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AI coding startup Cognition is weighing a new funding round at a $70 billion to $80 billion valuation
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Nvidia's worst nightmare may be lurking inside Anthropic's IPO filing
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Intel CEO leads a $30 million bet on a startup aiming to unite hundreds of neoclouds. Read its pitch deck.
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Here are 3 revelations about Anthropic's employees and culture
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This startup raised $34 million to help security teams keep up with AI threats. Read the pitch deck.
Mave promises to reinvent companies' security operations with AI agents as cyberattacks accelerate. Read the pitch deck it used to raise its Series A.
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Infrastructure startup Fireworks AI is in early talks for new funding at a valuation between $30 billion and $40 billion
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Foursquare cofounder says acquisition gave $0 to equity holders, leaving him 'heartbroken'
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I sold my apartment, cashed out my pension, and took on debt to build a semiconductor startup. I'd do it again.
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This startup raised $21 million to clean up the AI agent mess hitting companies
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Silicon Valley's hot new talking points: beer and cigarettes
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This Y Combinator startup raised $6.1 million to let product managers and designers ship code. See its pitch deck.
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What Alexandr Wang says he learned from Mark Zuckerberg's 'really long' WhatsApp DMs
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Gen Alpha founders are already pitching VCs. Here's what investors want them to know.
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One of Anthropic's earliest backers shares where he's investing now, and offers advice to founders
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A tech crowd was polled on buying Anthropic shares at a $3 trillion valuation. Only 3 hands went up.
Everyone's waiting for Anthropic to go public. Buying the stock is another story.
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Anthropic's secret weapon is its CEO's charm, one of its earliest investors says
Matt Murphy of Menlo Ventures credits Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for his unique charm. The AI startup could go public at a $2 trillion valuation.
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AI agents don't always understand how companies work. This startup raised $5.2 million to solve that.
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What is Beam? The buzzy American AI model being called the 'DeepSeek of the West'
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Ramp's Broadway musical was the worst show I've ever seen. I'm still glad it exists.
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Anthropic funds $100M academy to train deployed AI engineers
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VCs are funding a concert business as a hedge against AI
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Vinod Khosla trashed a portfolio company — and the startup world has thoughts
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Get Access is building an exclusive club for startup investing
Backed by Sound Ventures, Get Access just raised $5 million at an $85 million valuation.
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Nvidia's robotics lab is becoming a founder factory
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Noa Argamani is venturing out
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The startup trap that kept this longevity app founder stuck
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A former BCG partner says leaving consulting taught him how to build
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The head of one of the largest US endowments says OpenAI and Anthropic are in big trouble
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The 'ChatGPT for doctors,' OpenEvidence, was valued at $15 billion in a new funding round
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Mark Zuckerberg's new AI nemesis: a 23-year-old dropout
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2 friends pooled $2,000 of their own savings and turned it into a $30 million company by focusing on 'green-light activities'
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OpenAI takes its AI fight with Anthropic to Big Law
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A startup founder was arrested on charges of using VC money to pay for her house and a Caribbean wedding
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This startup tried to take on Carta. It just announced it's shutting down.
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This startup is putting OpenAI's AI to work inside law firms
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Nvidia hollowed out Groq. Here's what happened to the company left behind.
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3 ex-Apple researchers want to make AI less awkward. Lightspeed, Accel, and Nvidia are giving them $50 million to do it.
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What happens when you tell Jensen Huang you're quitting Nvidia
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Why everyone in tech is suddenly talking about LARPing
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