Daily AI Pulse

July 15, 2026. Archived briefing: what moved across AI news, the model leaderboard, GitHub repos, and funding on this day.

3 stories 6 movers 6 rising repos 4 funding rounds generated 23:35 UTC
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The US is advancing AI safety through state and federal action
OpenAI has proposed a "reverse federalism" approach to AI governance in the United States. Under this framework, state laws would serve as building blocks to construct a national framework for AI regu
OpenAI Blog · Industry
Vint Cerf joins Innovation Labs to develop open standard for AI agent identification
Vint Cerf is now advising Innovation Labs, a subsidiary of Identity Digital (a DNS registry company), on creating open architecture for AI agents to identify themselves. Innovation Labs has proposed D
TechCrunch · Industry
OpenAI researcher Miles Wang in talks to launch AI drug discovery startup at $2B valuation
OpenAI researcher Miles Wang is in talks to launch an AI drug discovery startup, with several other OpenAI researchers expected to join. He is reportedly seeking to raise approximately $200 million at
TechCrunch · Startups
Leaderboard MoversFull rankings →
Hy3 preview▼ -18
#39 · tencent179B
GPT-5.6 Luna▲ +9
#51 · OpenAI111B
GPT-5.6 Sol▲ +7
#35 · OpenAI211B
Grok 4.5▲ +6
#32 · xAI240B
Claude Fable 5▲ +4
#21 · Anthropic382B
GLM 5▲ +4
#25 · Z.ai359B
Movement compares stored daily leaderboard snapshots, 2026-07-14 vs 2026-07-15, top 60 by OpenRouter token volume.
Rising ReposAll repos →
OpenCut-app/OpenCut
The open-source CapCut alternative
TypeScript · 69,141 stars
+2,919
Graphify-Labs/graphify
AI coding assistant skill (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and more). Turn any folder of code, SQL schemas, R scripts, shell scripts, docs, pa
Python · 86,329 stars
+1,662
Shubhamsaboo/awesome-llm-apps
100+ AI Agent & RAG apps you can actually run — clone, customize, ship.
Python · 120,753 stars
+1,192
HKUDS/Vibe-Trading
"Vibe-Trading: Your Personal Trading Agent"
Python · 22,824 stars
+1,114
Nutlope/hallmark
Anti-AI-slop design skill for Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex.
CSS · 6,115 stars
+1,008
hasaneyldrm/exercises-dataset
1,324-exercise fitness dataset — animation GIFs, 180×180 thumbnails, muscle-group & equipment data, and step-by-step instructions in 6 languages. The exerci
HTML · 13,484 stars
+893
Star growth measured between stored snapshots, 2026-07-14 vs 2026-07-15.
FundingAll deals →
Rime Series A
TechCrunch · 2026-07-15 · view source →
$24M
Emergent Series C
TechCrunch · 2026-07-15 · view source →
$130M
Overtone
TechCrunch · 2026-07-14 · view source →
$18M
IM8
Investors: General Catalyst
TechCrunch · 2026-07-14 · view source →
$1B
Amounts are shown only when verified verbatim in the linked source, never estimated.
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