Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M
The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI’s biggest use case. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story
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Stocks Just Topped Crypto on Hyperliquid. ARK Says That Changes Everything
For the first time, real-world assets—stocks, commodities, and market indices—outpaced crypto on the world’s biggest decentralized derivatives exchange. Source: decrypt.co Read Full Story
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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Physical AI Startup Atoms Leads In Varied Week For Large Deals
Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2026 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding deal…
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Midjourney bought the astrology app Co-Star
Midjourney, which has gone from generating AI cat images to full-body ultrasound scans, is getting into a new field: astrology. The AI startup announced on Thursday that it has acquired the personalized astrology app Co-Star, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. Co-Star is a free app that offers daily horoscopes and allows you to check your…
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Senate Dems should accept the victory they won on Trump’s crypto limits: White House
U.S. Senate Democrats got President Donald Trump to accept potential limits on his lucrative crypto dealings, but they say the Clarity Act’s restrictions aren’t enough. Source: www.coindesk.com Read Full Story
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Microsoft launches new in-house AI models it says cut costs up to 89% versus OpenAI
Microsoft AI released two new in-house models into public preview on Wednesday — MAI-Image-2.5-Pro, its highest-fidelity image generator to date, and MAI-Voice-2-Flash, a speech model built for high-volume enterprise workloads — while publishing production data that amounts to the company’s most aggressive argument yet that it can power its own products without leaning on OpenAI’s…
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Brent Crude Oil Price Could Surge to $100 After Iran’s Red Sea Attack
The Brent crude oil price climbed to a six-week high near $96 on Thursday after Iran-backed Houthi forces struck two Saudi tankers in the Red Sea. The attacks pose a second threat to global supply beyond the Strait of Hormuz. Brent has gained more than 10% this week after a 17.35% surge last week. The…
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AMD takes on Nvidia with its Helios AI rack-scale system
AMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this year. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story
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Bitcoin treasury company erases 7.7M shares after selling 177 BTC – yet Bitcoin per share fell
Smarter Web sold 177.89 Bitcoin to repay an $11.7 million convertible instrument that could have produced 7.72 million new shares. The July 23 repayment disclosure said the UK-listed Bitcoin treasury company completed the sale at an average price of $65,762 about two weeks before the instrument’s maturity. Each share ended the transaction with less Bitcoin….
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How AI helps scientists design the next generation of medicines
Designing and developing a new medicine is an expensive, failure-prone scientific challenge. A new drug can take many years to develop, at the cost of a significant investment. And even then, most possible candidates never reach the patient. For biologic medicines, therapies made from engineered proteins rather than synthetic chemistry (which are often used to…
