Paris-based startup hub Station F, founded by billionaire Xavier Niel, is preparing to launch the second batch of its F/ai accelerator this September, aiming to help AI-focused startups move quickly from early product to real revenue. Director Roxanne Varza said the program builds on Station F’s broader role supporting AI startups, noting the hub has…

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New York has become the first U.S. state to pause new data center construction after Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order temporarily blocking permits for large-scale projects. The order applies to data centers of 50 megawatts or larger, potentially affecting more than a dozen planned developments, with the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation withholding…

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Google is redesigning Google Images into a Pinterest-style discovery platform, introducing a “For You” gallery and collections feature that lets users browse and save visual inspiration, while marking 25 years since the product’s debut. The company is also bringing AI image generation directly into Search’s AI Overviews using its Nano Banana model, allowing users to…

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U.S. AI startup Reflection AI has signed a $1 billion compute deal with European infrastructure company Nebius, which will give Reflection access to Nvidia’s latest chips. Nebius, formerly the international arm of Russian tech giant Yandex, joins a growing list of infrastructure partners racing to supply compute to AI labs building and training large models.…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. Last month, the U.S. government was improvising its way through a Mythos and Fable ban. Now, one of AI’s most respected lab chiefs is volunteering a more permanent answer. Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis is proposing a U.S.-led body that would…

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Today we’re publishing the AI Use-Case Library: 159 real, named AI deployments across 21 industries, with the tools, vendors, and reported outcomes on 77 of them. Six were halted or reversed, and those might be the most useful entries in the file. It’s free, no signup, and built to search before you spend a budget…

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Nokia’s AI-RAN platform arrived on July 15 with a claim worth examining: that it is the industry’s first. The vendor says the platform, built on its anyRAN software and NVIDIA’s Aerial system, will let operators pull far more capacity from the spectrum they already own, and it has framed the launch as one of the most significant…

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Insider Brief Agility Robotics and Churchill Capital Corp XI confidentially submitted a draft registration statement to the SEC, moving Agility closer to becoming a publicly traded humanoid robotics company. The filing follows Agility’s previously announced plan to go public through a merger with Churchill XI in a deal valuing the company at $2.5 billion and…

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Insider Brief TerraFirma raised about $115 million, including a $100 million Series A led by Kleiner Perkins, to expand its technology-enabled construction business and develop semi-autonomous heavy equipment systems. The company said the funding will support engineering, manufacturing, operations and construction teams, with investors including Bain Capital Ventures, Glade Brook Capital Partners, BANNER VC, Saga…

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PixVerse, a Singapore-based AI video-generation startup, closed a Series C extension totaling $439 million, pushing its valuation above $2 billion. The round included investors Alibaba, Lollapalooza Capital, Ivy Capital, Grand Mount Capital, Eastern Bell Capital, Mirae Asset, BlueFocus and CloudAlpha, alongside returning backers iGlobe Partners and OCBC’s Lion X Ventures, following an initial Series C…

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