By Ellie McDonald Everywhere you look, venture headlines imply that seed rounds have meaningfully changed shape. Yann LeCun raised $1 billion for a company that didn’t exist a week earlier. Project Prometheus launched with $6.2 billion out the gate. Unconventional AI hit $475 million two months after founding. It’s easy to read those headlines and…
Across 101 enterprises, agent orchestration is consolidating onto model-provider platforms — Anthropic’s Claude leads by a wide margin — chosen for the gravity of the underlying model and judged on reliable multi-step execution. But the ambition runs well ahead of the reality: most deployed “agents” are still chatbot wrappers, the control plane enterprises expect is…
The Official Trump (TRUMP) meme coin team may deploy up to 9.6% of total supply, roughly 96 million tokens worth about $150 million at current prices, over the coming months. TRUMP trades 98% below its January 2025 peak of $73.43. That potential deployment equals about 40% of the token’s 237 million circulating supply and nearly…
William Blair slashed earnings estimates by 34% and held its Outperform call. But analysts think Bitcoin’s chart may already be answering the bigger question. Source: decrypt.co Read Full Story
The Elon Musk-owned xAI is suing a South Carolina man who allegedly used the company’s Grok AI chatbot to generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM). In a lawsuit reported earlier by Reuters, xAI claims Terry Wayne Harwood “knowingly and intentionally used Grok to circumvent safeguards, alter nonconsensual images, and generate and distribute CSAM,” breaching the…
“Increasingly in our world, it gets harder and harder to know what is real,” Lorde said on stage. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story
Demis Hassabis says artificial general intelligence is only a few years away and proposes a new U.S. standards body to test frontier AI models before release. Source: decrypt.co Read Full Story
Bitcoin approached $65,000 on July 14 as a sharper-than-expected slowdown in US inflation weakened the case for another near-term Federal Reserve interest rate increase. Data from CryptoSlate showed that BTC rose as high as $64,832 once the report landed, gaining about 4% from its intraday low and coming within $200 of a threshold it has…
DeepSeek, the Chinese large language model developer, is said to be preparing for a 2027 IPO debut as it also looks to raise around $1.5 billion in new funds at a $71 billion valuation. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story
The startup enables corporate users to use stablecoins while connecting to traditional banking rails and compliance systems. Source: www.theblock.co Read Full Story