When Vultron announced its $22 million funding round earlier this week, the AI startup made sure to highlight a key investor: Craft Ventures, the firm “co-founded by White House AI adviser David Sacks.” The announcement has raised questions about conflicts of interest in the Trump administration, where Sacks serves as both AI and crypto czar […]
Astronomer CEO resigns following Coldplay concert scandal
Andy Byron, the startup executive at the center of an extraordinary social media furor, has resigned as CEO of data operations startup Astronomer.
Microsoft says it will no longer use engineers in China for Department of Defense work
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Cursor snaps up enterprise startup Koala in challenge to GitHub Copilot
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Benchmark in talks to lead Series A for Greptile, valuing AI-code reviewer at $180M, sources say
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Hadrian raises $260M to build out automated factories for space and defense parts
Hadrian wants to revolutionize American manufacturing through automation.
Microsoft is buying tons of carbon removal from Xprize startup Vaulted Deep
Microsoft’s data center boom has been imperiling its 2030 carbon negative pledge, so the tech giant is turning to Vaulted Deep, which operates like a reverse oil company.
Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code – without telling users
Claude Code users have been hit with unexpectedly restrictive usage limits. The problems, many of which have been aired on Claude Code’s GitHub page, seem to be concentrated among heavy users of the service, many of whom are on the $200-a-month Max plan.