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Clay, the company that created the 'GTM engineer' role and built the go-to-market IDE, grew from $1M to $100M ARR in two years by betting on workflow intelligence over proprietary data. Its $5B valuation hinges on becomi…
A CTO evaluated four Chinese LLM families—DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, and GLM—for production use at scale, finding that DeepSeek V4 Flash offers the best overall value at $0.25/M tokens, while Kimi K2.5 excels in reasoning tas…
SpaceXAI and Cursor plan to launch their first jointly built AI model as soon as Wednesday, aiming to compete with Anthropic's Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's GPT-5.5. The model, developed using xAI's Colossus supercomputer, marks…
Since AI, a nonprofit AI accelerator, launched a global ecosystem connecting 10,000+ AI builders with partners including Google, ElevenLabs, and Antler. Its flagship Hackathon 2026 in Turku, Finland, offers a €50,000 pri…
Avery Pennarun, CEO of Tailscale, argues that Canadian tech companies should not relocate to the U.S. amid trade tensions, citing Canada's global trust advantage. He contrasts PointClickCare's contingency plan to move wi…
VC Cafe's July 8, 2026 analysis argues that the next AI market layer will be a task economy built around expert judgment, workflow completion, and data labeling, with platforms like Mercor, Scale AI, and Deel turning hum…
SambaNova, an AI chip startup, raised fresh funding at an $11 billion valuation, up from roughly $2 billion earlier this year, as investors race to back alternatives to Nvidia. The company builds chips and systems for ru…
A project manager at an IT company describes how using LLMs like Claude Code to build services with a single manager instead of a full dev team shifts project management from Agile toward Waterfall. The manager now write…
OpenAI announced the wider rollout of its GPT-5.6 family of AI models on Thursday, following a request from the Trump administration to stagger the release. Hours later, Elon Musk revealed that SpaceXAI would launch its …
UK Science and Technology Secretary Liz Kendall backed British driverless car companies, warning that failure to support them would leave the UK reliant on US firms. Her stance contrasts with Andy Burnham's team, which h…
Microsoft announced plans to replace OpenAI and Anthropic models with its in-house MAI models in Microsoft 365 Copilot, aiming to reduce costs and increase self-reliance. The shift, reported by Bloomberg, follows a 2025 …
AI chip startup SambaNova raised $1 billion in a funding round that values the company at $11 billion. The investment underscores the growing demand for specialized hardware to power artificial intelligence workloads.
New millionaires minted from AI and SpaceX stock gains are reshaping luxury spending, buying meteorites, fire trucks, and sports teams instead of traditional luxury goods. The personal luxury market has contracted over t…
UiPath CEO Daniel Dines told the RAISE CxO Summit in Paris that enterprises stall AI agents in pilots because they lack proper knowledge mapping and human oversight, proposing a new 'cartographer' role to document workfl…
Vendelux, a live events information platform, raised $50 million in Series B funding led by Tribeca Venture Partners to help B2B marketers determine which events to attend and track ROI. The startup uses AI and data from…
Big Tech stocks, led by the Magnificent Seven, have rebounded 8% since late June, while semiconductor stocks have fallen 12%, indicating a rotation out of crowded hardware trades rather than a broad growth unwind. Apple …
Archer Aviation plans to launch its Midnight air taxi in Abu Dhabi as its first international market, citing strong financial support from the Abu Dhabi Investment Office, a favorable regulatory environment, and clear we…
Elon Musk's SpaceXAI brand unveils a poorly designed logo that even its own AI, Grok, criticizes. The logo, a mashup of SpaceX and xAI wordmarks, is visually convoluted and nearly illegible, drawing widespread mockery. T…
Fleek, a London startup building AI infrastructure for the global secondhand clothing trade, raised $25 million in Series B funding led by Burda Principal Investments. The company uses a custom vision-language model to s…
Swedish vibe-coding startup Lovable is in talks to raise $300 million at a $13.2 billion valuation, roughly double its December Series B valuation, according to Sifted. The company has surpassed $500 million in annualize…