Knowledge catalogue
Jasmine Sun / New York Times: The persistent notion that AI disruption could create a permanent underclass signals how much collateral damage AI companies might tolerate in pursuit of AGI — Most peopl
Companies that have achieved success with AI implementations prioritized building a robust data foundation and infrastructure before deploying AI models. Databricks emphasizes that a well-constructed
Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: Pursuit, which uses AI to scan public data to help companies find and win government contracts, raised a $22M seed led by OpenGov co-founder Mike Rosengarten — Mike
Crazy how many people expect some company or country to achieve a “insurmountable lead” in AI, when in reality no company seems to hold a lead of more that a few weeks or at most a few months before s
Five months in, I think I've decided that I don't want to vibecode — I want professionally managed software companies to use AI coding assistance to make more/better/cheaper software products that the
Derek B. Johnson / CyberScoop: Gartner: US states issued $3.45B in privacy-related fines to companies in 2025, a total larger than the last five years combined, driven by new privacy laws — The increa
this is my sortable table of all portfolio companies with revenue, burn, runway, cash in bank, total raise, raise status, # interactions, # intros made, sentiment, and data freshness score again, this
No matter what kind of company you are...start making your internal company data legible to AI. Today. As a founder, you are essentially building two versions of your company: the one humans work in a
Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: Kashable, which lets companies offer “socially responsible” credit and financial wellness programs for employees as a voluntary benefit, raised a $60M Series C — Ka
Safety and innovation are not mutually exclusive: for many companies, especially in high-trust industries, AI’s risks are also a hindrance to adoption. In this op-ed in the @FT, I underscore that Euro
The agentic AI boom has an inconvenient truth: Without a solid data foundation, the revolution stops before it starts. Conversations surrounding an emergent agent control plane signal that agentic AI
The Rundown is actively recruiting and inviting people to apply for positions or refer qualified candidates through their careers page. This appears to be a job posting announcement shared by Rowan Ch
Eli Rosenberg / The Information: 33% of S&P 500 companies provided security perks for execs in 2025: Jensen Huang's security cost rose from 690K in 2023 to 3.5M in 2025, Zuckerberg spent $22M — Nvidia
To me, one of the main lessons from SpaceX is that companies can continue to experience startup-like rates of progress as long as their founder doesn’t lose any of their intensity over a quarter of a
Andrew Wilks / Associated Press: Turkey's parliament passes a bill requiring social media and online game companies to restrict access for children under 15, following a school shooting — Turkish lawm
'The overall goal of my companies is to maximize the future of civilization. Basically maximize the probability that civilization has a great future and to expand consciousness beyond Earth. Take Spac
I agree, and I will add to this. Companies should own their memories, skills and other resources agents need. Use Claude code, codex, copilot, etc for intelligence but your execution layer should plug
Awesome post by @LangChain team on “How We Made Our Docs Test Themselves”. Devtools companies that grok how important *technically accurate* docs are both to humans and AI coding agents outperform on
MAGA has a Europe problem. Not the real Europe. The one they invented. The one with sharia courts and no-go zones and zero tech companies and miserable citizens begging for permission to cross the str
Anthropic believes that good transparency legislation needs to ensure public safety and accountability for the companies developing this powerful technology, not provide a get-out-of-jail-free card ag
Given the messy naming scheme used by all the AI companies, I caused a chart to be made showing the gain in GPQA per 0.1 version in model names (estimated, since model names skip version numbers). The
arXiv:2604.09650v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurately predicting stock repurchases is crucial for quantitative investment and risk management, yet traditional static models fail to capture the
Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: Sources: the US FTC is in settlement talks with ad companies to end an antitrust probe into their alleged coordinated boycotts against sites like Elon Musk's X —
Hermes Agent users are remarkably model-curious. Of the top 10 models used in Hermes Agent, 8 different model companies are represented, and 6 of the top 7 are open source. Without lock-in, people try
Harrison Chase, co-founder of LangChain, shared thoughts on AI memory and the risks of vendor lock-in when major AI providers like OpenAI and Anthropic control user memory systems. The post highlights
CodeRabbit Inc., the creator of a popular tool that automatically reviews artificial intelligence-generated code, is becoming more ambitious after closing on its latest 143 million Series C round of f
Contact center AI transformation is accelerating in financial services as new innovations close the gap between surface-level metrics and genuine customer understanding in high-stakes interactions. Fo
It’s becoming more apparent every day that artificial intelligence agents are escaping our control — but it’s not yet apparent who or what is going to rein them in. This week a researcher found that a
Clean energy isn’t hard to come by, but the pace of large-scale adoption has historically been slow due to bottlenecks — including out-of-date infrastructure, elongated research and development timeli
The resignation this week of Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon over concerns that artificial intelligence labs are “gambling with our lives” lit up the long-smoldering argument about whether AI is head
