Waymo bought Apple's self-driving car proving ground for $220M: Waymo has acquired a massive 5,500-acre proving ground in Arizona owned by Route 14 Investment Partners LLC, a Delaware shell company associated with Apple, according to documents filed with Maricopa County. Read More
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OpenAI files confidentially for IPO, following Anthropic: The filing comes a little more than a week after its main rival, Anthropic, also filed to go public, ramping up the race between the two AI firms. Read More
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Why Apple's slow-and-steady AI bet is starting to look pretty smart: Can Apple's new AI glow up put to bed accusations that it's losing an all-important industry race? Read More
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Apple bets cheaper AI will woo small developers: As AI experimentation grows more expensive, Apple is waiving cloud API costs for developers with fewer than 2 million first-time App Store downloads. Read More
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Lovable says it has hit $500M in annualized revenue, with 1 million new projects a week: Lovable says it has now surpassed $500 million in annualized run-rate revenue and its users are building businesses and replacing internal software. Read More
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Mercor’s Brendan Foody calls out Sequoia, accusing it of 'dual-pricing' valuation tricks: Sequoia is just one of the top firms that sells same equity at two different prices. Read More
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Sandstone raises $30M to bring AI to in-house legal teams: Sandstone's Series A was led by Lightspeed Partners, with participation from Sequoia. Read More
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Apple plays catch-up at WWDC: Apple spent much of its WWDC keynote highlighting fixes, performance improvements, and long-requested features before unveiling its upgraded AI-powered Siri, signaling that the company wants users to see AI as just one part of a broader effort to improve its software. Read More
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Investors don’t just listen to what you say - they look at how your company operates. Is ownership clear? Do your numbers match your story? Can you answer follow-up questions without digging through spreadsheets? The Fundraise-Ready Startup Kit equips founders with the materials investors expect to see, before pressure is on. Because confidence in the room doesn’t come from slides. It comes from preparation. 
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How an e-scooter founder raised $5 million to build space data centers: Orbital founder Euwyn Poon built 250,000 scooters at Spin. Now he wants to launch 10,000 space data centers. Read More
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