Five architects of the AI economy explain where the wheels are coming off
May 7, 2026, 1:25 am By Connie Loizos
Earlier this week, five people who touch every layer of the AI supply chain sat down at the Milken…A 20-minute pitch wins Indian startup Pronto backing from Lachy Groom
6:30pm By Jagmeet Singh
The investment comes as Pronto scales to 26,000 daily bookings and the market heads toward a…Barry Diller trusts Sam Altman. But ‘trust is irrelevant’ as AGI nears, he says.
5:57pm By Sarah Perez
Barry Diller defended OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, while warning that AGI remains an unpredictable force…Snap says its $400M deal with Perplexity ‘amicably ended’
5:43pm By Aisha Malik
The deal, announced last November, would have seen Perplexity's AI search engine integrated directly…Is xAI a neocloud now?
5:32pm By Russell Brandom
xAI's real business may be more about building data centers than training AI models.Insurance startup Corgi hits $1.3B valuation 4 months after its Series A
4:39pm By Dominic-Madori Davis
Corgi announced on Wednesday a $160 million Series B, led by TCV, valuing the startup at $1.3…Microsoft’s AI data center push is colliding with its clean power goals
3:57pm By Tim De Chant
The push for new data centers at Microsoft is putting one of the its key clean power goals at risk.Robinhood’s venture fund IPO attracted 150,000+ retail investors, CEO says
3:10pm By Sarah Perez
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says more than 150,000 retail investors joined the fintech’s new venture…How Elon Musk left OpenAI, according to Greg Brockman
2:23pm By Tim Fernholz
Cutthroat negotiations between startup founders are rarely shared so publicly, especially when a…DOJ says ransomware gang tapped into Russian government databases
2:20pm By Zack Whittaker
U.S. prosecutors said a ransomware gang fueled Russian government corruption, and allowed the gang's…AI evaluation startup Braintrust confirms breach, tells every customer to rotate sensitive keys
2:05pm By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Braintrust, a startup that makes an “operating system for engineers building AI software,”…SpaceX may spend up to $119 billion on ‘Terafab’ chip factory in Texas
1:23pm By Ram Iyer
SpaceX, Elon Musk's space company that also houses his AI company, xAI, is considering spending $55…DeepSeek could hit $45B valuation from its first investment round
1:20pm By Julie Bort
In just a few weeks of talks, DeepSeek's potential valuation has reportedly soared from $20 billion…Chrome on Android now supports approximate instead of precise location sharing
11:54am By Aisha Malik
The new feature is a small win for Android users, as it gives them more control over how much…Google updates AI search to include ‘expert advice’ from Reddit and other web forums
11:49am By Amanda Silberling
While citing web forums and discussion boards can help users find answers to more niche queries,…Khosla-backed robotics startup Genesis AI has gone full-stack, demo shows
11:46am By Anna Heim
Genesis AI, a startup that raised a $105 million seed round to build foundational AI for robotics,…Tinder owner Match Group is slowing hiring to pay for its increased use of AI tools
11:27am By Sarah Perez
Match Group said that it's slowing its hiring plans for the rest of the year because AI tools "cost…Apple to pay $250M to settle lawsuit over Siri’s delayed AI features
11:12am By Lauren Forristal
Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class-action lawsuit for overpromising the arrival…Ethos raises $22.75M from a16z for its expert network with voice onboarding
11:00am By Ivan Mehta
Ethos says it is onboarding 35,000 experts per weekAurora lands McLane deal to run driverless truck routes in Texas
10:56am By Kirsten Korosec
Aurora said it plans to expand to new routes between McLane distribution centers across the U.S. Sun…
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