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Arcade AI, a San Francisco-based startup building an MCP runtime for AI agents, is hiring an AI Engineer for its Tools team, with the role based on-site in San Francisco. The company, backed by a Series A led by SYN Vent…
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 $200 million across thr…
In a replay of the Second Quarter Review, Aswath Damodaran, Scott Galloway, and Ed Elson discussed the potential for an AI correction, citing a lack of transparency in Big Tech's business models and the hype driving cros…
Vasco grew an AI SaaS app from $0 to $70,000 per month in two years by posting one YouTube video per day, with no paid ads, according to an episode of Starter Story hosted by Pat Walls. Vasco attributes his success to th…
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, which automates enter…
Amazon's $53.4 billion second-quarter pretax gain, primarily from its Anthropic investments, was nearly twice its $27.5 billion operating income, while Alphabet's $99.0 billion equity-security gain increased net income b…
Anthropic has signed a six-year, $10 billion computing deal with Volta Infra Holdings, a cloud startup founded in early 2026, for 133 megawatts of capacity at a hydropower-fed data center in Tydal, Norway, using Nvidia's…
Citadel CEO Ken Griffin acquired Situational Awareness, the AI hedge fund founded by former OpenAI employee Leopold Aschenbrenner, after the fund suffered significant losses. The Wall Street Journal's Gregory Zuckerman d…
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison, who dropped out of MIT twice to build the now-$159 billion payments company, told Gen Z at Y Combinator's Startup School that his urgency to leave college was 'a poor intuition' and that fini…
Bending Spoons has agreed to acquire Airtable for $2.2 billion, a significant discount from Airtable's $5.8 billion valuation in 2021. The deal reflects a trend of profit-focused operators acquiring growth-stage SaaS com…
Baseten, an AI inference platform, raised $300 million in a Series E round at a $5 billion post-money valuation, co-led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) and CapitalG, Google's growth fund, with Nvidia participatin…
Runware launched its Sonic Inference Pod on August 4, 2026, a containerized data center packing up to 1,200 GPUs into a 20-foot shipping container, promising 30–80% lower inference prices. The London-based company says t…
Zenity, an AI security and governance company, raised $125 million in a Series C round led by Norwest on August 3, 2026, bringing its total funding to $180 million. The company will use the capital for product developmen…
A developer building an AI social media tool called bleam has outlined its freemium model, offering free scheduling and paid content generation. The tool generates a month of social content from business details and publ…
Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling on July 15, a 975-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 41B active parameters, open-weight under Apache 2.0, from Mira Murati's $12B startup. The model scores 77.6% on SWE…
Runware launched the Sonic Inference Pod, a modular, containerized AI compute unit that deploys in three weeks and houses over 1,000 GPUs with 1 megawatt of inference compute, aiming to cut infrastructure costs tenfold. …
Jump Capital closed its eighth institutional fund with $350 million in capital commitments, dedicated to backing founders building AI applications, enterprise infrastructure, and cybersecurity technologies. The firm will…
Convex Inc., a developer tooling startup founded by former Dropbox infrastructure engineers, has closed a $57 million Series B funding round led by Insight Partners, with participation from Etna Labs, Andreessen Horowitz…
AI infrastructure company Runware launched its modular data center, the Sonic Inference Pod, a transportable unit designed to offer lower-cost, higher-quality AI inference with rapid scalability. CEO Flaviu Radulescu sai…
Endeavor Optical Networks emerged from stealth on August 4th with $10.75 million in seed funding from General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz to build a satellite-based network for routing data-center traffic through la…