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Blaxel raises $7.3M seed round to build ‘AWS for AI agents’ after processing billions of agent requests

July 18, 2025
Blaxel, a startup building cloud infrastructure specifically designed for artificial intelligence agents, has raised $7.3 million in seed funding led by First Round Capital, the company announced Thursday. The financing comes just one month after the six-founder team graduated from Y Combinator’s Spring 2025 batch, underscoring investor appetite for infrastructure plays in the rapidly expanding…
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OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Agent With Full PC & App Access

July 18, 2025
OpenAI isn’t letting the delay of its open source AI model slow it down on shipping other features. Today, the company is unveiling ChatGPT agent, a feature that allows its AI chatbot to autonomously browse the web, conduct extensive research, download and create new files…
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FBI Tracks 1,610 BTC to Armenian Hacker in Explosive Ransomware Case

July 18, 2025
A massive ransomware ring is collapsing as U.S. authorities track 1,610 BTC in ransom payments, leveraging bitcoin trails to identify and charge global cybercriminals. Bitcoin Ransom Plot Crashes as US Closes in on Ryuk Mastermind The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on July 16 that a ransomware suspect extradited from Ukraine has been charged in the United States after investigators…
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Buzz tries to undercut Lectric with even lower-priced electric trike

July 18, 2025
Buzz Bicycles has just launched its newest electric tricycle model, pushing prices even lower as older riders continue to gravitate towards electric three-wheelers as accessible e-bikes for both recreation and transportation. Now with the Buzz Cerana T2 hitting the road, the lower end of the market is heating up even faster. And Buzz may now have one of the best-priced mid-drive e-trikes in…
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Perplexity offers free AI tools to students worldwide in partnership with SheerID

July 17, 2025
Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine that competes with Google and ChatGPT, has partnered with identity verification company SheerID to offer up to two years of free premium service to more than 264 million students worldwide, the companies announced Monday. The deal tackles a key challenge for AI companies: providing educational access to expensive tools while preventing discount fraud.
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