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Quick Hits
AI avoidance: Journalists evade crackdowns.
Apology tour: Microsoft hosts CrowdStrike.
Bio boarding: UAE adds face scans.
Campaign channel: Harris taps Twitch.
Conference call fight: X takes on Zoom.
Delivering Indian: AMZ heads East.
Droneship tip: Falcon 9 tumbles.
Model prompts: Claude releases code.
Not smart: Nokia’s Barbie phone.
In-car gaming: VW adds AirConsole.
Pay plan: India’s Paytm gets green light.
SaaS surge: Funding bounces back.
Space rescue: NASA picks SpaceX.
Search slimming: Brave cuts 14%.
Singalong: IG tests music integration.
Small bite: Apple trims 100 roles.
Swiss starts: VCs launch $200M fund.
Uber scary?: Teens hailing rides.
Wearable AI: Plaud records 24/7.
Trending Startups
The end of coding?
Amazon Cloud’s CEO caused a storm, predicting the end of coding in the next 2 years.
Fortune 500s invest in Python
Corporate giants like Accenture and Siemens up-skilling developers with Python and AI. “The demand for AI engineers is surging,” says a Stanford expert and founder.
Australia passes ‘right to disconnect’
Australia joins 20+ other countries in granting the right for employees to ignore their bosses after work.
AI strategy: Fire now, raises later
Klarna, Sweden’s buy-now-pay-later juggernaut, plans to slash nearly half of its workforce with AI efficiencies in marketing and customer service and give the rest raises.
MIT’s first wastewater unicorn
MIT spinoff Gradiant is the world’s first water purification unicorn, working with the likes of Coca-Cola and BMW to save nearly 2B gallons of water a day.
Expedia exec launches AI travel startup
A former Expedia executive launched Otto, a high-end travel assistant that remembers your preferences.
Recently Funded
- Miami’s TMRW Secures $1.3M for Bitcoin Social Payments
- India's Laiqa Wellness Raises $1.8M for Femtech
- Pryzm Raises $2M for Defense Tech
- Katara AI Secures $2.2M to Improve Developer Experience with AI
- Portland’s Depot Secures $4.1M for Build Acceleration
- Switzerland's Flowit Secures $4.6M for Digital Coaching
- San Francisco's Revenew Raises $4.6M for Payment Operations
- Berkeley-based Deep Fission Secures $4M for Nuclear Energy
- BSX Raises $6.2M for DeFi Derivatives Protocol
- SatLayer Raises $8M for BTC Re-Staking
- New York’s Slingshot AI Raises $30M Seed for AI Mental Health
Weekly Pulse
Post of the Week
What We’re Reading
Why AI can’t spell ‘strawberry’ (TechCrunch)
AI’s growth needs the right interface (MIT)
The Paris Olympics Promised Flying Taxis—Here’s Why They Failed to Launch (Wired)
The Quantum Mechanics of the Greenhouse Effect (Wired)
Penny a Minute Voice Bots Help India Startups Vie With OpenAI (Bloomberg)
Meet GamesBeat’s new senior writer for technology and development, Imran Khan (VentureBeat)
To Make It Big, Most Tech Startups Have A Limited Post-IPO Window To Turn Profitable (Crunchbase)
Poll of the Week
Podcast of the Week
Gail Arnon: The Future of Work is Fractional, Fiverr CBO (The POZCAST: Decoding Success with Adam Posner)
Shaping Company Culture Beyond Perks with Melissa Daimler (HR Superstars)
InHeirit | Coaching an Early State Startup towards Launching (Midstage Startup Momentum)
Rohit Bhargava, Founder of the Non-Obvious (Startup of the Year Podcast)
Startups Hiring Now
Faire: The future is local | 69 open roles
Away: Direct-to-consumer luggage | 11 open roles
Cohere Health: Simplifying Healthcare for Patients and Doctors | 26 open roles
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