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Lumin Digital, which provides cloud-based digital banking software to banks and credit unions, raised more than $115M at a $1.6B post-money valuation (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
Ryan Lawler / Axios : Lumin Digital, which provides cloud-based digital banking sof…
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PrismML launches Bonsai 27B, a model based on Qwen3.6 27B that it says runs natively on Apple devices via MLX; its CEO says Apple is evaluating the tech (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC : PrismML launches Bonsai 27B, a model based on Qwen3.6 27…
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A look at Founders Fund-backed State Affairs, which raised $70M and uses AI trained on reporting by its 76 staffers to power a Bloomberg Terminal-like product (Washington Post)
Washington Post : A look at Founders Fund-backed State Affairs, which raised $70M a…
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TerraFirma, a construction tech company founded by two former SpaceX engineers to build remote-controlled construction equipment, raised $115M (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
Samantha Subin / CNBC : TerraFirma, a construction tech company founded by two form…
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Sources: Trump admin and industry groups have discussed streamlining releases of US open models of equal or lesser capability than leading Chinese open models (Benjamin Guggenheim/Washington Post)
Benjamin Guggenheim / Washington Post : Sources: Trump admin and industry groups ha…
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Apple releases the first public betas of iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, watchOS 27, and tvOS 27, marking the public debut of the new Siri AI (Will Shanklin/Engadget)
Will Shanklin / Engadget : Apple releases the first public betas of iOS 27, iPadOS …
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Microsoft announces a Windows 11 search overhaul that prioritizes local results, removes promotional web content, and more, rolling out to Windows Insiders (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
Zac Bowden / Windows Central : Microsoft announces a Windows 11 search overhaul tha…
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Q&A with Xinzhou Wu, head of automotive at Nvidia, on Nvidia's chips and AI models for autonomous driving, lidar's usefulness for Level 4 autonomy, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
Nilay Patel / The Verge : Q&A with Xinzhou Wu, head of automotive at Nvidia, on…
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Memo: Tang Jie, founder of Z.ai, the Chinese lab behind the GLM models, argues frontier AI capabilities should stay "as open and widely accessible as possible" (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : Memo: Tang Jie, founder of Z.ai, the Chinese lab behind the GLM models,…
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Sources: Cursor is building a general-purpose AI agent codenamed Sand, aimed at non-developers, that handles emails, texts, and documents to rival Claude Cowork (Grace Kay/The Information)
Grace Kay / The Information : Sources: Cursor is building a general-purpose AI agen…
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OpenAI, Meta, and SpaceXAI may be able to put pressure on Anthropic by emphasizing cost efficiency, as business customers increasingly scrutinize AI spending (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : OpenAI, Meta, and SpaceXAI may be able to put pressure on Anthropic by …
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Anthropic says it is extending Claude Fable 5 access on all paid plans, as well as keeping Claude Code's weekly rate limits 50% higher, through July 19 (The Economic Times)
The Economic Times : Anthropic says it is extending Claude Fable 5 access on all pa…
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A look at Bending Spoons' hiring process: the company, which owns Vimeo, AOL, and Evernote, received 800,000 job applications last year and made only 286 hires (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)
Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal : A look at Bending Spoons' hiring process: the…
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Current AI market dynamics point to frontier models becoming commodity infrastructure as the token crunch eases, with value shifting to products built on top (Benedict Evans)
Benedict Evans : Current AI market dynamics point to frontier models becoming commo…
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Psychologist Peter Gray argues that school stress, not smartphone use, is the main driver of the teen mental health crisis, challenging Jonathan Haidt's thesis (Kaitlyn Tiffany/The Atlantic)
Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic : Psychologist Peter Gray argues that school stress,…
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