June 09, 2026

Waymo bought Apple's self-driving car proving ground for $220M: Waymo has acquired a massive 5,500-acre proving ground in Arizona owned by Route 14 Investment Partners LLC, a Delaware shell company associated with Apple, according to documents filed with Maricopa County. Read More

OpenAI files confidentially for IPO, following Anthropic: The filing comes a little more than a week after its main rival, Anthropic, also filed to go public, ramping up the race between the two AI firms. Read More

Why Apple's slow-and-steady AI bet is starting to look pretty smart: Can Apple's new AI glow up put to bed accusations that it's losing an all-important industry race? Read More

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Apple bets cheaper AI will woo small developers: As AI experimentation grows more expensive, Apple is waiving cloud API costs for developers with fewer than 2 million first-time App Store downloads. Read More

Mercor’s Brendan Foody calls out Sequoia, accusing it of 'dual-pricing' valuation tricks: Sequoia is just one of the top firms that sells same equity at two different prices. Read More

Zepto's IPO filing reveals fast growth, bigger losses, and a valuation question nobody's answered yet: Zepto's advertising revenue jumped 151%, outpacing the company's 104% growth in operating revenue. Read More

Apple plays catch-up at WWDC: Apple spent much of its WWDC keynote highlighting fixes, performance improvements, and long-requested features before unveiling its upgraded AI-powered Siri, signaling that the company wants users to see AI as just one part of a broader effort to improve its software. Read More

As OpenAI files for IPO, Sam Altman's eye-scanning company is doing layoffs, report says: Tools for Humanity, Sam Altman's identity verification company, is reportedly struggling to generate revenue and will downsize its staff. Read More

Investors don’t just listen to what you say - they look at how your company operates. Is ownership clear? Do your numbers match your story? Can you answer follow-up questions without digging through spreadsheets? The Fundraise-Ready Startup Kit equips founders with the materials investors expect to see, before pressure is on. Because confidence in the room doesn’t come from slides. It comes from preparation. 

How an e-scooter founder raised $5 million to build space data centers: Orbital founder Euwyn Poon built 250,000 scooters at Spin. Now he wants to launch 10,000 space data centers. Read More

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