New leaders, new fund: Sequoia has raised $7B to expand its AI bets
Apr 16, 2026, 10:55 pm By Connie Loizos
The fundraise is the first major capital raise under Sequoia's new leadership, with Alfred Lin and…Factory hits $1.5B valuation to build AI coding for enterprises
Apr 16, 2026, 6:55 pm By Marina Temkin
The three-year-old startup raised $150 million led by Khosla Ventures.Luma launches AI-powered production studio with faith-focused Wonder Project
Apr 16, 2026, 5:58 pm By Rebecca Bellan
The studio's first project will be about Moses and star Academy Award-winner Ben Kingsley, to be…Netflix co-founder and chair Reed Hastings to leave board
Apr 16, 2026, 5:22 pm By Lucas Ropek
Hastings helped to transform the video rental industry — first with physical, then digital,…Upscale AI in talks to raise at $2B valuation, says report
Apr 16, 2026, 4:41 pm By Dominic-Madori Davis
AI infrastructure company Upscale AI is reportedly in talks to raise its third funding round since…Physical Intelligence, a hot robotics startup, says its new robot brain can figure out tasks it was never taught
Apr 16, 2026, 4:26 pm By Connie Loizos
The new model, called π0.7, represents what the company describes as an early but meaningful step…From the Startup Battlefield stage to the International Space Station: geCKo Materials built a sticky product
Apr 16, 2026, 3:50 pm By Maggie Nye, Isabelle Johannessen
This week on Build Mode, Isabelle Johannessen speaks with Capella Kerst, founder and CEO of geCKo…Slash, a Ramp competitor founded by teenagers, raises $100M at $1.4B valuation
Apr 16, 2026, 3:20 pm By Julie Bort
Five years later the founders, now 24 years old, say their startup has achieved $300 million in…OpenAI takes aim at Anthropic with beefed-up Codex that gives it more power over your desktop
Apr 16, 2026, 3:18 pm By Lucas Ropek
OpenAI's agentic coding tool has gotten a major makeover, with a variety of new powers and…European police email 75,000 people asking them to stop DDoS attacks
Apr 16, 2026, 2:53 pm By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Europol coordinated an operation against for-hire distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) services,…Anthropic CPO leaves Figma’s board after reports he will offer a competing product
Apr 16, 2026, 2:28 pm By Tim Fernholz
A herald of the SAASpocalypse?It’s not just you — Bluesky is (sorta) down
Apr 16, 2026, 1:11 pm By Sarah Perez
Bluesky has been experiencing ongoing service disruptions since just before 3 a.m. ET.Everything we like is a psyop
Apr 16, 2026, 1:03 pm By Amanda Silberling
If culture is shaped by TikTok's algorithmic feed, then it's time for us to decide where we draw the…Google now lets you explore the web side-by-side with AI Mode
Apr 16, 2026, 1:00 pm By Aisha Malik
Now, when you're using AI Mode on Chrome desktop, clicking a link will open the webpage side-by-side…Two Americans sentenced for helping North Korea steal $5 million in fake IT worker scheme
Apr 16, 2026, 12:16 pm By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
The U.S. Department of Justice announced that two Americans were sentenced to years in prison for…InsightFinder raises $15M to help companies figure out where AI agents go wrong
Apr 16, 2026, 12:15 pm By Ram Iyer
According to CEO Helen Gu, the biggest problem facing the industry today is not just monitoring and…AI traffic to US retailers rose 393% in Q1, and it’s boosting their revenue too
Apr 16, 2026, 12:14 pm By Sarah Perez
Adobe says AI traffic to U.S. retail sites also jumped 269% in March, with visitors converting…Google adds Nano Banana-powered image generation to Gemini’s Personal Intelligence
Apr 16, 2026, 12:00 pm By Ivan Mehta
The feature will be initially available to paid users in the U.S.Roblox’s AI assistant gets new agentic tools to plan, build, and test games
Apr 16, 2026, 12:00 pm By Aisha Malik
The new new tools are designed to help creators throughout the entire development process.Google is now targeting bad ads over bad actors
Apr 16, 2026, 11:00 am By Jagmeet Singh
Google blocked 8.3 billion ads in 2025 but suspended fewer advertisers.
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