Julie Bort
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Palmer Luckey Stays in California Despite Wealth Tax
Billionaire Palmer Luckey vows to fight California's proposed wealth tax, not leave state.
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Anduril and Qualcomm build US-made laptop
Anduril and Qualcomm announce BlueChip, a hardened laptop designed for government use with 90% US and allied-country components, aiming eventually for 100% domestic manufacturing.
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Microsoft warns enterprises: AI agents are insider threats
Microsoft says frontier AI models cannot be trusted and launches Guardian Agents to monitor the AI systems companies deploy.
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Google and Amazon challenge Nvidia's AI chip dominance
Google and Amazon release PyTorch versions for their own chips, trying to break Nvidia's grip on AI development.
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OpenAI buys Orchestra Bio to expand biotech AI
OpenAI acquires AI drug-discovery startup Orchestra Bio and folds its team into Rosalind, its life sciences research model.
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Ancient PHP flaws found by AI, threatening millions of websites
OpenAI and Wiz discovered critical vulnerabilities in PHP using AI tools. The holes have existed since 2004 and affect roughly 70% of the internet.
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Year-old AI lab Flapping Airplanes raises $1B at $6B valuation
Flapping Airplanes, founded by a Neuralink alum and Stanford PhDs, raises $1 billion Series A to build AI systems that need far less data to train.
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AI leaderboard Arena doubles valuation to $3.1B
The UC Berkeley research project turned startup raised $200 million in Series B funding, nearly doubling its value in ten months as enterprises seek alternatives to gaming-prone benchmarks.
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PrismML's tiny AI arrives on Qualcomm smart glasses
Caltech-founded startup brings compressed language models to Snapdragon-powered wearables, offering on-device AI without relying on cloud services.
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Databricks acquires Row Zero, plans more deals
Data platform Databricks bought spreadsheet startup Row Zero and signalled an aggressive acquisition strategy for 2026.
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Anthropic's AI finds enzyme hidden in virus DNA
The company's biology lab, operating for months, says Claude discovered a gene-editing system similar to CRISPR in just 21 hours.
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Bessemer raises $5.75B for AI investing spree
The veteran VC firm doubles down on artificial intelligence with its largest fund yet, betting the technology will reshape business faster than any previous wave.
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a16z launches school to rival Silicon Valley dropouts
Andreessen Horowitz is betting that structured tech training beats the dropout path for aspiring founders.
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AI safety claims are getting wilder than reality
Two viral AI safety stories show how hard it is to separate plausible-sounding fears from actual risks.
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Anthropic's wet lab tests AI biology theories in real experiments
The AI safety company is running physical biology experiments to validate its models' disease-fighting potential, raising questions about its dual focus on safety and capability.
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Angle Health hits $2.7B valuation with $200M Series C
Y Combinator insurance tech startup raises major funding round without AI focus, proving non-AI startups can still command big valuations.
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PrismML's tiny AI models could reshape how we use AI
A Caltech startup is compressing powerful AI models down to smartphone size without losing performance.
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Musk's backer gives away $8.5B in SpaceX stock
Valor Equity Partners transfers massive SpaceX holdings to investors instead of selling.
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Jensen Huang rejects new AI rules
Nvidia’s CEO says AI safety belongs with engineers and market pressure, not new regulation.
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The startup auditing AI agents before banks buy them
Two brothers-in-law raised $55M to certify whether your AI agent will leak data, hallucinate, or break under a jailbreak.
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Hackers Are Hijacking Claude Accounts to Steal AI Tokens
Cybercriminals are harvesting session keys with infostealer malware to drain expensive Claude AI allowances from unsuspecting subscribers.
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Enterprise AI ARR Is No Longer a Guarantee
Low switching costs and constant vendor re-evaluations mean AI startups can no longer rely on traditional SaaS revenue moats.
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