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Phia accused of ‘cookie stuffing,’ taking affiliate credit on purchases it didn’t earn

2026-07-11 08:29:25

Phia, the shopping startup founded by Bill Gates’ daughter, Phoebe, and her friend Sophia Kianni is under fire for a practice known as “cookie stuffing,” which helped the product receive commissions and credit for sales it did not actually generate, per a Bloomberg investigation. 

Open source AI matters more than ever, according to Hugging Face’s Clem Delangue

2026-07-11 03:00:00

Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI builders can share and download open models and datasets, now used by roughly half the Fortune 500. Delangue has seen the same story play out again and again: companies start […]

Oratomic raises $300M to build a viable quantum computer that needs only 20K qubits

2026-07-10 23:00:09

The massive round was co-led by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Khosla Ventures.

Hugging Face’s CEO on why companies are done renting their AI

2026-07-10 22:00:00

Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI builders can share and download open models and datasets, now used by roughly half the Fortune 500. Delangue has seen the same story play out again and again: companies start […]

An AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100M fundraise

2026-07-10 06:08:58

Lyzr, a startup that builds AI agents for enterprises, used its own AI agent to raise a $100 million round — proof, evidently, that the product actually works.

Charles Hudson shares the common mistakes he’s seen after investing in 500+ startups

2026-07-10 03:26:31

In this week’s episode of Build Mode, Isabelle Johannessen talks with Precursor Ventures' Charles Hudson about the headwinds facing early-stage founders today and the most common mistakes founders should avoid in order to get funded.