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Chip startup Olix raises $312M, Mobilise launches investment arm, and a deep dive into July funding
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European startups pulled in €8.6B during July as exits surge
Founder News Team Aug 12, 2026 0

European venture funding hit €8.6 billion in July, a figure usually reserved for entire quarters. A wave of exits is…

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India-Israel partnership evolves into wider regional strategic network: Report
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Defense ties with Israel pull India into a sprawling Mediterranean-to-Indo-Pacific bloc
Founder News Team Aug 12, 2026 0

India is quietly anchoring a new strategic corridor that links Mediterranean security to Indo-Pacific ambitions without formally joining any alliance.…

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Google DeepMind enters a new era as co-founder Demis Hassabis shifts AI role | DeepMind
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DeepMind Loses Independence as Nobel Winner Steps Back From Daily Control
Founder News Team Aug 12, 2026 0

One of the world’s most celebrated AI labs is being absorbed into Google’s main operations just as its Nobel laureate…

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While Europe and America baked through record heat this summer, the other end of the planet quietly dropped to minus 119 Fahrenheit — the coldest anywhere on Earth in fourteen years. The people who recorded it cannot be reached by plane until spring
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Antarctica Plunges to Minus 119 Degrees While the World Burns
Founder News Team Aug 12, 2026 0

Antarctica just recorded a temperature 119 degrees below zero as the rest of the planet strings together its hottest months…

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Pharmacy giant to gut hundreds of Calif. stores, shutter nationwide
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Rite Aid’s Second Bankruptcy Threatens to Erase All 347 California Locations
Founder News Team Aug 12, 2026 0

Rite Aid is barreling toward a second bankruptcy that could permanently shutter every one of its 347 stores across California.…

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Bronze Lady Justice statue holding scales in front of a blurred European Union flag with yellow stars on a blue background.
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AI Deployed Without Governance Sabotages Returns, EU Rules Warn
Founder News Team Aug 12, 2026 0

Companies pouring cash into artificial intelligence are seeing those investments crater when risk controls are missing, according to new EU…

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Startups
A $2.1 Billion Brooklyn Startup Emerges as America’s Anti-DeepSeek Contender
Founder News Team Aug 12, 2026 0

There is now a price tag on America’s answer to cheaper foreign AI models. A Brooklyn company has secured $2.1…

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#UKRAINERUSSIAWAR. Sweden will hand over a Russian "shadow fleet" merchant ship to Kiev; the United Kingdom applies new sanctions, including six oil tankers. Moscow responds by attacking merchant ships in Odessa
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Sweden seizes a Russian shadow fleet ship for Ukraine as Moscow strikes Odessa vessels
Founder News Team Aug 12, 2026 0

Sweden just boarded and impounded a vessel from Russia’s shadow fleet, handing it over to Ukraine as Moscow bombed civilian…

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Visa guts 6 VPs and dozens of senior staff from Foster City campus
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Visa axes six VPs and over 300 staff just before a $2.4 billion AI acquisition
Founder News Team Aug 12, 2026 0

Visa just laid off 300 employees, including six VPs, right as it prepares to drop $2.4 billion on an artificial…

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Why Germany Could Be One Of The Biggest Winners Of The AI Boom | Europe's Hidden AI Opportunity
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Protesters Slam Zelensky’s Wartime Removal of Defense Minister Fedorov
Founder News Team Aug 12, 2026 0

Ukraine is swapping out its defense minister at a moment when battlefield momentum hangs in the balance and Western patience…

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