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Sheryl Sandberg has led a $10 million investment into Self Inspection, a San Diego-based startup that is also backed by former Tesla president Jon McNeill’s DVx Ventures. The startup, founded in 2021, has spent the last few years trying to disrupt the vehicle inspection process by making it possible
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Andrew Dai left Google DeepMind knowing visual AI was the frontier he wanted to stake his claim in. He pulled off a whirlwind fundraise that resulted in a more aggressive valuation-to-capital ratio than Thinking Machines, which raised one of the largest rounds in U.S. history. In this episode of
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Consider it a right-to-repair victory that Valve is helping to ensure iFixit will continue to have access to replacement batteries for its Steam Deck LCD handheld. This was not a foregone conclusion after a flurry of reports claimed Valve was sunsetting replacement batteries for the LCD model (not to be
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One of the minds behind Apple’s Face ID wants to point AI at something harder than a face. He wants it to read the brain. His startup, Hemispheric, has come out of stealth with $52M. The Tel Aviv firm calls itself a NeuroAI company, and its pitch is simple.
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Soon the internet will be full of AI agents acting on our behalf. Right now, there is no reliable way to tell who stands behind any of them. Vint Cerf, one of the people who built the internet, wants to fix that. Cerf co-designed TCP/IP, the protocol that lets
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In the summer of 1995, the future of computing briefly seemed to belong to Netscape. Netscape went public that August, barely sixteen months after it had been founded. Its stock doubled on the first day. The company had no empire of hardware, no installed operating system, no grip on the
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* Stream every Commonwealth Games 2026 event for FREE on 7Plus (Australia) / CBC Gem(Canada) * Unlock your stream with NordVPN (save up to 75%) * Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games: July 23 – August 2 After initially being slated to take place in the Australian state of Victoria, the 2026 Commonwealth Games are now
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Many organizations are still trying to get to grips with cloud sprawl. Years of cloud adoption have delivered undeniable benefits, giving businesses greater agility, scalability and access to innovation. But they have also created a significant management challenge. As environments have expanded across multiple cloud providers, accounts and services, maintaining
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The Right MCP Server for Your Agent Stack The open standard Anthropic published in November 2024 has moved faster than most anticipated. MCP now sits beneath a growing layer of production agent workflows, and the infrastructure choices teams make at this level have real operational consequences. Picking the wrong server
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While the rest of the AI industry races to label its work as “AGI” or “superintelligence,” Alexandre LeBrun, the CEO of Yann LeCun’sworld model startup, AMI Labs, avoids the terms altogether. Lebrun said in an interview with TechCrunch that the company doesn’t use terms like “AGI” or “superintelligence”
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In Brief 7:26 AM PDT · July 16, 2026 The latest iteration of Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI’s Kimi model series is expected to perform at par with or even surpass Anthropic’s Opus 4.8, the Financial Times reported, citing anonymous sources. Moonshot’s Kimi K2 models have
