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StrictlyVC returns to NYC on Sept 10 at Ideal Glass Studios with $180 tickets, riding a clear momentum in NYC seed funding: ~240 startups raised $1.13B in H1 2026, averaging seed rounds around $6.64M and totaling $16B across the year’s first half.
Adobe’s experimental camera app Project Indigo adds AI-driven photo critique and editing guidance (plus object removal, depth of field, and style transfer) and uses Gemini-based Nano Banana with room to swap in Firefly; features are in testing with select users, signaling potential future AI-assisted photography tools but no monetization or regulatory changes yet.
Colossal Biosciences is reportedly seeking new capital at a $20–$30 billion valuation, backed by prior $60 million government investments and multiple spinouts with notable funding/valuations, signaling potential upside but substantial execution and regulatory risks.
Hackers are exploiting recently patched WordPress bugs, with estimates suggesting up to about 90 million of the 400+ million WordPress sites running vulnerable versions remain at risk.
Waymo paused its San Francisco robotaxi service due to a power outage, later resumed after a brief pause, with about 7,000 PG&E customers affected and the city’s mayor pushing for tougher autonomous-vehicle regulations.
Mozilla-reported findings show Stardust shared users' health data with an analytics firm, contradicting its privacy claims; among six period-tracking apps, Stardust was the sole data-sharer, while Euki appeared to be privacy-clean.
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