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This 25-Year-Old Raised Over $100 Million For His AI Data Startup At A $4 Billion Valuation

22.09.2026 4

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AfterQuery Becomes YC’s Fastest Unicorn At $3.2 Billion

In AI, yesterday’s jaw dropping valuation is today’s starting point. Eighteen months after two high school friends joined the Y Combinator startup...

01.09.2026 10

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Prompts On The Playa: AI Invades Burning Man

Burning Man has spent the last three decades arguing over what Silicon Valley gets to bring to the desert playa: sushi, satellite internet, turnkey...

30.08.2026 10

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Silicon Valley’s Other China Problem: It’s Training Their AI

When U.S. sales teams from Silicon Valley’s big data-labeling startups visited this year’s International Conference on Machine Learning in Seoul,...

05.08.2026 20

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Chickens, Pigs Could Be Big Winners From AI’s $300 Billion Philanthropy Wave

Late last year, as factory farming advocate Lewis Bollard prepared to go on the Dwarkesh Podcast, a must-listen among the AI insider crowd, host...

26.07.2026 20

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AI Startup Corgi Of Seven-Day Work Week Fame Raises Yet Again At $4 Billion Valuation

Corgi, the AI insurance startup that works seven days a week and operates an all-night cafe in San Francisco, has raised money from investors yet...

22.07.2026 20

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Can’t Get A Piece Of OpenAI Or Anthropic? There’s A Booming Secondary Market For Their Swag

Normal people can’t buy shares of OpenAI or Anthropic ahead of the companies’ looming IPOs. So some are buying into a different kind of secondary...

16.07.2026 30

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The Nerdy Escorts Cashing In On Silicon Valley’s AI Boom

In 2024, Meida Marek (her online pseudonym), was a recent college graduate working an entry-level finance job when she started doing the mental math...

07.06.2026 20

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Thrive Holdings To Bet $1 Billion On AI-Powered Accounting Roll-Up

Ted Larson started his accounting practice in Bellingham, Washington in 1949 the old-fashioned way: one proprietor, one office, one client at a time....

02.06.2026 20

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AI Coding Power Users Are Churning Out 46X More Code Than The Rest

For years, startups obsessed over recruiting the mythical "10x engineer," a rare, hyper-productive individual capable of writing elegant...

28.05.2026 20

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Thrive And Sequoia Back Pace With $46 Million To Automate Insurance’s Back Office

When a major storm headed toward Florida, an insurance claims servicer called Ryze Claim Solutions had the obvious problem: thousands of new claims,...

27.05.2026 20

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Opendoor Co-Founder Eric Wu Launches AI For Construction Venture

When Eric Wu was the CEO of Opendoor, a startup that popularized instant cash offers to homeowners, Opendoor was purchasing roughly 5,000 homes a...

26.05.2026 30

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Artificial Intelligence Lab Zyphra Raising $500 Million To Challenge Nvidia Dominance

19.05.2026 90

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Three Dudes Run The Biggest AI Romantic Fantasy Site For Women

07.05.2026 90

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This 22 Year-Old Just Raised $60 Million To Automate This ‘Sneaky Big’ Enterprise Market

Kabir Nagrecha learned the enterprise software racket before he was old enough to drive. Raised in London and California, he spent his childhood as...

05.05.2026 20

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For This Family, AI Is The New Lemonade Stand

“Mommy and daddy would always bring home boring notebooks, pens, and chargers with company names on them, but that would just go in the trash. But...

26.04.2026 30

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AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails

When Shanna Johnson was winding down cielo24, the transcription and captioning company she ran as CEO, she discovered an unexpected asset: its...

16.04.2026 30

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Generalist Is Betting Its Robot-Training Gloves Will Usher In Robotics’ ChatGPT Moment

The robot, a pair of disembodied arms with crablike pincers at the end, wasn’t supposed to pick up the bag. It had been told to do a single tedious...

02.04.2026 30

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This Crypto Billionaire Wants To Use The Human Brain As A Blueprint For AI

In a two-story brick office building in Emeryville, neuroscientists are making plans to fit mice with diminutive brain-computer interfaces to record...

27.03.2026 50

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From Gigawatts To Grab-And-Go: Crusoe Leans Into Modular AI Data Centers

In 2024, Crusoe went from harnessing oilfield flare gas to mine bitcoin to going all in on the first phase an AI data center so big it needed a...

12.03.2026 30

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Cursor Goes To War For AI Coding Dominance

On January 5, employees at Cursor returned from the holiday weekend to an all-hands meeting with a slide deck titled “War Time.” During the break,...

05.03.2026 40

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The AI Talent Wars Have Hit Data Labeling

06.02.2026 40

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The Top Open AI Models Are Chinese. Arcee AI Thinks That’s A Problem.

02.02.2026 20

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OpenAI Wants To Create Biometric Social Network To Kill X’s Bot Problem

29.01.2026 50

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2025: Another Year Of Humanoid Hype

31.12.2025 40

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Cryptocurrency Billionaire’s Space Startup In Talks For $2 Billion Valuation

16.12.2025 40

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Notion Kicks Off Employee Share Sale At $11 Billion Valuation As AI Accelerates Its Growth

15.12.2025 90

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This 24 Year Old Built A Multibillion-Dollar AI Training Empire In Eight Months

05.12.2025 70

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Genspark Joins The Unicorn Club With Latest Funding Round

20.11.2025 40

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AI Startup AGI, Inc In Talks To Raise Money At $500 Million Valuation

19.11.2025 70

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HeyGen Rides The AI Video Boom Rocket

06.11.2025 40

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xAI Researcher, Early Googler In Talks To Raise $1 Billion At $5 Billion Valuation For New Frontier Lab

31.10.2025 30

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Why AI Models Suck At Investment Banking

31.10.2025 30

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AI Startup Genspark In Talks To Raise Over $200 Million At More Than $1 Billion Valuation

22.10.2025 40

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These Well-Funded AI Startups Are Building Humanoid Robots In Stealth

15.10.2025 30

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