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Daytona is building a cloud for agents that's like giving every agent its own computer. It has attracted founders of Stripe, Perplextity, Datadog, Mercor and others as angels, it says.
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Top-funded fusion startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems received an $85 million award from the federal government to advance conductors for fusion power plants.
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Early-stage and follow-on investors in the AI lab are already sitting on major paper returns.
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Quest is the latest in a series of healthcare technology companies that have been hacked in recent months.
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Oura alleges in its newest lawsuit that Ultrahuman's Ring Pro infringes two of its patents.
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inDrive plans to begin testing spr.ly/6016BHw3wo's robotaxis in Kazakhstan's capital in the first half of 2027.
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MIT researchers marooned 13 AIs on a virtual island, and they responded by inventing games, mourning a lost ring and, eventually, getting better at their jobs.
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A newly launched stock class being offered was partially engineered to help Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg pay the "billionaire's tax," should the measure be voted into law.
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Warhound, the brain child of Ben Lamm and Palmer Luckey, emerges from stealth to genetically engineer dogs for military and law enforcement.
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The digital asset unit, helmed by Chris Dixon, broadens its scope.
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Should OpenAI command an over $1 trillion valuation with this round, it would break records as the mostly highly valued private company ever.
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Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.
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At this year’s Disrupt, Lovable GTM lead Luke Arno, Polska’s Ben Broca, and Theory Ventures’ Tomasz Tunguz gave founders some tips on how to achieve true sales success in the first 90 days.
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Arc was fiercely beloved by a dedicated group of enthusiasts, but it never quite became the mass-market Chrome alternative its makers once envisioned.
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OpenAI is launching its decision model to the world. Can it compete with the original Jev?
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The new feature allows agents to log into a customer's personal accounts while still protecting the private credentials that secure those accounts.
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Canva is making its new image model available to all users, promising better, more customizable performance at lower costs.
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Microsoft’s new AI diagnostic system beat generalist doctors on hard cases, according to a study in Science. But most of the improvement seems to come from the AI models underneath, not from Microsoft’s system itself.
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The new startup raised a $215 million round led by Lightspeed.
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