The PhD students who became the judges of the AI industry

Artificial intelligencemodels are multiplying fast, and competition is stiff. With so many players crowding the space, which one will be the best— and who decides…

Why Garry Tan’s Claude Code setup has gotten so much love, and hate |

Y Combinator’s famed CEO Garry Tan told a SXSW audience that he’s got “cyber psychosis” and is barely sleeping because he’s so excited to be…

Exclusive: H&M wants to make clothing from CO2 using this startup’s tech |

The fashion industry knows it has a waste problem. About one garbage truck of textiles is thrown away every second. Meanwhile, the industry generates more…

Niv-AI exits stealth to wring more power performance out of GPUs |

6:00 AM PDT · March 17, 2026 Electricity is a key raw material for artificial intelligence, but new processing techniques outstrip the ability of data…

Apple acquires video editing software company MotionVFX |

12:23 PM PDT · March 16, 2026 Apple has acquired MotionVFX, a company that develops plug-ins, templates, and advanced capabilities for Apple’s Final Cut Pro…

Another deep tech chip startup becomes a unicorn: Frore hits $1.64B |

In Brief Posted: 10:47 AM PDT · March 16, 2026 Eight-year-old semiconductor startup Frore Systems has raised a $143 million Series D, led by MVP…

Fuse raises $25M to disrupt aging loan origination systems used by U.S. credit unions |

In 2023, after three years of building an automotive lending startup, co-founders Andres Klaric and Marc Escapa realized that LLMs could modernize something even more…

Walmart-backed PhonePe shelves IPO as global tensions rattle markets |

PhonePe, India’s biggest digital payments platform, has put its IPO plans on hold, citing geopolitical tensions and a volatile stock market. On Monday, the Bengaluru-based…

Google, Accel India accelerator chooses 5 startups and none are ‘AI wrappers’ |

5:30 PM PDT · March 15, 2026 Many artificial intelligence startup ideas are still little more than superficial “wrappers” built on top of existing models.…

Unacademy to be acquired by upGrad in share-swap deal as India’s edtech sector consolidates |

Unacademy, once a one of India’s most valuable edtech startups, is set to be acquired by rival upGrad in an all-stock deal that would bring…