In Brief Posted: 12:20 PM PDT · April 16, 2026 Slash Financial, which offers business banking accounts, corporate credit cards, transfers, and crypto, has raised…
Author: Julie Bort
Anthropic shrugs off VC funding offers valuing it at $800B+, for now |
In Brief Posted: 9:21 AM PDT · April 15, 2026 VCs love to chase after the hottest startups, but startups aren’t always interested in selling…
AI data center startup Fluidstack in talks for $1B round at $18B valuation months after hitting $7.5B, says report |
2:33 PM PDT · April 14, 2026 Fluidstack, a startup that builds specialized data centers for AI companies, is in talks to raise a $1…
OpenAI has bought AI personal finance startup Hiro |
5:23 PM PDT · April 13, 2026 OpenAI has acquired personal finance startup Hiro Finance, founder Ethan Bloch announced on Monday and OpenAI confirmed to…
Nvidia-backed SiFive hits $3.65 billion valuation for open AI chips |
7:03 AM PDT · April 11, 2026 SiFive, a company founded in 2015 by the UC Berkeley engineers who created an open source chip design,…
Anthropic temporarily banned OpenClaw's creator from accessing Claude |
“Yeah folks, it’s gonna be harder in the future to ensure OpenClaw still works with Anthropic models,” OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger posted on X early…
ChatGPT finally offers $100/month Pro plan |
2:29 PM PDT · April 9, 2026 OpenAI announced on Thursday something that power users have been asking for forever: a $100/month plan. Until now,…
After data breach, $10B-valued startup Mercor is having a month |
Six months ago, Mercor was flying high after raising a massive $350 million Series C that valued the AI data training startup at $10 billion.…
AWS boss explains why investing billions in both Anthropic and OpenAI is an OK conflict |
AWS CEO Matt Garman said Amazon’s recent $50 billion investment in OpenAI, after its long partnership including $8 billion of investment in Anthropic, is the…
Databricks co-founder wins prestigious ACM award, says 'AGI is here already' |
Databricks co-founder and CTO Matei Zaharia almost missed the email telling him that he was the 2026 recipient of the ACM Prize in Computing. “Yeah,…