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• Swiss runner Audrey Werro won the European 800m gold medal with a championship-best time of 1:54.81, narrowly defeating Britain's Keely Hodgkinson (1:55.01). • Other major victories included Italy's Nadia Battocletti, who secured the 10,000m title to complement her 5,000m crown, and Norway's Karsten Warholm, who set a championship record of 46.63 in the men's 400m hurdles. • These results highlight a dominant night for top European athletes, with multiple championship records broken across different disciplines.

• Together AI raised $800 million in a Series C funding round on July 1, 2026, reaching a post-money valuation of $8.3 billion. • The investment was led by Aramco Ventures, with participation from major firms including NVIDIA, Vista Equity Partners, General Catalyst, and Emergence Capital. • This funding highlights a growing enterprise shift toward open-weight models, such as DeepSeek, Nemotron, MiniMax, and Kimi, to reduce the high costs associated with closed frontier APIs.

• Port, an AI startup in cybersecurity, raised $100 million in its third funding round led by General Atlantic, achieving an $800 million valuation. • The funding supports expansion in cloud infrastructure protection technologies. • This round reflects investor confidence in AI-driven defenses against evolving cyber threats in the US market.