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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…
US fund managers are setting aside cash in anticipation of initial public offerings from SpaceX and OpenAI, according to analysts. The moves signal growing investor appetite for high-profile tech listings that could resh…
Joi AI, an AI companion startup, is hiring 10 "masturbation consultants" for a four-week position requiring participants to test the company's NSFW audio feature and write about their experiences. The company received ov…
Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman criticized the AI industry's messaging around data-center projects, stating the sector has "done a terrible job" of selling them to communities. In a podcast interview and email to Business In…
OpenAI is testing conversation-targeted advertisements inside ChatGPT, with hundreds of companies including HubSpot, Dick's Sporting Goods, and Nordstrom purchasing early placements. Similarweb executive Heral Amir said …
Intel saw every major technological shift from mobile to AI years in advance but systematically failed to execute due to internal bureaucracy and an obsession with x86 profit margins, according to a deep dive covering 20…
Grafana Labs competes directly with Datadog by charging across five usage meters—metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and k6 load tests—while marketing against Datadog's opaque overage bills. The company offers a generous fr…
Twenty CRM offers its Pro plan at $9 per user per month, starkly contrasting with Salesforce ($25–$165/seat) and HubSpot ($90/seat Pro). The open-source CRM, which has garnered roughly 30,000 GitHub stars, exposes that m…
Wolf has launched a new tool that transforms Slack threads into collaborative workspaces where human team members and AI agents can interact within the same chat. The platform allows agents to create pages, emails, and L…