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Fidji Simo steps down from OpenAI’s no. 2 role

July 9, 2026 by kamal

OpenAI’s No. 2 executive, Fidji Simo, is stepping down from her full-time role after her medical leave proved longer than expected — a leadership vacuum that comes at a tricky time as the company eyes a possible IPO and races to catch Anthropic in the enterprise market.

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OpenAI launches its new family of models with GPT-5.6

July 9, 2026 by kamal

OpenAI’s latest family of models promise improvements across a range of areas, including cybersecurity.

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An AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100 million fundraise

July 9, 2026 by kamal

Lyzr, a startup that builds AI agents for enterprises, used its own AI agent to raise a $100 million round — proof, evidently, that the product actually works.

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OpenAI is shutting down Atlas, but its AI browser ambitions are still growing

July 9, 2026 by kamal

OpenAI is sunsetting its AI-powered browser after less than a year. But it’s moving some agentic browsing features to its desktop app and a Chrome extension. 

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Elon Musk praises Mythos/Fable, promises not to ‘cut off’ Anthropic

July 9, 2026 by kamal

Should Anthropic trust Elon Musk to host its models? With about $40 billion in revenue at stake, Musk insists that the company can.

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Can AI answer the $3 trillion question?

July 9, 2026 by kamal

The AI ROI debate has returned and the numbers are even bigger, as are, perhaps, the consequences.

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Meta enters the crowded AI coding battle with Muse Spark 1.1

July 9, 2026 by kamal

Meta’s new Muse Spark 1.1. will go up against similar products offered by Anthropic and OpenAI.

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Charles Hudson shares the common mistakes he’s seen after investing in 500+ startups

July 9, 2026 by kamal

In this week’s episode of Build Mode, Isabelle Johannessen talks with Precursor Ventures’ Charles Hudson about the headwinds facing early-stage founders today and the most common mistakes founders should avoid in order to get funded. 

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New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial

July 9, 2026 by kamal

News publishers say OpenAI hid tools and datasets that could identify copyrighted journalism in ChatGPT outputs, escalating their lawsuit with a new motion for sanctions.

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Slate Auto teams up with Crayola to color its EV truck

July 9, 2026 by kamal

Slate has an answer for owners who have always want to drive a truck with bright crayon colors.

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FanDuel sent a video from star athlete Bryce Harper to a customer with a gambling problem

July 9, 2026 by kamal

The video call highlights the murky relationship between professional athletes and gambling apps.

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Meta’s new AI chips will begin production in September

July 9, 2026 by kamal

The company is taking a modular approach to designing these chips, anticipating that their needs will change as AI evolves rapidly by the time the chips are in production.

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Nvidia is a victim of the compute marketplace it created

July 9, 2026 by kamal

Having proven how valuable compute can be, the company finds itself at the center of a market everyone wants to be in — while simpler technologies and less interesting companies get rich on the sidelines.

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Block reaches $45M settlement with 46 states over Cash App fraud probe

July 9, 2026 by kamal

State attorneys general said they found that Block misled users by falsely advertising that Cash App provided bank-like protections, including advanced fraud detection.

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Anthropic’s new Claude feature is quietly selling you on AI

July 9, 2026 by kamal

Claude’s new Reflect dashboard doesn’t just visualize how you use AI. It also subtly reinforces how much of your daily work now depends on Anthropic’s chatbot.

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Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are bigger than the last 25 years of tech exits

July 9, 2026 by kamal

Three big AI IPOs are set to generate more value than all the U.S. VC backed exits since 2000.

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Popular open source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M, grows to nearly 9M users

July 9, 2026 by kamal

Benchmark-backed Ollama has amassed 176,000 stars, and nearly 17,000 forks on GitHub by helping developers easily run AI on their PCs.

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Character.AI enters the microdrama arena with its own productions, but there’s a twist

July 9, 2026 by kamal

In an interesting twist that takes advantage of the company’s core product, users can chat with these shows’ characters, ask them questions, and even roleplay different storylines.

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Nandan Nilekani leaves GP role at Fundamentum as it launches $200M third fund

July 9, 2026 by kamal

Nilekani remains Fundamentum’s anchor investor as the firm expands its leadership team and targets AI and fintech startups in India.

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Truecaller clashes with India’s telecom regulator over anti-spam rules

July 9, 2026 by kamal

The caller ID company says users are increasingly ignoring and blocking calls from India’s dedicated business number series.

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Despite ‘misgivings,’ judge approves Elon Musk’s $1.5M SEC settlement

July 8, 2026 by kamal

The saga of Musk’s tussle with the SEC over how he disclosed his growing stake in Twitter (now X) has come to an end.

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Lovable reportedly in talks to double its valuation to $13.2B

July 8, 2026 by kamal

The $300 million round is expected to be led by Menlo Ventures, Sifted reported.

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Feds demand autonomous vehicle companies stop interfering with first responders

July 8, 2026 by kamal

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said emergency scenes are not “edge cases.”

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Google’s deepfake detector system used to debunk McConnell hoax pic

July 8, 2026 by kamal

Earlier this week, a picture that seemed to show Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell covered in tubes in a hospital bed in a state of extreme distress. It turned out to be an AI-generated fake.

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With EU backing, QuantumDiamonds aims to speed up chip manufacturing

July 8, 2026 by kamal

Like its U.S. counterpart, the European Chips Act aims to foster the semiconductor industry — in part thanks to state subsidies. One of the beneficiaries is QuantumDiamonds, a German startup that applies a novel approach to inspecting chips.

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Autonomous drone delivery startup Manna plots major US expansion

July 8, 2026 by kamal

Manna is launching a U.S. operations and manufacturing facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that will eventually employ 1,000 people.

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SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.5, which Elon describes as an ‘Opus-class model’

July 8, 2026 by kamal

Elon Musk’s tech company released the newest version of Grok on Wednesday, promising a cheaper, more efficient alternative to other powerful AI models.

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‘Slow-cial’ app Roost forces you to slow down to the speed of a carrier pigeon

July 8, 2026 by kamal

This developer didn’t expect his side project to grow to 300,000 users, but people love Roost because it’s an alternative to an always-on, fast-paced online culture.

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Elon Musk says X will send DMs when posts you’ve engaged with are corrected

July 8, 2026 by kamal

X plans to send users direct messages when posts they’ve liked, replied to, or reposted receive Community Notes, an update aimed at addressing criticism that the platform’s crowdsourced fact-checking system often arrives too late to curb misinformation.

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Google Photos adds a new AI ‘Video Remix’ tool

July 8, 2026 by kamal

The feature can do things like apply cinematic relighting to brighten up a dark clip, swap out a plain background for something fun, or add artistic styles to videos.

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