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Decart’s Lucy 2.5 unlocks new live video effects, but physical AI is the real winner

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Artificial intelligence startup Decart continues to stretch the boundaries of what’s possible with the release of its latest live video model, Lucy 2.5, introducing real-time streaming visual effects capabilities for the first time. The startup claims that Lucy 2.5 is unique in its ability to generate AI VFX continuously, on the fly, and embed them […]

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Alibaba says Qwen3.8 is the world’s No.2 AI model. It has shown no proof.

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Days after a rival Chinese lab shook Silicon Valley, Alibaba has fired back. The company previewed Qwen3.8, its most powerful model yet, and made a bold claim: it trails only one model on Earth. Alibaba unveiled the model at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai. Its Qwen team said on X that Qwen3.8 is […]

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The Company Brain and the Future of Go-to-Market Strategy

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Founders eagerly bought into the promise of autonomous agents over the past year, and software usage skyrocketed across the industry as teams rushed to adopt the latest tools. Despite this massive investment in new technology, sales pipelines remained completely flat. This is the ultimate paradox facing modern revenue teams today. The average business-to-business go-to-market team […]

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a16z is backing Runta, a startup that wants to ‘parent’ your AI agents

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AI agents can now book travel, write code and spend money on your behalf. That power is also the problem. A new startup called Runta has raised $20 million to keep those agents from doing damage. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led the round, which values Runta at more than $100 million, The Information reported. ‘Parenting’ AI […]

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French startup Syntetica raised $30M to recycle the nylon fashion throws away

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A French startup has raised $30 million to tackle one of fashion’s hardest waste problems. Syntetica recycles nylon, and it can process two grades at once that the industry has long struggled to pull apart, its founder told TechCrunch. The Ecotechnologies 2 fund, managed by France’s public bank Bpifrance, led the round, worth €26.1 million. […]

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AI was supposed to kill the travel agent. Instead it just minted a billion-dollar one.

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Fora, a platform that lets ordinary people become travel agents and gives travellers a way to find them, has raised a $60m Series D at a $1bn valuation led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures. It has 15,000+ advisors (97% new to the profession) who have booked over $3bn in travel, an accelerating curve. Fora is […]

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Volkswagen enters the robotaxi race with a shared shuttle service in Hamburg

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Volkswagen’s autonomous mobility subsidiary Moia has begun offering rides in self-driving ID Buzz vans to preregistered residents in Hamburg, marking the first time a major European automaker has launched an autonomous passenger service on its home continent. Up to five vehicles are operating at initial launch, with the fleet expected to expand to 10, and […]

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Oracle is one notch above junk after S&P downgrade as AI data-centre spending burns through cash

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S&P downgraded Oracle to BBB- on July 9, placing the company one notch above junk status, as a $250 billion data-centre expansion plan burns through cash faster than revenue can replace it. Oracle is now the second-largest non-financial debt issuer in the Bloomberg US Corporate Bond Index after Amazon, with $117 billion outstanding. Shares fell […]

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GameStop’s Ryan Cohen calls physical game sales ‘totally irrelevant’ and pivots every question back to eBay

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GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen dismissed the decline of physical video game sales as “totally, totally irrelevant” to the company’s business in an interview on Bloomberg TV on Thursday. Cohen was responding to Sony’s announcement earlier this month that it will end physical disc production for new PlayStation games in 2028. “It doesn’t matter at all,” […]

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Visa launched a stablecoin platform that sent Circle shares tumbling six percent

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Visa launched the Visa Stablecoin Platform on Thursday, a new infrastructure product that lets banks and payment processors issue, manage, and settle stablecoin transactions through Visa’s network. The platform launches with native support for Open USD, the stablecoin backed by a consortium of more than 140 firms including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and BlackRock. Jack Forestell, […]

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