Alphabet to buy Intersect Power to bypass energy grid bottlenecks |

In Brief Posted: 1:10 PM PST · December 22, 2025 Google parent Alphabet has agreed to buy Intersect Power, a data center and clean energy…

Cursor continues acquisition spree with Graphite deal |

In Brief Posted: 1:51 PM PST · December 19, 2025 AI coding assistant Cursor announced that it has acquired Graphite, a startup that uses AI…

Uber Eats alum lands $14M seed from a16z to fix WhatsApp chaos for LatAm’s doctors |

Caroline Merin, who spent nearly a decade developing on-demand services as the first Latin American general manager for Uber Eats and later the COO of…

VCs discuss why most consumer AI startups still lack staying power |

Even three years after the generative AI boom started, most AI startups are still making money by selling to businesses, not individual consumers. Although consumers…

Lightspeed raises record $9B in fresh capital |

In Brief Posted: 12:32 PM PST · December 15, 2025 After a surge of VC investments from the 2021 bubble failed to yield strong returns…

SoftBank and Nvidia reportedly in talks to fund Skild AI at $14B, nearly tripling its value |

In Brief Posted: 2:30 PM PST · December 8, 2025 SoftBank Group and Nvidia are in talks to lead an investment of over $1 billion…

Sources: AI synthetic research startup Aaru raised a Series A at a $1B 'headline' valuation |

3:38 PM PST · December 5, 2025 Aaru, a startup that provides near-instant customer research by using AI to simulate user behavior, has raised a…

Bret Taylor's Sierra reaches $100M ARR in under two years |

Sierra, a 21-month-old, San Francisco-based startup that builds customer service AI agents for enterprises, announced on Friday that it reached $100 million in annual revenue…

Source: Kalshi's valuation jumps to $11B after raising massive $1B round |

Kalshi, a prediction market that allows people to bet on future events, has raised a massive $1 billion round at a $11 billion valuation, according…

Immortality startup Eternos nabs $10.3M, pivots to personal AI that sounds like you |

In 2023, after nearly three decades as CEO of the company he founded, Robert LoCascio stepped down as CEO of LivePerson, the public firm credited…