A look at Founders Fund-backed State Affairs, which raised $70M and uses AI trained on reporting by its 76 staffers to power a Bloomberg Terminal-like product (Washington Post)

<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/07/14/this-tech-start-up-is-hiring-local-reporters-feeding-their-work-ai/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260714/i38.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260714/p38#a260714p38" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/">Washington Post</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/07/14/this-tech-start-up-is-hiring-local-reporters-feeding-their-work-ai/">A look at Founders Fund-backed State Affairs, which raised $70M and uses AI trained on reporting by its 76 staffers to power a Bloomberg Terminal-like product</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; State Affairs combines media and technology at a time when tensions between the two industries are at a fever pitch.&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Summary</p>