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Sequoia Capital's thesis that AI companies will sell work rather than software is flawed because using AI for a task trains the model to do it, commoditizing the service, according to a rebuttal by Andrew Côté. The durab…
Mind Lab, founded in October 2025 by Andrew Chen, released Macaron-V1 on July 21, achieving state-of-the-art results in six of 12 benchmarks, with the flagship Venti model post-trained on GLM-5.2 using four LoRA adapters…
Tasklet (YC P26), an AI platform for running business operations on agents, is hiring a Head of Design Engineering, an individual contributor role offering a salary of $300,000 to $450,000 and equity of 0.35% to 0.70%. T…
Lovable, Gamma, and Anysphere's Cursor each crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue in 2025 with teams of 45 to 60 employees, while Bolt.new reached $40 million ARR with fewer than 40 people, according to compan…
Gooseworks (YC W23), a San Francisco-based startup founded by the team behind Athina AI, is hiring a founding builder/engineer to develop self-improving AI agents that automate ad creative for consumer brands. The compan…
Corma, an AI security startup founded by CEO Alon Pluda, announced $60 million in seed funding led by Sequoia Capital, alongside Khosla Ventures and Coatue, to close the 'defense gap' in cybersecurity. In tests, four fro…
A developer is offering to build AI-powered minimum viable products (MVPs) for founders without upfront payment, with payment due only after agreed success criteria are met. The offer targets 1-2 founders with concrete p…
RNet, a new AI token service provider, launched a basic version of its platform at rnetai.org, allowing users to buy credits once and use them across multiple AI applications, with developers integrating an AI gateway to…
Anthropic is nearing a deal to acquire Israeli AI developer Decart at an approximately $7 billion valuation, with Decart's founders and largest investor Sequoia Capital favoring Anthropic over a reportedly higher offer f…
A developer has published a methodology for reverse-engineering AI tool sites using public traffic data, outlining a six-step framework to identify and replicate successful growth strategies. The approach emphasizes filt…
AI startup Perplexity has made an unsolicited $34.5 billion offer to buy Google's Chrome browser, a bid larger than Perplexity's own valuation, following a US antitrust ruling that found Google holds an illegal monopoly …
Anthropic reported more than $11.5 billion in Q2 2026 revenue on August 15, a 14-fold year-over-year increase from $787 million in Q2 2025, and confirmed its first quarter of positive adjusted operating income. The compa…
SaaSLyra, a new AI-powered SaaS discovery platform, launched on Hacker News to help founders get their products found by both people and AI through structured listings, submission workflows, and visibility insights. The …
Asia's AI chip startups face significant barriers to competing with Nvidia, primarily due to limited access to advanced foundries like TSMC and Samsung Foundry, according to industry experts and investors. South Korea's …
The Web Scraping Club newsletter marked its fourth anniversary with more than 7,000 subscribers, founder Pierluigi Vinciguerra wrote, noting the publication has run with no marketing efforts and 0 ads despite a Google SE…
Sellara, a New York startup founded by former Citi employees, has launched AI agents that automate post-trade workflows for investment banks, and claims to be live with one of the largest U.S. banks. The company reports …
Cognition is in talks to raise a new funding round at a valuation of at least $40 billion, a 54% jump from its $26 billion valuation three months ago, with revenue approaching $1 billion annualized. The company's Devin a…
Financial Times reported on August 13, 2026, that Anthropic investors are targeting a valuation above $2 trillion for a potential October 2026 listing, a figure that has not been formally fixed within the company. The re…
Windsurf has been rebranded as Devin Desktop following Cognition's acquisition, and Cursor became a SpaceX subsidiary on August 14, making the editor comparison obsolete. Claude Code, with annualized revenue of $2.5 bill…
OpenAI is experiencing a significant brain drain as key researchers and technical leads depart ahead of a potential IPO, risking the company's competitive edge and product stability. The exodus, which includes architects…