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Venus Williams-backed WeWard can now lock your apps until you hit your steps
WeWard, an app that offers users rewards for logging their steps, is launching a feature called “Walking Mode” that allows users to restrict their use of chosen apps until they hit a certain step count. The feature is supposed to motivate people to walk while also...
Former OpenAI exec Kevin Weil is now on the board of Stoke Space
Kevin Weil, a veteran tech executive known for stints at Twitter, Meta, Planet Labs, and OpenAI, has joined the board of Stoke Space, a well-funded Seattle startup building reusable rockets to compete with SpaceX. “It’s real simple for me,” Stoke CEO Andy Lapsa told...
Former OpenAI exec Kevin Weil is now on the board of Stoke Space
Kevin Weil, a veteran tech executive known for stints at Twitter, Meta, Planet Labs, and OpenAI, has joined the board of Stoke Space, a well-funded Seattle startup building reusable rockets to compete with SpaceX. “It’s real simple for me,” Stoke CEO Andy Lapsa told...
Slack’s Slackbot can now pull your CRM data, generate charts, and send DocuSigns — all from a chat message.
Five years and $27.7 billion after Salesforce acquired Slack, the two products are finally starting to function as a single system. On Tuesday, Slack launched an integration that connects Slackbot — the personal AI agent built into every workspace — to the entire...
Slack’s Slackbot can now pull your CRM data, generate charts, and send DocuSigns — all from a chat message.
Five years and $27.7 billion after Salesforce acquired Slack, the two products are finally starting to function as a single system. On Tuesday, Slack launched an integration that connects Slackbot — the personal AI agent built into every workspace — to the entire...
Hot French startup ZML releases free product to speed inference across lots of AI chips
The days of Nvidia’s unparalleled market dominance aren’t over, but challengers and choices are arising from all directions. ZML, a hot French AI startup endorsed by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, has released inference-performance software that allows a variety of...
AI chip maker SambaNova raises $1B at $11B valuation, 5 months after last mega round
AI chip company SambaNova Systems has raised $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation led by General Atlantic, in a first close of its Series F round, with more investors expected to join soon. “In the next few weeks, a few more investors will be coming in, and the...
Final extension: Startup Battlefield Australia applications now close July 20
One last chance to apply Due to overwhelming interest, we’ve extended applications for Startup Battlefield Australia to July 20. If you’ve been thinking about applying, do it now. There won’t be another extension. One application could change everything Since the...
Meta just launched a new AI generator, Muse Image, and users are already pushing back over use of their photos
Meta on Tuesday unveiled Muse Image, its new AI image generator built by Meta Superintelligence Labs, the company’s dedicated AI unit. The feature, which was internally code-named Mango, is now available for free through the Meta AI app, as well as on Instagram...
Zepto’s IPO filing reveals fast growth, bigger losses, and a valuation question nobody’s answered yet
Indian quick-commerce startup Zepto has unveiled plans for an initial public offering that could be valued at about $1 billion, putting one of Y Combinator’s biggest bets outside the U.S. on the path to public markets. The filing, released Monday, offers a rare look...
Why Apple’s slow-and-steady AI bet is starting to look pretty smart
For years, Apple has been accused of being one of the biggest stragglers in the AI arms race. Doubters have argued that Apple’s lack of a clear AI strategy have cost it its edge, and Wall Street analysts have worried that the gap could start hurting iPhone sales. Now,...
Mercor’s Brendan Foody calls out Sequoia, accusing it of ‘dual-pricing’ valuation tricks
In recent days, founders and founders-turned-investors took to X to share horror stories about being mistreated by VCs. Their complaints ranged from VCs falling asleep during pitch meetings to investors suggesting a founder fire a co-founder. Brendan Foody, co-founder...
As OpenAI files for IPO, Sam Altman’s eye-scanning company is doing layoffs, report says
OpenAI announced on Monday that it confidentially filed for an IPO, marking what could become one of the defining public offerings of the decade. And then there’s OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s other company, Tools for Humanity, which is reportedly conducting layoffs,...
Apple’s WWDC AI demos looked more real after $250M false ad settlement
The vibe of Apple’s 2026 Worldwide Developers Conference felt like a spouse proudly listing all the items on a honey-do-list they’d finally completed. Rather than showcase something exciting and new, Apple launched the keynote detailing fixes to last year’s “Liquid...
Researchers trained an open source AI search agent, Harness-1, that outperforms GPT-5.4 on recalling relevant information
A joint research collaboration between researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), UC Berkeley, and the open source AI-native vector database platform Chroma unveiled Harness-1, a 20-billion parameter open-source search agent built atop...
Following Anthropic, OpenAI files confidentially for IPO
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has filed confidentially for an initial public offering, the company announced Monday in a blog post. The filing comes a little more than a week after its main rival, Anthropic, also filed to go public, ramping up the race between the two AI...
Apple plays catch-up at WWDC
Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference on Monday started off with an apology of sorts. Instead of jumping right into the headline news about a revamped AI-powered Siri, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering, Craig Federighi spent the first stretch of...
Apple bets cheaper AI will woo small developers
Apple is hoping to draw in newer developers with lower AI infrastructure costs, the company announced during its developer keynote at its Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday. The tech giant said that developers with fewer than 2 million first-time App Store...
Waymo bought Apple’s self-driving car proving ground for $220M
Waymo has acquired a massive 5,500-acre proving ground in Arizona owned by Route 14 Investment Partners LLC, a Delaware shell company associated with Apple, according to documents filed with Maricopa County. Waymo acquired the property, which is located near other...
Microsoft’s open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers
Microsoft has cut off access to dozens of its open-source projects hosted on GitHub as it investigates how hackers apparently breached the projects and injected password-stealing malware into the code. Many of the affected projects relate to Microsoft’s cloud service...
WWDC 2026: Everything announced on Siri AI, iOS 27, Apple Intelligence and more
Apple’s WWDC 2026 event kicked off this morning at 10 a.m. PT at Apple Park, starting a week full of expected announcements around Siri, iOS 27, Apple Intelligence and more, along with developer events and demos. This year’s event is particularly notable for a couple...
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Bitcoin´s Value Drops 10% After Google Ban
It has proven to be a tumultuous year so far for the world’s most recognizable and disruptive cryptocurrency, Bitcoin. The cryptocurrency has lost more than 40% of its value during the first quarter of 2018 alone, after rocketing more than 1,300% in 2017. One of the...
One of Amazon’s biggest partners launches ‘Cloud Education Center’
Megazone, one of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) biggest partners in the APAC region, recently announced its launch of the ‘Cloud Education Center’ in Seoul, South Korea. Megazone is a premier AWS consultant, and its mission with the CEC is to offer students the...
A Beginners Guide to Programmatic Video Ad Buying
Before the advent of programmatic ad buying, salespeople and human ad buyers bought and sold digital ads, which was not only unreliable but expensive. Programmatic advertising or marketing technology guarantees to make the whole process of ad buying more efficient....
Common Mistakes That Even Professional Website Developers Make
The software and website developers constantly work hard in order to meet event and launch dates. The stress associated with the amount of work that is done can easily lead towards silly mistakes. Negligence is rare with professional website developers Sydney but you...