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Media
Over the past year, Meta's Threads team has been steadily building toward deeper integration with the fediverse, a decentralized network of interconnected social platforms like Mastodon and Flipboard. Now, in what marks its most significant step yet, Threads is launching a dedicated feed for fediverse content and adding
Health
Digital health startup Sword Health has secured a fresh $40 million in funding at a $4 billion valuation, marking a 33% increase from its $3 billion valuation just a year ago. The round was led by returning backer General Catalyst, with participation from Khosla Ventures, Comcast Ventures, and several other
Military & Defense
Rising defense tech startup Mach Industries has raised $100 million in a new funding round, bringing its valuation to $470 million. The announcement follows a period of rapid growth and technological development for the company, which was founded just two years ago by Ethan Thornton, who dropped out of MIT
Finance
In a bold move to capture the loyalty of affluent consumers, JPMorgan Chase has unveiled a major overhaul of its flagship Sapphire Reserve credit card — complete with a steep increase in the annual fee and a slate of new perks designed to appeal to high-spending travelers and diners. Starting June
Military & Defense
OpenAI has been awarded a $200 million contract by the U.S. Department of Defense to deliver advanced artificial intelligence capabilities for national security, marking a significant new chapter in the company’s government-facing work. Announced on Monday, the one-year agreement is the first contract between OpenAI and the Pentagon
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Groq, a fast-rising startup in the artificial intelligence inference space, has announced two major moves that signal a direct challenge to the dominance of cloud behemoths Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft. The company unveiled support for the massive Qwen3 32B language model — including its unprecedented 131,000-token context window
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Chinese AI startup MiniMax has made a bold move in the global AI race with the release of its newest large language model, MiniMax-M1. Known in the West for its photorealistic AI video model Hailuo, the company is now turning heads with a large language model that not only pushes
Funding
Japan has unveiled an ambitious ¥100 billion ($693 million) initiative aimed at turning the country into a global hub for scientific research by luring top researchers from abroad—especially those in the United States disheartened by recent political and funding decisions under the Trump administration. As global competition intensifies for
Media
In a move that marks a significant shift for the world’s most popular messaging app, WhatsApp is officially introducing ads. Meta, WhatsApp’s parent company, announced on Monday that it will begin rolling out advertisements through the platform’s “Status” feature — its Stories-like function where users post disappearing text,
Finance
American Express is making its biggest-ever investment in a card program, signaling a bold move to court younger, high-income customers. On June 16, the company revealed it will be significantly enhancing its Platinum card later this summer or early fall—a move that reflects a calculated strategy to lock in
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
In a landmark move set to reshape Australia’s digital landscape, Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing arm of Amazon.com Inc., has unveiled a massive $13 billion (AU$20 billion) investment plan to bolster its data center operations across the country between 2025 and 2029. This marks the
Sales
Clay, a fast-growing sales automation startup, has raised a Series C funding round that values the company at approximately $3 billion, according to three sources familiar with the deal. The round was led by Capital G, Alphabet’s independent growth fund. Both Clay and Capital G declined to comment. The