Crunchbase Data: Q2 Brought The Most Billion-Dollar Startup Exits Since 2021

Startup exits valued at $1 billion or more are now more numerous than at any point since the 2021 market peak, Crunchbase data shows. The trend we’re seeing for the second quarter of 2026 includes both the largest venture-backed exit of all time and a bevy of other comparatively tinier but still sizable startup exits through acquisition or IPO.

OpenAI is handing out Codex limit resets 2.5x faster than it did last year. I logged all 32

<div class="md"><p>I keep a record of every shared Codex limit reset OpenAI has handed out since September 2025. These aren’t the standard five-hour or weekly refills included with your plan. They’re the extra resets publicly announced for everyone. Another one landed today at 1:43 p.m. PT.</p> <p>The pace has changed significantly, and it doesn’t seem to be common knowledge. There have been 32 resets in 347 days, an average of one every 10.8 days. But there were 16 in the last 90

End of the deal with Cursor

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AI benchmarks have a trust problem and Google wants to fix it

Google Deepmind is testing a double-blind evaluation of a frontier AI model for the first time. Cryptographic protection through Confidential Space is meant to keep Google from seeing the test questions and keep evaluators from seeing the model weights. The pilot project with the Singapore AI Safety Institute uses a Gemini Flash Lite and could set a new standard for tamper-proof AI benchmarks. The article AI benchmarks have a trust problem and Google wants to fix it appeared first on The Decoder

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