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Sequoia Capital is targeting approximately $10 billion in dedicated AI investments, its largest concentrated wager in over five decades, under new co-stewards Alfred Lin and Pat Grady. The firm has reinvested in OpenAI a…
Firmus Technologies, a Tasmanian company that began as a Bitcoin miner in 2019, has raised $2 billion at a valuation of over $10.5 billion to become an AI infrastructure builder, nearly doubling its valuation from $5.5 b…
Adam Ward, Head of Talent at Cursor, shared his three-step playbook for building high-talent-density teams—scoping, mapping, and relentless pursuit—in a podcast interview, warning that the traditional recruiting funnel l…
David Silver, founder of AI lab Ineffable Intelligence, has pledged to donate all proceeds from any future sale of his company to charity, following a $1.1 billion seed round at a $5.1 billion valuation. Silver, who led …
Runware, the AI inference startup founded by Flaviu Radulescu and Ioana Hreninciuc, launched Sonic Inference Pods, modular data centers in 20-foot shipping containers that pack about 1,200 GPUs and one megawatt of comput…
OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a startup that built software to turn prompts, notes, documents and research into editable slide decks, and has folded its entire team into ChatGPT's development. The deal closed earlier th…
Startups in 2026 are replacing customer support headcount with AI agents, but successful deployments treat it as a tiered system, not a blanket replacement. Klarna's OpenAI-built assistant, which reportedly did the work …
Situational Awareness, the hedge fund founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, made a US$400 million investment in chip manufacturing startup Source Foundry, backed by Sequoia Capital, days after the fu…
AI companies Harvey, Sierra, and Legora each crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue within nine months of each other, with valuations ranging from 25x to 125x current ARR, according to an analysis by Tom Tunguz…
In episode 25 of God Mode Podcast, hosts Rik and Ben graded their past AI predictions, noting a developer generated $50,000 in AI coding value from just $800 in subscriptions. SpaceX stock fell 35% from its IPO as Rik pr…
OpenAI has acquired presentation startup NextSlide, whose team is now working on ChatGPT, according to a note on NextSlide's website from founder Ahmed Beshry. The financial terms were not disclosed, and Beshry said the …
OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, the AI presentation maker founded by Ahmed Beshry, and its team has moved to OpenAI to work on ChatGPT, according to an acquisition announcement on NextSlide's website. Financial terms were…
Backflip AI launched a scan-to-CAD tool inside Autodesk Fusion on August 3, 2026, that converts 3D scans and mesh files into editable, parametric CAD models with native feature trees or .STEP exports. The startup, which …
A joint study by Imperial College London and Emlyon Business School analyzed 12 companies involved in 27 securities fraud court cases, totaling $688 million in losses and 73 years of prison sentences, and identified a pa…
Suno, the AI music company backed by Founder Collective at seed, is now valued at $5 billion, according to David Frankel, co-founder of Founder Collective, who said on the Twenty Minute VC podcast that a dot-com-style cr…
Google Maps Navigation's free release in 2009 caused market caps of traditional GPS giants to plummet, demonstrating that its core competitive advantage was turning smartphones into part of the mapping system and using u…
Harvey AI Corp., a provider of AI software for attorneys, is reportedly seeking at least $500 million in new funding at a $15.5 billion valuation, according to The Information. The round would mark a $4.5 billion increas…
Bending Spoons agreed to acquire Airtable at an enterprise value of $1.285 billion, a steep discount to its pandemic-era $11.7 billion valuation, reflecting the tough exit environment for pre-AI SaaS companies. Early inv…
Bending Spoons has agreed to acquire Airtable for $1.285 billion, adding the low-code database company to its portfolio alongside AOL, Evernote, WeTransfer, Brightcove, and Vimeo. The deal comes as Airtable, once valued …
Lumilens, an optical data center connectivity startup founded by former Aruba CTO Ankur Singla, emerged from stealth with more than $900 million in total funding and a $5.5 billion valuation. The company aims to replace …