Even Benchmark thinks AI is eroding the venture pact against backing rivals
Even Benchmark, a firm whose reputation rests on 10-to-15-year partnerships with founders at the…
AI assistant startup Town nabs unicorn valuation four months after launch
Town, a two-year-old, San Francisco-based startup developing AI assistants, nabbed a unicorn valuation on…
Anthropic’s cloud partnerships are getting messy
Anthropic is having trouble securing enough cloud capacity from AWS, Google, and Microsoft, which…
Spotify’s current AI bet is about being the music service that agents choose
Spotify's pitch isn't just that AI should just make entertainment easier to find. It…
The Boox Palma 2 Pro finally got me to stop reading on my phone
The $400 Boox Palma 2 Pro is a smartphone-sized e-reader designed for people who…
Billionaire Palmer Luckey isn’t leaving California over the wealth tax
Palmer Luckey has been a California billionaire since he was 21 years old, when…
Reddit is the latest platform to embrace the ‘For You’ feed
Reddit is the latest social platform to adopt the "For You" feed popularized by…
The R2 SUV is already Rivian’s best-selling vehicle
Rivian's new R2 SUV was its best-selling vehicle in the third quarter, the company…
Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
“There was a substantial amount of evidence to support the jury’s finding, which is…
With Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google bets its next AI wave on agents, not chatbots
Providing that level of AI capability for average consumers comes with scrutiny. Google is…
The SpaceX IPO filing has arrived
The filing details a business that is currently dominated by SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet…
How Elon Musk will increase his power through the SpaceX IPO
Post-IPO, Musk will be CEO, CTO, and chairman of SpaceX's board. His current 85%…
The pitch trick that helped an eSports startup raise $20M when VCs only wanted AI
On top of that, Dylan landed this big fish as an investor even though…
CrowdStrike and Google take down botnet used by hackers to target software developers in supply chain attacks
CrowdStrike, working with Google and Shadowserver, a nonprofit organization that scans and monitors the…
Corgi announces $106M raise at $2.6B valuation — double what it was worth 3 weeks ago
Even in the current go-go dealmaking environment, that sequencing is remarkable. While startups raising…
‘What a joke’: Github Copilot’s new token-based billing spurs consternation among devs
The golden age of Microsoft's Github Copilot appears to be at an end —…
