Picogrid, which is building a hardware and software integration layer for military systems, raised a $45M Series A led by Bessemer (Barratt Dewey/Tectonic Defense)

A look at Roblox's biometric age-checking tool, which will help place users into age-based accounts starting this month, amid controversy over user privacy (NBC News)

A profile of Cursor, including its hiring process and its testy relationship with Anthropic, which told Cursor that Claude Code was mainly a research effort (Business Insider)

Cybersecurity startup Chainguard, Cisco, Cloudflare, JPMorgan Chase, and others launch Athena, a coalition to secure open-source software using AI (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

NewCore, which helps companies manage both human and AI agent identities in a single system, emerges from stealth with a $66M seed led by Cyberstarts (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Electronic Arts launches EA Advertising, letting brands integrate directly into gameplay through dynamic, real-time placements, including stadium signage (Assiatou Hann/CNBC)

SpaceX IPO raised a total of $85.7B as underwriters exercised their overallotment of shares, after raising an initial $75B on June 11 (CNBC)