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Phia, the shopping startup co-founded by Bill Gates’ daughter, Phoebe Gates, and Sophia Kianni, has been accused of a practice known as “cookie stuffing,” which may have helped the product receive commissions and credit for sales it did not actually generate, according to a Bloomberg...

Oratomic raises $300M to build a viable quantum computer that needs only 20K qubits Marina Temkin 8:00 AM PDT · July 10, 2026 A number of companies , betting on various architectural approaches, are trying to build the first commercially viable quantum computer capable of significantly...

Dumb Co dared me to trade my iPhone for a hacked flip phone Amanda Silberling 9:06 AM PDT · July 10, 2026 When Lydia Peabody saw her friend pull out a flip phone at a party last year, she burst out laughing. “I was like, ‘Girl, what are you doing with that thing? That has to be a joke!’”...

A new app, HyperTexting, turns the open web into a scrollable social media-like feed Sarah Perez 10:11 AM PDT · July 10, 2026 A new app called HyperTexting is making it as easy to surf the web as it is to scroll through a social media feed, like Facebook or X. The app, newly available for iOS...

Filing: College app Fizz accuses VC of sharing confidential startup information with rival Sidechat Sarah Perez 10:42 AM PDT · July 10, 2026 A years-long lawsuit between the college-focused social app Fizz and rival Sidechat over unfair competition practices has taken an interesting turn. In a...

Can AI answer the $3 trillion question? Tim Fernholz 2:47 PM PDT · July 9, 2026 Three years ago, Sequoia partner David Cahn was one of the first people to do the math and put a number on the implications of Silicon Valley’s titanic spend on AI infrastructure. In 2023 , he was reacting to...

OpenAI launches its new family of models with GPT-5.6 Lucas Ropek 3:24 PM PDT · July 9, 2026 OpenAI unveiled its newest family of models on Thursday, introducing a set of heavyweight programs into an increasingly crowded field of AI offerings. GPT-5.6 comes in three variants: Sol (considered...

Fidji Simo steps down from OpenAI’s no. 2 role Connie Loizos 4:38 PM PDT · July 9, 2026 Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s No. 2 executive, is stepping down from her full-time role, the Wall Street Journal reports . In a staff note Thursday, Simo said her ongoing medical leave has proven longer and harder...

OpenAI is shutting down Atlas, but its AI browser ambitions are still growing Rebecca Bellan 3:03 PM PDT · July 9, 2026 OpenAI is sunsetting Atlas, the AI-powered browser it launched in October with ChatGPT at its core. But it’s not giving up on the idea that AI should help people browse the...

Meta’s new AI chips will begin production in September Ram Iyer 10:17 AM PDT · July 9, 2026 In a bid to lower its GPU costs amid an unprecedented component shortage, Meta is on track to start making the latest versions of its AI-specific chip in September, Reuters reported , citing an internal...

Nvidia is a victim of the compute marketplace it created Russell Brandom 10:06 AM PDT · July 9, 2026 Long the leading light of the industry, Nvidia has had a bad couple of months. Bloomberg has the ugly details , but the upshot is that the company’s stock price has fallen 15% since its peak in...

How did the government decide OpenAI’s frontier model was safe to release? Tim Fernholz 11:22 AM PDT · July 9, 2026 OpenAI is rolling out its latest advanced LLM, Sol, for wide public access. Sol is considered to be at least on par with Anthropic’s Fable, a model whose capabilities (or...

Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are bigger than the last 25 years of tech exits Russell Brandom 7:51 AM PDT · July 9, 2026 We’ve talked before about the hot IPO summer , but with SpaceX just launched to public markets and Anthropic and (maybe) OpenAI soon to come, it can be easy to miss the sheer...

Anthropic’s new Claude feature is quietly selling you on AI Sarah Perez 7:53 AM PDT · July 9, 2026 At a time when AI backlash and data center protests are making headlines, Anthropic’s Claude is rolling out a new feature that subtly makes the case for why you should keep using it. On Thursday...

Meta wants its AI glasses to seem less creepy. Its AI strategy says otherwise. Sarah Perez 10:11 AM PDT · July 8, 2026 Meta’s AI glasses have a growing reputation as a creepy technology . The company hopes to change that opinion by announcing an update that will disable the camera if the LED...

SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.5, which Elon describes as an ‘Opus-class model’ Lucas Ropek 12:30 PM PDT · July 8, 2026 SpaceXAI has released its latest model, Grok 4.5 — the first since the company went public several weeks ago. In a blog post published Wednesday, SpaceXAI characterized its new...

Feds demand autonomous vehicle companies stop interfering with first responders Kirsten Korosec 2:49 PM PDT · July 8, 2026 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Administrator Jonathan Morrison issued a directive Wednesday to autonomous vehicle (AV) developers, stating that it is...

A judge has approved a $1.5 million penalty levied against Elon Musk that will settle a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit despite having “significant misgivings” about it. U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan noted that her court would accept the settlement, Bloomberg reported...

Lovable, a Swedish vibe-coding startup, is in talks to raise $300 million at a valuation of $13.2 billion — exactly double the $6.6 billion valuation the company achieved last December, Sifted reported . Menlo Ventures, a firm that announced its latest $3 billion fund last month, is expected to...

AI chip maker SambaNova raises $1B at $11B valuation, 5 months after last mega round Kate Park 12:16 AM PDT · July 8, 2026 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...