Light made a flip phone — it's colorful and it's cheap: Light co-founder Kaiwei Tang helped create the Motorola Razr, and he's as surprised as anyone that over 20 years later, the flip phone is relevant again. Read More
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AI music generator Suno breach affects 55M users, per Have I Been Pwned: A hacker took names, phone numbers, and physical addresses of millions of customers who used AI music generator Suno. Read More
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Jack Dorsey is taking on Slack with Buzz, a group chat platform for teams and their AI agents: Buzz is a group chat platform for the workplace that puts humans and their AI agents in the same conversation. Read More
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General Compute raised $15m to build the world's first ASIC cloud. By removing the GPU bottleneck, it runs frontier LLMs up to 16x faster than standard GPU clouds. ASIC silicon is also far more energy efficient, so it deploys in air-cooled data centers, making growth and expansion dramatically easier.
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SpaceX launches new V3 Starlink satellites but suffers another booster failure: The company ticked off a few more boxes on the second Starship V3 flight, but appears to have had another issue relighting the booster's rocket engines. Read More
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US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' password during border search: A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone's data, opening up fresh questions about a person's constitutional rights at the U.S. border. Read More
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Why Cognition bought Poke: AI personality is becoming a competitive advantage: The acquisition brings Poke’s conversational style and interaction model to Cognition’s coding agent Devin, reflecting a growing belief that how AI assistants interact with users is as important as the models powering them. Read More
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Bluesky’s AI assistant Attie expands into an open social research tool: Users can now ask Attie questions about news, trends, and conversations on Bluesky and other apps on the AT Protocol. Read More
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Patreon lays off 20% of its workforce: In a memo to staff that was posted online, Conte said the company's core business is strong, but the platform has to respond to market changes and adjust its cost structure to remain stable. Read More
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Thinking about stretching your PC fleet to wait out the price spike? The research says that's backward. Organizations that handle AI PC transitions best refresh consistently — not with a one-time buy. Join us for a free online webinar on July 29th at 10am PT/1pm ET to learn how to spec smarter for what's coming.
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Disrupt 2026: Where deals and ideas ignite |
Oct 13–15 at San Francisco's Moscone West, 10,000 founders, investors, and operators gather for high-signal insights, curated connections, and real momentum.
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Monday.com lays off hundreds to focus on AI: The company said it is reducing its headcount by 20%, or about 630 staff, to "support a leaner, more focused operating model" as it focuses on its AI Work Platform. Read More
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