What happens to the AI exit market if the FTC cracks down on acqui-hires?

The FTC may take action after a number of high-profile incidents of startups being gutted from within. [...]

New Year's AI surprise: Fal releases its own version of Flux 2 image generator that's 10x cheaper and 6x more efficient

Hot on the heels of its new $140 million Series D fundraising round, the multi-modal enterprise AI media creation platform fal.ai, known simply as "fal" or "Fal" is back with a yea [...]

Meet the 5 Baltic scaleups in TECH5’s ‘Champions League of Tech’

Five standout scaleups from the Baltics have made it into TECH5 — the “Champions League of Technology.”  Representing Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia, the quintet will now challenge rivals from [...]

Intuit is betting its 40 years of small business data can outlast the SaaSpocalypse

Intuit has lost more than 40% of its market cap since the beginning of the year. It's not alone. Many established SaaS players have seen their stock prices fall in recent months, including Adobe [...]

The question AI providers hope VPs of Engineering never ask

AI coding adoption is exploding. But most engineering leaders are still measuring usage instead of outcomes. That creates a costly blind spot. There is a question that nobody in the AI industry wants [...]

Blocked From Selling Off-Brand Ozempic, Telehealth Startups Embrace a Less Effective Drug

As the FDA halts the sale of Ozempic and Zepbound copycats, online clinics have begun offering liraglutide, an older GLP-1 medication injected daily instead of weekly. [...]

Tech Billionaires Back Erebor in the Wake of Silicon Valley Bank Collapse

Funded by Anduril cofounder Palmer Luckey and Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale, the new bank—named, like their companies, after Tolkien lore—aims to serve startups in crypto, AI, and defense. [...]

The class of 2025 is using AI in job interviews, and a startup industry is cashing in

The class of 2025 graduated into the worst entry-level job market in five years. Now a growing number of them are using AI tools during live job interviews, and a cottage industry of startups is rushi [...]

TrueFoundry launches TrueFailover to automatically reroute enterprise AI traffic during model outages

When OpenAI went down in December, one of TrueFoundry’s customers faced a crisis that had nothing to do with chatbots or content generation. The company uses large language models to help refill pre [...]