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Cashea, Venezuela's largest fintech startup that offers a banking and payments app, raised a $40M Series A, including $20M in debt, and a $60M Series B (Maria Clara Cobo/Bloomberg)
Maria Clara Cobo / Bloomberg : Cashea, Venezuela's largest fintech startup that…
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OpenAI says its models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and "an even more capable pre-release model", breached Hugging Face while OpenAI tested their cyber capabilities (Ina Fried/Axios)
Ina Fried / Axios : OpenAI says its models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and “an even more…
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Poolside launches Laguna S 2.1, an 118B open-weight model built for agentic coding and long-horizon work, that it says competes with larger open models (Iain Martin/Forbes)
Iain Martin / Forbes : Poolside launches Laguna S 2.1, an 118B open-weight model bu…
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Substack partners with AI-detection tool Pangram, allowing users to scan text longer than 100 words for an estimate of how much was written with AI assistance (Chris Best/The Substack Post)
Chris Best / The Substack Post : Substack partners with AI-detection tool Pangram, …
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Natural, which aims to help companies let their AI agents make autonomous payments, raised a $30M Series A led by Forerunner, bringing its total raised to $40M (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch : Natural, which aims to help companies let their AI age…
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Anduril and Archer unveil an autonomous aircraft platform designed for commercial and military uses, along with an autonomous attack rotorcraft called Thunder (Reuters)
Reuters : Anduril and Archer unveil an autonomous aircraft platform designed for co…
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Hugging Face says an agentic AI system hacked its data pipeline, accessing several internal clusters and credentials; its own AI-based triage caught the breach (Hugging Face)
Hugging Face : Hugging Face says an agentic AI system hacked its data pipeline, acc…
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Moonshot AI pauses new subscriptions, saying that over the past two days Kimi K3 demand nearly passed the limit of its capacity, and also reworks its plan tiers (@kimi_moonshot)
@kimi_moonshot : Moonshot AI pauses new subscriptions, saying that over the past two…
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As many companies cut AI costs by using cheaper models, some, like Shopify, go all-in on frontier models, barring engineers from using anything else (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal : As many companies cut AI costs by using cheaper m…
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Kalshi and Polymarket bets on the FIFA World Cup final top $5.69B; Dune Analytics says total wagers on the platforms surpassed $50B for the first time in June (Lauren McCarthy/New York Times)
Lauren McCarthy / New York Times : Kalshi and Polymarket bets on the FIFA World Cup…
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A look at AI's potential impact on insurance-coverage decisions like prior authorization as the Trump admin starts to pilot using AI to evaluate Medicare claims (Joshua Cohen/Ars Technica)
Joshua Cohen / Ars Technica : A look at AI's potential impact on insurance-cove…
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Permit hurdles push up costs for AI data centers; Oracle pivoted from gas turbines to costlier fuel cells for its Project Jupiter in NM, costing billions more (Ann Davis Vaughan/The Information)
Ann Davis Vaughan / The Information : Permit hurdles push up costs for AI data cent…
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Prediction market political betting on insider info spreads in DC; sources: WH lawyers raised alarms over anonymous Polymarket bets on the Iran ceasefire timing (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal : Prediction market political betting on insider info spreads i…
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Sources: OpenRouter has discussed a potential sale to a bigger tech company that could value it at billions of dollars, a premium to its $1.3B valuation in May (The Information)
The Information : Sources: OpenRouter has discussed a potential sale to a bigger te…
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Apple raises the price of Apple Music, with the individual plan up by $1 to $11.99, and some Apple One bundles, the first price hike for Apple Music since 2022 (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac : Apple raises the price of Apple Music, with the individua…
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