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Meet Isaac 1, the $8,000 home robot that wants to take folding laundry off your to-do list
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Meet Isaac 1, the $8,000 home robot that wants to take folding laundry off your to-do list

The Y Combinator-backed startup Weave Robotics says its robot Isaac 1 can fold laundry and ships in California this fall.

Rya Jetha · 09 Jul, 2026
2 founders raised $3.2 million, then scrapped their original AI startup. Here's the deck they used to pitch the pivot.
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2 founders raised $3.2 million, then scrapped their original AI startup. Here's the deck they used to pitch the pivot.

Founders Tyler Maran and Anna Pojawis scrapped their startup OmniAI and launched Monumint, which builds AI agents for banks. Here's their pitch deck.

Geoff Weiss · 09 Jul, 2026
Anthropic has soared to a $1.2 trillion valuation on secondary markets. Shares are almost impossible to get.
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Anthropic has soared to a $1.2 trillion valuation on secondary markets. Shares are almost impossible to get.

Anthropic has soared to a $1.2 trillion valuation on a popular secondary exchange as investors clamor to get shares in the AI startup before it goes public.

Ben Bergman · 09 Jul, 2026
Budget smartphones are in trouble
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Budget smartphones are in trouble

Memory chips are getting more expensive. New analysis finds that's expected to shrink the global market for budget smartphones this year.

Ben Shimkus · 09 Jul, 2026
Why used Xbox, iPhone, and Macbook sales are surging
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Why used Xbox, iPhone, and Macbook sales are surging

The chip shortage has sparked a secondhand tech boom.

Amanda Hoover · 09 Jul, 2026
Drone strikes deepen Russia's fuel crisis as a governor said petrol is still 'unavailable for sale' on some days
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Drone strikes deepen Russia's fuel crisis as a governor said petrol is still 'unavailable for sale' on some days

Ukrainian drones have been hammering Russian oil facilities and supply routes, with Kyiv's pilots reporting 360 truck attacks in one week.

Matthew Loh · 09 Jul, 2026
Jensen Huang says his software engineers prefer building agents to writing code
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Jensen Huang says his software engineers prefer building agents to writing code

Jensen Huang says his software engineers love how AI is changing their role.

Shubhangi Goel · 09 Jul, 2026
Samsung and SK Hynix still have one advantage Japan can't match, says Kioxia dealmaker
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Samsung and SK Hynix still have one advantage Japan can't match, says Kioxia dealmaker

Kioxia, which was spun off from Toshiba in 2017, has become Japan's most valuable company by market cap.

Huileng Tan · 09 Jul, 2026
Meta paused AI training on employee keystrokes after data was 'put in a place it wasn't supposed to go:' CTO
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Meta paused AI training on employee keystrokes after data was 'put in a place it wasn't supposed to go:' CTO

The Model Capability Initiative, which has faced intense backlash, has been paused temporarily since June, just two months after its implementation.

Aditi Bharade · 09 Jul, 2026
I got an H-1B visa and my dream job at Google. Both were less secure than I thought.
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I got an H-1B visa and my dream job at Google. Both were less secure than I thought.

Gu Yichen was on an H-1B visa when he got laid off. He had 60 days to find a job, get sponsorship transferred, and start working.

Lavender Au · 09 Jul, 2026
Half of parents are worried their kids are too hooked on AI
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Half of parents are worried their kids are too hooked on AI

AI isn't just shaking up workplaces and college classrooms, it's gaining ground among grade school kids and raising parents' concerns.

Dominick Reuter · 09 Jul, 2026
Canada's getting its first Meta data center, and it's built for AI
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Canada's getting its first Meta data center, and it's built for AI

Meta said it's investing $9 billion to build a new data center in Alberta, Canada, making it the company's 33rd data center in the world.

Lloyd Lee · 09 Jul, 2026