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- 2018 - 2025
21-year-old MIT dropouts raise $32M at $300M valuation led by Insight
Karun Kaushik and Selin Kocalar weren’t planning to raise a Series A so soon. Their AI compliance startup, Delve, which announced a $3 million seed round in January, was growing fast and signing cust…
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Thu 24 Jul 2025
Serial spyware founder Scott Zuckerman wants the FTC to unban him from the surveillance industry
The spyware maker was banned from the surveillance industry in 2021, but was caught flouting the ban less than a year later. Now the founder wants the ban lifted altogether.
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Wed 23 Jul 2025
A surveillance vendor was caught exploiting a new SS7 attack to track people’s phone locations
The new SS7 bypass-attack tricks phone operators into disclosing a cell subscriber's location, in some cases down to a few hundred meters.
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Wed 23 Jul 2025
Starbase injury rates outpace rivals as SpaceX chases its Mars moonshot
SpaceX has been moving at breakneck pace, rapid progress comes at a cost. Worker injury rates at its Starbase facility are almost six times higher than the average, data reveals.
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Tue 22 Jul 2025
OpenAI launches a general purpose agent in ChatGPT
OpenAI announced the launch of ChatGPT agent, which the company claims to be its most capable AI agent product yet.
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Tue 22 Jul 2025
Hadrian raises $260M to build out automated factories for space and defense parts
Hadrian wants to revolutionize American manufacturing through automation.
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Mon 21 Jul 2025
Uber partners with Nuro, invests $300M into Lucid to launch upscale robotaxi service
Uber is investing hundreds of millions of dollars into Lucid and autonomous vehicle technology startup Nuro in a bid to launch its own robotaxi service.
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Mon 21 Jul 2025
Google rolls out AI-powered business calling feature, brings Gemini 2.5 Pro to AI Mode
The new business calling feature uses AI to call local businesses on your behalf, for information about availability and pricing.
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Fri 18 Jul 2025
A former OpenAI engineer describes what it’s really like to work there
A senior engineer describes the thrill, chaos, and exhaustion of working at OpenAI this past year while launching its coding agent Codex.
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Fri 18 Jul 2025
Chinese authorities are using a new tool to hack seized phones and extract data
Researchers warned that Chinese residents, and visitors to China, should be aware of the tool's existence and the risks it poses.
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Thu 17 Jul 2025
ParadeDB takes on Elasticsearch as interest in Postgres explodes amid AI boom
ParadeDB built a Postgres extension that facilitates full-text search and analytics on Postgres without the need to transfer data.
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Thu 17 Jul 2025
Rivian taps Google to bring custom maps into its EVs and app
Atmo will use its deep learning models to help Rainmaker identify clouds that have potential for seeding.
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Wed 16 Jul 2025
Can an ‘ethical’ spyware maker justify providing its tech to ICE?
Analysis: In calling itself an ethical spyware vendor, Paragon has opened itself up to scrutiny of its government customers.
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Wed 16 Jul 2025
AI coding tools may not speed up every developer, study shows
Software engineer workflows have been transformed in recent years by an influx of AI coding tools, but However, a new study calls into question the extent to which today's AI coding tools enhance pro…
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Tue 15 Jul 2025
Diligent Robotics hires two notable Cruise alumni to its leadership team
Diligent Robotics hired Cruise's former chief operating officer and former head of AI and robotics into c-suite positions.
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Tue 15 Jul 2025
Medium’s CEO explains what it took to stop losing $2.6M monthly
Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine announced on Friday that the publishing platform has remained profitable since August of last year, when it first achieved this milestone.
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Mon 14 Jul 2025
Google brings its AI-powered marketing tools to India after ‘Google tax’ repeal
Google has launched a suite of its AI-powered advertising tools in India, which debuted in the U.S. in May, as the repeal of the so-called “Google tax” has made the South Asian market more attractive…
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Mon 14 Jul 2025
LGND wants to make ChatGPT for the Earth
LGND has raised $9 million to convert geographic data into vector embeddings to power AI models that understand the Earth.
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Fri 11 Jul 2025
Mastodon’s latest update readies the app for Quote Posts, revamps design
Mastodon, the open source, decentralized social network offering an alternative to Elon Musk’s X and Meta’s Threads, is rolling out a number of updates with Tuesday’s release of Mastodon 4.4.
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Fri 11 Jul 2025
Bookshop.org mocks Jeff Bezos wedding invite in anti-Prime Day promo,
The independent online bookseller Bookshop.org took a swipe at Amazon to celebrate the start of Prime Day, Amazon’s annual sale (which, despite its name, is actually four days this year). Like many o…
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Thu 10 Jul 2025
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