Ramp in talks to hit $40B+ valuation, 6 months after reaching $32B |

In Brief Posted: 4:11 PM PDT · May 7, 2026 Investors could not get enough of Ramp throughout 2025 and it looks like 2026 could…

Could Lovable’s automatic 10% pay raise be the cure for toxic cultures? |

Stockholm-based vibe-coding platform Lovable is growing revenue at an astronomical rate — and doing something that few U.S. companies, startup or otherwise, would even contemplate:…

DeepSeek could hit $45B valuation from its first investment round |

In Brief Posted: 10:20 AM PDT · May 6, 2026 DeepSeek is in talks to raise its first round of venture capital, and in just…

As crypto cools, a16z crypto raises a $2.2B fund |

In a blog post that lays out a vision for crypto’s future, ranging from a “new financial system” to warnings about “opaque” AI, a16z crypto…

OpenAI’s cozy partner Cerebras is on track for a blockbuster IPO |

In the long-running saga that is Cerebras Systems’s IPO, the finish line is finally in sight. The AI chipmaker said on Monday that it is…

Meta buys robotics startup to bolster its humanoid AI ambitions |

3:13 PM PDT · May 1, 2026 Meta has acquired humanoid robotics startup Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI) for an undisclosed sum, the social media giant…

Coatue has a plan to buy up land for data centers, possibly for Anthropic |

In Brief Posted: 11:23 AM PDT · May 1, 2026 Coatue, one of the biggest names in venture capital and hedge funds, has a new…

Y Combinator alum Skio sells for $105M cash, only raised $8M, founder says |

Skio, a 2020 Y Combinator alum that was founded by self-described college dropout Kennan Frost, has been acquired by competitor Recharge, the companies announced on…

Parallel Web Systems hits $2B valuation five months after its last big raise |

In Brief Posted: 11:33 AM PDT · April 29, 2026 Parallel Web Systems, the AI agent-tool startup founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, has…

Amazon is already offering new OpenAI products on AWS |

In Brief Posted: 12:48 PM PDT · April 28, 2026 Almost as soon as OpenAI announced that its major investor and cloud partner, Microsoft, no…