Wiz investor unpacks Google’s $32B acquisition |

Google closed its $32 billion acquisition of cybersecurity company Wiz this week — the biggest acquisition in Google’s history, as well as the largest ever…

US Army announces contract with Anduril worth up to $20B |

1:47 PM PDT · March 14, 2026 The U.S. Army said late Friday that it has signed a 10-year contract with defense tech startup Anduril.…

Digg lays off staff and shuts down app as company retools |

Digg — Kevin Rose’s reboot of his once-popular link-sharing site — is laying off a sizable portion of its staff, the company announced on Friday.…

Nyne, founded by a father-son duo, gives AI agents the human context they’re missing |

AI agents are expected to soon start making autonomous purchasing and scheduling decisions on behalf of humans. But Michael Fanous, a UC Berkeley computer science…

The biggest AI stories of the year (so far) |

You can chart a year through product launches, or you can measure it in the greater moments that change the way we look at AI.…

When startups become a family business |

4:38 AM PDT · March 12, 2026 This season on Build Mode, we’re diving into what it takes to build a world-class founding team.This week…

Wiz’s first investor breaks down Google’s $32B acquisition

According to Index Ventures PartnerShardul Shah, cybersecurity startup Wiz sits “at the center of three tailwinds: AI, cloud, and security spend.” Those tailwinds powered what…

The $32B acquisition that one VC is calling the ‘Deal of the Decade’ |

9:20 AM PDT · March 13, 2026 38 min According to Index Ventures Partner Shardul Shah, cybersecurity startup Wiz sits “at the center of three…

Before quantum computing arrives, this startup wants enterprises already running on it |

Eighteen months after selling his startup to chipmaker AMD for $665 million, Finnish entrepreneur Peter Sarlin has left his role as CEO of the unit…

Sales automation startup Rox AI hits $1.2B valuation, sources say |

3:25 PM PDT · March 12, 2026 Rox, a startup developing autonomous AI agents to boost sales productivity, has raised a new funding round valuing…