Funding
Marker Raised $13 Million to Make AI Writing Feel Less Like Cheating
Marker raised $13 million to build an AI writing tool for drafts, revisions, and half-formed thoughts. Earnest, stylish, and surprisingly sane about the craft.
Latest
Funding
SambaNova Raised $1 Billion So AI Inference Can Stop Begging Nvidia
SambaNova's $1 billion Series F says enterprise AI wants faster, cheaper inference without a GPU pilgrimage. The thesis is coherent. The capital requirement is deranged.
AI
OpenAI Turned GPT-5.6 Into a Government-Approved Launch Sequence
OpenAI says GPT-5.6 goes public July 9 after a U.S.-delayed rollout. The model looks strong. The launch choreography is the real story.
Startups
Aardaia Raised €5 Million to Breed a Protein Potato for a Nervous Continent
Aardaia just raised €5 million to turn a forgotten tuber into Europe's homegrown protein crop. Strange pitch, serious science, and better timing than it has any right to have.
Review
Nothing Made Phone (4b) for People Who Think Beige Is a Crime
Nothing's Phone (4b) pairs bold design, a huge battery, and long software support with a less thrilling chip and some extremely performative repair vibes.
AI
Beijing Might Lock China’s Best AI Models Behind the Great Firewall
China may curb overseas access to its top AI models, turning cheap open AI into a national-security asset with a passport policy.
Boston Tech
Vertex Bought Crinetics for $10 Billion, Because Boston Enjoys Expensive Homework
Vertex agreed to buy Crinetics for $10 billion on July 6, giving Boston biotech a huge endocrinology bet and a fresh test beyond cystic fibrosis.
Startups
Norm Ai Raised $120 Million to Put a Hall Monitor in Every Prompt
Norm Ai's $120 million Series C bets regulated enterprises want AI wrapped in lawyers, audit trails, and outcome pricing. Annoyingly, that sounds rational.
Startups
Voyage Health Wants AI to Sit Between Doom-Googling and Waiting Two Weeks
Voyage Health is a free AI health guidance app for iOS and Android with symptom conversations, wellness plans, memory, reminders, and follow-up tracking.
Startups
Revdoku Turns ChatGPT Output Into Client Links, Then Tells You Who Opened Them
Revdoku publishes reports, dashboards, websites, PDFs, and folders from Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, agents, APIs, or local folders.
Startups
Even Realities Raised $150 Million to Put AI on Your Face Without Filming Everyone
Even Realities raised $150 million for camera-free smart glasses. The privacy-first pitch is smart. The face-computer trust problem is still very real.
Launch
Tencent Launched Hunyuan 3 to Turn Yuanbao Into an Actual Coworker
Tencent's Hy3 launch makes the AI agent race cheaper and more practical. The model looks serious, and the assistant-to-coworker transition just got more real.