Blacksmith, a San Francisco developer tools startup, saw its valuation surge from $18.84 million to approximately $546 million in about a year, a roughly 29x increase, driven by AI-driven demand for f…
Blacksmith, an AI code-testing startup founded in 2024, raised a $45 million Series B led by Peak XV Partners, valuing the company at $550 million, nearly 10 times its previous $60 million valuation f…
Jordan Zietz, the 24-year-old founder of AI startup LemonLime, denied forcing anyone to get a tattoo for a job interview after his LinkedIn post sparked backlash. He told WIRED that no one permanently…
River AI, founded by Igor Babuschkin, raised $1.1 billion in a seed/Series A round led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC, less than four months after incorporation. The round also included Nvidia, AMD V…
Discovered Materials, founded by Advaith Sridhar and Akash Ramdas, launched on August 12, 2026, with AI agents that propose new semiconductor materials and a $9 million seed round led by Lightspeed wi…
Commure, a $7 billion Silicon Valley startup that uses AI to automate health care administration, offers thousands of dollars in compensation to customers and other parties who refer its products to n…
Discovered Materials, a Y Combinator P26 startup founded by Advaith and Akash, has released hundreds of new materials discovered by frontier AI models and a benchmark for material discovery, aiming to…
Brad Lightcap, who joined OpenAI in 2018 and served as its chief operating officer from 2022 until April 2025, announced he is leaving the company to "start something new," ending an eight-year tenure…
Coinbase CTO Rob Witoff told Business Insider that human taste and judgment are the traits that make engineering candidates stand out as AI takes over routine tasks, with engineers expected to tackle …
Anthropic's Boris Cherny, a creator of Claude Code, said in a Y Combinator interview that the team removes over 80% of the system prompt with each new model release, and advised users to periodically …
Cua released an open-source Metal capability layer on August 11th that accelerates llama.cpp inference inside Apple Silicon macOS virtual machines, reporting prompt-processing gains up to 11.08x and t…
River AI Inc., a startup that helps enterprises customize open-source AI models, has raised $1.1 billion in Series A funding led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC, with participation from Nvidia Corp., …
Anthropic announced it will add watermarks to Claude's outputs to make AI-generated text detectable, raising questions about whether users are willing to own their AI use. Pangram, an AI detection ser…
The San Francisco Ruby Startup Conference 2026 will take place in San Francisco, featuring speakers from Solid Queue, Y Combinator, and AnyCable, with tickets priced at $450 until September 30. The co…
OpenAI executive Brad Lightcap, who served as chief financial officer and chief operating officer during his eight-year tenure and most recently led a special projects team, announced on Tuesday he is…
Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's longtime chief operating officer, announced Tuesday he is leaving the company to "start something new," ending a tenure that began in 2018 and included four years as CFO before…
River AI, a two-month-old AI startup founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has raised $1.1 billion in a seed/Series A round led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC, with participation from Nvidia, AM…
Unsloth AI released a native desktop app on Tuesday, August 11th, 2026, that packages its local model training and inference software for Mac, Windows, and Linux, claiming it is the first desktop app …
Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's first business hire and longtime chief operating officer, announced his departure on August 11, 2026, to launch a new venture, capping nearly a decade of leading the company's …
Keet, a two-person startup founded by Zack Ashen and Tommy Tsai, is testing an iOS app that generates personalized courses with short explainer videos, quizzes, games, and adjustable curricula, availa…