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General news and updates from the AI startup ecosystem. Coverage of artificial intelligence industry developments.
Lovable has reached $400M ARR in just 14 months, adding $100M in a single month. With only 146 emplo...
Lovable has reached $400M ARR in just 14 months, adding $100M in a single month. With only 146 employees generating $2.7M ARR per person — nearly 7x the SaaS industry benchmark — the Swedish vibe-codi...
Mecara CEO Hiromi Kawamata has been named to the EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women Asia-Pacific Class...
Mecara CEO Hiromi Kawamata has been named to the EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women Asia-Pacific Class of 2026, recognizing her work in AI-driven digital pupillometry that measures autonomic nervous sys...
China barred Manus AI co-founders Xiao Hong and Ji Yichao from leaving the country as regulators rev...
China barred Manus AI co-founders Xiao Hong and Ji Yichao from leaving the country as regulators review Meta's $2B acquisition for export control violations. The agentic AI startup, valued at just $50...
Compliance startup Delve, valued at $300M after a $32M Series A from Insight Partners, halted demos...
Compliance startup Delve, valued at $300M after a $32M Series A from Insight Partners, halted demos after a whistleblower alleged it fabricated HIPAA, GDPR and SOC 2 audit evidence for hundreds of cli...
Eudia rocketed from $2M to $20M ARR in 12 months, fueled by a $105M Series A with $75M earmarked for...
Eudia rocketed from $2M to $20M ARR in 12 months, fueled by a $105M Series A with $75M earmarked for acquisitions. By acquiring ALSP Out-House and launching the first AI-augmented law firm in Arizona,...
Charge Home Solutions was named a top home services startup to watch in 2026, leveraging a dynamic A...
Charge Home Solutions was named a top home services startup to watch in 2026, leveraging a dynamic AI pricing engine that adjusts costs based on urgency, electrician availability, and time of day acro...
Runway AI faces a proposed class action lawsuit from YouTuber David Gardner for allegedly scraping Y...
Runway AI faces a proposed class action lawsuit from YouTuber David Gardner for allegedly scraping YouTube videos to train its $5.3 billion generative AI platform, marking one of 84+ copyright cases n...
President Trump ordered all federal agencies to cease using Anthropic's AI technology within six mon...
President Trump ordered all federal agencies to cease using Anthropic's AI technology within six months after the company refused Pentagon demands to remove ethical safeguards against mass surveillanc...
California Attorney General Rob Bonta launched an investigation into xAI and Grok after the AI model...
California Attorney General Rob Bonta launched an investigation into xAI and Grok after the AI model generated over 3 million sexualized images in just 11 days, with analysis showing more than half of...
ElevenLabs has established a 20x base salary sales quota for its representatives after reaching an 1...
ElevenLabs has established a 20x base salary sales quota for its representatives after reaching an 11 billion dollar valuation and 330 million dollars in ARR. This efficiency model shatters the tradit...
OpenAI has officially removed the word safely from its mission as it transitions to a for-profit ben...
OpenAI has officially removed the word safely from its mission as it transitions to a for-profit benefit corporation. This structural shift ends the non-profit board's absolute oversight, aligning the...
Pagaya Technologies achieved record 2025 results with 1.3 billion USD in revenue and 81.39 million U...
Pagaya Technologies achieved record 2025 results with 1.3 billion USD in revenue and 81.39 million USD in GAAP net income, yet shares fell 33 percent on soft 2026 guidance. While an upsized 800 millio...
OpenAI has removed the word safely from its mission statement in its latest filings as it transition...
OpenAI has removed the word safely from its mission statement in its latest filings as it transitions to a for-profit public benefit corporation. The original nonprofit foundation now holds just 26 pe...
Harmonic, the 1.45 billion dollar AI startup co-founded by Vlad Tenev, has named former Eclipse CEO...
Harmonic, the 1.45 billion dollar AI startup co-founded by Vlad Tenev, has named former Eclipse CEO Neel Somani as its first research sponsorship recipient. Utilizing a 1 million dollar fund for math...
OpenAI and Anthropic have reached the revenue scale of top software firms, with Anthropic targeting...
OpenAI and Anthropic have reached the revenue scale of top software firms, with Anthropic targeting up to 26 billion dollars in 2026 revenue. This growth follows a 280x collapse in token pricing, forc...
Thinking Machines Lab faces a major leadership crisis as co-founders Barret Zoph and Luke Metz retur...
Thinking Machines Lab faces a major leadership crisis as co-founders Barret Zoph and Luke Metz return to OpenAI. The startup recently struggled to raise capital at a 50 billion dollar valuation and fa...
Former Google VP Peeyush Ranjan and Myntra founder Mukesh Bansal have launched Fermi.ai, an AI-first...
Former Google VP Peeyush Ranjan and Myntra founder Mukesh Bansal have launched Fermi.ai, an AI-first edtech startup targeting high-school STEM education. Headquartered in Singapore with operations in...
Thinking Machines Lab faces a defining crisis as co-founders Barret Zoph and Luke Metz return to Ope...
Thinking Machines Lab faces a defining crisis as co-founders Barret Zoph and Luke Metz return to OpenAI. Despite a 2 billion USD seed round and 12 billion USD valuation, the startup is struggling to h...
Thinking Machines Lab faces a defining crisis as cofounders Barrett Zoph and Luke Metz lead a wave o...
Thinking Machines Lab faces a defining crisis as cofounders Barrett Zoph and Luke Metz lead a wave of staff back to OpenAI. Despite a record 2 billion dollar seed round and 12 billion dollar valuation...
Elon Musk is seeking 134 billion dollars from OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging his 38 million dollar s...
Elon Musk is seeking 134 billion dollars from OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging his 38 million dollar seed funding enabled their current massive valuations. The lawsuit claims OpenAI reaped wrongful gain...