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The hire adds an AI lead at B Capital, which invests from seed to early- and late-stage venture growth across technology, healthcare, and resilience tech.

Operations Photo: Wonder July 16, 2026 Food technology platform Wonder announced Thursday it has closed a $650 million Series D funding round at a pre-money valuation of $9 billion, which will fuel further expansion of its restaurant locations, robotics and artificial intelligence, according to a company press release. The round drew continued backing from existing…

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Twitter and Block co-founder Jack Dorsey announced a new app on Tuesday called Buzz. Positioned as a challenger to Slack and GitHub, Buzz is a group chat platform for the workplace that puts humans and their AI agents in the same conversations. Dorsey wrote on X that Buzz is “model-agnostic, decentralized, self-sovereign, and open source.”…

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Fifty years after the events of Blade Runner 2049, Los Angeles has been reborn, just not by humanity. Cora, a fugitive in a final bid to stop running, takes on one last identity: a Blade Runner. Forced to partner with Olwen, a Replicant days from dying, she hunts down a runaway hiding a truth that…