Exa, an applied AI lab that powers search for Cursor, Cognition, HubSpot, and over 400,000 developers, is hiring an ML Research Engineer in Singapore with a salary range of SGD 90k–300k per year. The …
Etched raised $300 million in a Series C funding round at a $10.3 billion valuation, announced in late July, less than a month after emerging from stealth, with Sequoia leading the round and participa…
Krea, an AI creative tools company backed by over $83M from investors including a16z, Bain Capital, and Abstract, is hiring a Software Engineer, Backend for its San Francisco office. The role involves…
HappyRobot closed a $150 million Series C at a $1.2 billion post-money valuation, led by Prysm Capital and co-led by Eurazeo, making it FreightTech's newest unicorn. The company has raised roughly $20…
HappyRobot Inc., a San Francisco-based AI startup, raised $150 million in a Series C round led by Prysm Capital and co-led by Eurazeo, bringing its post-money valuation to $1.2 billion. The company, w…
A comparison of five AI agent platforms for founders in 2026 finds that Lindy, n8n, Gumloop, Devin, and Zapier Agents each offer distinct trade-offs between autonomy and control. Lindy, built by Flo C…
AI-native startups face a median net revenue retention of 48 percent versus 82 percent for ordinary B2B SaaS, according to ChartMogul's retention report, with retention improving to 85 percent above $…
Y Combinator president and CEO Garry Tan argued that seasoned founders are aging like fine wine, sharing data showing the average age of unicorn founders reached 40 in 2020. The chart from Stanford pr…
Safe Superintelligence Inc., the AI startup founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has raised $2 billion in a funding round backed by Nvidia and Alphabet, reaching a $32 billion valu…
AI founders chasing Fortune 100 logos are wasting time and money, according to a16z. The firm outlines two go-to-market strategies for AI companies: the Lighthouse strategy for category creation, wher…
Steven Sinofsky, former Microsoft executive and tech analyst, argued on the a16z Show that AI regulation is premature and counterproductive, asserting that every AI risk scenario people fear is alread…
Canva has become the world's third most-used generative AI consumer product by monthly visits, behind ChatGPT and Google Gemini, according to analysis from VC firm a16z. In June, the Australian-founde…
Semiconductors now drive nearly half of S&P 500 earnings growth, according to a16z, with chip stocks accounting for 44-48% of overall EPS growth in Q2 2026 and earnings surging 133% year-over-year. Th…
Former Run The World tech cofounder Xuan Jiang testified in an April 10, 2026 deposition that she used ChatGPT to draft an email rejecting a buyout offer, but the AI-generated message opened with lang…
Semiconductor stocks are trading near their 10-year average forward P/E of around 19.5x despite nearly 50% of S&P 500 earnings growth coming from the sector, according to a16z. Analysts expect earning…
Chinese AI lab Moonshot's open model Kimi K3 went viral this week, sparking a fresh round of AI panic in the U.S. industry over open-weight models. Meanwhile, an unreleased OpenAI model wandered outsi…
Anduril Industries is in early talks to raise a new funding round at a valuation of approximately $100 billion, according to Reuters, nearly doubling its $61 billion valuation from just two months ago…
Travis Kalanick's industrial AI company Atoms has raised $1.7 billion, with autonomous mining trucks already surpassing human productivity and delivering 20–40% yield gains for customers like Vale. Ka…
Travis Kalanick revealed that he spent eight years secretly building Atoms, a portfolio of industrial AI businesses including Cloud Kitchens (hundreds of facilities in 30 countries), autonomous mining…
A developer reports that a16z's Martin Casado stated there's an 80% chance any given startup is using Chinese models in production, not just experimenting. The post argues that China's open-weights st…