Brothers Patrick and Ryan Coughlin, each with impressive careers in the tech industry (Patrick worked in national cyber defense, Splunk, and Cisco; and Ryan with…
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Nvidia competitor Etched hits $5B valuation, $1B in sales for AI chip |
Nvidia AI chip competitor Etched issued a progress report on Tuesday, after TSMC successfully manufactured its chip earlier this year. The startup says it has…
Chamath Palihapitiya raises $135M Series A for his AI coding startup, takes CEO role |
In Brief Posted: 1:55 PM PDT · June 29, 2026 Chamath Palihapitiya, best known for his venture capital firm Social Capital and the All-In podcast,…
Corgi, the buzzy Y Combinator-backed insurance tech startup, says it didn’t steal an open source product |
Y Combinator-backed insurance tech startup Corgi became embroiled in yet another controversy earlier this week when Papermark, maker of open source data room software, accused…
Superhuman acquires AI detection startup GPTZero |
In Brief Posted: 2:48 PM PDT · June 23, 2026 GPTZero, the three-year-old AI detection startup that Princeton grad Edward Tian first built as a…
AI chipmaker Groq confirms $650M raise, re-staffs after Nvidia’s $20B not-acqui-hire deal |
What does an AI company do after one of those not-acqui-hire deals, where a rival pays investors a hefty IP “licensing” fee while poaching its…
World model maker Odyssey nabs $1.45B valuation backed by Amazon and other big names |
In Brief Posted: 10:43 AM PDT · June 17, 2026 Odyssey, a world model AI startup founded by self-driving vehicle pioneers CEO Oliver Cameron and…
Anthropic’s latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it, sales data suggests |
Anthropic is having a month. The AI lab finished May by surpassing OpenAI in market share of business spending for the first time, Ramp just…
Datadog veterans launch AI coding startup Niteshift on a bet against Big AI lock-in |
AI coding agent startup Niteshift has raised a $7 million seed round led by Greylock’s Jerry Chen. That’s a modest sum by AI standards, but…
It’s not FAANG anymore. It’s MANGOS. |
In Brief Posted: 9:09 AM PDT · June 9, 2026 With SpaceX about to break records with an IPO on Friday, Anthropic about to break…