A Philippine Corporate VC Just Backed a California AI Startup. That’s Not a Contradiction.
Kickstart Ventures joined a $9 million Pre-Series A round for California-based Sprouts.ai, part of a deliberate 2026 strategy of selective…
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Washington Is About to Get a 30-Day Veto Over Every Major AI Model Release
The White House is finalizing a voluntary framework with OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic that would give federal agencies up to…
DJI’s New Delivery Drone Just Flew Higher Than Everest. That’s Not a Publicity Stunt, It’s a Product Demo.
DJI's new EV50 cargo drone reached 8,861 meters during a Mount Everest research mission, twelve meters above the summit, demonstrating…
The Rest of the World Just Sold Two Million EVs in a Month. The US Fell Further Behind.
Global EV sales hit two million units in June while US sales remain well below where they stood before a…
Apple Just Lost Its Last Legal Argument Against the EU’s Big Tech Rulebook
The EU General Court dismissed Apple's challenge to its gatekeeper status under the Digital Markets Act on July 8, closing…
The AI Chip Trade Just Had Its Worst Week of 2026, and It Wasn’t Even About AI Demand
A sharp early-July selloff wiped well over a trillion dollars off chip stocks including Micron, Intel and AMD, driven not…
SambaNova Raised $1 Billion to Prove AI Chips Don’t All Have to Come From Nvidia
SambaNova Systems closed the first $1 billion tranche of a Series F at an $11 billion valuation, five months after…
Crypto’s Hottest Funding Category Right Now Isn’t Trading. It’s Infrastructure Nobody Sees.
Late-stage crypto funding surged over 1,000 percent year-on-year even as overall venture dollars declined, with Rain, Alpaca, and EDX Markets…
Michael Saylor’s Company Just Sold Bitcoin. That’s Not Supposed to Happen.
Strategy sold $216 million worth of Bitcoin on July 6 to fund a preferred-stock dividend payment, a small but symbolically…
REE Automotive Is Getting Kicked Off Nasdaq. Its Slow-Motion Collapse Is a Warning for Every SPAC-Era EV Startup.
REE Automotive's shares were suspended from Nasdaq on July 7 after nearly a year of compliance extensions failed to save…
A Startup Wants to Drill Three Miles Into the Earth With Microwaves to Power AI Data Centers
MIT spinout Quaise Energy raised $134 million to commercialize millimeter-wave drilling technology that reaches superhot rock, part of a wider…
A Three-Year-Old Legal AI Startup Just Became a Unicorn by Selling Compliance, Not Contracts
Norm AI raised a $120 million Series C led by Khosla Ventures at a $1.2 billion valuation, betting that the…