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Craig Campbell turned down venture capital funding for an AI startup in 2022 to launch Past Maps, a website that overlays historical maps onto modern-day locations. The site has grown from 20,000 to over 300,000 monthly …
Replit partnered with Visa to embed a payment and identity layer into its AI coding platform, enabling AI agents to autonomously initiate and authorize transactions. The integration gives agents a verifiable identity tie…
Wall Street is aggressively promoting initial public offerings for high-profile private companies including SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI, urging retail investors to buy in at lofty valuations. Historical data, however, …
Shift, a startup offering free professional home cleaning in New York, is recording every cleaning task via head-mounted cameras to train future robot agents. The company trades spotless apartments for hours of first-per…
Apple's operating system updates have historically rendered third-party startups obsolete by absorbing their core features, a practice known as "sherlocking" that destroyed companies like Tile, Pebble, and f.lux. A forme…
Delightloop, an AI-powered gifting platform built around an agent named Gifty, automates B2B gifting by pulling signals from CRM, call recordings, and LinkedIn to score prospects and send personalized physical gifts. The…
MongoDB's artificial intelligence capabilities are beginning to translate into measurable financial gains, as the database company reported stronger-than-expected quarterly results driven by increased adoption of its AI-…
Elon Musk filed to take SpaceX public with a rumored valuation exceeding $1 trillion, despite nearly $5 billion in losses last year, in what critics call the largest and most dangerous IPO in history. The company's S-1 f…
AI startup Perplexity sent a small number of Mac Minis to selected users to test its new Personal Computer capability, which works across local files, native applications, and the web. Perplexity confirmed the device gif…
A developer has identified that the most frustrating aspect of AI-assisted coding is not generating bad code, but the need to repeatedly re-explain project context, architecture, and decisions. To solve this, the develop…
Cline released an open-source TypeScript SDK for embedding its agent runtime into custom scripts, products, and CI workflows. The SDK allows developers to build focused agentic applications, such as a release notes gener…
On February 2, 2025, Andrej Karpathy coined the term "vibe coding," a development style where users describe software in plain English and AI writes the code, with Collins Dictionary naming it the 2025 Word of the Year. …
London-based AI lab Inherent emerged from stealth on Wednesday with a $50 million seed round co-led by Index Ventures and Radical Ventures to build a self-improving AI platform for scientific discovery. The company's Far…
A developer built Cyberplain, a plain-language cybersecurity education site with 32 articles covering topics like phishing, malware, and zero trust, using Hermes Agent to handle design, content, architecture, and deploym…
A developer spent 100+ hours building and deploying AI agents to autonomously hunt GitHub bounties, write articles, and submit pull requests, ultimately earning $0 while spending $47 and burning 100+ hours. The project r…
A developer advises against building a full SaaS product first, arguing that launching a simple Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is a smarter, faster approach. Modern frameworks, cloud platforms, and AI-assisted tools now en…
Categorical Data Query Language (CQL), an open-source tool that uses category theory to query, combine, migrate, and evolve databases, is now production-ready for single-node in-memory data processing. The software, comm…
Corporate leaders are scaling back AI token usage after realizing the massive costs of unchecked computing power, with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi stating it is "getting harder to justify" AI initiatives as output fails t…
Vivun CMO Greene told SaaStr AI that go-to-market teams stitching 15 to 20 AI agents together face a "fragmentation tax" that degrades sales call performance, with roughly 40% of first meetings ending in no decision. Gre…
Anonix unveiled plans to build an AI-powered marketplace on the XRP Ledger, incorporating quantum-resistant encryption and privacy-focused interactions for anonymous digital commerce. The project will integrate the Xaman…