Y Combinator startup Firecrawl is ready to pay $1M to hire three AI agents as employees |

Y Combinator-backed startup Firecrawl is back on the hunt for AI agent employees. As we reported back in February, its first attempt didn’t yield an…

Bain bets on Indian domestic work startup Pronto even as rivals face criticism |

Urban India is becoming increasingly used to not having to wait — at least when it comes to getting goods and services delivered. You only…

Fake fired Twitter worker ‘Rahul Ligma’ is a real engineer with an AI data startup used by Harvard |

2:35 PM PDT · May 15, 2025 The morning after Elon Musk’s 2022 acquisition of Twitter (now X), reporters encountered two men with boxes outside…

Vibe-coding startup Windsurf launches in-house AI models |

3:05 PM PDT · May 15, 2025 On Thursday, Windsurf, a startup that develops popular AI tools for software engineers, announced the launch of its…

Why your startup needs a content strategy (& how to build one that scales)

A content strategy for startups begins with a simple truth: Every piece of content needs a purpose. I learned this lesson the hard way when…

The US is reviewing Benchmark’s investment into Chinese AI startup Manus  |

In Brief Posted: 2:24 PM PDT · May 9, 2025 Manus AI is one of the hottest AI agent startups around, recently raising $75 million…

Uber's latest autonomous vehicle partner? Chinese startup Momenta |

In Brief Posted: 11:12 AM PDT · May 2, 2025 Uber announced Friday yet another autonomous vehicle partnership as it leverages its dominant ride-hail and…

Troubled startup CaaStle is now facing two new lawsuits and more allegations |

CaaStle, the embattled fashion startup whose board of directors accused its founder, Christine Hunsicke, of financial misconduct, is starting to face lawsuits from a partner…