Knowledge catalogue
Wall Street Journal: The US Commerce Department plans to award 2B in grants to nine quantum computing companies and will take equity stakes; IBM is set to get 1B of the package — Trump administration
while everyone seems to be focused on text, vision, and audio, i'm excited to be backing a company building a foundational model for smell 👃 that's right, they've: - mapped how olfactory receptors rea
Nan Ransohoff / Nan's Substack: An analysis based on current valuations of OpenAI and Anthropic suggests ~$370B of philanthropic assets tied to the two AI companies are poised to become liquid — AI is
Colossal Biosciences announced it successfully hatched 26 live chicks from 3D-printed artificial eggshells designed to mimic natural eggs , marking a major advance for the company's de-extinction effo
One of our enterprise customers, a large insurance company, told us they achieved a 99% reduction in reshoot costs using Runway (7 in Runway credits vs. 10K+ for a typical reshoot). They needed to cha
Todd Bishop / GeekWire: S. “Soma” Somasegar, who led Microsoft's Developer Division for 12 years as part of his 27-year tenure at the company before leaving in 2015, has died at age 59 — S. “Soma” Som
Financial Times: Sources: Nvidia's business development group, not its VC arm NVentures, has led much of its ~90B dealmaking push across 145+ companies over the past 16 months — Nvidia's Huang bankrol
Wall Street Journal: Sources: OpenAI is preparing to file confidentially for an IPO as early as Friday; the company plans to be ready to go public as early as September — The artificial-intelligence g
.@trq212 is a builder's builder. After research at MIT, exiting his company, raising millions for another, and exploring research threads as an SPC member, he's now on the team building Claude Code. H
Lien Hoang / Nikkei Asia: Vietnam introduces Decree 142 to implement its AI law, requiring companies to classify AI models by risk level, label deepfakes, and disclose chatbot use — HO CHI MINH CITY —
Another useful feature is this process can happen gradually as you reduce outsourced work as contracts end for internal talent. And company executives like this better because they can grow their own
As companies approach AGI it would be illogical for most not to go and work there. AGI is a much bigger deal than most people still seem to believe & it is only by most forecasts a few years away (if
Rahul Raj / EU-Startups: Milan-based legal AI company Lexroom raised a €42.9M Series B led by Left Lane, after raising a €16M Series A in September 2025, taking total funding to €62.7M — Lexroom, a Mi
One trend that I think you might start to see at big companies is insourcing via hiring: why pay so many outside vendors (legal, marketing, software vendors) when you can hire in-house and harness AI
Financial Times: Sources: Demis Hassabis was an angel investor in Anthropic; PitchBook and Dealroom: former DeepMind researchers founded 12+ companies since 2021, raising $14B+ — Demis Hassabis, the f
Bloomberg: Sources detail growing concerns inside SoftBank over Masayoshi Son's 60B+ bet on OpenAI, which some fear concentrates too much capital into a single company — With more than 60 billion comm
This is true of all agents, not just coding agents. Probably the biggest challenge that most companies run into in their agent strategy is getting agents the right constrained context to work with for
Wall Street Journal: Blackstone announces a JV with Google to create a US company that will offer customers access to Google's TPUs, and makes an initial equity commitment of 5B — Investment firm to p
Elon + X a force for good after space livestream. We interviewed Gary Hoy who is using Grok for sales at Fortune 500 companies. We also interviewed Marie Hurabiell, who is running for Nancy Pelosi's s
the team did an internal test of this model last week the whole company (bar a few exceptions) had all their cursor chats redirected to composer 2.5 for like 2 days. i didn't even notice, which I thin
Very cool to see Cursor doubling down on training great models. In my opinion, ultimately all serious companies in AI will want to train models themselves, based on open-source instead of outsourcing
1,058 GTME job listings (983 open), 1,167 named practitioners, and 867 hiring companies — sorted into eight archetypes that show how the role is taking shape across the market. The role is blowing up
Bloomberg: A profile of Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, who is killing projects, cutting staff, and pleasing Wall Street, while steering the company toward an AI-focused era — Thirteen miles north of Jackson,
company that steals IP urges US government not to allow others to steal their IP Anthropic drops a paper on the US-China AI race They believe the US and its allies may be able to lock in a 12-24 month
Bill Gurley / Bill's Substack: How tech companies are using open source initiatives to achieve critical strategic goals and how such efforts are reshaping industries like AI, AVs, and more — How the S
I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they inc
Only 𝕏 is open, the other social media companies manipulate the results behind closed doors 𝕏 - ✅ open source algorithm Youtube ❌ Facebook ❌ Instagram ❌ TikTok ❌ Reddit ❌ Threads ❌ Why do other social
Bloomberg: Sources: HSG, formerly Sequoia China, has set up a 3B continuation fund anchored by its ByteDance stake, offering entry into the company valued at 370B — HSG, the investment firm formerly k
any time a model router company drops data, its worth browsing. here we learn that gemini leads in education and personal assistants (?!), ant leads in vibecoding and koding and back office (?!), and
beautiful tech stack writeup, one of the best i've ever seen in my career. I always advocate that devtools companies write these up, because it fulfils multiple purposes: - tell users the care that go
CJ Haddad / CNBC: Cerebras co-founders CEO Andrew Feldman and CTO Sean Lie own stakes worth 3.2B and 1.7B, respectively, representing about 5.5% and 3% of the company — The tech billionaires club has
