A VC-turned-founder just raised $5 million to solve the problem that social media made you lonelier. Bond, a new social app from ex-VC Dino Becirovic and former Meta engineer Hanxin Jin, raised $5 million in seed funding to build what they're calling "anti-feed" social media.
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The moment an AI agent improvised a solution its creator never programmed is the moment chatbots became something else entirely.
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The trial that could force OpenAI to reverse its entire corporate transformation starts jury selection in six days. Elon Musk's fraud case against Sam Altman and OpenAI goes to trial April 27, claiming Altman deceived him into donating $38 million by promising OpenAI would stay nonprofit
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Enterprise AI has a 95% failure rate, and it's not because the tech doesn't work—it's because companies are using a Swiss Army knife to replace a power grid.
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Europe's AI underdog just told you exactly how the agent economy actually gets built. Mistral AI's CRO says the French startup has evolved into a full-stack company, with revenue driven by large enterprises deploying customized models across industries
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The moment you ask ChatGPT a question, your intent just became an ad targeting category. StackAdapt, OpenAI's ad partner, is now selling ChatGPT ad placements targeting users based on the specific prompts they type, according to a leaked sales deck
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Apple just chose a hardware engineer to lead it into an era where the hardware might not matter anymore. Tim Cook steps down September 1, replaced by John Ternus, Apple's hardware engineering VP since 2001 who oversaw iPad, AirPods, iPhone, Mac, and Apple Watch development.
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Jeff Bezos is about to raise $10 billion for an AI lab you've never heard of, and Wall Street's biggest players are writing the checks. Project Prometheus, Bezos's stealth AI venture, is closing a $10 billion funding round at a $38 billion valuation with backing from BlackRock and JPMorgan
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Jeff Bezos is about to drop $10 billion on AI models that understand physical reality, not just text on a screen. Bezos is finalizing a $10 billion funding round for an AI startup building models that comprehend the physical world
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The DOJ just blinked on media M&A, and AI is the reason why. A senior DOJ official said antitrust enforcement in media needs "cautious humility" as AI and streaming reshape the industry
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The pick-and-shovel play is alive and well in the AI gold rush, and it just went public in Hong Kong for $2.6 billion. Victory Giant Technology, a Chinese supplier to Nvidia, raised $2.6 billion in Hong Kong's biggest IPO in seven months, marking a major bet on the AI infrastructure buildout
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Meta just poached three more engineers from Mira Murati's $12 billion startup, bringing the total raid to eight people in under a year. Meta hired two founding members and one senior researcher from Thinking Machines Lab, Mira Murati's AI startup that raised $2 billion last year
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Amazon just bought itself a seat at the AI safety table for $5 billion, with another $20 billion in the chamber and a $100 billion cloud lock-in attached. Amazon invests $5B in Anthropic with rights to deploy up to $20B more, while Anthropic commits to $100B in AWS spending over ten years
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Amazon just went from Anthropic's biggest investor to something that looks a lot more like owner. Amazon is putting another $5 billion into Anthropic, with plans to scale that to $20 billion total over time
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France summoned Elon Musk over Grok's deepfake problem and he ghosted them. French prosecutors investigating Grok for generating explicit deepfakes and Holocaust denial content summoned Musk, who didn't show
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The AI layoff wave just got a name: 8% of all job cuts this year now cite "AI efficiencies" as the reason, and the gap between hype and reality is starting to show.
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The same legal standard that protects clients from bad lawyers is about to force the entire profession into the AI era, whether they like it or not. Lawyers face potential malpractice liability if they fail to adopt AI, due to fiduciary duty requirements that demand "competent representation"
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We optimized ourselves into machines, and now the machines are here to show us how it's done. Svetlana Makarova, AI product leader at IKS Health, calls it the "humanity discount": human traits like variability and emotion are becoming workplace liabilities as AI sets new consistency standards.
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Hyatt just put ChatGPT Enterprise in the hands of 130,000+ hotel workers worldwide, and the real story isn't the lobby chatbot. Hyatt deployed ChatGPT Enterprise across its global workforce, leveraging GPT-5.4 and Codex to boost productivity and operations
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Four people built an AI calorie tracker, scaled to millions in revenue, and sold to MyFitnessPal in 18 months—without venture capital, without a big team, and by doing one thing faster than everyone else.
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