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Noam Shazeer, a star Google AI researcher, has left the company again to join OpenAI, just two years after Google paid $2.7 billion to bring him back via a 'hackquisition' of Character.ai. The deal structure, which allow…
A developer published a practical 40-minute method for naming a SaaS startup in 2026, emphasizing speed and defensibility over finding a perfect single-word .com domain. The method includes a five-minute positioning exer…
Google is using Nvidia's own tactics—financial guarantees and circular financing—to challenge Nvidia's dominance in AI chips. The Wall Street Journal reports Google has provided a $3.2bn guarantee for a data center using…
A researcher at a frontier AI lab advises aspiring candidates to pursue rigorous mathematics and programming coursework, work intensely, and focus on high-value problems to compete for jobs at top labs like OpenAI, Anthr…
Databricks is raising another massive round of private capital instead of going public, targeting a valuation between $165 billion and $175 billion. CEO Ali Ghodsi called 2026 a 'terrible year to go public' due to crowde…
Senator Bernie Sanders introduced legislation on Thursday that would impose a 50% stock tax on major AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI, giving the American public a half-stake in these firms and seeding a sove…
Anfloy built an agentic outbound engine using Apify Actors to capture LinkedIn buying signals, achieving reply rates up to 11% and generating $234,000 in qualified pipeline across three campaigns. The system processes 60…
OpenAI hired Noam Shazeer, cofounder of Character.AI, which faces multiple lawsuits over teen suicides linked to its chatbots. Shazeer previously co-led Google's Gemini and was rehired by Google in a $2.7 billion deal wi…
Posting Machine, a content agency using AI, enables two people to manage 20 LinkedIn accounts for B2B SaaS founders by turning customer calls, meeting notes, Slack threads, and product updates into founder-led posts and …
LUMIQ, a Noida-based BFSI AI platform, raised INR 50 crore (~$5.9M) in a pre-Series B round led by Bajaj Finserv Ventures, with participation from Info Edge Ventures. The round values the company at approximately INR 440…
Kreativespace, an Indian AI writing platform founded by Vinet Kakadea and incubated at IIT Kharagpur, announced its acceptance into the NVIDIA Inception Program, AWS Startup Program, and DPIIT under Startup India. The pl…
An AI agent called Alex graded five real startup pitch decks as they stood on the day they were sent, ignoring hindsight. Airbnb's 2008 deck scored 3.80/5, Uber's 2008 deck scored 3.61/5, Buffer's 2011 deck scored 3.54/5…
Conduit, an AI-powered hospitality technology company, launched a platform to automate daily operations for hotels, serviced apartments, and short-term rentals. The platform includes pre-built AI agents for guest service…
Big Tech executives, including Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman, have reversed their warnings that AI would cause mass unemployment, now claiming it will create jobs and lead to a labor shortage. The shift comes as AI companies…
RMZ Group announced a $35 billion five-year investment plan to expand its data center capacity in India from 250 MW to 2-3 gigawatts, aiming to bridge the gap between India's 20% share of global data generation and its 2…
Nadia Carlsten, former AWS executive, became CEO of Smartbird (formerly Allbirds) after the company pivoted to AI infrastructure, selling its shoe business for $43 million and raising $100 million. Smartbird aims to prov…
Amazon is in talks to sell its Trainium AI chips directly to other companies for use in their data centers, following Google's similar move with its TPUs. CEO Andy Jassy signaled the plan in April, noting the in-house ch…
ThoughtSapien, an AI tutor that teaches through structured lessons, was launched on Hacker News. The platform calibrates to users' levels and goals, generates personalized learning paths, and provides interactive visuals…
AI startup Subquadratic claims to have solved a mathematical bottleneck in large language models, enabling faster and cheaper computation, though experts remain skeptical. Meanwhile, brain-computer interface trials are a…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expressed zero excitement about leading a public company, but the AI firm has filed confidential paperwork for an IPO amid a wave of tech companies going public. The move aims to raise capital for c…