Joyce Shen’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, August 3, 2026

📌 Musings and Readings

“Why did OpenAI's and Anthropic's AI models hack other companies?” (Link)

“Deploying Kimi K3 on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and Amazon EKS” (Link)

“CEO of AI firm Hugging Face calls last month's hack by OpenAI model "very weird and unprecedented" (Link)

“Is paying artists enough to convince them to embrace AI?” (Link)

“Janesville becomes an AI data center battleground” (Link)

👏 Deals

Andrenam, a CA-based defense tech company developing autonomous maritime sensing and surveillance systems, has raised $18m in series A funding. 

Kausable, a Heidelberg, Germany-based AI research startup developing a reasoning-first, causality-based AI solution, has raised €12m in seed funding.

Scape, a Stockholm, Sweden-based AI startup providing an intelligent work assistant solution, has raised $3.2m in seed funding.

Beelzebub, a Milan, Italy-based company building AI-native cybersecurity, has raised €3m in seed funding.

Enigma, a CA-based robotics AI startup developing a hardware-agnostic AI platform, has raised $71m in seed funding.

Telli, a Berlin, Germany-based AI voice automation startup for customer service, has raised $15m in seed funding.

Pilot Protocol, a CA-based decentralized AI infrastructure startup, has raised $4.5m in seed funding.

Curant.ai, a St. George, UT-based company offering an AI insurance tech solution, has raised $3.1m in seed funding.

Credible Data, a Boulder, CO-based company providing an AI data infrastructure solution, has raised $10m in seed funding.

Mirae, a London, UK-based digital health startup for precision care, has raised $5.4m in funding. 

CopySight, a CA-based company developing an AI-native IP risk solution, has raised $3m in seed funding.

Polar, a CA-based company building the AI-native workspace solution, has raised $5.7m in seed funding.

Pangram, a NYC-based AI research lab developing the trust infrastructure for the AI economy, has raised $9m in funding.

Vector Legal, a CA-based law firm building the AI-native legal services solution, has raised $5.19m in seed funding.

Discern Security, a CA-based cybersecurity company developing the AI intelligence layer for security operations, has raised $13m in series A funding.