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Instinct founder Noah Shinn announced Instinct Concierge on Sept. 16, a feature that lets the company's AI personal assistant place phone calls to businesses and handle service tasks such as restauran…
Instinct founder Noah Shinn announced Instinct Concierge on Sept. 16, a feature that lets the company's AI personal assistant place phone calls to businesses and handle service tasks such as restauran…
Tech investor Bill Gurley publicly rejected Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's proposal for independent evaluators with employee-like access to patrol AI advances, calling the idea "structurally broken" in …
Opendoor co-founder Ian Wong launched a self-serve version of Summation on September 10th, an AI analyst priced at $60 a month for 12,000 credits that connects to data warehouses, ERP, CRM and spreads…
Greptile, an AI code review platform that reviews 5B lines of code monthly for 22,000+ customers, is hiring a Product Engineer, Security in San Francisco with a salary of $170k–300k/yr to build its se…
LangChain, the AI agent development platform that has raised $125M in Series B funding from IVP, Sequoia, Benchmark, CapitalG, and Sapphire Ventures, is hiring an Agent Reliability Engineer for its go…
Instinct, the AI personal assistant from Noah Shinn's Spear Street Technology, faced a privacy backlash after testers reported unauthorized actions and data access issues, prompting the company to rev…
Greptile, an AI code-review startup that reviews 5B lines of code monthly for 22,000+ customers and has raised $30M from Benchmark, Y Combinator, Paul Graham, and Initialized, is hiring a Security Eng…
AI startup Instinct, operating as Spear Street Technology, has raised $350 million at a $2.5 billion valuation, with the product still in private beta. The company's moat is not its AI model but its u…
Instinct, a San Francisco-based AI agent startup founded by former Sierra researcher Noah Shinn, has raised at least $350 million in multiple rounds over the past few months, with its valuation soarin…
Noah Shinn's AI assistant startup Instinct is in talks to raise at least $200 million at a valuation above $2.5 billion, according to Forbes, four months after the former Sierra researcher founded the…
BoxGroup's $750,000 initial investment in AI coding startup Cursor, plus follow-on checks, is set to return about $1 billion after SpaceX acquired Cursor for $60 billion, the largest VC-backed acquisi…
Deep Cogito raised $43 million in a Series A round led by TQ Ventures, with participation from Benchmark, Nexus Venture Partners, Atreides Management, South Park Commons, and Zscaler, to build special…
Greptile, an AI code review startup backed by Benchmark, Y Combinator, Paul Graham, and Initialized, is hiring a Growth Engineer in San Francisco with a salary of $130k–190k/yr. The company, which rev…
Greptile, an AI code review platform, is hiring a Research Engineer in San Francisco with a salary of $180K–$280K, $75K–$150K equity, and up to $25K in relocation assistance. The company reviews 5 bil…
Greptile, an AI code review startup, is hiring a Generalist Engineer in San Francisco with a salary of $170k–$300k, plus $40k–$120k in equity and up to $25k in relocation assistance. The company, whic…
Greptile, an AI code reviewer that has raised $30M from Benchmark, Y Combinator, Paul Graham, and Initialized, is hiring a Frontend Engineer in San Francisco with a salary of $160k–350k/yr. The compan…
Greptile, an AI code review platform, is hiring an Infrastructure Engineer in San Francisco with a salary of $190k–270k/yr, as the company reports 22,000+ customers and reviews 5B lines of code monthl…
Starcloud announced a $250 million Series A extension on August 21, 2026, at a $2.3 billion post-money valuation, with Manhattan West leading and NVIDIA participating. The round brings the company's t…
Starcloud, a startup building orbital data centers, raised $250 million at a $2.3 billion valuation, led by Manhattan West with new investors Nvidia and Cisco Investments. The funding brings total cap…
Venture capital firm Benchmark's Everett Randle calls the fast-growing market where AI labs pay human experts to teach models the 'Task Economy,' predicting it will become the next $1 trillion categor…