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This year's AI Accelerator winners shipped agents for finance teams, application security, and real estate. They built with $8M in credits and hands-on mentorship from Vercel, @awscloud, @OpenAI, @Ant
When you project exponential growth – and miss. I stand by my call that OpenAI is likely to someday be seen as the WeWork of AI. Exclusive: OpenAI recently missed its own targets for new users and rev
Bloomberg: A look at Elon Musk's efforts to launch the banking and payments service X Money, delayed by US regulatory concerns, as some industry watchers remain skeptical — More than three years after
As enterprises race to wire AI into their operations, the infrastructure bottleneck has shifted from model capability to data access — and the enterprises winning the race are those treating real-time
Last year we introduced new geospatial analytics capabilities integrated for BigQuery. Building on this, we announced an expanded suite of tools at Google Cloud Next ‘26, designed to help your busines
OpenAI and Microsoft's partnership-turned-situationship just got even less committed. And a clause about artificial general intelligence, which has for years dictated the future of their deal, has off
All 22 members of the National Science Board, which advises and oversees the US National Science Foundation, were fired on April 24 without explanation. Members received no explanation for their termi
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Quantum Art, a quantum computing startup focused on enhancing computational throughput using its unique “multicore” architecture, extends its Series A to $140M — Quantum
Financial Times: Sources: some UK officials fear Keir Starmer's plan for closer EU ties risks the US-UK alliance, and worry the UK may be forced to adopt the EU's AI regulation — Officials concerned a
You can look at the history of media through the cost of producing a credible frame. I call this the cost of a frame. Not a good story. Not a good movie. Not a meaningful work of art. Just the frame i
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Jamie Tarabay / Bloomberg: A profile of Strider, an intelligence firm that leverages agentic AI and public records to help the US Air Force, NATO, and others identify foreign state actors — Trump's ec
Here's YC's official advice about being truthful and precise about what is pilot, bookings, revenue and recurring revenue. Founders, particularly first time founders, need to sear this into their brai
SpaceX's shocking competence: 'Somebody I know once worked for @SpaceX and they were asked what it was like, and he said, 'It's like being dropped into a zone of shocking competence.' Everybody is ult
And the more distributed and open-source AI will be, the more jobs and wealth it will create! I have changed my mind on how AI will impact jobs in America. Previously, I believed AI would replace many
Mimi Billing / Sifted: Helsinki-based Verda, formerly Datacrunch, which aims to become Europe's first AI cloud hyperscaler, raised €100M in debt and equity — The Finnish cloud provider, formerly known
Jordan Novet / CNBC: Nvidia stock jumps 4.3% to close at a record for the first time since Oct., pushing Nvidia's market cap past 5T, as a rally in Intel pushed chipmakers higher — Nvidia shares close
Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: Series, founded by two seniors at Yale to build an AI-powered social network on iMessage, raised a 5.1M pre-seed from Reddit CEO Steve Huffman and others — Series, a
🚀 Sovereign AI for the world. Cohere & Aleph Alpha form transatlantic AI powerhouse anchored in Canada & Germany! Combining our global scale with European R&D excellence to build sovereign, enterprise
SpaceX is developing a next-generation gateway station to boost @Starlink speeds after securing approval to upgrade the satellite internet service with gigabit connectivity, according to a new FCC fil
would be fascinating to break down this result by country, etc. Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, eve
At #RenderCon2026, @EMostaque makes the case during How to Build the Holodeck that stories still matter, IP still matters, but the barriers to building entirely new experiences are dropping faster tha
Jerry Liu congratulated the ET30 Class of 2026 for ringing the Nasdaq closing bell, celebrating what appears to be an achievement by members of an executive or entrepreneurial cohort. The ET30 is like
🚨 In a new court filing (below), Clippers owner Steve Ballmer dismisses @pablofindsout as “gossip” from a “former talking head and television personality.” Here is an excerpt from the federal whistleb
Greg Bensinger / Reuters: Internal memo: Amazon is replacing white-collar job titles at its Ring and Blink units with the designation “builder”, and “builder leaders” for managers — During Amazon's (A
Last night was the biggest disaster in the history of Tesla. Let me walk you through what actually happened on that earnings call, because the headlines are doing you a disservice: Elon Musk got on th
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: Memo: Meta plans to cut 10% of workers, or ~8,000 jobs, on May 20 and won't fill 6,000 open roles, in an effort to offset its AI spending and boost efficiency — Meta Platforms
Kyle Jahner / Bloomberg Law: Music publishers including UMG, Warner Music, and Sony drop a copyright suit against Verizon following a SCOTUS decision limiting ISP liability in Cox's suit — Publishers
Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Omni, which is building a “semantic translation layer” for enterprise data, raised a 120M Series C led by Iconiq at a 1.5B valuation, up from $650M in 2025 — For years, com
Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: Report: China's 360 Digital Security Group has uncovered ~1,000 previously unknown vulnerabilities, including in Microsoft's Office, using an AI-powered agent — A large Chi
