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Ashton Kutcher exits Sound Ventures to co-found new VC firm with Morgan Beller, targeting AI infrastructure

July 2, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Ashton Kutcher is leaving Sound Ventures, the firm he co-founded with Guy Oseary 11 years ago, to launch a new venture capital firm with Morgan Beller, the Wall Street Journal reported. TechCrunch had separately heard of Kutcher’s planned exit, and the WSJ report confirmed it, adding details about his partnership with Beller. The new firm’s […]

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SpaceX reportedly showed investors a prototype AI device — Musk says it’s ‘utterly false’

July 2, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

SpaceX, the rocket company founded by Elon Musk, has shown investors a prototype of a handset-like AI device, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal published Monday. The device is described as sleeker and slimmer than an iPhone, placing it somewhere between a compact smartphone and a purpose-built AI gadget like the Rabbit […]

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OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent, lands on Android and iOS

July 1, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent that captured the internet’s attention earlier this year, is now available as a mobile application on both Android and iOS, the company announced on X on Tuesday. OpenClaw, the free, open-source AI agent that went viral earlier in 2026, is now available as a mobile app on both Android and […]

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The DeepMind Trio Who Built a Poker AI Are Now Making Money for Quant Hedge Funds

July 1, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Three former DeepMind researchers who built an AI that defeated human professionals at no-limit poker have applied the same technology to stock trading — and the bet appears to be paying off. Their Prague-based AI lab, EquiLibre Technologies, is now valued at $500 million after raising an undisclosed-sum Series A, TechCrunch learned exclusively. Three former […]

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Google Makes Gemini’s Personalized Image Generation Free for All U.S. Users

June 30, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Google announced Monday that its Gemini app is now offering personalized AI image generation, powered by its Nano Banana model, to all eligible U.S. users at no cost. The feature, previously restricted to Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers, allows the chatbot to create images based on your interests and preferences without requiring you to specify […]

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Omen AI raises $31M to stop bacterial outbreaks in data center liquid cooling systems

June 30, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Omen AI, a startup founded by an 18-year-old high school dropout, has raised $31 million to solve a surprisingly messy problem in the AI boom: bacteria growing inside the liquid that cools data center chips. The Series A round was led by Nava Ventures, with participation from CRV, Vanderbilt University, Mann+Hummel, and others, bringing Omen’s […]

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Ford rehires 350 veteran engineers after AI quality systems fall short

June 29, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Ford Motor Company has rehired 350 veteran engineers — including former employees and specialists who had been working at supplier firms — after the automaker concluded that its artificial intelligence and automated quality systems were not delivering the expected results. The move, confirmed by Ford chief operating officer Kumar Galhotra in an interview with Bloomberg, […]

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Micron briefly topped Meta and Tesla in market value — here’s why Wall Street sees it as the next Nvidia

June 29, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Micron Technology, the Boise, Idaho-based memory chip maker, briefly became more valuable than Meta and Tesla on Thursday, June 26, 2025, before settling back to nearly match them by Friday. The company closed the week with a market capitalization near $1.27 trillion, just behind Meta at $1.39 trillion and Tesla at $1.42 trillion. Its stock […]

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Asian AI Startups Rush to Fill Void Left by US Export Ban on Anthropic’s Mythos

June 28, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

On Wednesday, Chinese cybersecurity firm 360 unveiled Tulongfeng, an AI tool it says can go head-to-head with Anthropic’s Mythos — the cybersecurity-focused AI model so powerful the Trump Administration has banned its export, along with its restricted version Fable 5, from non-US hands. Earlier the same week, Tokyo-based Sakana AI launched Fugu, a frontier model […]

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As Government Scrutiny Intensifies, AI Labs Face a Shared Regulatory Bind

June 28, 2026 CoinPulseHQ Editorial

Two weeks after the U.S. government pulled Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos models from general release, OpenAI’s next-generation model appears to be facing the same regulatory bottleneck. According to a report from The Information on Thursday, OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 will launch only in a limited preview, with the government approving access “customer by customer” until a broader […]