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General Catalyst posted VC rage bait and it worked, especially on a16z

RJ Scaringe has raised more than $12 billion across three startups and investors still want more

Silicon Valley’s vacationland needs a new energy provider just as AI is driving prices up

A hotel check-in system left a million passports and driver’s licenses open for anyone to see

Krafton leads Cashfree’s $53M funding at $700M valuation

Cashfree, an Indian payments startup that facilitates and processes more than $80 billion for its customers each year, has raised...

Things really do seem better in the morning, study suggests

Things, generally, "do seem better in the morning" - that is according to scientists who suggest the earlier hours of...

Alphabet praises DeepSeek, but it’s massively ramping up its AI spending

Alphabet is shrugging off concerns sparked by DeepSeek over AI spending, boosting its capital expenditures to a whopping $75 billion....

Brightpick’s new warehouse robot can reach 20-foot-high shelves

Brightpick, a maker of autonomous mobile robots, on Tuesday announced a lofty addition to its current line. The appropriately named...

Two space startups have merged to create the next generation of telescopes

On a clear spring evening in Michigan, the stars aligned — just not in the way Upfront Ventures partner Nick...

Miist, founded by a 25-year-old, wants people to vape their way out of smoking addiction and migraines

As a university student, Dalton Signor was troubled by how many people around him smoked or vaped, including his grandmother...

Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website

Google removed a pledge to not build AI for weapons or surveillance from its website this week. The change was...

Hugging Face researchers aim to build an ‘open’ version of OpenAI’s deep research tool

A group of developers at AI dev platform Hugging Face, including Thomas Wolf, the company’s co-founder and chief scientist, say...

Figure drops OpenAI in favor of in-house models

Figure AI founder and CEO Brett Adcock announced Tuesday that the humanoid robotics firm is exiting a deal with OpenAI....

Okta competitor SailPoint races toward $11.5B IPO