Trump's robot ban aims to counter China. US startups fear it could leave them behind.
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This ex-Y Combinator lawyer thinks startups are overpaying for legal work — and he's got a plan
At Y Combinator, Mitch Duncombe saw founders spend an astonishing amount of money on lawyers. His new startup dares to take on Big Law.
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Alexandr Wang says startups supercharged by AI can now pick 'Goliath versus Goliath' fights
He said that if a startup embraces AI agents in the "most ambitious ways," they can easily beat incumbent companies.
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Whatnot is in talks to raise a new funding round at a $20 billion valuation
Whatnot, a live shopping startup, aims for $20 billion valuation in financing talks, driven by livestream sales in fashion and collectibles.
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Lilian Weng flips from Thinking Machines to OpenAI after saying the startup's pace hurt her health
Lilian Weng, a cofounder of Thinking Machines Lab, rejoins OpenAI to lead an AI research team that will aid the push for self-improving AI.
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Legora's buying spree has reached the courtroom
Legora has acquired London startup Wexler to better serve trial lawyers. The deal continues an acquisition spree for the Swedish-born software maker.
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Read the pitch decks of 18 startups looking to disrupt dating apps and social networking that have raised millions
Social networking and dating startups used these pitch decks and memos to raise capital and ink deals.
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What smart people are saying about Lilian Weng's departure from Thinking Machines Lab
Tech workers from Google to Meta empathized with Lilian Weng's story of struggling under a startup's expectations and deciding to exit.
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An AI exec is stepping down, citing workload and stress. Here's how 10 business leaders stave off burnout.
"I ultimately have to admit that the amount of consistent stress and workload have pushed me beyond what my health can sustain physically," Lilian Weng wrote.
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Founders who sold their startup to Cisco raise $34 million to kill IT tickets. Read their new AI startup's pitch deck.
Harmony raised a $34 million round led by Lightspeed. Its founders previously sold their cloud software startup Epsagon to Cisco.
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This Y Combinator startup just raised $13.5 million to stop developers from tokenmaxxing
Weave says it quantifies AI and human engineering outputs so companies can avoid racking up big AI bills from tokenmaxxing.
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Thinking Machines Lab cofounder Lilian Weng steps down, citing startup-related stress and illness
Lilian Weng said repeated illness and the pressure of building an AI startup had become physically unsustainable.
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Y Combinator turned a sports arena into AI's biggest pep rally
Y Combinator filled the Chase Center with aspiring founders for its annual Startup School. Some compared it to a megachurch.
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Mercor is embracing old-school Big Tech interview strategies that even Google and Microsoft are ditching
Mercor's head of product, Osvald Nitski, said that the AI training company has moved away from take-home assignments that can be completed with AI.
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Travis Kalanick says he's the only CEO with a 5-minute jet ski commute
Instead of hailing a ride from an app, the former Uber CEO now jet skis across Lake Austin. "Who else do you know is jet-skiing to work?" he asked.
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What's the next big thing in social media? Meet 22 top VCs placing bets.
From dating apps to new takes on the social network for the AI era, meet 22 VC firms backing innovative internet startups.
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The quest to kill Gmail finds a new AI challenger
Scape's email app draws on its memory and transcripts to suggest replies. A Y Combinator partner believes it could finally pry people away from Gmail.
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OpenAI is launching new corporate software that takes it beyond the AI model war
OpenAI's new Presence product signals its push beyond AI models into business software and AI-powered work.
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A high school dropout raised $31 million to protect AI liquid cooling systems. Read his pitch deck.
High school dropout Zach Laberge raised $31 million for Omen AI, which monitors liquid cooling systems in AI data centers.
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A startup building a social alternative to Google Maps for Gen Z raised $7.5 million
Corner, a social app for saving and sharing local spots, has raised $7.5 million.
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13 legal startups to watch in 2026, according to investors
Legal technology has gone from an investor wasteland to one of the hottest parties in AI. Investors told us which startups they're watching.
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Meet Yang Zhilin, the CEO and founder behind China's buzzy new Kimi K3 AI model
Yang Zhilin is the CEO and founder of Moonshot AI, a Chinese startup that developed Kimi K3. The Kimi K3 model raised eyebrows in Silicon Valley.
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Anthropic is offering a $600,000 salary for one of its most important IPO hires
Anthropic posted a job opening for a director on its investor relations team, with a base salary of $425,000 to $600,000.
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Sunday Robotics says its robot can fold clothes it has never seen in unfamiliar homes
Sunday Robotics, a $1.15 billion startup, will place Memo robots in homes through a beta program this fall.
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Harvey has made its third acquisition in 7 months — and it signals where it's going next
Harvey's acquisition of Benchmark, a startup for asset managers, marks its push beyond Big Law into the broader corporate market.
