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Generalist, the robot-model developer founded by Pete Florence, Andrew Barry, and Andy Zeng, has sold $198.2 million of a new equity offering less than three months after closing a $400 million financing, according to a …
Greptile, an AI code review startup backed by Benchmark, Y Combinator, Paul Graham, and Initialized, is hiring a Growth Engineer in San Francisco with a salary of $130k–190k/yr. The company, which reviews 5B lines of cod…
Generalist AI, a San Mateo startup founded in 2024 by former DeepMind and Boston Dynamics alumni, has raised approximately $200 million in fresh funding led by 8VC, bringing its total capital to over $650 million and val…
Dogotix, the humanoid robotics unit of XPeng Motors, raised more than $900 million in its initial funding round, bringing its post-money valuation to over $6.3 billion. The company plans to use the funds to develop hardw…
General Intuition, a New York-based startup building foundation models for generalized AI agents that operate in physical space, is in talks to raise funding at a $6 billion pre-money valuation from Valor Equity Partners…
Amjad Masad, CEO and co-founder of Replit, will speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco from October 13–15 about the future of programming and AI's impact on software development. Replit, which has a $9 billion…
Standard Metrics, a private-market reporting platform co-founded by CEO John Melas-Kyriazi, raised a $20M Series B led by 8VC, with participation from Salesforce Ventures, Spark Capital, January Capital, First Trust Capi…
Homebuyers are using AI-powered brokerage TurboHome to save thousands in real estate fees, with the company reporting 388 transactions totaling $440 million in home sales since its late 2024 launch. TurboHome charges a f…
NVIDIA announced a $6 billion deal to license AI technology from startup Poolside and a separate $1 billion investment, valuing Poolside at $12 billion pre-money. The deal brings over 100 Poolside engineers to work on NV…
A Hacker News user argues that in the age of AI-generated software 'slop', marketplaces may offer a stronger moat than pure software, as code becomes cheap but customization remains difficult. The user proposes using AI …
Mundo AI, a Vancouver-based AI data company, announced on August 24th that it raised a $20 million Series A led by GreatPoint Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator, Next Frontier Ventures, and E12 Ventures, brin…
Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude model, is expected to have an IPO valuation below SpaceX's $1.77 trillion, despite its estimated $65 billion revenue run rate outpacing OpenAI's $40 billion. The company faces …
Autostep (YC P26), a San Francisco-based desktop app that identifies repetitive tasks and their costs, is hiring AI/fullstack engineers and a chief of staff. The company is backed by Y Combinator, Neo, and prominent foun…
EntropyIO has launched new perpetual markets for Anthropic's pre-IPO equity and SNDK on Hyperliquid, using real-time data from RedStone, reviving activity around Anthropic's valuation after a previous market closure. The…
Zoom Communications' roughly $97 million investment in Anthropic, the AI lab behind Claude, is now valued at approximately $3 billion, potentially overshadowing the company's Q2 2027 earnings on August 25, 2026. Bank of …
Microsoft Corp. should acquire Hugging Face Inc., the AI community platform often called the GitHub of AI, argues Alex Kantrowitz in the Cautious Optimism newsletter, noting Microsoft's existing ownership of GitHub posit…
Nebius Group (NASDAQ:NBIS) is positioned as a cleaner alternative to CoreWeave (NASDAQ:CRWV) in the AI infrastructure space, with Q2 revenue of $582.3 million (up 454% year over year), $8.04 billion in cash, and almost n…
General Intuition, an AI robotics startup, is seeking a $6 billion valuation to scale its development of generalized 'world models' for embodied AI agents, signaling investor confidence in a foundational shift from softw…
Anthropic executives believe their upcoming public offering will match or exceed the $75 billion that SpaceX raised in June, and the company could file for its public listing before the end of the month, according to a B…
General Intuition, founded by Pim de Witte, is negotiating a new financing round at a reported $6 billion pre-money valuation, according to TechCrunch, just 60 days after announcing a $320 million Series A at a $2.3 bill…