American AI startup Poolside launches free, high-performing open model Laguna XS.2 for local agentic coding

The AI race lately has felt a bit like a game of tennis: first, Anthropic releases a new, pricey state-of-the-art proprietary model for general users (Claude Opus 4.7), then, a week or so later, its r [...]

AI recruiting startup Dex raises $5.3m seed to match AI engineers with the companies that need them most

Founded by a former Atomico talent adviser, Dex charges employers agency fees only on successful hires, and has gone from zero to $1.8 million ARR in under six months of charging. Paddy Lambros spent [...]

The retrieval rebuild: Why hybrid retrieval intent tripled as enterprise RAG programs hit the scale wall

Something shifted in enterprise RAG in Q1 2026. VB Pulse data spanning January through March tells a consistent story: the market stopped adding retrieval layers and started fixing the ones it already [...]

Amazon’s OpenAI gambit signals a new phase in the cloud wars — one where exclusivity no longer applies

Amazon Web Services on Tuesday launched one of the most consequential enterprise AI plays in the company's 20-year history, simultaneously bringing OpenAI's most powerful models to its Bedro [...]

St. George, Fort Myers, and 3 other small U.S. cities are the best for startups in 2026

Small cities give entrepreneurs lower costs and less competition. WalletHub ranked 1,334 of them to find where new businesses thrive [...]

Y Combinator built its empire on software. Its latest investment thesis says the garage is no longer enough.

Y Combinator published its Summer 2026 Request for Startups in late April, just days before the application deadline. The document lists 15 categories of companies that YC’s partners want to fund. E [...]

Welcome to the Great American Satellite Age

A new generation of satellite startups in San Francisco is racing to capitalize on recent technological breakthroughs in space-based data collection and communications. [...]

Anthropic commits $200 billion to Google Cloud over five years

According to a report by The Information, Anthropic has committed to spending roughly $200 billion on Google Cloud over the next five years - more than 40 percent of Google's entire cloud backlog [...]

Corgi reaches a $1.3bn valuation four months after its Series A, with TCV leading a $160m round

The Y Combinator-backed AI-native insurance carrier closed its Series A in January at a $630m valuation. The Series B doubles that figure and funds expansion beyond startup insurance into trucking, wh [...]