Airbnb’s CEO says nobody builds AI for normal people. He is on Y Combinator’s board
Thrive Capital’s first investor letter shows how completely OpenAI has come to define it
Databricks Closes $5 Billion Round at $190 Billion Valuation
Anthropic’s $2trn IPO is priced below what AI stocks already fetch
DeepSeek built a Claude Code rival, then quadrupled its prices
ASU’s content creation degree grades your follower count
Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital Discloses $215 Million Amazon Stake
Canva’s backers cut $7.1bn from its valuation, and its own valuer cut more
SpaceX has closed its $60bn Cursor deal, and Cursor was buying a company the day before
Arm’s co-founder says AI will create more value than any revolution before it, and be a rollercoaster
A judge just told Google to stop making rival app stores hard to install
Five of Europe’s biggest companies just bought compute Mistral has not built
Tesla ended Sweden’s longest strike by buying out every last striker
Trump’s drone tariffs reach 100%, and Europe gets capped at 15%
France’s under-15 social media ban is struck down two weeks before it starts
Reddit is joining the S&P 500 with its stock down 31% this year
Apple wants to pay publishers per use, not per year, to give Siri the news
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Getting to the heart of the European tech and startup scene.
Europe’s ‘Made in EU’ rules start at 5%, and they do not mention software
Josh Kushner raised $2bn to buy the companies AI is coming for
CodeRabbit raised $143m to read the code AI wrote
Accel raised $3.5bn. Europe now gets the same fund as the US
AI compute becomes a tradable commodity on 5 October. The price goes public
Legora is reportedly chasing a $10bn valuation, barely a season after its last raise
Anthropic is reportedly in talks to buy Decart for $6bn, its biggest deal yet
Target appoints its first chief AI officer as retailers scale up AI spending
The productivity crisis hiding inside America’s digital transformation
Salesforce is cutting 133 more jobs. The filings don’t mention AI
