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Blue Origin reportedly raising $10B at $130B valuation

2026-07-08T07:10:45.873-07:00

Blue Origin is raising $10 billion at a $130 billion pre-money valuation from Coatue Asset Management, Bezos himself and other big-name investors, the New York Times reported.

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Venus Aerospace raises $90M Series B to build a new kind of rocket engine

2026-07-08T07:10:45.859-07:00

Build a new kind of rocket engine, and the world will beat a path to your door.

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Venus Williams-backed WeWard can now lock your apps until you hit your steps

2026-07-08T06:10:45.015-07:00

With funding from tennis star and angel investor Venus Williams, the French app WeWard says that it increases walking time by almost 25%.

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Former OpenAI exec Kevin Weil is now on the board of Stoke Space

2026-07-08T05:10:44.301-07:00

Kevin Weil's new role at Stoke Space suggests reusable rockets are the next hot thing in Silicon Valley.

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Hot French startup ZML releases free product to speed inference across lots of AI chips

2026-07-08T01:10:40.975-07:00

ZML, a hot French AI startup endorsed by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, has now released ZML/LLMD, software that could make running AI less costly.

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AI chip maker SambaNova raises $1B at $11B valuation, 5 months after last mega round

2026-07-08T00:40:40.415-07:00

AI chip maker SambaNova has raised at an $11B valuation months after Intel was rumored to be trying to buy it for about $1.6 billion.

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Meta rolls out Muse, a new AI image generator

2026-07-07T15:40:33.195-07:00

The new image-generating model has numerous use cases, including advertising, decorating and creator-based opportunities.

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Final extension: Startup Battlefield Australia applications now close July 20

2026-07-07T15:40:33.111-07:00

If you're building something ambitious, this is a fast track to the people who can move your startup forward.

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Microsoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models

2026-07-07T13:10:31.043-07:00

Microsoft is the latest Silicon Valley giant to cut back on its AI spending.

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Why the rise of open source AI isn’t hurting Anthropic … yet

2026-07-07T13:10:31.043-07:00

Open-source models’ success isn’t coming at the expense of frontier labs. Instead, they each seem to capture two phases of the same life-cycle.

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Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images

2026-07-07T12:40:30.276-07:00

Discord has acknowledged that a bug in its AI moderation system mistakenly banned more than 8,000 users over the past two months, after harmless images—including spreadsheets, chessboards, game textures, as well as white and gray transparent backgrounds—were incorrectly flagged as harmful content. The company confirmed that the issue had been affecting accounts since May, with […]

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Figma acquires team behind a vibe coding app

2026-07-07T11:40:29.929-07:00

The Y Combinator-backed company started a vibe coding platform and later built an agent creation product.

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Google’s Pixel event is set for August 12

2026-07-07T11:40:29.883-07:00

Google's upcoming event in August will introduce new Pixel devices.

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Netflix dabbles in shorter video content with its new set of publisher deals with Variety, others

2026-07-07T10:40:29.135-07:00

Netflix is bringing 2- to 20-minute videos to its platform through new partnerships with digital publishers, including Rolling Stone and Variety.

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Hacked, leaked, and held for ransom: The worst breaches of 2026 so far

2026-07-07T10:10:28.816-07:00

From a massive DOGE data breach and the hacking of critical energy and water systems to the hack of an FBI surveillance system, here are the most damaging security incidents and data breaches of 2026.

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Claude Cowork expands to mobile and web

2026-07-07T09:40:28.644-07:00

Anthropic’s Claude Cowork is now available on web and mobile for Max subscribers. Until now, Cowork largely lived on a user’s laptop. With the update, users can start a task from their desk, get status updates on their phone, and pick up the finished output later — even if their laptop is closed.

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Hacktivists call out Trump by hacking and defacing US Army websites

2026-07-07T06:10:22.735-07:00

The U.S. Army has fixed two of its websites that were hacked to display messages calling President Trump a "pedophile" and a "thief."

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Savi’s app aims to protect consumers from realistic AI scams like kidnappers demanding ransom

2026-07-07T05:10:21.931-07:00

The company just raised $7 million in seed funding, and is launching its app for iPhone and Android on Tuesday.

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The first American autonomous ground vehicles are fighting in Ukraine

2026-07-07T02:10:19.471-07:00

Forterra has deployed more than 100

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Netflix invented binge-watching. Now it may have outgrown it.

2026-07-06T18:10:11.908-07:00

A new report suggests Netflix viewers aren’t sticking around for Season 2. The bigger issue may be that binge-watching itself is no longer the advantage it once was.

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The ‘first’ AI-run ransomware attack still needed a human

2026-07-06T17:10:11.194-07:00

An AI agent carried out the technical execution of a real-world ransomware attack for the first known time, but new details show a human still chose the victim, set up the infrastructure, and supplied stolen credentials — meaning it wasn't quite the fully autonomous cybercrime debut that last week's headlines suggested.

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US investors will soon get access to SK Hynix, another memory maker riding the AI boom

2026-07-06T16:40:10.399-07:00

SK Hynix is experiencing a boom credited to AI. It will ride that to a multi-billion dollar US IPO, expected to take place on Friday.

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Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch on the fight to split off models from agents

2026-07-06T13:10:07.741-07:00

"The reality is, when you're optimizing for production, you start looking at a price/performance," Guillermo Rauch tells TechCrunch.

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You can now customize Siri’s pace and expressivity in the latest iOS 27 beta

2026-07-06T12:10:07.190-07:00

The new controls let you control how quickly Siri speaks and expressive its voice is.

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The running list: major tech layoffs in 2026 where employers cited AI

2026-07-06T11:40:06.528-07:00

A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.

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