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…
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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…
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…
Mercor competitor Deccan AI raises $25M, sources experts from India |
As demand grows for training and refining AI models, Deccan AI — a startup supplying post-training data and evaluation work — has raised $25 million…
Conntour raises $7M from General Catalyst, YC to build an AI search engine for security video systems |
The surveillance tech industry today is in the spotlight, but not for the best reasons. With controversy around the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement tapping…
Why hiring the weirdos works |
When you’re building at breakneck speed, hiring a trusted team is crucial for an early-stage startup. In this episode of Build Mode, Isabelle Johannessen sits…
Arinna raises $4M seed round to solve the space power problem |
The space ambitions of nation states and billionaires alike demand better sources of power, and a new startup founded by two Stanford PhDs may have…
Riding the GLP-1 boom, VITL lands $7.5M to overhaul cash-pay clinic prescribing |
The number of med-spas, weight-loss clinics, and concierge practices where patients pay a membership fee for direct, often same-day access to physicians, has exploded in…