Startups like Starcloud are racing to build AI data centers in orbit, with Starcloud launching a satellite carrying an Nvidia H100 GPU that trained a language model in space. The company raised $170 m…
Greptile's analysis of OpenClaw, an open-source repository, reveals pull requests surged from two per week to 3,400 per week, while merge rates plummeted from 48% to below 9.3%, with one contributor s…
Menlo Ventures raised $3 billion, its largest fund in 50 years, fueled by a single bet on Anthropic now worth about $14 billion. The firm split the capital into early-stage and growth funds to back AI…
Sierra co-founder Bret Taylor predicted consumers will prefer businesses using AI phone agents over traditional call centers within three to four years, setting a 2029-2030 deadline for a major labor …
Meta has begun dismantling its $2 billion acquisition of Chinese AI startup Manus, cutting off data sharing and access to internal systems, after Beijing ordered a divestiture on national security gro…
Bill Gurley, a former Wall Street analyst and Benchmark partner who served on Uber's board and now studies complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, shared the mental models he relies on most including sy…
Benchmark has closed $2bn across two new funds, including a $1.25bn growth fund, its first dedicated to later-stage investments, alongside a $750m early-stage vehicle. The move breaks the firm's long-…
Venture capitalist Bill Gurley said job satisfaction is a key driver of personal agency and productivity, urging workers to prioritize enjoyment over external judgments. Gurley also argued that embrac…
The article argues that "Contracted Annual Recurring Revenue" (CARR) is a misleading metric used by startups to inflate their financial figures, often reporting revenue from multi-year contracts with …