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A new wave of consumer startups, including Hermo, Molo, and Poppy, is building AI-driven tools to automate parenting logistics such as scheduling and reminders. Hermo, founded by Jenna Blaicher-Brown and her husband Fabi…
Adult-AI startup Joi AI is hiring 10 "masturbation consultants" for a four-week study to test a new NSFW audio feature, requiring daily audio-guided sessions and weekly reports from participants aged 18 or older. The com…
Top YouTubers including Jordan Matter, Michelle Khare, and Samir Chaudry are backing Bedford, a new $3,750 annual program that trains aspiring creators through AI-enabled courses and professional coaching. The six-week p…
A new AI bookkeeping tool called Billpal automatically extracts invoices from users' email inboxes and matches them to bank transactions, eliminating manual accounting for freelancers. The service, which costs $29 and ha…
Zscaler shares fell more than 20% in premarket trading Wednesday after the cloud security company issued fiscal 2027 revenue and ARR growth guidance of 16% to 17%, signaling weaker-than-expected new customer additions. T…
A 25-year CEO of a fintech company argues that the current conversation around artificial intelligence has become hysterical and fails to reflect the reality of its business impact. The executive, who has navigated previ…
Airwallex has launched Latitude37, a new accelerator program offering young Australian technical founders aged 25 and under a $100,000 no-equity grant, trips to San Francisco and Singapore, and access to the Airwallex ec…
Lovable CEO Anton Osika directly appealed to laid-off Big Tech workers in a LinkedIn post Tuesday, declaring the era of US tech giants as the "safe, prestigious choice" is over. The Swedish AI startup, valued at $6.6 bil…
Bitcoin Japan Corporation, a Tokyo-listed company formerly known as a kimono wholesaler, has acquired a stake in Elon Musk’s SpaceX through a private secondary market transaction. The investment, made via its U.S. subsid…
A new Claude Code plugin called RepoRecon validates project ideas against GitHub, checking if similar tools already exist before users build them. The plugin returns a verdict in approximately 90 seconds, flagging result…
The AgentForge team built an open-source multi-agent orchestration framework after six months of production deployment, revealing that failure modes multiply in multi-agent systems and must be designed for first. The tea…
Spark Capital partner Yasmin Razavi led a $450 million financing round for Anthropic in May 2023, generating an estimated $3 billion paper gain on a roughly $75 million commitment, according to Forbes. Anthropic, now val…
Venture capitalist Sarah Guo left Greylock and launched Conviction in October 2022 with a $101 million inaugural fund. Guo backed infrastructure startup Baseten early with a $1.5 million check and co-led its $3 million s…
Forbes profiled early-stage investors on its Midas Seed List, highlighting seed bets that preceded the AI funding surge. Gili Raanan and Cyberstarts invested $6.4 million in Wiz's seed round in early 2020, and Google lat…
Octopus Legacy, the bereavement service owned by Octopus Group, acquired a team of 50 legal professionals from NewLaw Solicitors to handle probate and estate administration work. The company will deploy artificial intell…
PageIndex, the open-source retrieval framework that has amassed 26,000 GitHub stars and serves 23,000 cloud users, announced the PageIndex File System, a new layer enabling a single index to reason over millions of docum…
Isomorphic Labs, the AI drug discovery startup spun out of Google DeepMind in 2021, raised a new $2.1 billion Series B led by Thrive Capital to scale its computing power and drug development programs. CEO Demis Hassabis …
Five of the largest hyperscale technology companies and Nvidia are all led by female chief financial officers, a group that includes Meta's Susan Li, Microsoft's Amy Hood, Alphabet's Anat Ashkenazi and Ruth Porat, Oracle…
Investors are shifting focus to small-cap US technology stocks as they seek the next wave of artificial intelligence winners beyond major players like Nvidia. The hunt targets smaller firms that could benefit from AI ado…
A developer has outlined an architecture for building autonomous DeFi agents on Arbitrum that use event-driven triggers rather than traditional polling bots to monitor positions and execute strategies in real-time. The a…