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

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

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

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

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

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

Feds demand autonomous vehicle companies stop interfering with first responders

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

With EU backing, QuantumDiamonds aims to speed up chip manufacturing

Autonomous drone delivery startup Manna plots major US expansion

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

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

This startup thinks robotics is about to have its ChatGPT moment

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

Google Photos adds a new AI ‘Video Remix’ tool

Why this CEO thinks video games make better training data than the internet

Meta wants its AI glasses to seem less creepy. Its AI strategy says otherwise.

OpenAI releases new voice models for more natural live conversations

Crypto VC firm Paradigm raises $1.2B to invest in ‘technical frontier’ startups

Prime Intellect raises $130M Series A to help enterprises build their own AI agents

Another massive data breach exposed millions of driver’s license numbers

These AI startups are growing revenue at faster and faster rates

Solo GP Ashley Smith announces second $25M fund to back startups in AI, security and more

Apple to produce Made in America wireless chips with Broadcom

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

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

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

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

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

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

Final extension: Startup Battlefield Australia applications now close July 20

Meta just launched a new AI generator, Muse Image, and users are already pushing back over use of their photos

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

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

Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images

Google’s Pixel event is set for August 12

Figma acquires team behind a vibe-coding app

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

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

Claude Cowork expands to mobile and web

X adds a video editor to encourage creators to post original content, not stolen reposts

VC firm Chemistry is raising $500M for its second fund

AI law startup Norm raises $120M, hits unicorn valuation

This startup pits dealerships against each other to bid on your used car

Hacktivists call out Trump by hacking and defacing US Army websites

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

The first American autonomous ground vehicles are fighting in Ukraine

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

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

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