Remebering Be Incorporated - the early 90s startup whose fate was decided by Steve Jobs

Former Apple executive Jean-Louis Gassée co-founded Be Inc in the early 1990s, hoping to take on Silicon Valley titans. [...]

‘The weekend is disappearing’ for Silicon Valley’s AI startup workers

Once outlawed in China, the grueling "996" workweek is gaining traction in San Francisco as startups race to ship AI products [...]

GitHub leads the enterprise, Claude leads the pack—Cursor’s speed can’t close

In the race to deploy generative AI for coding, the fastest tools are not winning enterprise deals. A new VentureBeat analysis, combining a comprehensive survey of 86 engineering teams with our own ha [...]

Thinking Machines' first official product is here: meet Tinker, an API for distributed LLM fine-tuning

Thinking Machines, the AI startup founded earlier this year by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has launched its first product: Tinker, a Python-based API designed to make large language model (LLM) fin [...]

Skello raises €200M and its founders end up owning more of the company

Most big funding rounds shrink the founders’ slice. Skello’s just grew it. The profitable French HR startup has raised €200m to go shopping across Europe. Paris-based Skello has raised €200m l [...]

'We've proven that carbon removal technology can work': Google, Anthropic, Salesforce and others pledge nearly $1 billion on new environmental push

Google, Anthropic and others commit to buying future carbon removal credits to help today's startups get funding. [...]

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 [...]

OpenAI’s “Hacktivate AI” report urges Europe to cut red tape and harmonize digital regulations

Just days before the EU is set to release its "Apply AI Strategy," OpenAI and Allied for Startups have published a report called "Hacktivate AI." The document puts forward 20 polic [...]

More than half of all venture capital money will flow into AI start-ups in 2025

According to Bloomberg, venture capitalists have already invested $192.7 billion in AI startups in 2025 - a new record.<br /> The article More than half of all venture capital money will flow in [...]