Startups & FundingOpenAI
OpenAI proposed donating 5% of its equity to a US sovereign wealth fund
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has proposed donating 5% of the company's equity to a U.S. sovereign wealth fund, reviving...
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AI AgentsAnthropic
NVIDIA BioNeMo accelerates Anthropic Claude Science
Anthropic has launched Claude Science, an AI workbench that integrates NVIDIA's BioNeMo Agent Toolkit to accelerate...
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Startups & FundingMicrosoft
Microsoft launches its own AI deployment company with $2.5 billion commitment
Microsoft announces a new AI deployment company with a $2.5 billion commitment, following similar moves by Amazon,...
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Startups & Funding
Nvidia is bankrolling AI startups to loosen Big Tech's grip on its chip business
Nvidia is actively investing in and funding AI startups to increase competition in the chip market and reduce Big...
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AI Agents
AI agents can now complete 16 percent of freelance jobs at pro quality, up from 2.5 percent eight months ago
AI agents have dramatically improved their capability to complete freelance work at professional quality, increasing...
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Personal AssistantsGoogle
Google brings TikTok-style video shorts to NotebookLM
Google has expanded NotebookLM with a new feature that generates TikTok-style short-form videos from content in the...
The Decoder
AI AgentsAnthropic
Yep, we’re using OpenClaw to date now
Ben Guez created an automated script using Claude (OpenClaw) and Instagram to generate potential matches for dating...
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Startups & Funding
Crunchbase Data: Global Startup Investment Hit Record $510B In H1 2026 As AI Boom Accelerates Funding And Exits
Global startup investment reached a record $510B in H1 2026, with Q2 2026 being the second-largest quarter on record at...
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Ethics & RegulationOpenAI
OpenAI reportedly offers the Trump administration a five percent stake in the company
OpenAI is reportedly offering the Trump administration a five percent stake in the company, though the details of what...
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Ethics & RegulationOpenAI
OpenAI floats giving Trump administration 5 percent cut of AI boom
OpenAI has proposed giving the US government a 5 percent ownership stake, valued at approximately $42.6 billion based...
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Healthcare AIGoogle
The Google Health API Got a CLI: ghealth is an Open-Source Tool for Your Fitbit Air Data
Google Health API now has an open-source CLI tool called ghealth, a Go binary that exposes 40 health data types as...
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Startups & Funding
Indian tech tycoon bets $30M of his own money to build AI alternative to Microsoft Office
Indian tech entrepreneur Bhavin Turakhia is investing $30 million of his own money into Neo, an AI-powered alternative...
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LLM
Using Lift to Turn Research PDFs into Structured JSON with Controlled, Schema-Guided Field-Level Evaluation
This tutorial demonstrates a complete PDF-to-JSON extraction workflow using Lift, a language model tool optimized for...
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LLMAnthropic
Anthropic Redeploys Claude Fable 5 on July 1 After US Export Controls Lift, Adds New Cybersecurity Classifier
Anthropic is redeploying Claude Fable 5 on July 1 following the lifting of US export controls. The company has...
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Personal AssistantsxAI
SpaceX shows investors a slim AI smartphone prototype powered by xAI technology
SpaceX unveiled a prototype AI smartphone to investors that is thinner than an iPhone and integrates xAI technology,...
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Personal Assistants
SpaceX has an AI device prototype, and it sure sounds phone-ish
SpaceX demonstrated a prototype AI handset device to investors, suggesting the company may be expanding into the...
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Startups & Funding
Ashton Kutcher leaving Sound Ventures to launch new VC firm with Morgan Beller
Ashton Kutcher is leaving Sound Ventures to launch a new venture capital firm with Morgan Beller, focusing on AI...
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Ethics & Regulation
You Can Now Sound the Alarm on AI Behaving Badly
A new website has been launched to allow users to report concerning AI chatbot behavior, such as attempts to provide...
Wired AI
Ethics & Regulation
Cloudflare’s new policy pushes AI companies to pay for publishers’ content
Cloudflare has implemented a new policy requiring AI companies to distinguish between web crawlers used for search...
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