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Why Google partnered with former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal's $2 billion AI search startup
Google is deepening ties with ex-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal's AI search startup Parallel, which says AI agents search the web differently than humans.
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From 'heartburn' to $14 billion: Inside Menlo's early Anthropic investment that broke all the rules.
As Anthropic prepares to go public, Menlo Ventures will be one of the biggest winners, turning an estimated $1 billion stake into around $14 billion.
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The CEO of a startup helping non-techies code still sees a lot of value in engineering degrees
The CEO of vibe-coding startup Emergent, Mukund Jha, joins BI's Dan DeFrancesco to discuss his company's exponential growth.
Live Q&A: How vibe coding is transforming tech — and tech jobs
The CEO of vibe-coding startup Emergent, Mukund Jha, joins BI's Dan DeFrancesco to discuss his company's exponential growth.
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This startup is betting job seekers will pay to land a job
Refer is an AI recruiter where job seekers, not employers, pay after landing a job. The startup recently raised $7.5 million.
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I traded San Francisco's startup scene for Buenos Aires. It's helped me build a family — and lock in.
Sunflower cofounder Koby Conrad moved from San Francisco to Buenos Aires. Its helped him "lock in" and build a family.
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Anthropic's latest big-name hire: Monzo cofounder Tom Blomfield
Tom Blomfield is taking a leave of absence from Y Combinator to join Anthropic's compute team, joining a host of prominent tech names at the firm.
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1X's product head says its new humanoid hand has solved one of the toughest problems in robotics
1X says NEO's new hands can pour tea, plug in chargers, and use sign language.
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Kalshi's 'unusual' management style has more than 100 employees report to both founders, CEO says
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour described the prediction market's management style as deliberately "chaotic," but that leads to "constant adaptability."
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I landed an Nvidia data center internship after sending out 200 applications. I learned Big Tech wasn't for me.
Gale CEO Rahul Gudise thought an Nvidia internship would lead to his dream job. It showed him he wanted to build his own company instead.
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Meet Isaac 1, the $8,000 home robot that wants to take folding laundry off your to-do list
The Y Combinator-backed startup Weave Robotics says its robot Isaac 1 can fold laundry and ships in California this fall.
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2 founders raised $3.2 million, then scrapped their original AI startup. Here's the deck they used to pitch the pivot.
Founders Tyler Maran and Anna Pojawis scrapped their startup OmniAI and launched Monumint, which builds AI agents for banks. Here's their pitch deck.
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Anthropic has soared to a $1.2 trillion valuation on secondary markets. Shares are almost impossible to get.
Anthropic has soared to a $1.2 trillion valuation on a popular secondary exchange as investors clamor to get shares in the AI startup before it goes public.
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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is raising external funding for the first time. Read the CEO's email to staff.
In a memo to employees, Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp said the company is raising the funds at a $130 billion valuation.
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Mark Cuban explains why he thinks AI labs can't immediately replace Lovable and Replit
The "Shark Tank" and Lovable investor said that AI coding companies offer add-on services that could prevent them from being replaced by AI labs.
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Perplexity is building a secret weapon to join the AI coding wars
San Francisco-based Perplexity, valued at $20 billion, is working on 'Teammate,' an AI tool that may compete with AI coding giants like Anthropic.
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Groq's founder says his 'terrible' leadership cost his company 3 to 4 years
Jonathan Ross said that he made lots of management mistakes early in the chipmaker's journey.
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AI-native startups are hiring fewer entry-level workers, Harvard study finds
AI-native startups are running smaller, flatter teams and are hiring more senior talent rather than entry-level talent, a Harvard study found.
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Read the pitch deck these Stanford grads used to raise $11.6 million for a wearable device to track women's hormones
Clair Health says today's wearables overlook women's health. Read the pitch deck behind its $11.6 million seed round.
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Bootcamps, work trials, token burn: Inside the recruiting practices at the hottest AI coding startups
At Replit, X profiles have become the "main medium" for recruiting, said the company's chief people officer.
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The Chinese startup that rattled Big Tech is back with an AI coding tool that undercuts US pricing
Z.ai, the buzzy Chinese startup behind GLM 5.2, debuted a new AI coding tool. ZCode offers pricing tiers below those of its American competitors.
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A $7,999 home robot joins the race to automate household chores
Isaac 1, the robot launched by Weave Robotics, is available for preorder for $7,999 upfront or a $449 monthly subscription.
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Cognition's CEO says token spend leaderboards are 'directionally correct' — but some people get carried away
Cognition CEO Scott Wu said there are better ways to incentivize employees to use AI.
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The hottest new real estate marketing tactic: accepting IPO stock
Luxury home sellers are offering startup stock trades to attract tech investors in a slow market, marketing homes to AI employees and investors.
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