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In Brief 9:29 AM PDT · July 8, 2026 Crypto VC firm Paradigm has raised $1.2 billion — its third venture fund and fourth overall — with the aim of investing in the “technical frontier,” the firm’s founder Matt Huang announced Wednesday. For Paradigm, the technical frontier will stretch beyond
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The next major smartphone launch is just weeks away: Samsung has set the date for its next Unpacked event as July 22. The invite doesn’t say exactly what to expect at the London-based showcase, but it does tease that we’ll see a foldable phone with a new form
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Prime Intellect, a startup that provides computing power and specialized software tools that help companies build AI agents, has raised $130 million Series A at a $1 billion valuation. The massive round was led by Radical Ventures, with participation from Nvidia Ventures, Intel Capital, Dell Technologies Capital, Iconiq, and a
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NVIDIA has engineered a GPU-accelerated AI agent designed to automate industrial alarm triage and reduce factory floor downtime. Industrial machinery generates a volume of system alerts that easily exceeds the triage capacity of on-site technicians. In an average facility, SCADA systems can generate thousands of alarms per day, flooding operators
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ai and ml Startup insists it's not trying to help anyone cheat the system - honest! It's bad enough that you used AI to write a research paper instead of composing it yourself. Now, you can take the extra step to hide the evidence of your
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Cloudflare has spent a year arming websites against AI crawlers. Now it wants to help one crawl better. The company said on Wednesday it is running a research pilot with OpenAI to test whether its network data can make AI search more accurate. Cloudflare sits in front of more than
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NATO wants a cloud it can trust under fire. Its technology agency has signed a contract worth about €200 million with Accenture and Italy’s Leonardo to build one. Accenture announced the deal on Tuesday, struck at the NATO summit in Ankara. NATO calls the programme the Protected Business Network.
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
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In an unexpected shift that underscores the intense pressure mounting in the frontier AI landscape, Google DeepMind has scrapped the underlying foundation behind its highly anticipated Gemini 3.5 Pro model, pushing its official launch date out to July 17, 2026. Initially telegraphed by Sundar Pichai during the Google I/
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The tech world is currently obsessed with "AI Sovereignty" and compliance. What used to be a niche conversation for legal teams has, by most recent industry accounts, become a board-level concern almost overnight. Every enterprise wants to build an AI wrapper or deploy a local LLM to "
