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In Brief Posted: 1:55 PM PDT · June 29, 2026 Image Credits:Brian Ach / Getty Images for TechCrunch Chamath Palihapitiya, best known for his venture capital firm Social Capital and the All-In podcast, announced Monday that the AI coding startup he founded raised a sizable Series A. The company, 8090 Labs, closed a $135 million…

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Krish Ramineni is CEO & Co-founder at Fireflies.ai, an AI teammate for meetings used by people at 75% of Fortune 500 companies. gettyA decade ago, starting a software company was expensive. You needed engineers, cloud hosting, infrastructure, design and months of development just to ship something mediocre. Most founders never even got past the prototype…

Ben Blanquera – VP – AI and Sustainability, Rackspace Technology. gettyIn my role as vice-president of sustainability and AI at Rackspace Technology, I’m seeing organizations invest in enterprise artificial intelligence, expecting massive productivity gains, particularly in business process returns. But as companies rush deployments, they often encounter significant roadblocks unrelated to coding or data as…

Amazon’s Prime Day is off to a solid start, but the main news may not be how much shoppers are shelling out. It may be what they’re buying. U.S. online spending on the first day of Amazon’s four-day Prime Day event jumped 5.3% to $8.3 billion across merchants from a year ago…