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Travis Kalanick's robotics startup Atoms raised $1.7B led by a16z, with Uber and others participating; Ben Horowitz will join the startup's board (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
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A Florida teenager drops his lawsuit accusing Meta of creating harmful social media features, following settlements with co-defendants TikTok, Snap, and YouTube (New York Times)
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Yope, a social network that has ~15M registered users for its "micro communities" and no algorithms, ads, or public content, raised $12.3M seed led by Northzone (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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Sources: Cathedral, launched by ex-DOGE staffers to use AI to expand US military cyber capabilities, raised $160M led by a16z and Sequoia at a $1.4B valuation (David Jeans/Reuters)
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Genius AI, formerly GlossGenius, which pivoted from a salon management platform to offer AI tools for service SMBs, raised a $44M Series D at a $1.15B valuation (Emma Hinchliffe/Fortune)
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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)
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Arcee, which develops open-weight models in the US, partners with the Department of Energy to build Genesis-Science-1, an open model for scientific research (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
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A US judge dismisses Google's lawsuit against web scraping service SerpApi, saying plain and aggregated search results are not protected under copyright law (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Roundtable)
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White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios says Moonshot AI "acquired GB300-equipped servers and has accessed GB300s in Thailand, likely to train its AI models" (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)
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Meta names Assaf Keren, a former chief security officer at Qualtrics and a former CISO at PayPal, as its next CISO, succeeding Guy Rosen, who will leave in 2026 (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
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OpenAI introduces OpenAI Presence to help companies better connect AI agents to their internal systems and automate customer support, sales, and other tasks (Business Insider)
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White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios says "we have information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic's Fable for the development of its K3 model" (Director Michael Kratsios/@mkratsios47)
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Xbox expands its backward compatibility program to PC, starting with four classic original Xbox games, offering 4X resolution scaling, V-Sync support, and more (Jez Corden/Windows Central)
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Filing: Monday.com plans to cut 20% of its workforce, or ~600 employees, in H2 2026 to "support a leaner, more focused operational model" as it invests in AI (Martin Peers/The Information)
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Sources: Apple is set to debut new versions of every Mac, including long-awaited iMac updates, a revamped MacBook Pro, and a new Neo, across the fall and 2027 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)