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Exa raised $250 million at a $2.2 billion valuation in a Series C round, Modal raised $355 million at a $4.7 billion valuation in a Series C round, and Turbopuffer reached $100 million in annual recurring revenue and pro…
Commoncog will host a members-only Q&A on June 1, 2026, featuring Jay Taylor and Navan Chauhan, cofounders of Dark Factory Inc., to discuss their software development model where no human writes or reads code. The sessio…
Granola's device audio capture enables discreet AI note-taking for sensitive conversations, eliminating the visible bot participants that disrupt confidential recruiting discussions. The tool's SOC 2 Type 2 certification…
A developer is using three AI models to plan a single software feature, then having a fourth model implement it. The process involves Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 independently designing a plan, Gemini 3.1 Pro auditing both and …
Product managers conducting weekly customer discovery interviews often lose valuable signals like exact user phrasing and hesitations due to the gap between conversation and documentation. Granola, an AI notepad, solves …
Granola, an AI notepad that captures device audio without joining calls as a visible participant, offers a method for sharing meeting notes securely through Team Folders with granular access controls. The tool transcribe…
A new stakeholder interview template from Granola aims to solve the problem of documentation gaps in executive search, where imprecise note-taking during sensitive conversations leads to misaligned expectations and place…
Daytona CEO Ivan Burazin announced the company's pivot from human development environments to AI sandboxes, positioning its infrastructure as the "end of localhost" for AI agents. The company now provides composable, sta…
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…
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…
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…
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…