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Sources: SpaceX has agreed to invest $2B in xAI, as part of xAI's $5B equity fundraise announced by Morgan Stanley last month — The startup is leaning on Musk's business empire to play catch-up in the AI race — Elon Musk's SpaceX has agreed to invest $2 billion in xAI …
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Insiders describe Linda Yaccarino's tumultuous partnership with Elon Musk and say the two failed to gel as Musk's blunt style clashed with Yaccarino's polish — Inside the former social media CEO's tumultuous partnership with the world's richest man — Hannah Murphy in San Francisco … | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
xAI apologizes for Grok's “horrific behavior” when it wrote antisemitic posts on July 8, and blames “an update to a code path upstream of the Grok bot” — In a series of posts on X, the AI chatbot Grok apologized for what it admitted was “horrific behavior.”
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| Simon Alvarez / Teslarati: |
Tesla rolls out Grok to some vehicles with an AMD infotainment chip; Grok comes pre-installed on new vehicles and cannot issue commands to the vehicle itself — All new Tesla vehicles delivered on or after July 12, 2025, will include Grok AI out of the box| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Stanford study: LLMs struggle to respond appropriately to questions about delusions, suicide, and OCD, but AI could play valuable supportive roles to therapists — When Stanford University researchers asked ChatGPT whether it would be willing to work closely with someone who had schizophrenia … | Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Moonshot's Kimi K2 uses a 1T-parameter MoE architecture with 32B active parameters and outperforms models like GPT-4.1 and DeepSeek-V3 on key benchmarks — Moonshot AI, the Chinese artificial intelligence startup behind the popular Kimi chatbot, released an open-source language model on Friday …
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| David Cendon Garcia / EU-Startups: |
Berlin-based CarOnSale, a B2B marketplace for used car trading across Europe offering vehicle inspections and more, raised a €70M Series C led by Northzone — German CarOnSale, a digital B2B marketplace for used car trading, has successfully closed a €70 million Series C round … | Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Parspec, whose AI-powered workflow tool automates procurement processes in the construction supply chain, raised a $20M Series A led by Threshold Ventures — Parspec, a startup using artificial intelligence to improve efficiency in the construction industry supply chain …
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Analysis of 1.76M Community Notes received by X from January 2021 to March 2025: 90%+ of submitted notes are never published, with many notes “stuck in limbo” — 1. INTRODUCTION — As social media companies face the need to curb the spread of rapidly evolving online harms on their platforms …
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| Kris Maher / Wall Street Journal: |
With Trump set to speak at an energy and AI summit at Carnegie Mellon, a look at plans to turn some shuttered mill sites in Pittsburgh into AI data centers — Two Trump visits span city's legacy industry, higher-tech pursuits — | Photographs and Videos by Nate Smallwood for WSJ
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| Matthew King / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at US-backed NVD, as its parent org NIST scrambles to hire contractors to help clear a backlog of 25K+ vulnerabilities, ~10x the previous high in 2017 — Every day, billions of people trust digital systems to run everything from communication to commerce to critical infrastructure.| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Samsung agrees to acquire Seattle-based Xealth, which helps healthcare providers manage digital health tools and has raised over $50M, for an undisclosed sum — GeekWire's startup coverage documents the Pacific Northwest entrepreneurial scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter … | Zack Abrams / The Block: |
Pump.fun raised $500M via a sale of PUMP tokens, which sold out in 12 minutes; it offered 12.5% of its total token supply at a fully diluted valuation of $4B — - Memecoin launchpad Pump.fun raised $600 million through its public sale of PUMP tokens, which fully sold out in just 12 minutes.| M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
OpenAI's failed Windsurf deal signals broader M&A challenges for OpenAI until it renegotiates its deal with Microsoft — In our current M&A environment in the AI space, there are but two types of deals: ‘hackquisitions’ and ‘hackquihires’. At first, they seemed like they were the same deal …
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| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Studios like Do Big are buying Roblox games for $1M+ in a thriving secondary market; Naavik: seven of the 15 highest-earning games in June have been acquired — Game service spawns a busy after market for the most-popular titles … It sold a few months later for more than $3 million.Sponsor Posts
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