Tech journalism lost one of its defining voices this week. Om Malik, the veteran technology journalist, investor, and founder of GigaOm, died on Wednesday, June 24, at Stanford Hospital after what his family described as “a long health journey with […]

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It’s Thursday, June 25, 2026, and venture capital today is focused on one clear idea: AI is moving from demos to systems that must actually work. The biggest checks went to infrastructure, reliability, regulated workflow automation, healthcare operations, and back-office […]

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Anthropic and OpenAI are helping companies automate code, customer support, research, and internal workflows. Now some of those same companies are finding they may have been paying too much for the privilege. A startup called Vaudit says it found roughly […]

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Housing is one of healthcare’s most expensive blind spots. When someone loses stable housing, the fallout rarely stays confined to rent payments or a missed mortgage. It shows up in emergency rooms, missed prescriptions, preventable hospital stays, and rising claims […]

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Just two weeks after Bitcoin fell to $59,000 in its worst weekly stretch since 2022, the world’s largest cryptocurrency is back under pressure. On Thursday morning, Bitcoin plunged as much as 5% to roughly $58,000, its weakest level since 2024, […]

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GRAIL has closed a $110 million equity investment from Samsung affiliates, giving the cancer detection company fresh capital as it works to win wider adoption for Galleri, its blood-based multi-cancer early detection test, and take the product into new markets […]

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For years, the semiconductor industry has lived with a looming question: what happens when chips get so small that shrinking them further stops making sense, or stops working at all? IBM says it has an answer. On Thursday, the company […]

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It’s Wednesday, June 24, 2026. Today’s tech stories show an industry moving past the demo phase and into the hard infrastructure race, where the winners will control not just smarter models, but the systems that power, secure, deploy, and regulate […]

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Just a week after China’s Z.ai grabbed global attention after its GLM-5.2 outperformed GPT-5.5 on coding benchmarks at a fraction of the cost, the company said Thursday it plans to use proceeds from a domestic listing to fund its push […]

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American homeowners are sitting on trillions of dollars in home equity. At the same time, many of them are still paying credit card rates north of 20% to cover everyday expenses, home repairs, medical bills, and family purchases. Trovy thinks […]

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OpenAI has built its own chip. On Thursday, the company unveiled Jalapeño, its first custom AI accelerator, developed with Broadcom as part of a broader push to control more of the infrastructure behind ChatGPT, Codex, its API business, and the […]

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Qualcomm is making a nearly $4 billion bet that the next big AI fight will not be won by chips alone. The company said Wednesday it plans to acquire AI startup Modular in an all-stock deal valued at about $3.92 […]

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It’s Wednesday, June 24, 2026, and the tech world is flashing warning lights even as it accelerates. While Meta pushes AI deeper into everyday wearables with a new line of affordable smart glasses and Alphabet secures a spot in the […]

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China has built its clearest answer yet to Anthropic’s Mythos, turning what started as a U.S. cybersecurity tool into the latest front in the AI arms race. At a cybersecurity conference in Beijing on Wednesday, Chinese security firm 360 Security […]

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Meta wants a piece of the prediction market boom. Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly assigned a small team inside Meta to build a smartphone app modeled on prediction platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi, according to a New York Times report published […]

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For a stretch of Tuesday evening, Meta’s apps started breaking in a way that felt familiar. Instagram feeds stopped loading. Facebook profiles appeared blank. WhatsApp users struggled to send messages. Across the U.S., Europe, parts of Asia, and other regions, […]

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It’s Tuesday, June 23, 2026, and the last 12 hours of startup financing did not look like a broad market rebound. They looked like a market making a narrower, harder-edged bet. Capital went to software that sits inside real operating […]

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SpaceX’s post-IPO euphoria just ran into gravity. After roaring out of the gate less than two weeks ago, Elon Musk’s space and AI company briefly slipped below the $150 price of its first trade on Tuesday, a sharp reversal for […]

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For millions of people, braiding is part of everyday life, culture, and routine. It is one of the most common protective hairstyles in the textured hair market. It is also one of the most time-consuming salon services. A single appointment […]

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Apple is facing a fresh legal fight in the UK after Britain’s competition tribunal approved a £3 billion, or roughly $4 billion, lawsuit accusing the company of locking millions of users into its iCloud storage service. The ruling clears the […]

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