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PitchBook: US venture funding hit $412.7B in H1 2026, up 30% on all of 2025, with AI startup funding accounting for 86%, or $355.9B; Q2 saw seven $1B+ rounds (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

PitchBook: US venture funding hit $412.7B in H1 20...

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Anthropic, set to add usage-based billing for Fable 5 on July 12, aims to return the model to Claude's subscription plans "when sufficient capacity allows" (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

Anthropic, set to add usage-based billing for Fabl...

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The EU Parliament advances a bill letting tech companies scan for CSAM, reviving a proposal rejected in March, with an exemption for E2EE services like WhatsApp (Sam Clark/Politico)

The EU Parliament advances a bill letting tech com...

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OpenAI is discontinuing ChatGPT Atlas, its standalone desktop browser, in favor of the new ChatGPT desktop app (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

OpenAI is discontinuing ChatGPT Atlas, its standal...

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Sources: AI contractor marketplace Mercor is discussing raising new funds at a roughly $20B valuation, less than a year after raising money at a $10B valuation (Bloomberg)

Sources: AI contractor marketplace Mercor is discu...

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OpenAI merges Codex and ChatGPT desktop apps for Mac and Windows under a new ChatGPT desktop app, allowing users to switch between Codex, Chat, and Work (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)

OpenAI merges Codex and ChatGPT desktop apps for M...

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GPT-5.6 Sol costs $5 per 1M input tokens and $30 per 1M output tokens, GPT-5.6 Terra costs $2.50 and $15, and GPT-5.6 Luna costs $1 and $6 (OpenAI)

GPT-5.6 Sol costs $5 per 1M input tokens and $30 p...

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OpenAI broadly releases GPT-5.6, and launches ChatGPT Work, an AI agent that can gather context across apps and files to create documents, on Mac and Windows (Axios)

OpenAI broadly releases GPT-5.6, and launches Chat...

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Microsoft President Brad Smith says the US now has AI "regulation without transparent or complete rules" and "businesses can't plan" without rules (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)

Microsoft President Brad Smith says the US now has...

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Kraken Technology, which designs and builds autonomous maritime platforms, such as uncrewed subsurface vessels, raised a $175M Series B at a $1B valuation (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)

Kraken Technology, which designs and builds autono...

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Bun creator says he rewrote Bun from Zig to Rust using a pre-release version of Claude Fable 5 in 11 days; the task would've taken three engineers about a year (Jarred Sumner/bun.com)

Bun creator says he rewrote Bun from Zig to Rust u...

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Character.AI launches three human-written, AI-generated microdramas, whose characters users can chat with, and aims to eventually let users make their own shows (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Character.AI launches three human-written, AI-gene...

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Muse Spark 1.1 costs $1.25 per 1M input tokens and $4.25 per 1M output tokens; Alexandr Wang says coding and agentic tasks were key focuses (Ina Fried/Axios)

Muse Spark 1.1 costs $1.25 per 1M input tokens and...

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Meta launches a Meta Model API, whose pricing Zuckerberg says will be "aggressive and attractive" at ~25% of the cost of OpenAI and Anthropic models (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

Meta launches a Meta Model API, whose pricing Zuck...

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Meta releases Muse Spark 1.1, capable of more advanced coding and a "step-change" from the first generation, available to US developers via a public API preview (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

Meta releases Muse Spark 1.1, capable of more adva...

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European startups raised $24B in Q2, up 66% YoY and the strongest quarter in four years; UK startups raised $10.4B, above Germany's $3.2B, and France's $2.4B (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)

European startups raised $24B in Q2, up 66% YoY an...

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Anthropic launches a "reflection" dashboard in beta for Free, Pro, and Max users to track Claude usage patterns over 1-, 3-, 6-, or 12-month intervals (Anthropic)

Anthropic launches a "reflection" dashboard in bet...

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Databento, which sells financial data feeds, raised a $97M Series B led by NEA, taking its total funding to $127M, and says it is "profitable every month" (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)

Databento, which sells financial data feeds, raise...

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