Daily AI CatchupAI Catchup — Sunday, July 19, 2026
Sunday, July 19, 2026Databricks
Databricks Raises ~$3B at a $188B Valuation to Double Down on Enterprise AI Infrastructure
Up from $134B in February — funding Unity AI Gateway, Genie, and Lakebase.
H-CompanyH Company's Holo3.1 Hits 74.2% on Desktop Computer-Use Tasks, Running Locally at 140ms
Runs on a 12GB consumer GPU — practical local, private computer-use automation.
GoogleGoogle Renames NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, Adds Cloud Code Execution
30 million users and 600,000+ organizations, now folded fully into the Gemini brand.
CognitionCognition Offers Startups $65K in Credits to Build Their Entire Codebase With Devin
A land-and-expand bet: start AI-native, and you won't want to go back.
ManusManus Ships typst-pdf-maker, Turning Plain Prompts Into Print-Ready PDFs
Skip the LaTeX wrestling — a plain-language prompt becomes a polished, ready-to-share document.