How This Ex-Hacker Raised $28M to Build AI Defense Against AI Phishing
When AI-powered phishing meets agentic email security, a startup called Ocean is betting billions of messages per month are worth…
VC Capital Is Concentrating Faster Than Ever – What That Means for Everyone Else
Venture capital is concentrating faster than ever. In 2025, 70% of all US venture funding went to just 389 companies.…
Sequoia Bets Big on Shared AI Agents as Dust Raises $40M Series B
Paris-based Dust has raised M in Series B funding co-led by Sequoia and Abstract to build a collaborative AI agent…
Science’s Gatekeeper Takes a Stand: What ArXiv’s AI Ban Means for Startups
ArXiv is banning authors who submit AI-generated papers without verification. Here is what that means for deep tech startups building…
The Software Moat Is Dead: Why Physical-World Startups Are the New Venture Gold Rush
When Eclipse Ventures turned a .5M seed bet on Cerebras into a .5B return, it proved what Lior Susan has…
The AI Wealth Divide: 10,000 Winners and Everyone Else
A look at the growing economic divide in AI — where wealth concentrates at frontier labs while engineers face an…
From Near Death to B: Inside Cerebras’ Impossible Journey to IPO
Cerebras Systems went from burning M a month to a B IPO. The wafer-scale chip startup's near-death story holds vital…
OpenAI’s Bank Account Play Signals a New Era for AI in Personal Finance
OpenAI launches personal finance tools for ChatGPT Pro users, letting them connect bank accounts via Plaid. What this means for…
From Filmmaking Tools to World Models: Runway’s .3B Bet on a Different Kind of AI
Runway started as an AI video tool for filmmakers. Now it's pivoting to world models, betting that video — not…
Recursive Superintelligence Raises $650M to Build AI That Rewrites Itself
Richard Socher's stealth startup emerges with a bold vision for AI that improves itself autonomously — and a team of…
