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Sources: Mark Zuckerberg plans to buy a Miami mansion, likely to cost up to $200M, joining other tech billionaires as California proposes a 5% billionaire tax (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg plans to buy a Miami mansion, likely to cost up to $200M, joining other tech billionaires as California proposes a 5% billionaire tax  —  Local real-estate agents say the newly completed mansion on Miami's Indian Creek will likely fetch between $150 million and $200 million

Health care navigation startup Solace, which matches patients with 2K+ advocates, raised $130M led by IVP at a $1B valuation, taking its total funding to $211M (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)

Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg:
Health care navigation startup Solace, which matches patients with 2K+ advocates, raised $130M led by IVP at a $1B valuation, taking its total funding to $211M  —  The demand for help navigating the famously complex US health care system has propelled a startup called Solace Health …

Bretton AI, formerly Greenlite, which uses GenAI to investigate suspicious transactions and verify internal risk policy compliance, raised a $75M Series B (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)

Leo Schwartz / Fortune:
Bretton AI, formerly Greenlite, which uses GenAI to investigate suspicious transactions and verify internal risk policy compliance, raised a $75M Series B  —  Early in his career, Will Lawrence worked on the product team at Facebook focused on anti-money laundering.

Fallout season 3's secret location could reveal the origins of the Legion

If Fallout season 2 stops in Utah, we might meet the Burned Man

Vibe coding Nothing’s apps is fun, until you try to make them useful

After a week vibe coding apps using Nothing's Essential Apps Builder, I'm conflicted. I buy into the smartphone maker's vision for software that adapts to you, not the other way around, but right now it doesn't deliver. It's hard to see how this goes from cool novelty to a reliable tool without serious refinement, and […]