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Large language models are now driving significant user growth for online services, with Buttondown attributing its recent spike in subscriptions to LLM referrals and Fat Gold reporting its first-ever subscription referra…
Sami Inkinen, founder and CEO of Virta Health, discussed his weekly scheduling routine and the company's growth to 1,000 employees in a podcast interview with Tim Ferriss. Inkinen emphasized the importance of structuring…
Kioxia reported record quarterly revenue of ¥1.0029 trillion ($6.29 billion) for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026, an 84.5 percent increase driven by surging AI demand for SSDs. The NAND flash manufacturer, which has no…
A $2 trillion collapse in software market capitalization in one week has shifted value away from application-layer companies toward physical and platform infrastructure, as local inference hardware and commoditized AI mo…
SpaceX filed an $80 billion IPO prospectus on Wednesday, the largest in market history, consolidating xAI's $6.4 billion operating loss and $3.2 billion in revenue under a single Nasdaq listing. OpenAI is days from filin…
SpaceX filed its S-1 on Wednesday, revealing a three-segment conglomerate generating $18.7 billion in 2025 revenue from its Space, Starlink, and AI businesses. Starlink dominates with $11.4 billion in revenue and a 39% o…
Railway founder Jake Cooper is building a new cloud infrastructure platform designed for an agent-native world, moving the majority of workloads onto the company's own bare metal data centers with 70% margins and a three…
NanoCo announced a new enterprise AI strategy centered on providing each employee with their own isolated, sandboxed AI agent. The company argues this approach enhances security and customization by preventing cross-cont…
OpenAI is reportedly preparing for an initial public offering as early as September, just one day after Elon Musk lost a lawsuit that threatened the company's corporate structure and future plans. The Wall Street Journal…
Sami Inkinen, founder and CEO of Virta Health, discussed reversing Type 2 diabetes in over 100,000 people through technology, AI, and nutrition, and recounted his 2,750-mile row from California to Hawaii to raise awarene…
Exa has raised a Series C round led by a16z to build a search engine designed specifically for AI agents, which the company says will soon search the web more than humans. The startup has spent five years developing infr…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is leading Exa's Series C funding round to support the company's development of a search engine built specifically for artificial intelligence agents. Exa's technology aims to replace tradition…
A founder can recover 290 hours per year by cloning their personal voice into a 4,000-token file for Claude, turning a weekend project into a compounding AI advantage. The guide provides two prompts and six tools to buil…
Nine application security startups debuted at RSAC 2026, responding to the collapse of traditional security boundaries caused by AI compressing the software development lifecycle. Companies like AppSentinels and Aurva ar…
PostHog is the recommended product analytics tool for vibe-coded apps, offering autocapture that records every click and pageview without requiring upfront event definitions. Vibe coders should install PostHog on day one…
OpenAI on Tuesday launched Guaranteed Capacity, a new offering that provides enterprise customers with long-term, guaranteed access to its compute resources for one- to three-year commitments. The program aims to give bu…
Andrej Karpathy, a founding member of OpenAI and former Tesla Autopilot lead, joined Anthropic on May 19, 2026, to work on pre-training research focused on using Claude to accelerate its own improvement. The move signals…
Corvus, a chemical manufacturing AI startup, deployed Nori Sessions background agents to eliminate three "hidden taxes" on development: tracking, context, and context-switching costs. The lean team now spins up coding ag…
Andrej Karpathy, a prominent AI researcher and co-founder of OpenAI, announced he has joined Anthropic. Karpathy stated he is excited to return to research and development at the frontier of large language models, while …
Productivity growth has slowed across advanced economies despite rapid advancements in artificial intelligence, creating a paradox where technological capability outpaces measurable output. Economists point to lagging ad…