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AIUC, which offers enterprises insurance policies and audits for AI agents, emerges from stealth with a $15M seed led by Nat Friedman at NFDG — Today, the Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) is emerging from stealth with a $15 million seed round led by Nat Friedman at NFDG …
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At TrustCon 2025, trust and safety professionals expressed anxiety over the industry's retreat, but no leaders condemned platforms' rollback of safety policies — In 2023, I asked whether we had reached peak trust and safety. Noting the huge number of layoffs at tech companies that year …
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LinkedIn: Cassie Coccaro, Jacob Silver, and Trust & Safety …
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Records show China's Starlink rivals have only ~120 satellites in orbit, less than 1% of their goal, vs. SpaceX's ~8,000, underscoring how far behind they are — It's looking unlikely. Here's why. — There are over 11,000 satellites in low Earth orbit, providing internet, surveillance and navigation services.
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Alibaba releases its Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 reasoning LLM on Hugging Face, topping several benchmarks, as Alibaba moves away from hybrid reasoning models — If the AI industry had an equivalent to the recording industry's “song of the summer” — a hit that catches on in the warmer months …
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| Tim Fernholz / Sherwood News: |
An interview with CEO David Baszucki on Roblox's origin story, what's next for the gaming platform whose shares have risen about 200% in the past year, and more — Founder and CEO David Baszucki tells us the origin story and what's next for a company that has nearly tripled in stock price … | Reuters: |
Huawei debuts the CloudMatrix 384 AI computing system, which outperforms Nvidia's most advanced GB200 NVL72 system on some metrics, according to SemiAnalysis — China's Huawei Technologies showed off an AI computing system on Saturday that one industry expert has said rivals Nvidia's most advanced offering …
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| Golan Hazani / CTech: |
New York City-based cybersecurity company Axonius acquires Cynerio, which offers healthcare IoT cybersecurity and asset management services, for $180M — Move expands company's offerings amid growing threats to connected medical devices. — Cynerio — Axonius — Cybersecurity — Acquisition
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| Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu: |
Berlin-based Buena, which is building AI-powered software to automate property management tasks, raised $58M, including a Series A led by GV — Buena has acquired 20+ firms since 2023, with triple-digit growth and a product-first approach targeting 30,000 under-digitised players.
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| Josh Noble / Financial Times: |
The English Premier League recently signed deals with Adobe and Microsoft to offer AI-powered tools to fans, including those playing the Fantasy Premier League — Football body's turn to Big Tech aims to cement dominance after it made €2.1bn in overseas broadcast deals last season| Nicolas Parasie / Bloomberg: |
Dubai-based Qlub, which offers contactless payment services to restaurants, raised $30M co-led by Shorooq and Cherry Ventures, taking its total funding to $72M — Tell us how AI is shaping your news experience. Share your feedback — A Dubai-based restaurant payments platform …
| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Rune Technologies, which is developing AI-enabled software to transform manual processes in military logistics, raised a $24M Series A by Human Capital — Silicon Valley is doubling down on defense as geopolitical tensions rise and appetite for modernizing warfare grows.| Bloomberg: |
Online platforms offering astrological advice are thriving in India, with the leading app Astrotalk claiming about 84% of its 70M users are under the age of 35 — An age-old belief in astrology has snowballed into a $7 billion industry as a younger generation seeks celestial guidance.
LinkedIn: Aznaur Midov and Akriti Sharma
| Jason Del Rey / Fortune: |
NYC-based Courtyard, which sells “mystery packs” of collectible cards and comic books that customers can resell on its marketplace, raised a $30M Series A — COURTYARD — I admit it, I have a soft spot for sports cards. Over the past year, an embarrassingly steady stream …
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