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- Blueshoe launches an AI-native law firm for consumer and plaintiff cases
YC's Spring 2025 company pairs a Harvard Law CEO with an MIT engineer and says legal intake can start inside chat apps.
- Probook raises $40 million by putting AI at the dispatch board
George Eliadis started with missed pressure-washing calls. Sequoia and a16z are betting that dispatch is the control point in home services.
- Samsung SDI backs Forge Nano's defense battery push
Samsung SDI's money and engineering help would give Forge Nano manufacturing credibility as it courts defense buyers for U.S.-sourced cells.
- Palmer Luckey's Anduril is chasing a Nissan factory for Japan's drone buildout
Reuters says Anduril is in talks for Nissan's Oppama plant, a civilian auto site that could become a local defense production hub.
- Chris Lattner's Modular is selling to Qualcomm in a bet on the AI runtime layer
The deal puts Mojo, MAX and Modular's hardware-neutral pitch inside Qualcomm's edge-to-cloud silicon strategy.
- Intercept launches with $500M to attack colds, flu and indoor-air transmission
Nan Ransohoff, Charlie Petty and Devin Sok are using grants, investments and buyer demand to pull respiratory prevention out of a funding gap.
- Sony opens U.S. pre-orders for its wearable cooling device
The REON POCKET PRO Plus costs $259.99 in the U.S., with Sony estimating late-July delivery for the neck-worn thermal gadget.
- OpenAI Updates GPT-5.5 Instant to Better Handle Intent, Advice and Shopping
The June 24th release targets ChatGPT's default workhorse model, with OpenAI pushing it deeper into recommendation and decision queries.
- Vishal Sikka raises $32M for Hang Ten, an AI bet against the IT services model
Mayfield led the seed round for Hang Ten Systems, which says AI can compress the work behind enterprise software projects.
- Anthropic Says Alibaba-Linked Operators Used 25,000 Accounts to Mine Claude for Qwen
The Claude maker says the April-to-June campaign produced 28.8 million exchanges and targeted coding and agentic reasoning.
- Coval raises $28M to test voice AI like Waymo tested cars
Norwest led Brooke Hopkins' Series A as enterprises push voice agents from demos into production calls.
- Anthropic's Fable 5 return signals are showing up in Claude Code and AWS
The model remains offline after a US export-control order, but product strings, AWS docs, and a new lawsuit point to a negotiated relaunch path.
- Seltz Lands $12.5 Million to Build Search Infrastructure for AI Agents
Antonio Mallia, an Amazon and Pinecone veteran, is betting agents need their own crawler, index, retrieval models, and ranking stack.
- Meta turns Facebook Creator Studio into an AI companion app
The standalone app is being tested with select creators and folds in Facebook's AI assistant for analytics, comments and content planning.
- OpenAI's Jalapeno chip moves the AI fight from GPUs to unit economics
The Broadcom-built inference ASIC is slated for deployment by year-end, but OpenAI has not released final benchmarks, pricing or yields.
- Greptile puts numbers on the AI pull request spam problem
Rahul Bathija's OpenClaw study gives Daksh Gupta's code-review startup a live dataset for its validation-layer thesis.
- Ryan Cohen pulls his GameStop pay plan as the eBay bid becomes an incentive test
The Chewy cofounder is trying to remove a clean objection from critics: that GameStop's takeover push could enrich him personally.
- Slate Auto opens EV truck preorders at $24,950, turning its reservation list into the real test
The Troy, Michigan EV startup is asking buyers for a $300 non-refundable deposit before production starts in autumn 2026.
- Bloomberg: Dutch chip startup Euclyd is seeking about 200 million euros for a Series A, not yet closed
Bloomberg reports Euclyd has several term sheets, but no named lead investor or valuation, and the amount could change.
- Racket's Rhombus 1.0 turns a decades-old macro thesis into a cleaner language bet
Matthew Flatt, Robby Findler, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt and a 20-person contributor group are trying to bring Racket-style extensibility beyond Lisp syntax.
- Superhuman agrees to acquire Edward Tian's GPTZero
GPTZero says it reached 19 million registered users and $30 million in ARR after raising just $13.5 million.
- Latitude turns AI agent chats into an observability signal
Cesar Miguelanez is positioning Latitude around the failure data hidden in production agent conversations, not just traces and dashboards.
- Sierra's Bret Taylor puts a four-year clock on the AI phone agent shift
The Sierra co-founder is framing voice agents as a brand advantage, not just a way for companies to cut support costs.
- Mark Pincus turns Zynga's product doctrine into a founder manual
The Zynga founder is using his new book and podcast circuit to push a blunt message: founders win by being right before they scale.