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Sam Altman and Greg Brockman appeared in their first joint media interview in 10 years, a 90-minute podcast on Core Memory, covering OpenAI's history, the Elon Musk trial, and a product strategy that analysts have misrea…
Venture capital firm a16z is leading a Series A investment in Ethos, a startup building AI-powered infrastructure to match workers with professional opportunities. The company uses AI voice agents to capture users' exper…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has selected 65 fellows for the inaugural cohort of its Growth Engineer Fellowship, an 8-week program for growth engineers and AI-native leaders. The fellows, who come from companies including …
Sendbird co-founder and CEO John Kim transformed his company into an AI-native organization by building an internal platform called Automators, where non-technical teams built a fully functional e-commerce swag store wit…
Anthropic and OpenAI announced separate joint ventures with major financial firms to build AI-powered services companies, with Anthropic raising $1.5 billion from Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs, and Op…
Zed launched Zed for Business, a $30 per seat per month plan that gives organizations admin controls over AI privacy, model usage, and collaboration features. The plan disables prompt sharing and edit prediction training…
A 14× CTR gap emerged between niche and head-term topics across 1,200 pages tested on tabiji.ai, with niche pages like "bookshops" achieving 1.83% CTR versus 0.13% for head terms like "coffee-shops." Title matching to na…
LoreConvo and Claude-Mem offer competing approaches to AI memory management, with Claude-Mem using auto-capture into a single store and LoreConvo organizing sessions by project from the start. Claude-Mem's flat model wor…
Mozilla.ai CEO John Dickerson argues that the sovereign AI conversation must extend beyond nation-state independence to include control at the enterprise, community, and individual levels. Dickerson warns that building e…
A five-agent AI sales team costing $300 per month can replace both $5,000-per-month AI SDR tools and $60,000-per-year human sales development representatives, according to a new architecture guide. The approach comes aft…
Following Bloop's April 2026 shutdown, teams are seeking alternatives to its Vibe Kanban product for multi-agent coding and session orchestration. Nimbalyst is the leading replacement, offering a kanban board alongside p…
Google AI product lead Vikas Kansal argues that traditional SaaS freemium models fail for AI products because the high compute cost of serving free users creates a paradox where a too-good free tier cannibalizes premium …
Zed CEO Nathan Sobo stated the company is not prioritizing AI features for profit, noting the company sold tokens at a loss until switching to a token-based billing model with a 10% markup. Sobo addressed criticism that …
PostHog launched PostHog Code in beta, a desktop application that runs coding agents on product data to automate routine development tasks like bug fixes and UX improvements. The tool creates a prioritized to-do list fro…
Bloop, the company behind Vibe Kanban, announced April 10, 2026, that it is shutting down due to an unsustainable business model, as "the vast majority are free users." Vibe Kanban will transition to a community-maintain…
AI startup Sierra raised approximately $1 billion at a $15 billion valuation, crossing $150 million in annual recurring revenue in February and likely reaching $200 million. The news comes amid a broader industry debate …
Stripe design manager Owen Williams built Protodash, an internal AI prototyping tool that allows designers and product managers to turn Stripe's design system into clickable, production-quality prototypes in minutes. The…
Stripe design manager Owen Williams built Protodash, an internal AI-powered prototyping platform that lets designers and product managers create high-fidelity dashboard prototypes without writing code. The tool, which ev…
OpenAI finalized a $10 billion joint venture with a 19-firm Wall Street consortium led by Blackstone to embed its AI tools into the group's portfolio companies, while Anthropic is closing $1.5 billion from Blackstone, Go…
A new AI workflow system called "The 8 Systems" claims to replace a five-person engineering team by stacking multiple Claude Code hacks into automated, end-to-end production workflows. The system, which costs $200 to $50…