2 founders raised $3.2 million, then scrapped their original AI startup. Here's the deck they used to pitch the pivot.

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Monumint's cofounders, CEO Tyler Maran and chief technology officer Anna Pojawis.

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Anthropic has soared to a $1.2 trillion valuation on secondary markets. Shares are almost impossible to get.

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Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic, during an interview on "The Circuit with Emily Chang" at Anthropic's headquarters in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday, April 30, 2026.

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Budget smartphones are in trouble

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Smartphone prices, especially for budget phones like the Samsung Galaxy A36, are feeling the crunch as chip and memory shortages continue.

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Why used Xbox, iPhone, and Macbook sales are surging

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Jensen Huang says his software engineers prefer building agents to writing code

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Jensen Huang says his engineers love how their role has evolved because of AI.

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Samsung and SK Hynix still have one advantage Japan can't match, says Kioxia dealmaker

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Yuji Sugimoto led Bain Capital's acquisition of Toshiba Memory, now known as Kioxia.

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Half of parents are worried their kids are too hooked on AI

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Laptops and headphones in a classroom in Texas.

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How to stop people from using your Instagram posts with Meta's AI

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Instagram profiles now automatically allow users to share and modify other people's public posts, including their profile picture, with Meta's new AI model, Muse Image.

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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is raising external funding for the first time. Read the CEO's email to staff.

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Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin in 2000.

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Facebook users keep accidentally posting onto Threads — and Threads users love it.

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Mark Zuckerberg's Meta started Threads three years ago. It now says it's up to 500 million monthly active users. I wonder how many people actually know they're posting there.

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