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Helipad, a new floating macOS panel, tracks all open pull requests created by Claude Code agents across multiple repositories, displaying CI status, review decisions, and merge-conflict warnings in a persistent, always-o…
Diana Hu has been promoted to Managing Partner at Y Combinator, the startup accelerator announced. Hu, a former YC founder whose company Escher Reality was acquired by Niantic in 2018, has worked with nearly 230 companie…
A Florida homeowner is listing his $2.6 million property and will accept shares of OpenAI, Anthropic, or SpaceX as payment, reflecting growing interest in alternative real estate transactions using private tech company s…
Socket appointed Andrew Becherer as its first Chief Information Security Officer. Becherer, former CISO at Datadog and Iterable, will lead security, compliance, and risk as the company protects over 27,000 organizations …
Jeff Bezos' AI startup Prometheus closed a $12 billion funding round, valuing the company at $41 billion. The company, launched in November 2025 with $6.2 billion in seed funding, is building AI models for physical tasks…
Lazer Logistics has deployed an AI coaching tool named Uncle Phil AI, modeled after its COO Phil Newsome, to give site managers access to his 36 years of institutional knowledge across 750 yards. The tool, embedded in th…
GitHub launched Agentic Workflows in public preview, enabling users to automate reasoning-based tasks like issue triage, CI failure analysis, and documentation updates using coding agents within GitHub Actions. The featu…
Pylon CEO Marty Kausas declared the "era of token-maxxing is coming to an end" after his startup's Anthropic bill jumped from $400,000 to $1.4 million annually due to hitting a 150-seat enterprise tier threshold. Kausas,…
Sam Altman has a running bet with fellow tech CEOs on when the first one-person billion-dollar company will be built, a milestone that now sounds achievable by 2026 as founders shift from individual contributors to orche…
A new app called Pool launched today to help users organize and rediscover screenshots cluttering their camera rolls. The app uses AI to automatically categorize saved images, link them to original sources like product p…
OpenAI is considering cutting API token prices to win customers from rival Anthropic, according to the Wall Street Journal. CEO Sam Altman said costs have become a major issue for businesses as usage-based billing drives…
An AI price war is imminent, with major players expected to slash costs, and surprising beneficiaries are poised to profit most from the competition.
The Iran-USA war escalates as President Trump threatens strikes on Kharg Island, risking oil supply disruption and higher prices. The conflict threatens a critical IPO and adds macroeconomic pressure on tech stocks. Mean…
Quantum has appointed Greg Knieriemen as its new head of marketing, filling a key executive gap following the company's financial restructuring under CEO Hughes Meyrath. Knieriemen, formerly Senior Director for Sales Ena…
Jeff Bezos is co-leading Prometheus, a new AI venture focused on developing an "artificial general engineer" to design and manufacture complex physical products, according to a Wall Street Journal report Thursday. The $4…
Dutch chip startup Axelera AI announced a fully European semiconductor fabrication flow for its AI accelerators, but the process relies on chip design software from US-based Cadence Design Systems. The company claims the…
RISC-V International announced at the RISC-V Summit Europe 2026 in Bologna that its open-standard instruction set architecture has matured beyond microcontrollers and now targets data centers, edge AI, and space explorat…
Coram AI raised $35 million in Series B funding to deploy AI agents that autonomously investigate security incidents across existing camera systems. The San Francisco company, co-founded by Ashesh Jain and Peter Ondruska…
Space-based data centers face significant economic and physical hurdles that Silicon Valley proponents often overlook, according to an aerospace analyst at ABI Research. A total-cost-of-ownership comparison found that la…
Forrester Research warned that OpenAI risks becoming the BlackBerry of artificial intelligence, transitioning from industry pioneer to a cautionary tale as it courts investors and enterprise customers. The research firm'…