Daily AI Pulse

July 22, 2026. Archived briefing: what moved across AI news, the model leaderboard, GitHub repos, and funding on this day.

2 stories 6 movers 6 rising repos 4 funding rounds generated 18:07 UTC
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Top StoriesAll news →
AMD to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic partnership
AMD announced it will invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic as part of a new partnership aimed at expanding the AI company's computing power. Under the agreement, Anthropic will deploy up to 2 gigawatt
The Verge · Industry
Neill Blomkamp's AI-generated zombie short Nightborne draws criticism as 'slop
Director Neill Blomkamp has released a 13-minute AI-generated sci-fi short titled Nightborne through his new company Barley Studios. The film, loosely based on Peter Watts' 2014 novel Echopraxia, depi
The Verge · Industry
Leaderboard MoversFull rankings →
Kimi K3▲ +5
#19 · moonshotai550B
GLM 5▼ -4
#39 · Z.ai172B
Claude Fable 5▼ -2
#23 · Anthropic471B
GPT-5.4▼ -2
#25 · OpenAI410B
GPT-5.6 Luna▲ +2
#32 · OpenAI281B
GPT-5.4 Nano▲ +2
#40 · OpenAI167B
Movement compares stored daily leaderboard snapshots, 2026-07-21 vs 2026-07-22, top 60 by OpenRouter token volume.
Rising ReposAll repos →
OthmanAdi/planning-with-files
Persistent file-based planning for AI coding agents and long-running tasks. Crash-proof markdown plans, session recovery after /clear and compaction, per-turn r
Python · 25,601 stars
+2,633
koala73/worldmonitor
Real-time global intelligence dashboard. AI-powered news aggregation, geopolitical monitoring, and infrastructure tracking in a unified situational awareness in
TypeScript · 65,304 stars
+1,962
diegosouzapw/OmniRoute
Never stop coding. Free MIT AI gateway: one endpoint, 268+ providers (50+ free), 500+ models — Kimi, Claude, GPT, OpenAI, Gemini, GLM, DeepSeek, MiniMax. Works
TypeScript · 23,556 stars
+1,802
mattpocock/skills
Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory.
Shell · 180,402 stars
+1,519
oblien/openship
Self-hosted deployment platform
TypeScript · 6,184 stars
+1,418
tirth8205/code-review-graph
Local-first code intelligence graph for MCP and CLI. Builds a persistent map of your codebase so AI coding tools read only what matters, with benchmarked contex
Python · 24,514 stars
+1,415
Star growth measured between stored snapshots, 2026-07-21 vs 2026-07-22.
FundingAll deals →
Cascade seed
Investors: a16z Speedrun, Ada Ventures, Snowball VC
TechCrunch · 2026-07-22 · view source →
$3.5M
Passionfroot Series A
Investors: Insight Partners
TechCrunch · 2026-07-22 · view source →
$15M
Anthropic Series D
Investors: Menlo Ventures
TechCrunch · 2026-07-22 · view source →
$500M
Bluecore Energy pre-seed
Investors: Slauson & Co
TechCrunch · 2026-07-21 · view source →
$10 million
Amounts are shown only when verified verbatim in the linked source, never estimated.
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