Vol. I · No. 98SUN, JUL 26, 2026
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Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy explains what AI startups founders must do differently

Anthropic leaped to a $47 billion revenue run rate by May, compared to $9 billion in 2025. It’s the kind of growth that Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy says he’s never seen in 25 years of investing, not in the internet wave, not in mobile, not in the first cloud boom. Menlo led Anthropic’s $500M Series D, and Murphy has had a front-row seat as the company went from a pre-revenue, […]

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3 Google updates from Galaxy Unpacked 2026

Google announces AI productivity features for Samsung Galaxy devices at 2026 event; no technical details on models or capabilities disclosed.

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Meta made its own AI detection system. It should have just used Google’s

Content Seal sounds a lot like a less accessible and reliable version of SynthID. | Image: Meta / The Verge IIn March, Meta's Oversight Board called on the company to "meet its public commitments and employ its own tools" to help quell the spread of deceptive generative AI content across platforms. Meta responded in July by introducing Content Seal - an invisible watermarking technology that flags images generated by the company's new AI model. But it was basically a footnote buried in the company's announcement for its Muse image and video generation tools. As someone who spends a lot of tim...

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Utility companies are promising to spare us from AI’s energy bill

The pledge was introduced in March, and has done little to quell concerns so far. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images In the face of backlash to concerns the AI boom will increase consumer electricity bills, the largest utility companies and data center developers in the US are now promising to do something about it. The Wall Street Journal reports that nearly 200 organizations have signed President Donald Trump's "rate payer protection pledge" that's meant to safeguard consumers from footing the AI bill. Trump is expected to announce the new signatories on Thursday, which includ...

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Introducing OpenAI Presence

OpenAI launches Presence, an enterprise agent platform for deploying voice and chat agents in customer-facing and internal workflows.

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Neill Blomkamp’s new zombie AI ‘film’ is just slop warmed over

On Monday, District 9 and Gran Turismo director Neill Blomkamp unveiled his latest project: a 13-minute sci-fi short titled Nightborne that's loosely based on Peter Watts' 2014 novel Echopraxia. The short comes from Blomkamp's new AI startup / production company, Barley Studios, and features characters whose voices and faces are modeled after human actors. But every single one of Nightborne's shots was made with ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 text-to-video generator. In an X post about the short, Blomkamp described it as a "test start" meant to demonstrate what generative AI is capable of, and he s...

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OpenAI says it accidentally hacked Hugging Face with a new AI system

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. | Bloomberg via Getty Images OpenAI says its AI models mistakenly breached open-source AI platform Hugging Face during internal testing. In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI writes that GPT-5.6 Sol and "an even more capable pre-release model" discovered vulnerabilities within their sandboxed testing environment, allowing them to gain access to the internet and target Hugging Face. On July 16th, Hugging Face disclosed a security incident that it says was driven by "an autonomous AI agent system." Hugging Face's AI agents detected and stopped the breach, which OpenAI has now...

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