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Ollama Raised $65 Million to Turn Your Laptop Into an AI Data Center

Ollama's new round says local and open-weight AI is no longer a hobby. It is becoming enterprise plumbing, with fewer tokens and more GPU invoices.

Meta Muse Spark 1.1 Turns the Llama Shop Into a Toll Booth

Meta launched Muse Spark 1.1 and a public Model API preview, taking its AI strategy from open-model halo to paid agentic infrastructure.

Fi Put Starlink on Your Dog. The Battery Already Looks Winded.

Fi's Ultra dog tracker adds Starlink backup for real off-grid panic prevention, but the price and battery life make this peace of mind gloriously specific.

Xbox Game Pass Packed July With Tony Hawk, Palworld, and Fresh Tier Math

Xbox's July 7 Game Pass wave adds Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2, The Planet Crafter, and Palworld 1.0. The lineup rules; the membership logic is still gloriously Microsoft.

Prime Medicine Beat Beam in Gene-Editing Arbitration, and Cambridge Called It Family Therapy

Prime Medicine's July 8 Beam ruling cleared its AATD gene-editing program, giving Cambridge biotech one more extremely local way to compete.

Marker Raised $13 Million to Make AI Writing Feel Less Like Cheating

Marker raised $13 million to build an AI writing tool for drafts, revisions, and half-formed thoughts. Earnest, stylish, and surprisingly sane about the craft.

SambaNova Raised $1 Billion So AI Inference Can Stop Begging Nvidia

SambaNova's $1 billion Series F says enterprise AI wants faster, cheaper inference without a GPU pilgrimage. The thesis is coherent. The capital requirement is deranged.

OpenAI Turned GPT-5.6 Into a Government-Approved Launch Sequence

OpenAI says GPT-5.6 goes public July 9 after a U.S.-delayed rollout. The model looks strong. The launch choreography is the real story.

Aardaia Raised €5 Million to Breed a Protein Potato for a Nervous Continent

Aardaia just raised €5 million to turn a forgotten tuber into Europe's homegrown protein crop. Strange pitch, serious science, and better timing than it has any right to have.

Nothing Made Phone (4b) for People Who Think Beige Is a Crime

Nothing's Phone (4b) pairs bold design, a huge battery, and long software support with a less thrilling chip and some extremely performative repair vibes.

Beijing Might Lock China’s Best AI Models Behind the Great Firewall

China may curb overseas access to its top AI models, turning cheap open AI into a national-security asset with a passport policy.