24 Jun 2026
Private debt in GCC hit USD 4.1 bn last year — overtaking venture capital for the first time
Private debt has quietly overtaken venture capital as the Gulf's dominant startup financing tool for the first time as non-dilutive capital becomes increasingly attractive in a global VC environment that remains cautious, according to a report by Stride Ventures.
23 Jun 2026
Midwestern university tech and venture capital hub opens in San Francisco
In a room full of academics, student entrepreneurs, and the Mayor of San Francisco, the Third Coast Foundry officially opened its doors.
23 Jun 2026
Meet Qwable: The Free Local Model That Thinks Like Claude Fable
Qwable 27B is a full fine-tune of Alibaba's Qwen3.6-27B, trained on a Fable 5-style reasoning dataset, designed to replicate the structured, deliberate thinking style of Anthropic's newest flagship model.
23 Jun 2026
US Commerce Secretary Lutnick signals action on Chinese robotics dominance
The United States is preparing to confront one of the more quietly consequential technology gaps of the past decade. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is signaling a serious push to counter Chinese dominance in robotics, with a roundtable, a formal government study, and a potential executive order all taking shape in 2026.
23 Jun 2026
Cheap stuff that doesn’t suck and is under $25 for Prime Day
We at The Verge love a good gadget or tchotchke, especially when it’s not too expensive. But with the rising cost of just about everything these days, many once-cheap gadgets aren’t so affordable anymore.
23 Jun 2026
Mythos discovers 'Squidbleed,' a memory leak that's gone undetected since Clinton era
Sometimes it takes a while to detect a vuln. A 29-year-old, Heartbleed-style vulnerability in Squid, a popular open-source caching proxy server, silently leaked users' plaintext HTTP requests and potentially revealed sensitive data, including credentials and session tokens, for decades - until AI (and a few humans) saved the day.
23 Jun 2026
Anthropic’s Claude Tag is learning your company, one Slack message at a time
Anthropic is introducing Claude Tag in research preview, an “always-on Claude” that lives in Slack and acts as an AI teammate. The new feature — which allows users to tag @Claude to provide insights in chats and assign tasks — will begin in research preview, available through Slack for Claude Enterprise and Claude Team customers.
23 Jun 2026
Mamdani, AI industry flex political power in New York and what else to watch in Tuesday's primaries
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two opposing factions in the artificial intelligence industry square off in a Democratic primary for a U.S. House seat. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani tests his political clout by backing fellow democratic socialists. And President Donald Trump, after two of his chosen candidates for governor lost Republican primaries this month, ensured it won't happen again — by endorsing…
23 Jun 2026
Advanced AI models suffer a near-total collapse on classic psychology test as cognitive demands increase
New research provides evidence that while advanced artificial intelligence models process language with remarkable skill, they struggle significantly with tasks requiring the kind of sustained focus and conflict resolution seen in human attention. The study, published in PNAS Nexus, indicates that as cognitive demands increase, these programs experience a complete collapse in their ability to…
