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The Story That Raises the Round
A round is won on conviction, and conviction is built by narrative — not by the numbers alone. Founders raising capital in emerging technology tend to believe the round is decided by traction, TAM, and a clean cap table. Those…
The Founder Is The Category
In emerging technology, the market buys the founder before it buys the product. Long before a buyer can evaluate your architecture, your security model, or your unit economics, they make a faster, older decision: do I believe this person can…
BCG: Agentic AI Shifts Transformation from Central Programs to Team-Led Workflow Redesign
BCG argues that organizations capturing real value from agentic AI are those turning every team into its own transformation engine, rather than relying on centralized programs. The report states that while GenAI reached 70% adoption in just three years, only…
U.S. Commerce Department Orders Anthropic to Seek Approval for Foreign National Access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Models
The Trump administration, through the Commerce Department, has directed Anthropic to obtain U.S. government approval before allowing foreign nationals to use its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models. The order represents an expansion of export control authority to cover…
OpenAI Sunsets GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.3-Codex in Codex for ChatGPT Subscribers
OpenAI has removed GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.3-Codex from availability in Codex for users accessing it through ChatGPT subscriptions. The change took effect around June 2, 2026, with users reporting the models disappeared from the VS Code extension and CLI without clear…
Google Sunsets Gemini CLI and Gemini Code Assist IDE Extensions Effective June 18
Google has stopped serving requests for Gemini CLI and the Gemini Code Assist IDE extensions effective June 18, 2026, for individual users on Google AI Pro, Ultra, and free tiers via Gemini Code Assist for individuals. The change also impacts…
Google SecOps Deprecates Legacy Data Export API and Related Endpoints Effective June 18
Google Cloud Security Operations (Chronicle) has shut down several legacy and older API components effective June 18, 2026, following deprecation notices issued May 18. The changes target the data export and log type discovery functionality. Deprecated Features (Shutdown June 18,…
Noam Shazeer, Google Gemini Co-Lead and Transformer Co-Author, Joins OpenAI
Noam Shazeer, vice president of engineering at Google and co-lead of its Gemini AI models, announced on X that he is leaving Google to join OpenAI. In his post, Shazeer wrote: “I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining OpenAI…
HPE AI Factory with NVIDIA Adds Vera CPU, Agent Toolkit, and Full Confidential Computing for Production Agentic AI
At HPE Discover Las Vegas (running through June 18), HPE and NVIDIA are expanding the HPE AI Factory portfolio to support the shift from agentic AI pilots to governed, production-scale deployments. The updates center on three pillars: a new CPU…