AI Startups

Cognition CEO Scott Wu criticized token leaderboards for ranking engineers by AI token usage, calling them 'directionally correct' but prone to abuse. He argued that companies should instead measure actual output, such a…

Asian markets were mixed on Monday as selling of AI-related shares pulled Japan's Nikkei 225 down 1% and South Korea's Kospi down 2%, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng gained 2.1%. The declines followed a Wall Street selloff o…

MotherDuck's serverless DuckDB platform saved a five-person finance team $12,000 per year on analytics costs by replacing Snowflake, reducing monthly bills from $1,800 to under $800 while delivering sub-second query perf…

Australian AI-infrastructure company Firmus Technologies signed a strategic partnership with Nvidia to deploy 170,000 GPUs in Batam, Indonesia, starting in 2027. The deal gives emerging AI firms cost-effective access to …

SpaceX is now eligible for inclusion in 401(k) retirement plans following changes to index fund rules, allowing retail investors to gain exposure to the private space company through their retirement accounts.

Seoul's startup ecosystem value surged from $40 billion to $237 billion between 2020 and 2024, moving the city to 9th globally, as the city expands its global startup platform amid an AI-driven industry shift. The Seoul …

Seoul will host Try Everything 2026, its flagship global startup festival, on Sept. 9-10 at Dongdaemun Design Plaza, aiming to connect domestic entrepreneurs with international investors and tech leaders. The city's star…

A tech commentator argues that companies should take on tech debt now because AI makes it nearly cost-free, warning that refactoring instead of pivoting to AI-native products could be fatal.

Micron Technology's market cap briefly surpassed Tesla and Meta on June 25 after fiscal Q3 revenue quadrupled to $41.46 billion, driven by surging demand for high-bandwidth memory chips used in AI infrastructure. The com…

OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI collectively consume about 21% of global AI compute capacity, operating fewer than 4 million H100-equivalent GPUs by end of 2025. Google alone controls roughly 25% of global AI compute, more th…

Vishal Sikka, former Infosys CEO, launched Hang Ten Systems and raised a $32 million seed round led by Mayfield with strategic investment from Aramco Ventures. The company aims to reshape IT services through agentic code…

Independent filmmakers are producing animated features for as little as $50,000 using AI video tools, slashing costs by up to 90%. The shift is attracting institutional backing, with OpenAI-backed 'Critterz' budgeted at …

Two funding rounds in one week signal that agent evaluation and simulation have become a market category. Patronus AI closed a $50 million round to build digital worlds for stress-testing AI agents, while General Intuiti…

Anthropic spends 2.3 times its payroll on AI compute, equating to $2 million per employee annually, while the median company spends just $137 per engineer per year. A bull scenario projects the AI bill per engineer could…

GitHub Copilot, Anthropic, and other AI model owners lost money on flat-rate subscriptions as heavy users consumed far more tokens than the average, forcing a shift to usage-based pricing. A small fraction of users can b…

Sovereign wealth funds are shifting hundreds of billions of dollars from public markets into private AI deals, with allocations projected to reach 29% of assets under management by 2025. Major investments include GIC's $…

OpenAI is reportedly considering delaying its IPO from late 2026 to 2027, following a confidential filing and a March 2026 funding round that valued the company at $852 billion. The potential delay, attributed to market …

Two hiring managers at Helpshift, a Clojure-based startup, bypassed the classic Secretary Problem by allowing rejected applicants to reapply after a cooling-off period and offering opt-in training in Clojure. This approa…

China's new tech bases in Hebei and Tianjin, including Pinduoduo's move to Xiongan New Area, may boost local rentals but home sales growth is expected to be milder than past surges due to cautious buyer sentiment and wea…

Six prominent AI researchers have left Google DeepMind since early 2026 for Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta, wiping roughly $270 billion from Alphabet's market cap. The exodus follows a strategic pivot prioritizing coding ta…