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Sequoia pioneered the scouts model and many VC firms followed suit, but a consensus now seems to be forming that the model has reached limits in its current form.

After spending two years getting cozy with the White House, Big Tech is suddenly trying to make friends with Democrats, and the open question is whether that image makeover can hold up against what states, local communities, and the markets are about to do.

The deal highlights the challenges of developing massive AI data centers.

OpenAI has reportedly raised an additional $11 billion as part of a funding round that hasn't closed yet but is expected to in the coming weeks.

There are now 100K Duo-optimized apps, says Apple, and thousands more arrive daily.

Amazon said that the feature will roll out to millions of users in coming weeks.

Despite its small size, Underdog's new model can generate both speech and music.

Physicl is trying to solve the sim-to-real gap with a pipeline originally built to market goods online.

Elon Musk said the company will use the factory space to make more Cybercabs.

The concerns range from privacy to how data is shared (and with whom) to procurement concerns.

Clutch, backed by Lightspeed and SignalFire, was last valued at $85 million, according to a source.

Airbnb says its upcoming AI agent will help travelers plan trips, compare options, manage bookings, and get assistance throughout their stay.

Serve Robotics announced alonsgside its third-quarter earnings that it will launch a new business line called Physical AI Services to offer customers its connectivity and data tools.

Meta's AI agent can now take calls as a customizable animated avatar, ahead of the launch of a Tamagotchi-like wearable designed to bring Muse to life.

OpenAI's newest cybersecurity model comes out as AI labs face scrutiny of their work to protect digital infrastructure.

A joint U.S. government statement says the hacks are affecting the food, transportation, and healthcare industries after reports of global mass hacks.

OpenAI president Greg Brockman says the company could be ready to go public in 2027, pointing to accelerating enterprise revenue and a turnaround in its business.

With Personal Finance in Claude, users can connect their bank and card accounts through Plaid and ask questions about their finances.

Stephen Ward, a former Secret Service agent and Home Depot CISO, is preparing a second fund of roughly $250 million for Brightmind Partners.

The Los Angeles-based startup has now raised more than $650 million, and is working on electric trucks, emergency vehicles, and a driverless platform for the military.

Following years of fundraising, acquisitions, and expansion, food delivery startup Wonder is moving closer to becoming a publicly traded company.

As AI floods math with unchecked proofs, Axiom Math is betting on verification. The startups AI agents just formally verified the Stacks Project, one of the fields biggest libraries.

Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider said posts and likes doubled during to the U.S. midterm elections on Tuesday.

Zipline raised $1.5 billion and ramped up its partnership with Walmart.

The app will offer personalized product recommendations, shopping through livestreams and short-form videos, app-exclusive deals, in-app checkout, order tracking, and customer support.

The deal is expected to support the development of DBX Agent Cloud, a new storage platform aimed at developers building AI models and agents.

ElevenLabs said more than 25 million tracks have been generated using its music models.

The move puts Edits in more direct competition with ByteDance's CapCut, the video-editing app Meta sought to challenge when it launched Edits last year.

The system can supposedly answer queries four times faster, with 20% fewer errors and 90% fewer tokens used.

Todays portable devices are too hungry to run on traditional solar panels, but RadianX says its perovskite cells promise to make charging obsolete in some cases.

Discovered Materials, a months-old YC startup that uses AI to find chip materials, is offering $200,000 for each solution to five open materials science problems.

Agility arrives on the Nasdaq today as the first publicly-traded pure-play humanoid robotics company.

Amazon has made Uber Eats as its official restaurant delivery partner for Prime members in the United States.

The company is said to be significantly dropping the amount it's spending on AI for its engineering teams.

Data center opposition crossed party lines in Tuesdays midterms.

AI industry PACs spent millions influencing the 2026 midterms, with mixed results. Political groups are already looking toward the next election cycle.

While it's not yet clear what kind of product the smartphone startup is cooking up, Nothing's CEO said the product is designed to leverage AI for productivity gains.

During its busiest week last quarter, Uber said only four people booked a ride using an AI agent.

The milestone comes a year after Snapchat announced a controversial limit on free storage for its Memories feature and informed users it would start requiring users to pay $1.99 per month for additional storage or subscribe to Snapchat+ to retain their Memories.

OpenAIs Chris Lehane wants AI to define the 2028 election, proposing a new social contract that could benefit Americans while also advancing the AI giants own business interests.

The startup allows software engineers to deploy teams of agents to work on various aspects of a project simultaneously.

Open source models are becoming more mainstream as enterprises, governments and startups alike rely on the promise of lower costs, more control, and more flexibility. But as increasingly capable models become more freely available, how do companies capture value? And with Chinese open models gaining ground, can American players keep up? On this episode of []

DuckDuckGo is courting schools frustrated by Google's AI restrictions, pointing educators to its search engine and options to disable AI features.

The split will set up direct competition in those markets, as Uber has many other autonomous vehicle partners on its network.

Sequoia is consolidating into a smaller, Bay Areacentered firm, shutting down the programs and offices it built during a 20-year expansion while announcing roughly $10 billion in new funds.

Apple's AI-powered Siri Recaps won me over in just one day, despite my privacy reservations. But there's still room for improvement.

Politicians on the left, like NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani and former FTC chair Lina Khan, accused Google of acting as an unregulated monopoly.

Titan OS has raised $110 million in funding to date

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Canva is cutting 22% of its staff as it faces its 'hardest year' yet.