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Travis Kalanick closes a $1.7 billion round for Atoms as a16z bets big on physical AI
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Hey Ahrefs, Maybe It's Time You Retire Your SEO and Traffic Tools
Someone messaged us quoting Startup Fortune only gets a thousand visitors a month. So I checked Ahrefs out of curiosity. It told me we did 3,300 visits in June, a month we actually served well over a million. When a tool is off by that much, it stops...
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Travis Kalanick closes a $1.7 billion round for Atoms as a16z bets big on physical AI
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France becomes the first EU country to ban social media for children under 15
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Apple is refreshing every Mac it sells and the MacBook Neo's chip upgrade signals a new budget laptop war
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Samsung launches three foldables at once in London and bets Gemini AI can make them mainstream
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What Is a Term Sheet and Which Clauses Actually Determine Your Fate
Most first-time founders spend weeks agonizing over the wrong lines in a VC term sheet. Here's what actually matters and what you can safely ignore.A term sheet lands in your inbox and suddenly you're expected to become a securities lawyer overnight. Understanding what is a term sheet is genuinely simple: it's a non-binding document that outlines the key economic and governance terms of a proposed...
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Meta Muse Spark dominates health AI benchmarks while offering free access that undercuts every paid frontier model
OpenAI raises its compute bet to $750 billion but its own CFO isn't sure it can pay the bill
Meta's Muse Spark has scored 42.8 on HealthBench Hard, more than doubling Gemini 3.1 Pro's 20.6, while its API prices at roughly a quarter of what OpenAI and Anthropic charge. Built by Meta Superintelligence Labs under Alexandr Wang, the model is free on meta.ai and signals a serious push into health AI and enterprise markets.
OpenAI raises its compute bet to $750 billion but its own CFO isn't sure it can pay the bill
OpenAI has raised its compute spending target through 2030 to $750 billion, encompassing deals with Microsoft, Oracle, AWS, and CoreWeave plus its own $20 billion Project Camellia data center in Georgia. But CFO Sarah Friar has privately warned leadership the company may not be able to honor those contracts if revenue growth doesn't accelerate. With a $25 billion annualized run rate and deeply negative margins, the gap between commitments and cash flows is the real story behind the headline figu
Monday.com cuts 620 jobs and raises its margin outlook in the same breath
Monday.com cut 620 employees, roughly 20% of its global workforce, on July 22, 2026, while simultaneously raising its operating margin guidance. The m...
Meshy raises nearly $400 million to make AI-generated 3D models a standard production tool
Meshy raises nearly $400 million to make AI-generated 3D models a standard production tool
The White House says Moonshot AI trained Kimi K3 on banned Nvidia chips routed through Thailand
White House tech official Michael Kratsios has accused China's Moonshot AI of distilling Anthropic's Fable model and training Kimi K3 on banned Nvidia...
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Abu Dhabi just gave tokenized gold the regulatory stamp it needed to go mainstream
Abu Dhabi Global Market classified Tether Gold (XAUT) as an Accepted Spot Commodity on July 20, 2026, letting licensed firms offer the gold-backed token to clients. With XAUT's locked value tripling to nearly $2.86 billion, the move signals that tokenized physical gold is graduating from crypto curiosity to regulated institutional infrastructure.
Augustus raises $180 million to give the world's fintechs a direct line into the US dollar
Augustus raised $180 million at a $1 billion valuation on July 21, 2026, led by Tiger Global, to build a federally chartered Global Dollar Bank that gives international fintechs direct API access to US dollar rails. The company already holds conditional OCC national bank charter approval, only the eighth granted since 2010, making it one of the most regulation-credentialed startups in fintech.
What is token vesting and how it differs from startup equity
What is token vesting? It's the crypto equivalent of startup equity vesting, enforced by smart contracts rather than legal agreements, with unlock schedules visible to every trader watching the blockchain. Understanding how the cliff, tax treatment, and enforcement differ from traditional equity can save founders and contributors from expensive surprises.
BlackRock's IBIT posts longest Bitcoin ETF inflow streak since April as CLARITY Act optimism returns
BlackRock's IBIT led all crypto ETFs with roughly $164 million in net inflows on July 21, capping the longest five-day inflow streak since April and pushing Bitcoin to a five-week high above $66,400. The CLARITY Act's Senate progress, including Trump's reported agreement on ethics provisions, is the central driver of renewed institutional conviction, though the bill's path to a floor vote before the August recess remains uncertain.
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The US Army burned through its AI token budget in months and every enterprise should take note
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German startup SAXON Q ships room-temperature quantum computers that plug into a standard server rack
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Glow raises $180 million at a $1.2 billion valuation to secure the AI agents that CrowdStrike wasn't built to see
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Alphabet reports Q2 2026 earnings today with its $190 billion AI bet under the microscope
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Computer science enrollment falls for the first time in 20 years as AI reshapes who gets hired
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CuspAI raises $450 million to let AI design the next generation of chip materials