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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…
The Lenny and Friends Summit returns on September 10 in San Francisco, with applications now open for the handpicked, invite-only event for senior product and AI leaders. Organizer Lenny aims to make it the world’s best …
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has hired General (R) Bryan P. Fenton as a special advisor. The venture firm argues that plaintiff attorneys' business model—based on lead generation, underwriting, and brand recall—offers a bl…
A product leader built an AI-powered Chief of Staff system using Obsidian for knowledge management and Claude as an intelligence engine to automate daily coordination, project tracking, and strategic prioritization. The …
A five-person team at Swamp builds and ships product improvements daily using AI agents, operating without human approval gates between decisions and deployment. VP Product Paul Stack and his colleagues independently adv…
AppGoblin's 2026 Q1 App Ecosystem Report shows Verve leading ad networks for a second consecutive quarter, while Snap Inc., TaurusX, and adjoe also posted strong growth. In business tools, Luciq and PayPal emerged as fas…
Between February and May 2026, six companies shipped products that together form the infrastructure for AI agents to operate as legal-economic actors in the U.S., including identity, custody, banking, payments, and legal…
Fellow.ai, an AI-powered meeting assistant startup, eliminated 'works on my machine' issues by using Flox to define reproducible project environments that travel with code repositories. CTO Sam Cormier-Iijima identified …
Meta committed $145 billion to AI infrastructure the same week it began firing approximately 8,000 employees, framing the cuts as a recalibration to "AI reality." Standard Chartered separately announced it would cut more…
A subreddit called /r/SlopcoreCirclejerk has emerged as a hub for pro-generative AI users who mock and provoke anti-AI communities, with posts celebrating the erosion of human creativity and targeting critics as "luddite…
Ion Stoica, a UC Berkeley professor and co-founder of Databricks, delivered a keynote at Alumni House tracing how research problems led to foundational technologies like Apache Spark and Ray, which powered ChatGPT. A VC …