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Mercury’s CEO formalizes bets on early-stage founders with a $26M fund Mercury co-founder and CEO Immad Akhund today announced the launch of a $26 million fund to back early-stage startups,…

Google launches new initiative to back startups building AI On Monday, Google announced the launch of its AI Futures Fund, a new initiative that seeks to invest in startups that…

Saudi prince launches AI venture as Trump, Musk, Altman, and Zuckerberg arrive for conference Saudi Arabia’s ruler, Mohammed bin Salman, launched an AI company called Humain to bolster the country’s…

Sam Altman apparently does not respect olive oil OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is using his olive oil inefficiently in an “offense to horticulture,” the Financial Times humorously reports. For its…

OpenAI’s Stargate project reportedly struggling to get off the ground, thanks to tariffs OpenAI’s ambitious Stargate data center project is facing delays thanks to tariff-related economic uncertainty, reports Bloomberg. Growing…

GM taps Aurora co-founder for new chief product officer role General Motors has turned to Sterling Anderson, a veteran of the autonomous vehicle industry, to oversee its entire product line…

Google’s Gemma AI models surpass 150M downloads Google’s openly available Gemma collection of AI models has reached a milestone: over 150 million downloads. Omar Sanseviero, a developer relations engineer at…

InventWood is about to mass produce wood that’s stronger than steel The material has 50% more tensile strength than steel with a strength-to-weight ratio that’s ten-times better. The material has…

This American VC is betting on European defense tech; that’s still very unusual VCs are known to move in herds, which is why Eric Slesinger stands out a bit. While…

Apple reportedly plans to hike prices of upcoming iPhones Apple is planning to increase the prices of its iPhone lineup set to launch this autumn, though it is trying not…