Starcloud’s latest funding round values the space compute company at $1.1 billion, making it one of the fastest startups to reach unicorn status after graduating from Y Combinator.
The company’s Series A, which closed 17 months after its demo day presentation, was led by Benchmark and EQT Ventures. It’s another sign of the interest in outsourcing data centers to orbit as resource…
While there’s been plenty of debate about the tendency of AI chatbots to flatter users and confirm their existing beliefs – also known as AI sycophancy – a new study by Stanford computer scientists attempts to measure how harmful that tendency might be.
The…
Whatever the final outcome for Anthropic from its feud with the Department of Defense, the attention it has generated – coupled with the company’s funny Super Bowl ads taking aim at OpenAI and the surging popularity of Claude Code – has made Anthropic more…
SK hynix, a South Korean memory chip giant already listed on the KOSPI, is laying the groundwork for a potential U.S. listing that could reportedly raise an estimated $10 billion to $14 billion.
The company announced this week that it has confidentially filed a Form F-1 with the listing, targeting the second half of 2026.
But the real question isn’t just how much it can raise: it’s…
Conntour raises $7M from General Catalyst, YC to build an AI search engine for security video systems
March 27, 2026
The surveillance tech industry today is in the spotlight, but not for the best reasons. With controversy around the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement tapping into Flock’s camera network to surveil people, and home camera maker Ring drawing criticism for building…
The signs that AI could lead to mass job displacement are already piling up: Entry-level job postings in the U.S. have sunk 35% since 2023, mass layoffs have swept across Big Tech, and even AI leaders are warning about what’s coming.
Backstage at the Axios AI Summit…
French AI company Mistral released a new open source text-to-speech model on Thursday that can be used by voice AI assistants or in enterprise use cases like customer support. The model, which lets enterprises build voice agents for sales and customer engagement, puts Mistral in direct competition with the likes of ElevenLabs, Deepgram, and OpenAI.
The new model, called Voxtral TTS, supports nine…
Meta is looking to leverage AI’s ability to inform and potentially influence shoppers to increase sales on the company’s social media platforms, like Facebook and Instagram.
At the Shoptalk 2026 conference this week, the tech giant announced it will begin…
With Sift, two ex-SpaceX engineers are bringing the software that helped launch rockets to the factory floor
March 26, 2026
The cry of “atoms, not bits!” – a phrase capturing Silicon Valley’s growing obsession with physical manufacturing over digital products – reached a fever pitch last week with word that Jeff Bezos is putting together a $100 billion fund to roll…
Andrew Ashur, the founder and CEO of window-cleaning robot startup Lucid Bots, likes to joke that his company is the antithesis of the robotics industry right now.
While many companies are trying to build humanoids or tout demos of their robots dancing and doing flips, Lucid Bots’ drones are out in the field making traditionally unsexy and dangerous work, like cleaning windows, safer and…
