Startup news and updates: daily roundup (July 20, 2026)

Startup news and updates: daily roundup (July 20, 2026)

YourStory brings you today’s headlines with the latest developments across sectors Featured stories OpenAI elevates Uday Ruddarraju as CTO for Compute OpenAI has promoted Uday Ruddarraju to Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Compute, as access to large-scale computing infrastructure becomes increasingly critical in the race to build advanced AI models. The appointment comes amid growing…

Tech roundup: Manulife adds three new AI wealth tools

Tech roundup: Manulife adds three new AI wealth tools

After seeing two of its AI tools boost productivity south of the border, Manulife Wealth and Asset Management says it’s planning to roll out the tools here in Canada. The global investment, financial advice and retirement services segment of Manulife Financial Corp. said its U.S. retirement and retail sales AI tools, implemented since last year,…

Money20/20 Europe 2026 News Roundup: Stablecoins, AI Agents Take Center Stage – Fintech Schweiz Digital Finance News

Money20/20 Europe 2026 News Roundup: Stablecoins, AI Agents Take Center Stage – Fintech Schweiz Digital Finance News

Free Newsletter Get the hottest Fintech Switzerland News once a month in your Inbox Money20/20 Europe returned to the Netherlands from June 02 to 04, 2026, drawing a reported 7,600 attendees from more than 100 countries and 2,000 companies to explore the age of agentic AI, the rise of stablecoin-driven infrastructure, and the rapid policy…

2MM: AI Roundup – Roche and NVIDIA’s AI drug discovery factory and surgical robotics foundation model, Amazon’s nationwide health AI expansion, and Brown’s AI therapy ethics warning [March 2026]

2MM: AI Roundup – Roche and NVIDIA’s AI drug discovery factory and surgical robotics foundation model, Amazon’s nationwide health AI expansion, and Brown’s AI therapy ethics warning [March 2026]

A major leap in computational drug development has emerged with Roche’s launch of its global AI factory, powered by more than 3,500 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs. This hybrid-cloud system integrates artificial intelligence across both early-stage drug discovery and downstream manufacturing pipelines. By leveraging NVIDIA’s healthcare AI platform, Roche aims to scale biological modeling at a level…

Event round-up | Future Careers in Emerging Tech

Event round-up | Future Careers in Emerging Tech

Diversity and Inclusion Diversity and inclusion sits at the heart of digital growth. The tech sector understands that innovation thrives from diversity of thought and is continually looking to attract, recruit and retain a diverse workforce. techUK is proud to support a number of initiatives that promote this, from doing outreach work to ensure that…