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In Brief 8:00 AM PDT · July 8, 2026 Vermilion Cliffs Ventures announced Wednesday the close of a $25 million Fund II. The firm was founded in 2023 by operator-turned-investor Ashley Smith, who runs it as one of the few solo women GPs in venture capital. Speaking to TechCrunch, Smith
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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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The Pixel 11 could drop the 128GB storage configuration, while the Pixel Watch 5 may cost $50 more than last year’s model. by Emma Roth Jul 8, 2026, 2:43 PM UTC Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and
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Much of the discussion around agentic AI in commerce has focused on one assumption: that consumers will eventually delegate purchasing decisions entirely to AI systems. The vision is straightforward enough. A consumer tells an AI assistant they need a new winter coat, a family holiday or a replacement laptop and
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OpenAI is getting ready to release its next generation of AI models. The GPT-5.6 series, which includes a trio of new models, will be released on Thursday, CEO Sam Altman confirmed in a post on X Wednesday. The flagship model is called GPT-5.6 Sol. It's meant
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Cybersecurity researchers at Kaspersky have named a previously undocumented threat actor behind an ongoing spear-phishing operation targeting government agencies and electric power organizations in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Brazil. The group, which they call Armored Likho, is running an extensive malware toolkit built to steal credentials, sensitive documents, and other high-value
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* 75% have deployed 4+ AI tools in the past six months, 35% have deployed 10+ tools * This is despite four in five experiencing AI security incidents or vulnerabilities * Governance and dedicated security budgets could be part of the answer New DigiCert data has claimed four in five (78%) organizations have
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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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Jeff Bezos is opening Blue Origin to outside money at last, in a round that values the rocket firm at $130 billion, CNBC reports. It follows Elon Musk’s record SpaceX IPO and pits the two space fortunes against each other again. Blue Origin is raising outside capital for the
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Entire, the developer-platform startup founded by former GitHub chief executive Thomas Dohmke, has launched a preview of a distributed Git network built for the age of AI coding agents. The pitch is to spread code hosting across regions rather than lean on a single central provider. The reasoning is a
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The US-China AI split hardened this week. Beijing branded Anthropic’s Claude Code a security back-door, just as US lawmakers moved against American firms that lean on cheap Chinese models. China has told companies to drop Anthropic’s Claude Code. Its Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said its cybersecurity
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Apple is spending big to make chips at home. It has committed to a multi-year Broadcom deal worth more than $30 billion, Apple announced on Wednesday. That makes it Apple’s largest US manufacturing pledge to date. The scale is the story. The deal should yield more than 15 billion
