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AI-infrastructure company Nscale is preparing for a potential New York listing, with investor meetings scheduled next week and banks Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan exploring a valuation of $25 billion, over 70% above its $1…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund Situational Awareness was forced to sell its public stock portfolio to Citadel after margin calls triggered a liquidity crisis, exposing the fragility of leveraged AI bets. Nvidia's $5 …
Wall Street banks are lending billions to tech founders and early employees using private stock as collateral, betting these borrowers will become lucrative clients when their companies go public. Goldman Sachs has seen …
South Park Commons (SPC) hosted its largest Demo Faire yet in San Francisco, with over 25 companies presenting live to investors and builders, and announced that applications for its $1M Founder Fellowship close August 2…
A software developer argues that AI startups still need human judgment despite advances in LLM agents, citing personal experience with Claude Code where AI generated solutions for nonexistent problems. The author contend…
Bitcoin's network hashrate has declined for nearly 287 days, dropping roughly 15% from its October 2025 peak of about 1,157 to 1,160 EH/s, with Q1 2026 marking the first quarterly decline in six years at approximately 4%…
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison told Startup School 2026 attendees that new business creation is running at twice last year's rate, citing Stripe's own data on the AI economy. Collison, who co-founded Stripe in 2009 with his…
PromptBase founder Ben Tossell grew the AI prompt marketplace from zero to 500,000 users and 300,000 listings by acting as the first seller, prioritizing seller acquisition over buyers, treating early sellers exceptional…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI-focused hedge fund, Situational Awareness, lost approximately 67% of its value in July 2026 and then liquidated its entire public equities portfolio, selling the positions to Ken Griffin's Cita…
Miso (YC S16), a Korean home services marketplace, announced it is hiring its first full-time employee in the Bay Area to lead U.S. expansion for Miso Motion, a new company supplying real-world robotics data to frontier …
George Hahn reports that hidden debt is fueling America's AI buildout, while China spreads cheap, open-source AI globally, and the rise of solo founders signals a new creator economy. The episode also marks the tenth ann…
AI studio Asteria, co-founded by filmmaker Bryn Mooser and Natasha Lyonne, has struck a strategic partnership with virtual production studio ZeroSpace to develop hybrid production workflows and facilities. The deal gives…
Mouse.dev, a startup led by Pete, is developing cloud-based coding agents that 'dream' over a user's codebase overnight, with only the strongest dreams surviving by morning, aiming to unlock twelve hours of productivity.
Nothing, the London-based consumer tech company founded by Carl Pei, is reportedly shifting its focus from smartphones to AI-centered devices, according to a Smartprix report. The company plans to release the Nothing Sma…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told Y Combinator's Startup School 2026 that this is "the single greatest time to start a company," urging aspiring founders to stop overthinking and ask "How hard can it be?" Huang, whose company…
Space-Eyes, founded by CEO Jatin Bains, agreed to go public via a merger with McKinley Acquisition Corp., valuing the post-merger business at $638 million despite generating only about $1 million in annual revenue, as re…
DataBahn, a Texas-based startup founded in 2023, has raised $40 million in a Series B round led by Insight Partners, with participation from Forgepoint, GTM Capital, and S3 Ventures, bringing its total funding to $59 mil…
Smallest.ai, a startup founded in late 2024, has raised $13 million in a Series A round led by Seligman Ventures with participation from Sierra Ventures and 3one4 Capital, bringing its total funding to over $21 million. …
Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund, Situational Awareness, is down about 67% in July after AI stocks tumbled, triggering margin calls that forced it to sell much of its public stock portfolio to Citadel, the hedge fund r…
Citadel, led by Ken Griffin, has acquired the bulk of Situational Awareness' public equity portfolio after the AI-focused hedge fund suffered steep losses during July's AI stock downturn. The portfolio included stakes in…