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Amjad Masad, CEO and co-founder of Replit, will speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco from October 13–15 about the future of programming and AI's impact on software development. Replit, which has a $9 billion…
Standard Metrics, a private-market reporting platform co-founded by CEO John Melas-Kyriazi, raised a $20M Series B led by 8VC, with participation from Salesforce Ventures, Spark Capital, January Capital, First Trust Capi…
Homebuyers are using AI-powered brokerage TurboHome to save thousands in real estate fees, with the company reporting 388 transactions totaling $440 million in home sales since its late 2024 launch. TurboHome charges a f…
NVIDIA announced a $6 billion deal to license AI technology from startup Poolside and a separate $1 billion investment, valuing Poolside at $12 billion pre-money. The deal brings over 100 Poolside engineers to work on NV…
A Hacker News user argues that in the age of AI-generated software 'slop', marketplaces may offer a stronger moat than pure software, as code becomes cheap but customization remains difficult. The user proposes using AI …
A comparison by financial analysts pits QuikBot against Serve Robotics (NASDAQ:SERV) to determine whether physical AI will be won by robots or the infrastructure behind them. The analysis examines the competitive positio…
Mundo AI, a Vancouver-based AI data company, announced on August 24th that it raised a $20 million Series A led by GreatPoint Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator, Next Frontier Ventures, and E12 Ventures, brin…
Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude model, is expected to have an IPO valuation below SpaceX's $1.77 trillion, despite its estimated $65 billion revenue run rate outpacing OpenAI's $40 billion. The company faces …
Autostep (YC P26), a San Francisco-based desktop app that identifies repetitive tasks and their costs, is hiring AI/fullstack engineers and a chief of staff. The company is backed by Y Combinator, Neo, and prominent foun…
EntropyIO has launched new perpetual markets for Anthropic's pre-IPO equity and SNDK on Hyperliquid, using real-time data from RedStone, reviving activity around Anthropic's valuation after a previous market closure. The…
Zoom Communications' roughly $97 million investment in Anthropic, the AI lab behind Claude, is now valued at approximately $3 billion, potentially overshadowing the company's Q2 2027 earnings on August 25, 2026. Bank of …
Microsoft Corp. should acquire Hugging Face Inc., the AI community platform often called the GitHub of AI, argues Alex Kantrowitz in the Cautious Optimism newsletter, noting Microsoft's existing ownership of GitHub posit…
Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) is positioned as a cleaner alternative to CoreWeave (NASDAQ:CRWV) in the AI infrastructure space, with Q2 revenue of $582.3 million (up 454% year over year), $8.04 billion in cash, and almost n…
General Intuition, an AI robotics startup, is seeking a $6 billion valuation to scale its development of generalized 'world models' for embodied AI agents, signaling investor confidence in a foundational shift from softw…
Anthropic executives believe their upcoming public offering will match or exceed the $75 billion that SpaceX raised in June, and the company could file for its public listing before the end of the month, according to a B…
General Intuition, founded by Pim de Witte, is negotiating a new financing round at a reported $6 billion pre-money valuation, according to TechCrunch, just 60 days after announcing a $320 million Series A at a $2.3 bill…
XPENG's physical AI unit has secured over $900 million at a $6.3 billion valuation to scale its IRON humanoid robot platform, marking the largest single-round private capital raise for the company. The Chinese electric v…
OpenAI ran for four and a half years without launching a product and faced widespread skepticism for claiming AGI was possible, according to a breakdown of Sam Altman's conversation with David Senra. The playbook highlig…
Nvidia (NVDA) signed a $6 billion licensing deal with AI startup Poolside to build a powerful open-weight AI model and is considering an investment in AI service provider Perplexity, according to Investor's Business Dail…
General Intuition, the AI research lab spun out of gaming clip platform Medal, is in discussions to raise capital at a $6 billion pre-money valuation, with new investors including Valor Ventures, Point72 Ventures, and Al…