It has never been easier to take on the big boys, says Alexandr Wang. Speaking at a Y Combinator event, the founder of Scale AI, who now runs Meta’s superintelligence labs, said AI has been a game-changer for startups. “It’s probably a once-in-a-civilization opportunity to be a dreamer and have a vision and ambition and
Whatnot is proving that there is still room for consumer startups in the age of AI. Live shopping startup Whatnot is in talks to raise financing at a valuation of about $20 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. This would be a significant jump from the $11.5 billion valuation at which the company
For a year now, AI security testing company Andon Labs has tasked frontier models with various real-world tasks to determine how well they perform as agents operating for long periods without human supervision. On Wednesday, Andon published a new installment about how things are going in its Vending-Bench research, where the lab has cutting-edge models
America’s rapidly growing fleet of electric vehicles could become an unexpected source of electricity storage as the country races to meet growing demand for AI energy. That’s according to Redwood Materials, a startup founded by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel, which now recycles more than 70% of all batteries in North America. With millions of
Spur Intelligence, a Lake Mary, Florida-based cybersecurity startup, has raised a $200 million round led by Insight Partners. Spur, founded by two former Department of Defense engineers in 2017, five years before the public launch of ChatGPT, was prescient. The startup’s technology helps companies distinguish legitimate human users from increasingly hidden bot traffic to help
Runlayer, a startup that offers a secure Model Context Protocol gateway, a standard to allow AI models and agents to securely obtain external data and tools, has filed a lawsuit against human resources software startup Rippling, according to the complaint seen by TechCrunch. The lawsuit is a warning to anyone selling AI infrastructure to enterprise