Google Taps Employee Alumni Network With #AI Startup Incubator
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Google taps employee alumni network for AI startup incubator
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World Labs improves at large open sky scenes
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Nice, world labs is getting good at large open sky scenes!
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Anthropic uses moral language to justify opaque and anti-competitive behavior
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Anthropic is a company wrapping a business model in moral language, then using that language to justify opaque model behavior, anti-competitive access rules, regulatory pressure, and a future where builders, startups, researchers, and Opensource communities stay downstream of a
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1000+ hackers, 24 hours, Pika MCP projects from CalHacks
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1000+ hackers. 24 hours. One Pika MCP. Here are five of our favorite Pika-fueled projects that came out of @CalHacks.
— Pika (@pika_labs) 26 juin 2026
1. Lumen: Lets product placement happen in post. Pass a product photo into Lumen and Pika will drop it into your footage seamlessly.
Team: Raghav Ojha pic.twitter.com/zY1MlkqmiU1000+ hackers. 24 hours. One Pika MCP. Here are five of our favorite Pika-fueled projects that came out of @CalHacks
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Anthropic’s Mythos forces DeepSeek into $7.4B fundraising
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Anthropic’s Mythos preview reportedly pushed DeepSeek into a $7.4B fundraising – because they could not compete with Mythos. Until now, the three-year-old Chinese AI lab had relied on CEO Liang Wenfeng’s personal wealth instead of outside capital. The Information reports the
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Overview of over 400 decentralized AI companies
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This is 400+ companies in the decentralized AI space. That'll get you started.
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Pim de Witte accidentally built the perfect world model data collection business
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on their @latentspacepod we covered how @pimdewitte accidentally made the PERFECT world model data collection business by collecting the world's largest dataset of trainable (video,action) pairs.
— swyx @aiDotEngineer WF (@swyx) 25 juin 2026
turning the attention economy into the attention industry.
congrats Pim!!
link… https://t.co/Al4NGdX71W pic.twitter.com/opgI2Kk95Kon their @latentspacepod we covered how @pimdewitte accidentally made the PERFECT world model data collection business by collecting the world's largest dataset of trainable (video,action) pairs. turning the attention economy into the attention industry. congrats Pim!! link
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AI coding startup Sazabi raises $8M from YC and OpenAI angels
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Act ONE was AI writing the code.
— Charly Wargnier (@DataChaz) 25 juin 2026
Act TWO is AI spotting crashes and pushing its own patches to production.
🚨 Enter @Sazabi.
They just locked in an $8M seed from YC, plus angels out of OpenAI and GitHub.
Their goal is to wipe out the cluttered, chaotic dashboard, and after… https://t.co/3GfVTGBgPrAct ONE was AI writing the code. Act TWO is AI spotting crashes and pushing its own patches to production. Enter @Sazabi
. They just locked in an $8M seed from YC, plus angels out of OpenAI and GitHub. Their goal is to wipe out the cluttered, chaotic dashboard, and after -
scobleizer compiles list of 8,900 AI companies on X
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Oh, I put together a list of 8,900 AI companies here on X: https://
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Sazabi raises $8M to fix monitoring gap for AI coding agents
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Nobody saw this gap until the AI-coding-agent wave hit hard:
— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) 25 juin 2026
Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex fundamentally changed how software gets written. Nobody rebuilt monitoring for the teams actually using them.
Sazabi just closed $8M to fill that hole. Their platform treats logs as… https://t.co/DWBkEgczcaNobody saw this gap until the AI-coding-agent wave hit hard: Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex fundamentally changed how software gets written. Nobody rebuilt monitoring for the teams actually using them. Sazabi just closed $8M to fill that hole. Their platform treats logs as