South Korea’s major defense giants have amassed roughly $69 billion in order backlogs as of late 2024, according to media reports. Seoul is also accelerating investment in advanced weapons systems and expanding its defense ties, particularly with Europe. With the new EU-South Korea Security and Defence Partnership in 2024 and growing exports of vehicles and artillery, the country has become…
Leaked documents shed light into how much OpenAI pays Microsoft
November 17, 2025
After a year of frenzied dealmaking and rumors of an upcoming IPO, the financial scrutiny into OpenAI is intensifying. Leaked documents obtained by tech blogger Ed Zitron provide more of a glimpse into OpenAI’s financials – specifically its revenue and compute…
ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot
November 17, 2025
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth with 300 million weekly…
Inside Harvey: How a first-year legal associate built one of Silicon Valley’s hottest startups
November 17, 2025
Legal AI might not sound like the sexiest category in Silicon Valley, but Harvey‘s CEO Winston Weinberg has captured the attention of virtually every top-tier investor in the Valley. The company’s cap table reads like a who’s who of venture capital: the OpenAI Startup Fund (its first institutional investor), Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Elad Gil, Google Ventures, Coatue, and…
Teen founders raise $6M to reinvent pesticides using AI — and convince Paul Graham to join in
November 14, 2025
Two teenage founders walked into Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham’s backyard with an idea no one in agriculture seemed to want – an AI model to help design better pesticides. By the time they left, they had a new business model, a new company, and eventually…
Google augments AI shopping with conversational search, agentic checkout and an AI that calls stores for you
November 14, 2025
Google is rolling out a suite of AI shopping updates just ahead of the holiday season. The company on Thursday unveiled a host of new tools and features, including conversational shopping in Google Search, new shopping features within its Gemini app, agentic checkout, and…
Milestone raises $10M to make sure AI rhymes with ROI
November 14, 2025
Generative AI has become a key part of coding workflows, but most companies struggle to track its use, let alone its return on investment. Israeli startup Milestone hopes to help with a platform designed to correlate AI tool usage with engineering metrics, including code quality.
The catch is that these companies have to give Milestone access to their codebases, a bet that investors initially…
Microsoft-backed Veir is bringing superconductors to data centers
November 13, 2025
Power demands of data centers have grown from tens to 200 kilowatts in just a few years, a pace that has data center developers scrambling to design future facilities that can handle the load.
“In the next couple of years, it’s going to be 600 kilowatts, and…
Figma bets on India to expand beyond design
November 13, 2025
Figma is expanding its presence in India by setting up a local office and hiring Indian talent as it seeks to deepen ties with one of its largest user communities and make a broader push to better win over developers alongside the designers who already rely on the…
The global race for the AI app layer is still on
November 13, 2025
The U.S. is far ahead of Europe in the race for large AI models – but the picture is different for the application layer, with emerging category leaders such as Lovable, the vibe-coding startup, and Synthesia, which makes AI-generated video for the enterprise.
That’s the conclusion made by global VC firm Accel in its 2025 Globalscape report, which focuses on the AI and cloud market.
