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Sam Altman is ready to decelerate
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says it may be time to pace AI development so society can adapt without regulatory capture.
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OmniPhi Launches Agentic Trading Platform to Give Retail Traders Institutional‑Grade Capabilities
Fintech startup OmniPhi announced a beta launch of its agentic trading platform, integrating AI agents into trading workflows for equities, crypto, FX and commodities.
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As AI content floods the internet, Pangram raises $9M to detect it
New York‑based Pangram secured $9 million to fund its AI‑text and image detection tools, aiming to combat the growing volume of AI‑generated content online.
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Employees at the world’s biggest AI companies are calling for a slowdown in AI development
More than 1,000 AI leaders urged the U.S. government to pace AI progress to allow safety measures to catch up.
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Koto rebrands restaurant discovery app Franki with vibrant typography and playful characters
The design studio Koto unveiled a new visual identity for Franki, aiming to make time feel like a dance.
/Technology
This AI Browser Is Building the Front End for the Dead Internet
Gem Browser, an AI‑powered extension, lets users transform any webpage’s appearance in real time using Gemini 3.5‑Flash Lite.
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Bot‑detection startup Spur nabs $200M from Insight
Cybersecurity startup Spur raised a $200 million round led by Insight Partners to enhance its bot‑detection platform for enterprises.
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Tesla buys the entire output of a new 140 MW Texas solar farm
Tesla has signed a long‑term power purchase agreement to purchase all of the output from a new 140‑MW solar farm in northeast Texas.
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Ultimus launches updated brand to reflect expanded platform
Investment‑services firm Ultimus Fund Solutions unveiled a refreshed visual and verbal identity to mirror its broadened capabilities and integrated approach to fund and asset management.
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Amazon Rethinks Its AI Strategy and Winds Down Many In‑House Models
Amazon is overhauling its AI portfolio, phasing out flagship Nova models and focusing on frontier‑model research.
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Act Security raises $60M to take action against agentic access sprawl at the infrastructure layer
The cloud‑security startup Act Security has secured $60 million to launch an action‑centric platform that protects enterprises from AI‑agent access risks in large‑scale cloud environments.
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PayPal leaves the door open to a higher takeover offer following earnings beat
PayPal’s Q2 2026 earnings beat expectations and the company signaled it remains open to a higher valuation offer, while pushing an AI‑focused turnaround and cloud modernization.
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1inch launches Aqua to the public, introducing the first shared liquidity layer for DeFi
1inch announced the public launch of Aqua, a self‑custodial shared liquidity layer that lets providers use a single wallet balance across multiple positions without locking assets in pools.
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UX Century Launches Self Exclusion — A Free Chrome Extension to Block Online Casinos
We’re excited to announce Self Exclusion, a free Chrome extension from UX Century that blocks 350,000+ casino and betting sites — with a cool-down lock so protection isn’t easy to shut off on impulse.
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'Never advocated a ban': Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei breaks silence on open‑weight AI controversy
Anthropic’s chief executive clarified that the company has not called for a broad ban on open‑weight AI models, while urging U.S. regulators to address Chinese model distillation and safety.
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Apple sued after alleged App Store crypto scam cost users $1.8M
A lawsuit accuses Apple of negligence after a fraudulent crypto wallet app on the App Store caused users to lose over $1.8 million.
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Tesla quietly closes mystery AI acquisition, still no details
Tesla finalized a roughly $2 billion AI hardware acquisition, details remain undisclosed in its Q2 2026 filing.
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Enigma raises $71M to make controlling a robot as easy as adjusting the volume
Multiple robotics companies are tackling one of AI’s hardest problems: building foundation models capable of executing tasks they were never explicitly trained to handle. Enigma, a research lab set to emerge from stealth, wants to study how humans engage with robots to create intuitive interfaces.
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Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence partners with Nvidia to scale its AI research
Safe Superintelligence, the AI lab founded by former OpenAI co‑founder Ilya Sutskever, announced a partnership with Nvidia to access its Vera Rubin GPU platform.
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Introducing MAI-Image-2.5-Pro and MAI-Voice-2-Flash
Microsoft AI launches new high‑fidelity image and voice models that power Bing, PowerPoint and Azure services.