arXiv:2608.25717v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is widely assumed to mitigate factual errors in large language models (LLMs), but it remains unclear whether retrie
Open-source AI models provide users with full control, customization capabilities, and data ownership, addressing privacy and autonomy concerns compared to proprietary alternatives. The post highlight
Artificial intelligence startup Ornn AI Inc. made a big splash today as it raised 33 million in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto-focused fund and others to build out a marketplace for co
U.S. officials are weighing a proposal that could see the federal government take stakes in leading artificial intelligence providers. The discussions were first reported by news outlet NOTUS late Thu
California is trying to prepare itself for artificial intelligence job disruption ahead of time. Governor Gavin Newsom today ordered state officials to begin exploring a massive overhaul of its labor
The rise of intelligent digital workers and autonomous AI agents is compounding an already urgent cybersecurity challenge: attack surfaces expanding faster than security teams can manually assess them
Artificial intelligence guardrail and monitoring startup Pumpkin Intelligence Inc., which operates as White Circle, announced today it raised 11 million in seed funding from a who’s who of AI leadersh
The new Cofounder site is literally a step-by-step guide on how to start a company. When i started my first company there was all sorts of stuff i had to learn and all of the guides were SEO maxxed sl
The U.S. Defense Department today announced that it has inked artificial intelligence procurement contracts with seven tech firms. The group includes Amazon Web Service Inc., Google LLC, Microsoft Cor
The Open Letter was initiated by Microsoft and published today: “Open Weights and American AI Leadership”. It argues against broad or premature restrictions on open-weight models and explicitly says p
Hugging Face's CEO discusses why enterprises are moving away from renting AI models and services from cloud providers, likely advocating for open-source alternatives or on-premise deployment models. T
A new proposal would ban the sale of Americans' health and location information to data brokers - including information people reveal to an AI chatbot like ChatGPT or Claude. In the coming weeks, Sena
Ethan Mollick observes that both OpenAI and Anthropic's official documentation frequently falls behind their actual product releases by several months, resulting in outdated and conflicting informatio
This week, an AI training startup called Shift said it would clean New Yorkers' homes for free. It has plans to expand into other cities as well, including London, and looking around my flat, I get th
TIL from https://www.404media.co/the-tokenpocalypse-is-here-companies-are-scrambling-to-stop-spending-so-much-on-ai/ that a material chunk of Accenture's token spend is non-engineers using LLMs to con
A Chinese article compiled 52 remarks from Liang Wenfeng’s four-hour investor meeting. I’ve summarised the most important ones below. DeepSeek has one central objective: AGI. This is not the time to m
A company is not its share price; it's possible for a company to execute exceptionally well while its share price declines, much like it's possible for a company in terminal decline to see its share p
I've yet to see, or hear of a company that is winning against its competition, because said company is spending more on AI tools, or using it better than the competition. Ways I see companies win: - b
From @sequoia's own your intelligence event. We're starting to see a new category of company emerge, the Full-Stack AI company, where innovation happens at both the product and intelligence layer. Tha
Benchmarks are becoming the core competency of any company. Our company mission is to build the world’s best models for document processing. This also means that we have to build the world’s best benc
An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing Stop me if you've heard this one before: An AI model from the parent company of Facebook and Instagram hacked into another company’s sy
Madison Mills / Axios: The OpenAI Deployment Company agrees to acquire Northslope, an applied AI company founded by ex-Palantir employees, its second acquisition after buying Tomoro — The OpenAI Deplo
Jiahui Huang / Wall Street Journal: GM-backed Chinese autonomous driving company Momenta saw a muted trading debut in its Hong Kong IPO, up 2.8% to value the company at ~9B, after raising 751M — Momen
Milana Vinn / Reuters: Sources: Canadian payments company Nuvei is in advanced talks to acquire NYC-based cross-border payments company Payoneer for ~$2.7B and could sign within days — Canadian paymen
Frank Connelly / Bloomberg: Schneider Electric agrees to buy industrial AI company Cognite in a 3.1B all-cash deal, and plans to combine Cognite with its industrial software company Aveva — Schneider
Announcing Cofounder 2: Run an entire company with agents. It's the infrastructure for the one person billion dollar company - orchestrating agents across engineering, sales, marketing, ops, and desig
When a software company actually uses its own software, all of their users benefit. @runwayml is exactly this type of company. They obviously take great care in the entire workflow that users desire.
Perplexity offers a sourcing screen feature that allows users to input target criteria and receive a filtered list of companies matching those specifications. The tool provides transparency by explain
What does it mean to pace the frontier? Over the last month, @random_walker and I have analyzed the loss-of-control incidents at AI companies to understand what technical and policy interventions can
NEW from me in the Guardian -- I agree with the AI company employees who wrote, in their 'Pacing the Frontier' letter, that the government should be stepping in. But companies could also be doing more