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Lurie Pushes Waymo Robotaxi Regulations After July 4 Gridlock
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie wants binding Waymo robotaxi regulations after a July 4 fireworks crowd turned a sizeable stretch of the city into a hours-long car park.…
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Google Vids Personal Avatar Feature Turns Selfies Into AI Presenters
Google Vids’ personal avatar feature, announced on Thursday, now lets users upload a selfie and a voice recording to generate a digital clone of themselves for use in…
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Stardust Period Tracker Data Reached Analytics Firm Despite Privacy Pledge
New research by SC Media and Mozilla has confirmed that Stardust period tracker data, including users’ birthdates, birth-control types, reproductive goals, and specific symptoms, was being transmitted to…
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Aina Secures $5.5M to Build an AI Interface That Acts, Not Just Listens
The Aina AI interface funding of $5.5 million closes a seed round for a startup that wants to do something most of its rivals do not: give users…
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Syntetica Closes $30 Million Nylon Recycling Funding Round Backed by Lululemon
Syntetica nylon recycling funding of $30 million has drawn in Lululemon, Sri Lankan apparel manufacturer MAS Holdings, and a clutch of European public investors, as the French startup…
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Apple Maps Ads Policy Sets Stricter Category Limits Than Google’s
An Apple Maps ads policy published quietly this month draws a deliberate line between what Apple wants its mapping product to be and what Google’s rival service already…
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Stripe and Advent Table a $53.4bn PayPal Bid at a 28% Premium
At $60.50 a share, the Stripe and Advent PayPal bid lands at a 28% premium to PayPal’s closing price on 15 July 2026, according to CNBC. The joint…
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Oak’s $60m Identity Management Funding Targets the AI Agent Security Gap
Oak’s $60m identity management funding has brought one of Israel’s larger cybersecurity seed rounds out of stealth, as the Tel Aviv and San Francisco-based startup argues that the…
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OpenAI Researcher Miles Wang Targets $2 Billion AI Drug Discovery Startup
Miles Wang, a researcher who joined OpenAI in 2024 after dropping out of Harvard, is in talks to launch an AI drug discovery startup at a $2 billion…
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Google Gemini Copyright Lawsuit Targets Stolen Training Data, Publishers Allege
A Google Gemini copyright lawsuit filed by some of publishing’s largest names accuses the company of training its artificial intelligence models on books it had no right to…