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      <title>Oracle discloses 21,000 job cuts in its annual filing as AI agents replace database and engineering roles</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The tech giant's SEC 10-K, filed June 22, names AI adoption directly as the driver; AI now handles 94% of database administration tasks that were previously done by human employees [worsening]</description>
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      <title>SpaceX buys Cursor maker Anysphere for $60bn, the largest startup acquisition on record</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>An all-stock deal announced four days after SpaceX's Nasdaq debut; Cursor reached $4bn in annualised revenue in under four years and counts two-thirds of the Fortune 500 among its enterprise clients [active]</description>
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      <title>Defense tech startups raise $14.6bn in five months, smashing 2025's full-year record</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/defense-tech-funding-record-2026</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Anduril, Shield AI and Saronic account for $8.75bn of the total; the Pentagon is now actively encouraging VC participation and the sector is consolidating fast [active]</description>
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      <title>YC's Spring 2026 Demo Day fields 196 startups and debuts on-chain USDC seed funding</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Y Combinator's S26 cohort is its largest and most watched batch yet, with hottest startups commanding $175m+ valuations and the accelerator sending its first fully on-chain seed investment [active]</description>
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      <title>Ramp raises $750m at $44bn valuation, nearly triples in a year</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Iconiq, GIC and Ontario Teachers lead the spend-management platform's Series F; annualised revenue tops $1bn as companies lean on Ramp to control AI budgets [active]</description>
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      <title>Supabase raises $500m at $10.5bn on 600% database growth driven by AI agents</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>GIC leads a Series F that doubles the company's valuation in eight months; Claude Code is Supabase's largest growth driver since the start of 2026 [active]</description>
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      <title>Anduril doubles to $61bn valuation in $5bn Series H</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Thrive Capital and a16z lead the largest-ever defense-tech private round; revenue doubled to $2.2bn in 2025 and the Army's $20bn Lattice counter-drone contract underpins the raise [active]</description>
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      <title>Africa startup funding rises 26% in Q1 2026 to $705m, led by Egypt, South Africa and Kenya</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/africa-startup-q1-2026</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Fintech remains dominant but energy, logistics and agritech attract a larger share as the continent's ecosystem matures beyond payments [active]</description>
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      <title>Kalshi doubles to $22bn in five months and targets $40bn as prediction markets hit mainstream</title>
      <link>https://rbtfl.xyz/en/n/kalshi-prediction-markets-2026</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The YC W19 company led by Tarek Mansour raised $1bn from Coatue, Sequoia and a16z; 90% of US prediction market volume flows through its exchange [active]</description>
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      <title>a16z closes $15bn Fund VII, the largest VC fundraise in Silicon Valley history</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Andreessen Horowitz surpasses $60bn in assets under management as Fund VII bets on AI infrastructure, defense, bio and crypto, each in a separate vehicle [active]</description>
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      <title>Skild AI raises $1.4bn at $14bn valuation to build a general-purpose robot brain</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>SoftBank leads a Series C for the Pittsburgh startup building the Skild Brain, a foundation model that can retrofit any robot without task-specific retraining [active]</description>
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