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Seattle Poised To Ban New Datacenters
TL;DR: Seattle's city government is on the verge of passing a year-long moratorium on new datacenter construction, a striking blow in Amazon and Microsoft's home turf. The move reflects growing local backlash against the AI buildout's power and resource demands. Read more →
Claude Now Writes 80% Of Its Code
TL;DR: Anthropic published internal data showing over 80% of all code merged into its codebase is now written by Claude itself. The disclosure offers a rare quantified look at AI accelerating its own development and edging toward self-improving systems. Read more →
OpenAI Splits With White House On Safety
TL;DR: OpenAI released a policy proposal for regulating advanced AI that diverges from the Trump administration's executive order issued the same week. The gap signals growing friction between leading labs and Washington over how aggressively frontier AI should be governed. Read more →
Ramp Raises $750M At $44B Valuation
TL;DR: Spend-management platform Ramp raised $750 million in late-stage funding led by ICONIQ, GIC and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, lifting its valuation to $44 billion. The bet: enterprise AI token spending will explode and Ramp wants to sit at the center of it. Read more →
Supabase Hits $10.5B On Vibe-Coding Wave
TL;DR: Database startup Supabase raised $500 million at a $10.5 billion valuation, riding the vibe-coding surge as developers lean on AI to ship apps faster. The round underscores how the AI-native developer stack keeps minting fresh unicorns. Read more →
Bezos Backs Brain-Inspired AI Startup Flourish
TL;DR: Flourish, a startup building AI models inspired by real neurons, raised $500 million at a $2.5 billion valuation, with about a fifth of the capital reportedly coming from Jeff Bezos. The company wants to reinvent AI by studying the brain's core algorithm. Read more →
S&P 500 Refuses To Fast-Track SpaceX
TL;DR: S&P Dow Jones Indices confirmed it will not change inclusion rules to fast-track SpaceX into the S&P 500 after its IPO. That means index entry could take at least a year, far slower than the days-long path other mega-caps have enjoyed. Read more →
Starlink Surpasses 12 Million Active Customers
TL;DR: SpaceX announced Starlink now has over 12 million active customers, up from 10.2 million in March 2026 and 9 million last December. The rapid growth reinforces Starlink as the financial engine ahead of SpaceX's blockbuster IPO. Read more →
Coralogix Lands $200M Observability Round
TL;DR: Observability provider Coralogix raised $200 million in late-stage funding led by Advent, CPPIB and Greenfield, with Brighton Park Capital participating. The Series F fuels its push to monitor increasingly complex, AI-driven software systems at scale. Read more →
Hello Robot Brings Home Robots To Market
TL;DR: California startup Hello Robot released the fourth generation of Stretch, its home-assistance robot, testing whether Silicon Valley is finally ready to put robots in people's homes. The launch is a real-world bet on consumer embodied AI. Read more →
US Plant To Recover 1,000 Tons Rare Earths
TL;DR: ElementUSA and the Colorado School of Mines won $67 million from the Department of Energy to build a plant recovering 1,000 tons of rare earth elements. The project targets a critical supply-chain weak point for chips, defense and clean energy. Read more →
ChatGPT Memory Expands To Free Users
TL;DR: OpenAI says ChatGPT's memory feature is getting smarter and rolling out to free users for the first time. The expansion deepens personalization across the consumer base and raises fresh questions about data retention and privacy at scale. Read more →
Apple Faces $38B Fine In India
TL;DR: Apple agreed to disclose its India revenue so regulators can calculate antitrust penalties, with a potential fine reaching $38 billion. The company was found to have exploited its dominant position in the iPhone app ecosystem in a key growth market. Read more →
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