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GTM Jobs launched a weekly job board for GTM engineers, featuring 27 roles this week across AI, revenue operations, founding, and general categories. The board lists positions at companies like Avenue Z, Meesho, StackAI,…
Amazon and Alphabet reported record quarterly profits, but over half of their net income came from paper gains on their Anthropic investments rather than core operations. Amazon's Q1 2026 net income of $30.3 billion incl…
Superhuman acquired AI detection startup GPTZero on June 23, 2026, integrating its technology into the Superhuman Go assistant to add an authenticity layer for content. The deal signals that detection is becoming a bundl…
Elon Musk lost his trillionaire status as shares in Tesla and SpaceX plunged during a global stock selloff, with Forbes listing his net worth at $970.2 billion. The decline followed investor fears of interest rate hikes …
Melius Research raised its price target on Micron Technology to $2,200 from $1,100, citing unprecedented AI-driven demand for memory chips and long-term supply agreements through 2027. The analyst firm tripled its convic…
A new analysis of serverless databases for AI applications finds that decoupling compute and storage is critical for cost efficiency and performance, with studies showing 38% average cost reductions and 65% fewer infrast…
Pro-AI super PACs spent over $27 million in New York's 12th Congressional District primary, where Assemblymember Micah Lasher defeated AI-regulation sponsor Alex Bores. The race became the most expensive AI-policy proxy …
Sazabi, a San Francisco-based startup, raised $8 million in a seed round led by J2 Ventures to build an AI observability platform for engineering teams using AI coding assistants. The company emerged from stealth after Y…
A new bipartisan nonprofit, RAISE US, launched with over $500 million to help American workers adapt to AI-driven job displacement. Founded by former Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and former Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb,…
Tech hiring demand has climbed nearly 14% year-to-date, with hardware engineering roles surging 52%, according to data from TrueUp reported by Business Insider. The figures counter narratives that AI would cause a broad …
Multiple senior AI researchers, including Jonas Adler, Alexander Pritzel, and Noam Shazeer, are leaving Google for Anthropic and OpenAI, driven by pre-IPO equity offers from the rival labs. The departures highlight inten…
The AI networking scene is shifting toward small, curated offline events such as dinner parties and members-only gatherings, according to Business Insider. Michelle Fang of Stripe Startups reported that her newsletter's …
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son dismissed concerns about an AI bubble, calling such talk an 'insult' to a revolution just beginning, and vowed to delay retirement by another 10-15 years to capitalize on the AI boom. Son reaff…
Berlin-based Almetra, formerly Deltia, raised €16.3M in Series A funding led by blisce/ to expand its AI-powered factory video analytics platform into the US. The startup mounts AI cameras above assembly lines to convert…
SpaceX acquired Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, for $60 billion in an all-stock deal on June 16, marking the largest acquisition of a venture-backed startup in history. The deal gives SpaceX control over Cursor's 4…
Tailwind CSS laid off 75% of its engineering team, a move CEO Steve Schoger attributed to AI but which was more likely caused by the rise of the free, open-source component library shadcn/ui. shadcn/ui eroded the value p…
Google is losing top AI researchers to rivals Anthropic and OpenAI, with Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel reportedly joining Anthropic following Nobel laureate John Jumper and Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer. The departures…
South Korean chip giant SK Hynix announced plans to raise up to $29.4 billion through a US stock market listing on Nasdaq, aiming to capitalize on surging investor appetite for AI stocks. The Nvidia supplier's offering w…
The Independent examines whether the current AI investment surge is a speculative bubble or the early stage of transformative technology, comparing it to the dotcom era while noting key differences in fundamentals and ma…
AI observability startup Sazabi raised $8 million in a seed round led by J2 Ventures, Village Global, and Y Combinator. The San Francisco-based company, founded by former Brex engineer Sherwood Callaway, offers a monitor…