Bloomberg: Cerebras shares closed up 68% at 311.07 in the company's Nasdaq debut after it raised 5.5B in the year's largest IPO, giving it a market value of 67B — Cerebras Systems Inc. shares jumped 6
Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: Riyadh-based Stitch, which develops software for banks and financial services companies, raised a $25M Series A led by a16z, its first investment in the Gulf — Andreessen Hor
Kenza Bryan / Financial Times: Sources: climate watchdog SBTi drops proposed rules that would limit tech companies' claims that gas-fueled data centers are covered by clean energy investments — Corpor
A survey predicted that 43% of companies would be deploying AI at scale by the current date, but actual adoption has reached only 19%, indicating a significant gap between forecasted and realized AI i
As President Trump meets President Xi this week, a call to the American AI community: If your startup, lab, non-profit or company benefits from open international AI - especially Chinese (Deepseek, Qw
Owen Walker / Financial Times: China's move to block Meta's Manus acquisition challenges the “Singapore washing” model, as major Chinese tech companies build significant Singapore presences — Beijing'
OpenAI announced a 30-day promotional period offering companies easy access to try Codex, positioning it as a leading AI coding product. The initiative aims to lower barriers for businesses interested
Kim Bhasin / New York Times: How eBay CEO Jamie Iannone transformed the company, refocusing on power buyers in categories with especially high resale demand like trading cards and sneakers — The onlin
Jack Dorsey discusses how advances in AI technology enable companies of all sizes to leverage AI capabilities similar to artificial general intelligence (AGI) to enhance their operations and competiti
Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: Q&A with Amazon SVP of Devices and Alexa Panos Panay on Alexa+, the company's focus on devices for the home, its Leo satellite broadband business, and more — Execu
Wall Street Journal: Sources: Google is in talks with SpaceX and other companies for a rocket launch deal, as Google expands its own efforts to put orbital data centers in space — A deal between the t
SpaceX has just received FCC approval to acquire ~65 MHz of nationwide spectrum from EchoStar for the company's next-gen direct-to-device @Starlink Mobile service. The FCC says the deal gives SpaceX “
Great essay by Tobi. Building an AI-native company? Go read it now. I couldn't resist visualizing it with my artifact generator. Biggest takeaway for me: 'The risk isn't that AI does the work. It's th
Thinking Machines, the AI company founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, announced Monday that it's working on something called 'interaction models.' The idea behind interaction models, according t
Science publishing giant Elsevier has joined the dozens of firms and individuals suing artificial intelligence companies over their alleged use of copyrighted works in training AI models https://go.na
Today we’re launching the OpenAI Deployment Company to help businesses build and deploy AI. It's majority-owned and controlled by OpenAI. It brings together 19 leading investment firms, consultancies,
We don't have to accept the way AI is going. The biggest companies building AI aren't building it for us. They're building it to replace us. We’ve made a roadmap for how we can build pro-human AI: htt
🥉 3rd Place — Meeting Bingo by Khizer Husain A bingo card you play during boring company meetings. Share with coworkers, gamble on which buzzword drops first. What we liked: pure spirit of the competi
Du Zhihang / Caixin Global: Beijing-based humanoid robotics company Robotera raised over 200M led by SF Group, after raising ~146M in March at a ~1.47B valuation — Chinese humanoid-robot startup Robot
SCOOP: VP JD Vance held a secret call with CEOs of giant AI companies including Elon Musk, Dario Amodei and Sam Altman. Vance expressed concern with the potential of AI systems and impact they could h
we'd like to help companies secure themselves and we think it's important to start work on this quickly Today, we're rolling out GPT‑5.5‑Cyber in limited preview to defenders responsible for securing
Bloomberg: Filing: OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky's wife assumed significant control of OnlyFans holding company Fenix in March following the death of Radvinsky — Leonid Radvinsky's widow has surface
Robin Wigglesworth / Financial Times: Goldman Sachs: Alphabet and Amazon generated “other income” totaling 53B in Q1, or ~60% of their Q1 income; 49B was due to equity stakes in private companies — Th
We are so used to seeing chip company marketing teams exaggerate specs that it is refreshing to see them understate specs for a change. Here's one example from Cerebras's website, where they understat
i have nothing against companies selling data if they are upfront about it, but this messaging feels a bit misleading: 'AI shouldn’t replace you. It should make you irreplaceable.' When their terms of
just want to go back to how much intense pushback i got on this story at all levels of the company at the time, and how people speak very differently when under the threat of perjury lot of names etch
Scott Calvert / Wall Street Journal: Security camera companies are embracing AI to give customers detailed descriptions of surveillance footage that are often spot on but can also be wildly wrong — AI
Why are four of the top 10 trending vendors AI inference platforms? Companies are getting selective about which model handles which task, and routing tokens accordingly. Read more from @arakharazian a
Reuters: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announces the company is cutting ~700 jobs, or ~14% of its global workforce, to reduce costs, saying “AI is changing how we work” — Coinbase (COIN.O) said on Tues