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AI & Tech

Agent Economy Forecasts: What Auditing Reveals

While major firms agree on a ~46% compound annual growth rate for Enterprise Agentic AI through 2030, their market size…

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AI & Tech

Ramp Eyes $60B Valuation 3 Months After $44B

Ramp is negotiating a new funding round that could value the fintech company at approximately $60 billion, marking a significant…

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AI & Tech

Altman Sells Startup Shares Days After AI Warning

Sam Altman promotes the rise of non-technical founders by arguing that advanced AI models have collapsed development costs, enabling individuals…

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AI & Tech

X Replaces Stripe With X Money for US Creator Payouts

X has officially replaced Stripe with its proprietary X Money service for all creator payouts in the United States, mandating…

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AI & Tech

UCP Updates Spec: New Schema Changes Released

The Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) has released a major update that pivots toward grocery shopping and lays the groundwork for…

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Artificial Intelligence

Hugging Face in Talks for $13B Acquisition

Hugging Face is reportedly in discussions for a potential sale valued at $13 billion or higher, reflecting the strategic importance…

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AI & Tech

Who Is Behind Ox Alpha’s New Stealth Model?

The sudden release of Ox Alpha, a new AI reasoning model via OpenRouter, has sparked intense debate regarding its true…

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Artificial Intelligence

Mystery AI model wins developers, but its servers remain unknown

Ox Alpha, an unnamed model with over a million-token context, was stealth-released on OpenRouter last week, free for a week…

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AI & Tech

Ramp unveils AI model router, Router

Ramp launched Router, an AI model routing service that lets users switch between various LLMs via a single API, and…

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AI & Tech

Warp launches out-of-the-box software factory for AI development

Warp launched Warp Factories, an infrastructure platform that provides preassembled agent-based software factories, targeting smaller organizations lacking resources to build…

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Artificial Intelligence

Stripe to acquire AI router OpenRouter in $7B deal

Stripe has reportedly agreed to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model routing platform, for over $7 billion, though neither company has…

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AI & Tech

Synchrony pushes Amazon, Walmart store cards into ChatGPT

Synchrony Financial is partnering with OpenAI to enable purchases directly within ChatGPT, aiming to eliminate the need for shoppers to…

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AI & Tech

PayPal ends sales refusal – now regulators decide its fate

PayPal has shifted from rejecting takeover offers to actively negotiating a potential sale, as reported by The Wall Street Journal…

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BigTech Companies

PayPal sale talks with Stripe, Advent intensify

PayPal CEO Enrique Lores' revitalization strategy may culminate in a corporate sale, as acquisition talks with Stripe and Advent International…

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AI & Tech

Josh Kushner raises $2B to acquire AI-disrupted firms

Thrive Holdings raised over $2bn in its first external funding round at a $12bn valuation, led by SoftBank, D1 Capital,…

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AI & Tech

Naïve raises $28.5M to automate company setup and ops

Naïve, a startup offering AI-agent infrastructure for automating business operations, has attracted over 30,000 developer customers and raised $28.5 million…

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AI & Tech

Google eyes $1.5B deal for 35-person AI coding startup

Google is in advanced talks to acquire talent and technology from Mechanize, a 35-person AI startup, in a deal valued…

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AI & Tech

Ex-Nubank founders raise $85M for AI wealth adviser Decade

Two former Nubank executives, Vitor Olivier and Felipe Meneses, raised $85 million,the largest seed round in Latin American history,to launch…

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AI & Tech

Robinhood launches fund for Y Combinator startups – anyone can invest

Robinhood is launching Robinhood Ventures Fund II (ticker RVII), offering 7.6 million shares at $25 each on the NYSE, with…

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AI & Tech

AI Hedge Fund Sheds Public Portfolio, Holds Anthropic Stake

Former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund, Situational Awareness, sold most of its public stock holdings to Ken Griffin's Citadel…

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