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Startups from the pre-ChatGPT era face a reckoning in private markets; PitchBook: half of US unicorns haven't raised in three years, 220+ are "fallen unicorns" (Hugh Son/CNBC)

Startups from the pre-ChatGPT era face a reckoning...

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Alphabet is raising $80B in equity offerings, including a $10B investment deal with Berkshire Hathaway, to help raise money for its AI spending plans (Nick Turner/Bloomberg)

Alphabet is raising $80B in equity offerings, incl...

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HPE reports Q2 revenue up 40% YoY to $10.7B, vs. $9.74B est., Server revenue up 33%, forecasts revenue for FY26 and FY27 above est.; HPE jumps 30%+ after hours (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

HPE reports Q2 revenue up 40% YoY to $10.7B, vs. $...

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Gigascale Capital, a climate tech VC firm co-founded by former Meta CTO Mike Schroepfer, closed a $250M fund to back early-stage startups supporting the AI boom (Michelle Ma/Bloomberg)

Gigascale Capital, a climate tech VC firm co-found...

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Researchers find several packages in the @redhat-cloud-services npm namespace shipped malware targeting credentials for GitHub Actions, AWS, GCP, and others (Rohan Prabhu/Step Security Blog)

Researchers find several packages in the @redhat-c...

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Hackers say they used Meta's AI support chatbot to...

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Source: Salesforce has a stake in Anthropic worth ~$5B; Salesforce first invested about $50M in an early 2023 round and has continually invested in rounds since (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Source: Salesforce has a stake in Anthropic worth ...

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IBM shares jump 9%+ after a six-month old video of Trump praising CEO Arvind Krishna was recirculated on X; IBM had surged ~40% in a little over two weeks (Matthew Griffin/Bloomberg)

IBM shares jump 9%+ after a six-month old video of...

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Stockholm-based Endra, which automates the design of plumbing and electrical wiring in new buildings, raised $50M led by a16z (Lucinda Shen/Axios)

Stockholm-based Endra, which automates the design ...

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Anthropic says it has confidentially filed for an IPO, joining OpenAI and SpaceX in preparing to go public this year (Mike Isaac/New York Times)

Anthropic says it has confidentially filed for an ...

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Anthropic says it has confidentially filed for an IPO with the SEC (Anthropic)

Anthropic says it has confidentially filed for an ...

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New York City-based Mecka AI, which trains robots with human data sourced from body sensors and iPhones, raised $60M, including a $25M Series A (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

New York City-based Mecka AI, which trains robots ...

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Sekai, which lets users create mini apps through text prompts, raised a $20M Series A co-led by Khosla Ventures and Connect Ventures, after a $6M seed in 2025 (Kerry Flynn/Axios)

Sekai, which lets users create mini apps through t...

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Box says it created 13 new AI-focused roles, like AI architect and AI solutions manager, and plans to grow its staff to 3,000 by early 2027, up from 2,900 (Kalley Huang/New York Times)

Box says it created 13 new AI-focused roles, like ...

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Bernie Sanders says the wealth AI creates "must benefit humanity", calling for a sovereign wealth fund that would hold ownership stakes in the top AI companies (Bernie Sanders/New York Times)

Bernie Sanders says the wealth AI creates "must be...

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Sources: at Build, Microsoft plans to unveil a Copilot "super app", a new reasoning AI model developed by Microsoft AI, and lots of Windows developer features (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Sources: at Build, Microsoft plans to unveil a Cop...

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Florida AG James Uthmeier sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, seeking to hold Altman personally liable for deceptive trade practices, negligence, and public nuisance (NBC News)

Florida AG James Uthmeier sues OpenAI and Sam Altm...

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Strava is adding a $11.99 monthly fee for developer API access and moving public profiles and fitness club listings behind authentication to combat AI scraping (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Strava is adding a $11.99 monthly fee for develope...

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