Software engineers are facing an identity crisis and depression as they are forced to fix poor-quality AI-generated code, according to Menlo Ventures partner Deedy Das. The rapid adoption of AI tools …
Venture capitalist Deedy Das says software engineers face an identity crisis bordering on depression as AI coding tools create a divide between 'lazy' engineers who rely on AI and 'craftsmen' who must…
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…
Inception Labs' Mercury 2 diffusion language model outperforms Google DeepMind's DiffusionGemma on reasoning benchmarks while achieving parallel text generation speeds of over 1,000 tokens per second.…
Anthropic confidentially filed a draft S-1 with the SEC on June 1, 2026, after a $65 billion Series H round at a $965 billion valuation, positioning it for a potential IPO. The company has not set a s…
Alex Mashrabov's AI video startup Higgsfield claims a $500 million revenue run rate, up from $50 million in September 2025, as it raises a Series B round driven by inbound investor interest. The compa…
Higgsfield, an AI video startup, reported an annual revenue run rate of $500 million as of June 2026, up from $50 million in September 2025, and is now cash-flow positive. The company works with 390 F…
Higgsfield, a San Francisco AI video startup, has reached a $500 million revenue run rate, up from $50 million last September, and is cash-flow positive. The company aims to rival AI coding platforms …
Anthropic, valued at $965 billion, has confidentially filed for an IPO, targeting a valuation of $1 trillion or higher. Amazon and Google, two of the AI lab's largest early investors, stand to reap ma…
More than 60% of U.S. adults used AI in the first half of 2025, yet consumer AI spending remained flat at roughly $12 billion, according to a VC Cafe column by Eze Vidra citing Menlo Ventures data. Ch…
AI music startup Suno raised $400 million at a $5.4 billion valuation, doubling its worth from seven months ago. The company, which generates songs from text prompts and has over two million subscribe…
OpenRouter, an AI gateway startup founded in 2023, raised $113 million in Series B funding led by CapitalG, the growth venture fund of Alphabet, reaching a post-money valuation of approximately $1.3 b…