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Decart’s Lucy 2.5 adds live video effects, but physical AI steals the show

Decart's Lucy 2.5 enables real-time AI-generated visual effects in live video, allowing creators to add Hollywood-level effects like fireballs and…

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CuspAI partners with Nvidia and Meta to advance AI materials

CuspAI launched the AI Materials Foundry, a coalition of over 45 companies including Nvidia, Meta, and Samsung, to pool data…

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The Company Brain: Redefining Go-to-Market Strategy

The primary obstacle to AI-driven revenue growth is fragmented data storage across an average of 23 vendor tools, not the…

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Face AI upgrades video face swap with faster processing, better tracking

Face AI rolled out a major upgrade to its video face swap feature, improving facial tracking, expression preservation, and scene…

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Spanish satellite startup Sateliot seeks €150M for direct 5G to smartphones

Sateliot is targeting a €150 million fundraising round, a 50% increase from its April announcement, to fund the deployment of…

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Stripe x Startup Battlefield: What Australian founders need to know before applications close

Applications for the Stripe x Startup Battlefield pitch competition close July 20, 2026, with eight startups selected to pitch live…

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Polymarket’s Corporate Structure Puzzles Former Employees

Polymarket's use of a Panamanian operation as part of its corporate structure is seen by former staff as an odd…

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Fora Travel’s AI bet pays off with unicorn status

Fora, a platform enabling everyday people to become travel agents, raised a $60 million Series D at a $1 billion…

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Pebble founder: 30-day warranty built on trust

Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky emphasizes that "trust" in the product and company is more important than the controversial "30-day warranty",…

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Google-backed wildfire detection satellites launch as smoke blankets US, Canada

The first three operational FireSat satellites, backed by Google, launched on July 7, 2026, marking the constellation's initial operational capability…

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Game Clones Surge as AI Tools Speed Up Piracy

Indie developer Freya Holmér's innovative rotating Tetris concept was rapidly cloned using AI coding tools, with multiple imitations appearing in…

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How to win pre-seed funding with conviction and storytelling

AI startups are absorbing a large share of seed funding, forcing pre-seed founders to meet seed-stage expectations, even without a…

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a16z Leads $20M Seed Round in AI Agent Startup Runta

Andreessen Horowitz led a $20 million seed round for Runta, a startup building infrastructure to prevent autonomous AI agents from…

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Network School founder warns Malaysia tech goals at risk from immigration probe

Malaysian authorities launched an immigration investigation into Balaji Srinivasan's Network School, challenging his vision of a decentralized, borderless "network state."…

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Lululemon invests in Syntetica’s $30M nylon recycling round

Syntetica, a French startup, closed a $30 million Series A round to scale its nylon recycling technology, with Lululemon joining…

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DoorDash delivery now available via command line

DoorDash launched a limited beta of dd-cli, a command-line interface enabling developers and AI agents to search stores, find deals,…

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Former DeepMind researcher raises $300M pre-seed before launching product

Former Google DeepMind researcher Andrew Dai raised a $55 million seed round at a $300 million valuation for his AI…

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Fireworks secures $1.5B to build specialized AI

Fireworks raised $1.5 billion at a $17.5 billion valuation to champion the vision that every company will build its own…

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SWISSto12 secures $70M for sovereign space infrastructure

SWISSto12 raised $70 million while turning a profit, a rarity in the satellite industry, and secured an additional $84.8 million…

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Sequoia backs Sable’s $45M bet on AI-led product demos

Sable has raised $45 million from Sequoia Capital and 8VC to develop Aidan, an AI "employee" that conducts live product…

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