ScaleOps raises $130M to improve computing efficiency amid AI demand |

AI may be booming, but behind the scenes, companies are wasting vast amounts of expensive compute. GPUs sit idle, workloads are over-provisioned, and cloud costs…

Qodo raises $70M for code verification as AI coding scales |

As AI coding tools generate billions of lines of code each month, a new bottleneck is emerging: ensuring that software works as intended. Qodo, a…

Elon Musk’s last co-founder reportedly leaves xAI |

In Brief Posted: 9:11 AM PDT · March 28, 2026 Earlier this month, it looked like all but two of Elon Musk’s 11 co-founders at…

Cents Raises $140 Million from Sumeru Equity Partners to Support and Drive Innovation for Laundry SMBs

Series C Funding Represents the Largest Software Investment Ever Made in the Vertical and Positions Cents as the Defining Platform, Elevating the Laundry Vertical and…

From Moon hotels to cattle herding: 8 startups investors chased at YC Demo Day |

Investors have flocked to Y Combinator’s Demo Days for years to get their hands on promising startups building cool tech. After all, the accelerator has…

Silicon Valley’s two biggest dramas have intersected: LiteLLM and Delve |

This is one of those Silicon Valley real-life episodes that seem pulled from the HBO satire show. This week, some really atrocious malware was discovered…

Aetherflux reportedly raising Series B at $2 billion valuation |

In Brief Posted: 10:05 AM PDT · March 27, 2026 Aetherflux, the space solar power startup launched by Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt, is in talks…

OpenAI shuts down Sora while Meta gets shut out in court |

6:30 AM PDT · March 27, 2026 35 min When an 82-year-old Kentucky woman wasoffered $26 millionfrom an AI company that wanted to build a…

VCs are betting billions on AI’s next wave, so why is OpenAI killing Sora?

When an 82-year-old Kentucky woman wasoffered $26 millionfrom an AI company that wanted to build a data center on her land, she said no. Sure,…

A former Thiel fellow’s startup just launched a drone it says can replace police helicopters |

When I speak to Blake Resnick, he’s walking around his drone startup’s newest office space in Seattle: a cavernous 50,000-square-foot facility that, Resnick estimates, won’t…