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Chamath’s AI coding startup 8090 raises $135M, and he’s CEO

Salesforce led the Series A, which 8090 announced this week. The pitch behind it is blunt. AI can already write code. The hard part is stopping enterprise software from falling apart as dozens of agents and engineers change it every week. TechCrunch first reported the round, and the company confirmed the details. The investor list […]

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AI shopping just beat search at its own game on Prime Day

Amazon built Prime Day to keep shoppers inside its own marketplace. This year, AI shopping sent its best customers in from outside: a chatbot made the recommendation. US shoppers spent a record $26.4bn across retail sites during the four-day Prime Day event, according to Adobe Analytics. The more interesting number is not the total. It […]

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Meta is telling engineers to handle Claude Code and Codex with care

Meta wants its own AI coding tools. To get there, it is telling its engineers to be careful with the rival tools they lean on today. Meta has placed strict limits on how engineers in its applied AI division use Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex, The Information reported. The worry is inadvertent distillation. One […]

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Marc Andreessen says ChatGPT beats 99% of doctors. The evidence says no

Marc Andreessen has a bold new claim about your health. The billionaire investor says “Doctor ChatGPT” is already a better doctor than 99% of human ones. Doctors, and the peer-reviewed evidence, strongly disagree. Andreessen made the remark on Joe Rogan’s podcast in early June. The New York Post clipped the line, and it spread fast […]

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US House passes kids online safety package, setting up a Senate fight

After years in which children’s online safety bills passed the Senate and then died quietly in the House, the House moved first this time, and immediately reopened the argument that has stalled the effort for half a decade. On Monday it passed a sweeping youth online safety package by 267 to 117, the first time […]

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Google’s GV bets $30M on a stock exchange for space

The space industry can build rockets. Moving money around them is the hard part. A new startup called Nebex wants to fix that, and Google’s venture arm is backing it with $30mn. GV, formerly Google Ventures, led the seed round, Bloomberg reported. Nebex also opened a banking relationship with JP Morgan. The company is the […]

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Straiker raises $64M to secure the AI agents running your company

AI agents are pouring into companies, and most security tools were never built to watch them. Straiker wants to fix that. The startup has just raised $64mn to police a workforce that does not clock in. The Series A was revealed first by Axios. It takes the Mountain View company’s total funding to $85mn. Marathon […]

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The Supreme Court just made it harder for police to track your phone

Your phone keeps a minute-by-minute diary of where you go. The US Supreme Court has now ruled that police cannot simply demand it. In a major win for digital privacy, the court said geofence searches need a warrant. The 6-3 decision lands on a practice that has quietly spread through US policing. When investigators have […]

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NASA hired a startup to catch its falling telescope

Swift has watched the sky since 2004, catching some of the universe’s biggest explosions. Now it is sinking, and time is short. NASA is paying Katalyst Space Technologies about $30mn to save it, the Associated Press reported. Liftoff could come as early as Tuesday. The plan sounds simple and is anything but. Reach a satellite […]

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Flock’s surveillance cameras are spreading fast across the US

Most people call them automated licence plate readers, or ALPRs. They sit beside roads and log every car that passes. Flock Safety dominates the market. Engadget reports that Flock makes the vast majority of the 100,000-plus readers now blanketing the US. Calling them licence plate readers undersells them. Reading plates is the main job, but […]

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