Reflection, a startup backed by Nvidia, Sequoia, and Lightspeed and last valued at $25 billion, is releasing its first open-weight model, Beam, a 501-billion-parameter model trained from scratch under…
Glow Security researchers found more than 13,000 publicly accessible screenshots of corporate software projects from 343 companies posted to public GitHub repositories by AI agents, a discovery the st…
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…
Rillet, an AI-native ERP startup co-founded by CEO Nicolas Kopp and backed by former Sequoia partner Roelof Botha, is challenging legacy incumbents Oracle, SAP, and Workday by replacing batch accounti…
AI security startup AIR emerged from stealth with $50 million raised across two seed rounds to help companies vet the skills, plugins, and add-ons that AI agents use. Founded by Yair Saban (CEO) and N…
Serval, an AI-native IT service management startup valued at around $1 billion, has made its Catalyst product generally available, which uses AI to build and deploy workflow automations, including bac…
Serval, a San Francisco-based startup, launched Catalyst on August 20, 2026, an AI agent that automates the creation of enterprise IT workflows, moving beyond reactive ticket-based systems. CEO Jake S…
Rillet, an AI accounting software maker, raised $100 million in a Series C round led by ICONIQ, valuing the company at $1 billion after its annualized revenue rate doubled in one quarter. The company,…
Starcloud, formerly Lumen Orbit, has raised approximately $200M in total capital, including a $170M Series A on March 30, 2026, reaching a $1.1B post-money valuation and becoming the fastest Y Combina…
Rillet, an AI-native accounting platform, raised $100 million in Series C funding at a $1 billion valuation, led by ICONIQ, bringing total funding above $200 million. The company, which emerged from s…
Relay, a startup that built AI agents capable of operating web interfaces, has been acquired by Google, according to a blog post. The team's technology, which handles dynamic DOMs, shadow roots, and o…
AI pioneer Rich Sutton said on Sequoia's podcast that using synthetic data to train large language models is 'a big mistake,' arguing that manufactured data cannot capture the complexity of the real w…
Etched Inc., an AI inference chip startup, raised $700 million in funding at a $21 billion valuation, more than doubling its previous valuation, in a round led by Jane Street and joined by Kleiner Per…
Etched Inc., an inference chip startup, announced it raised an additional $700 million in funding, bringing its valuation to $21 billion. The round was led by Jane Street and included Kleiner Perkins,…
Etched shipped its first Sohu rack to Jane Street, which led a $700 million Series D at a $21 billion valuation, doubling the company's valuation in a month. The transformer-only chip, built on TSMC's…
AI inference chip startup Etched's valuation has doubled to about $21 billion just one month after its $300 million Series C round led by Sequoia, which valued the firm at $10.3 billion, according to …
Stripe has finalized an agreement to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, according to a Bloomberg report published August 16, 2026. The acquisition marks a 5.4x premium over OpenRouter's $1.3…
Payments giant Stripe has reportedly finalized a deal to acquire OpenRouter, a startup providing a unified API for over 400 AI models, for more than $7 billion, according to Bloomberg. The acquisition…
Stripe has finalized an agreement to acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, according to Bloomberg, marking Stripe's largest known bet on AI infrastructure. OpenRouter, which …
Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire AI model gateway startup OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, according to Bloomberg. OpenRouter, which raised a $113 million Series B at a $1.3 billion valuatio…