Reuters: SpaceX's S-1 excerpts list “manufacturing our own GPUs” among the “substantial capital expenditures” it is undertaking, with the size of the expenditure TBD — SpaceX may be tackling one of th
This post shows the #ET30 Class of 2026 (likely a cohort of emerging entrepreneurs or innovators) at the Nasdaq in Times Square, with Jerry Liu inviting followers to identify who in the photo inspires
Within two years you'll be able to prompt inject an entire country Under the directives of the President of the UAE, we launch a new government model. Within two years, 50% of government sectors, serv
Molly Taft / Wired: Air permit docs: new gas projects linked to just 11 US data center campuses could emit 129M+ tons of greenhouse gases per year, more than some small countries — A WIRED review of p
Last year at Google Cloud Next ‘25, we asked you to imagine a new future for AI. At Next ‘26, the question before you is how do you move AI into production across your entire enterprise? According to
Excited to share some big news: I've joined @FireworksAI_HQ President. I've spent my career at the intersection of great teams, disruptive technology, and massive market opportunity, from architecting
Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: Google Cloud and Wiz debut new AI security agents at Next '26, including Threat Hunting and Detection Engineering agents, to combat automated zero-day exploits — Th
LiteParse: our open-source, layout-aware PDF parser for AI agents. The secret? Grid projection. Instead of heavy ML layout models or flat text extraction, it projects text onto a monospace grid so ali
Ainslie Chandler / Bloomberg: Microsoft plans to invest AU25B by 2029 to expand Azure AI supercomputing and cloud infrastructure in Australia, its largest commitment to the country — Microsoft Corp. a
The future is taking shape in Las Vegas this week, where the world’s leading startups are showcasing their groundbreaking AI work at Google Cloud Next. Whether they need the top AI models, infrastruct
Wall Street Journal: A look at transnational scam syndicates in Cambodia, running hundreds of online scam operations and call centers and infiltrating Cambodia's ruling class — Crime syndicates in Cam
Bloomberg: Filings: crypto PACs amassed a ~180M war chest for the 2026 midterms, including Fairshake's 166M, giving them the ability to outspend some GOP super PACs — Political groups tied to the cryp
Our core mission today is using AI to solve document OCR. All of our product offerings, from commercial (LlamaParse) to open-source (LiteParse, ParseBench), are fully aligned towards solving this prob
They just indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 counts of fraud. Wow! The SPLC worked with Facebook, Old Twitter and Youtube on their safety teams, sometimes directly advising/flagging what c
David McCabe / New York Times: Filing in California's antitrust lawsuit: CA accuses Amazon of price-fixing by pressuring brands to ask competing retailers to increase prices on some products — The sta
This post from AI researcher Yohei Nakajima is a motivational message wishing readers a successful week, combined with a brief security reminder to rotate secrets (likely referring to API keys, passwo
Nduka Orjinmo / Bloomberg: Nigeria-based Terra, which makes pilotless drones and defense systems, raised $34M from Joe Lonsdale, Lux Capital, and others, as jihadist groups drive demand — Terrahaptix
NYC FinTech Week just got an AI track 🗽 Next week we're co-hosting the AI Builders Rooftop Happy Hour with @LinkupAPI — for the people shipping fintech agents, document intelligence, and agentic workf
André Beganski / Decrypt: RaveDAO's RAVE has lost $6.6B+ in market cap and its price has sunk ~98% since Saturday, after ZachXBT called on exchanges to probe if it was being manipulated — RaveDAO's to
Advances in the use of artificial intelligence by major providers such as Google Cloud are not confined solely to the hyperscaler’s own customers. Partners, such as the AI-first digital engineering co
Sneha Kumar / Reuters: Australian data center operator NextDC plans to raise AU1.5B in equity for its 350MW Sydney site rollout, and raises its FY26 capex by AU300M to AU2.7B-AU3B — Australia's NEXTDC
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Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Vercel says its internal systems were accessed via a compromised third-party AI tool, after a user with a ShinyHunters handle claimed a breach on BreachForums — Clo
Brent Crane / Bloomberg: A profile of OpenTable CEO Debby Soo, who shifted its focus from diners to restaurants; it now seats ~2B diners a year across 65K restaurants, an all-time high — The pioneerin
Financial Times: Sources: China mobilizes multiple agencies to probe Meta's 2B Manus deal; some officials worry aggressive measures may send chilling signals to the tech sector — The landmark tech exi
Axios: Sources: Dario Amodei is set to meet with WH Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday, a breakthrough in Anthropic's effort to resolve its fight with the Pentagon — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is sc
Reuters: Sources: Meta intends to conduct a first wave of sweeping layoffs planned for this year on May 20, laying off ~10% of its global workforce, or ~8,000 employees — Meta (META.O) intends to cond
'The post all LLMs hate and want you to NOT SEE' ^^ Serious title, you can also discuss this with the LLM, it would be biased against it, as it's known at this point that memory is the true long term
Emad Mostaque, founder of Stability AI, posted a birthday message on his 43rd birthday reflecting humorously on not discovering the meaning of life at 42 (a reference to Douglas Adams' 'Hitchhiker's G
This post by Yohei Nakajima, founder of Credistick, adapts Lincoln's famous quote to address the challenge of managing limited partner (LP) expectations in venture capital or investment fund managemen