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Leopold Aschenbrenner, founder of the AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness, saw his $45 billion portfolio collapse days before his wedding in Carmel, California, after heavy borrowing to make massive AI bets. He s…
Pippa, a generative AI video startup co-founded by Hogan Shrum and Sean Wright, is offering artists $0.005 per image and $0.003 per second of video, plus a share of a 5 percent royalty pool, to compensate them for their …
Google developed a ChatGPT-like chatbot called Meena in 2018, but executives blocked its release, leading creators Daniel De Freitas and Noam Shazeer to leave and found Character.AI, which grew to 20 million monthly acti…
Great Question, a Y Combinator W21-backed AI customer research platform, is hiring a Senior Demand Gen Manager to own the sales qualified lead (SQL) number and build a demand engine across organic search, AI search, cont…
Cyera, founded by Yotam Segev and Tamar Bar-Ilan, is pursuing Oasis Security through a letter of intent, a move CTech valued at about $1 billion, signaling a push to make AI-agent identity a full cybersecurity platform c…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Peter Thiel and Paul Graham taught him that the best investment opportunities are rarely the most popular, and that to do spectacularly well, investors must do things that are not what everyone…
SpaceX's record $85.7 billion IPO in June, priced at $135 per share, has spurred a new wave of space startups, with global funding for space companies hitting an all-time high of $7.95 billion in the first quarter of 202…
A new breed of executive, the Forward Deployed Executive (FDX), is emerging to close the gap between AI adoption and actual business value, as evidenced by a case where a non-technical colleague's developer quoted two we…
AEON, a startup that raised an $8M pre-seed round led by YZi Labs in May, has become one of Coinbase's early x402 ecosystem partners and shipped an x402 Facilitator and SDK on BNB Chain. The partnership validates the mat…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday credited India's youth for driving the country's progress in artificial intelligence, deep tech, and space exploration, citing the recent private orbital launch by Skyroot Aerospa…
Guna Shekhar Reddy, an MTech student at IIT Hyderabad, developed a hybrid physics-ML screening platform that reduces cold-forging die design costs for small manufacturers, earning him the Academic and Co-curricular Excel…
A serial AI SaaS founder, speaking on the Starter Story podcast, revealed a four-pillar marketing playbook for growing multiple AI products to hundreds of thousands of users: product quality first, then SEO, social media…
FirstEmployee.ai, a new autonomous AI employee platform, launched with a demo showing an AI agent building a company overnight, including setting up a database schema and publishing a live site at https://archival.firste…
Harmony, an AI for manufacturing startup, is hiring full-stack software engineers (FDEs) with a salary of $100K+ and equity, as posted on Hacker News by georgeharmony. The role focuses on developing AI solutions for the …
Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness, which reportedly fell 67% last month due to leveraged bets on chipmakers and AI firms, sold most of its portfolio to Ken Griffin's Citadel, averting a …
A value-based pricing framework for AI automation projects, using client math instead of hourly rates, can price projects at 10% to 20% of the client's annual cost baseline, targeting a 10x return on investment in year o…
Morph (YC S23), a startup building inference infrastructure for open coding models, is hiring a performance engineer to optimize its stack spanning kernels, model serving, routing, autoscaling, and capacity. The role inv…
LemonLime, a San Francisco AI startup and Y Combinator graduate, is apologizing after offering job interviews to applicants who got its logo tattooed at a party, with CEO Jordan Zietz saying seven people took the offer. …
LemonLime, a San Francisco-based AI startup and Y Combinator Summer 2026 graduate, drew backlash after CEO Jordan Zietz offered job interviews to candidates who got a permanent tattoo of the company logo, with seven peop…
A developer argues that AI startups fail together because model providers absorb their capabilities, citing Jasper's decline after ChatGPT and Windsurf's collapse when Anthropic cut off API access. The post contends that…