Sara Du, who built MCP servers at Anthropic in 2025, launched Ando on September 24, 2026, a team messaging platform where AI agents join channels, send DMs, and participate in live audio and video cal…
Instinct, an invite-only AI personal assistant from Spear Street Technology led by former Sierra research scientist Noah Shinn, drew both praise and alarm from early testers after it sent an email on …
Fireworks AI, a Series D company valued at $17.5 billion and founded by the team behind PyTorch, is hiring a Member of Technical Staff, Research for 2026 PhD new graduates, offering a salary of $200k–…
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…
Fireworks AI, a Series D company valued at $17.5 billion and founded by the team behind PyTorch, is hiring a Member of Technical Staff for its EMEA field team in London, with the role focused on build…
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…
Parallel, founded in 2023 by Parag Agrawal, launched Index, a platform that pays content creators when AI agents use their work, with compensation based on the Shapley value of contribution. The servi…
Simile AI, co-founded by Joon Sung Park, has raised a $2 billion Series B backed by GreenOaks and Index Ventures, with prominent backers including Fei-Fei Li and Andrej Karpathy, to build foundation m…
Temporal Technologies is in talks to raise approximately $500 million at a pre-money valuation of at least $12 billion, according to Bloomberg, just six months after its $5 billion valuation from a $3…
Fireworks AI raised $1.5 billion at a $17.5 billion valuation, signaling a shift in AI investment toward inference optimization. The company, which serves over 40 trillion tokens daily and generates $…
Lightning AI, the company behind PyTorch Lightning, is hiring a Senior Research Engineer for LLM Training & Post-Training with a salary range of $165k–310k/yr, based in New York, San Francisco, Seattl…
Chai Discovery, a San Francisco-based biotech startup, released Chai-3, a generative AI model for molecular design that doubles the success rate of its predecessor in creating therapeutic antibodies, …
Lightning AI, the company behind PyTorch Lightning, is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its Training & Experimentation team in London, New York, or San Francisco, with a salary of $180k–250k/yr. …
Lightning AI, the company behind PyTorch Lightning, is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its Core Platform team with a salary of $180k–250k/yr, based in London, New York, or San Francisco. The rol…
Lightning AI, the company behind PyTorch Lightning, is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its Agents team in San Francisco, New York, or London, with a salary of $180k–250k/yr. The role involves de…
Wordsmith AI has secured a $14 million extension to its Series B financing, bringing the total Series B to $84 million and the company's disclosed funding to approximately $114 million. The round was …
Intelligence, the San Francisco-based maker of DesignArena, raised a $7.9 million seed round led by Index Ventures, according to co-founder and CEO Grace Li. The startup, which uses human rankings fro…
DesignArena, an AI tool that uses human feedback to rank AI-generated media, has raised $7.9 million in a seed round led by Index Ventures, with participation from Conviction, A*, Valkyrie, and others…