28-year-old founder and chief executive, in an exclusive interview with VentureBeat. "The last generation of cloud primitives were slow and outdated, and now with AI moving everything faster, teams simply can't keep up." The funding is a dramatic acceleration for a company that has charted an unconventional path through the
Claude Science is Anthropic’s newest flagship product
At an event for pharmaceutical executives, biotech founders, and researchers on Tuesday, Anthropic announced Claude Science, a major new product intended to support scientific research in the same way that Claude Code supports software engineering. Like Claude Code, Claude Science can autonomously carry out meaningful work when given concise, high-level instructions, and it has access…
How ChatGPT adoption has expanded
New OpenAI Signals data shows how ChatGPT adoption is growing globally, with users increasing usage, exploring more capabilities, and driving growth across regions and languages.
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Safari’s New MCP Server Enables AI Debugging For SEO And CWV via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Apple's WebKit announced a new MCP server for Safari that enables AI-based website debugging for SEO and Core Web Vitals. The post Safari’s New MCP Server Enables AI Debugging For SEO And CWV appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
Google Put AI Visibility Inside The SEO Tool On Purpose via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic
Google filed AI visibility under search. Stop treating it as a separate workstream with its own budget and its own quarterly report. The post Google Put AI Visibility Inside The SEO Tool On Purpose appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
Should I Block AI Crawlers Or Measure Their Value First? – Ask An SEO via @sejournal, @HelenPollitt1
AI bots drain server resources and scrape IP, but blocking them risks invisibility in LLM answers. Here is how to decide. The post Should I Block AI Crawlers Or Measure Their Value First? – Ask An SEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
Attorney-General's Dept backs Copilot Chat, Google NotebookLM
As sanctioned AI tools.
AWS to create division of 'embedded' AI engineers
To sit in customer organisations and fast-track AI deployments.
Vocus to invest $500 million in new fibre builds
Targets locations suitable for AI workloads.