Startups have never been under more pressure to grow quickly. To do that, many of them must land large enterprises, the deep pockets of the…
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Databricks co-founder shares his secrets for winning big enterprises customers |
Startups have never been under more pressure to grow quickly. To do that, many of them must land large enterprises, the deep-pockets of the IT…
Agent cloud startup Daytona hits $1B valuation backed by FirstMark and a who’s who of angels |
In Brief Posted: 9:26 AM PDT · October 23, 2026 Daytona Platforms announced on Friday that it had raised a $60 million Series B round…
OpenAI working on new $30B raise at $1.25T valuation ahead of IPO |
In Brief Posted: 3:08 PM PDT · October 22, 2026 OpenAI is reportedly close to securing another mega round of private funding, rather than plowing…
Year-old AI lab Flapping Airplanes raises $1B at a $6B valuation |
1:57 PM PDT · October 21, 2026 Year-old startup Flapping Airplanes has wowed Silicon Valley with an impressive founding team and a mission to find…
Microsoft says AI agents are like insider threats as 'frontier models can't be trusted' |
Microsoft on Monday introduced new security features designed to protect enterprises from the growing threat of AI agents. The launch comes as Microsoft continues to…
Amazon is taking its biggest shot at Nvidia yet with new TorchNeuron dev tool |
On Monday, Amazon Web Services released a tool called TorchNeuron that lets AI startups easily move their AI apps onto Amazon’s AI chip, Trainium. In…
Nvidia launches new open models to run agents in the enterprise and on PCs |
Nvidia on Thursday launched new open-weight models designed for always-on agents and edge computing. The Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is a large, 120-billion-parameter model geared…
Cal AI’s 19-year-old founder just raised $10M for his new AI startup |
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…
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,…