Zach Yadegari, the teen co-founder of calorie tracking app Cal AI, has launched Persona, a new AI agent startup, and already raised $10 million. Vine…
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Popular AI leaderboard Arena nearly doubles valuation to $3.1B valuation in 10 months |
11:19 AM PDT · October 8, 2026 Arena, which originated in 2023 as a research project at UC Berkeley that crowdsourced rankings of AI models,…
Silicon Valley’s AI wunderkind launches Underdog, the most private Instinct/Muse competitor yet |
When self-taught coder Sigil Wen was 17, he moved to Silicon Valley and lived in an AI hacker house with famed AI researcher Andrej Karpathy.…
After Factory's public spat with Khosla, Menlo proudly invests |
12:38 PM PDT · October 5, 2026 Menlo Ventures partner Matt Murphy and his team announced Monday in a blog post that the firm has…
Circuit Breaker Labs hopes to make AI safer for your kids (and you) |
With all the talk about how AI might one day kill us all, it’s easy to forget that AI has already been life-threatening to some,…
Kevin Mandia's new 'agent swarm' security startup Armadin raises $255.5M at $2.5B valuation |
In Brief Posted: 2:55 PM PDT · October 1, 2026 Kevin Mandia, best known as the founder of cybersecurity startup Mandiant, which sold to Google…
Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation |
In Brief Posted: 2:07 PM PDT · September 30, 2026 Flow Engineering, a startup that offers AI tools for hardware design, has raised a $50…
Databricks buys Row Zero and is scouting for more startups to acquire |
10:07 AM PDT · September 24, 2026 Databricks announced on Thursday that it has acquired an early-stage spreadsheet startup called Row Zero. The story goes…
PrismML brings its tiny LLMs to Qualcomm-powered smart glasses |
In Brief Posted: 12:00 PM PDT · September 24, 2026 The AI Lab PrismML — founded by Caltech researchers and advised by UC Berkeley’s Ion…