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Echo Chamber: Death by a thousand amendments

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  • July 3, 2026
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Gerry Brownlee warned MPs this week to keep their amendments to a minimum. If only the same advice could be applied to ministers adding bills to the order paper. By the time you’re reading this article, in a distant future where the internet has collapsed and the entire archive of The Spinoff has been ingrained […]

Foundational Industries Raises $25M in Seed Funding to Build AI-Native Factories

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  • August 5, 2026
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Insider Brief Foundational Industries raised $25 million in seed funding to build a network of U.S. factories designed around physical AI, beginning with equipment for data centers. BoxGroup and Zigg Capital led the round, with participation from Abstract, Adverb Ventures, Buckley Ventures, Oceans and Offline Ventures. The company plans to open its first facility by […]

Forget the hype — iPhone Ultra scarcity will tell the story

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  • July 6, 2026
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Apple has been working on a foldable smartphone for more than a decade. Having spent so much time developing the device, the company doesn’t want to ship something if it can’t make something good. Now, it looks like Apple can make a folding iPhone, but manufacturing them in decent quantities is going to take a little longer […]