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Startup news Rubrik pledges more than $500m for the UK and makes London its European base Jul 9, 2026
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Startup news Quant fund Qube is hiring human stock pickers to sit beside its algorithms Jul 9, 2026
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Startup news US power firms scramble for transformers and turbines as data centres strain supply Jul 9, 2026
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Startup news Meta to put its own AI chip into production in September, aiming to double computing capacity Jul 9, 2026
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Startup news Taiwan’s central bank chief urges caution on leverage as AI stock rally runs hot Jul 9, 2026
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Startup news India scraps import duties on electronics and battery inputs to boost local manufacturing Jul 9, 2026
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Startup news ‘Slow-cial’ app Roost forces you to slow down to the speed of a carrier pigeon Jul 9, 2026
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Startup news SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.5, which Elon describes as an ‘Opus-class model’ Jul 9, 2026
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Startup news Feds demand autonomous vehicle companies stop interfering with first responders Jul 9, 2026
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Startup news Despite ‘misgivings,’ judge approves Elon Musk’s $1.5M SEC settlement Jul 9, 2026
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Startup news Irish drone delivery startup Manna is building a 1,000-person US factory in Tulsa to take on Zipline and Wing Jul 9, 2026
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Startup news Google’s deepfake detector system used to debunk McConnell hoax pic Jul 9, 2026
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Startup news This startup thinks robotics is about to have its ChatGPT moment Jul 9, 2026
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Startup news Autonomous drone delivery startup Manna plots major US expansion Jul 9, 2026
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Startup news Truecaller clashes with India’s telecom regulator over anti-spam rules Jul 9, 2026
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Startup news Lovable reportedly in talks to double its valuation to $13.2B Jul 9, 2026
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Startup news Nvidia teams up with chip rival d-Matrix instead of fighting it Jul 9, 2026
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Startup news ‘We cannot choose to become idiots’: a Brown professor’s proof of mass AI cheating Jul 9, 2026
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Startup news Google’s SynthID watermark just debunked its first high-profile deepfake: a hoax image of Mitch McConnell Jul 9, 2026
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Startup news NHTSA demands autonomous vehicle companies fix first responder interference by end of July Jul 9, 2026