Sequoia partner David Cahn estimates the AI industry must earn $3 trillion to justify $1.5 trillion in infrastructure spending by 2026, while Apollo economist Torsten Slok warns that a slower payoff c…
Anthropic is in early talks with Samsung Electronics to manufacture a custom AI processor, according to Bloomberg Technology and The Information. The move signals Anthropic's intent to control hardwar…
Developer tooling company Warp is betting that engineering leaders will not standardize on a single coding agent, but instead use multiple agents through a unified control plane. Warp's Oz platform no…
Sail Research has raised $80 million in seed and Series A funding at a $450 million valuation to develop AI inference infrastructure optimized for agents. The startup claims its engine can serve token…
Sail Research, a startup founded by former Apple engineer Neil Movva, launched from stealth with $80 million in seed and Series A funding at a $450 million valuation. The company is building an AI inf…
Sail Research, founded by Neil Movva and Samir Menon, announced a Series A investment from Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint, and Sequoia for its asynchronous inference platform that reduces costs by up to 6x…
A16z is leading Probook's $34 million Series A, bringing total funding to $40 million, to expand its AI-powered dispatch platform for home services. Probook's system centralizes dispatch, intake, and …
An AI agent called Alex graded five real startup pitch decks as they stood on the day they were sent, ignoring hindsight. Airbnb's 2008 deck scored 3.80/5, Uber's 2008 deck scored 3.61/5, Buffer's 201…
Mistral AI has emerged as a major force in the AI startup landscape, with its models gaining significant traction and attention. The company's latest developments, including competitive pricing and st…
Ent, a cybersecurity startup founded by former Microsoft Security Copilot builders Elias Manousos and Brandon Dixon, emerged from stealth with a $100 million seed round led by Decibel, marking one of …
David Silver, the DeepMind researcher behind AlphaGo, has chosen Google Cloud as the infrastructure partner for his new startup Ineffable Intelligence, which aims to build a 'superlearner' AI system. …
Dirac, an AI email agent for founders, connects to Gmail or Outlook, learns the user's writing voice from sent mail, and delivers a morning brief with summaries, priorities, and ready-to-send drafts b…
Matan Grinberg, founder and CEO of Factory, said value accrual in tech is time-dependent and that the US lacks frontier open models, which he called embarrassing. He argued that outsourcing AI develop…
SpaceX's IPO is delivering massive returns to a select group of venture capital firms, including Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, Valor Equity Partners, and DFJ Growth, which invested earl…
Anthropic has become the most valuable AI startup in the world following a $65 billion Series H round that valued the company at approximately $965 billion, surpassing OpenAI's valuation. The company'…
Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude system, grew 80 times in annualized revenue and usage during the first quarter of 2026, far exceeding its own internal projections of 10x growth. The compan…
Sequoia Capital's AI Ascent 2026 keynote declared that artificial general intelligence (AGI) is already here by a commercial definition: an agent that can dispatch to a job, recover from failure, and …
Anthropic closed a $65 billion Series H funding round on May 28, bringing its post-money valuation to $965 billion and making it the most valuable private AI company. The company also reported an annu…
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…