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Could EDA AI Startups Be The New Claude Of Chip Design?
ChipAgents is partnering with Nvidia to create an agentic AI platform to accelerate chip design A few months ago I wrote an article on Forbes about Cadence Design SuperAgents that front-end the company's chip design tools to speed elements of the…
AWS is helping vibe-coding startup Superblocks, and the implications are big
Vibe coding startup Superblocks announced a multi-year joint marketing agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that enables its tool to be embedded within the private clouds of AWS customers. That means an enterprise on AWS that subscribes to…
The New Logistics Of Startup Ideas In The AI Age
When the map is being redrawn, you navigate by the stars. Six years ago, I mapped the 'logistics maze' every founder must navigate. AI has redrawn the map. In March 2020, I wrote about the logistics maze, the path that runs parallel to the idea…
Why AI Agent Startups Are Becoming The New Solo-Founder Playbook
AI Startup Founder Talking About Innovations in the World of Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models. Young Caucasian Man Talking About Future Technology Insights on Stage at a Global Event Solo-founded startups have surged from 23.7% of…
A Marc Benioff-backed startup thinks AI can solve the AI deployment problem
It's so hard for big businesses to get AI tools working reliably that whole new organizations of forward-deployed engineers or FDEs— specialists who drop into a company to get its AI systems up and running — are springing up to help…
This Startup Wants More Shoppers To 'Daydream' Their Next Outfit
Daydream, an AI -powered fashion search and discovery platform, has recently launched a new pilot program that allows fashion brands and retailers to bring the company's natural-language search and visual discovery technology directly to their own…
This fusion startup just raised another $1 billion for its first commercial power plant
For decades, fusion energy has seemed just out of reach. The technology, which could provide cheap clean energy around the clock, still isn't proven. But companies are now betting that it's ready to finally leave the lab. Last month, the MIT…
Exclusive | Cyber Startup Horizon3.ai Raises $250 Million
Ethical hacker-for-hire Horizon3.ai has raised $250 million in late-stage funding, looking to ride a wave of corporate fear over cyberattacks supercharged by Anthropic's Mythos and other frontier artificial-intelligence models. The funding, a…
AI startup Reforged Labs shuts down as the 'gap we were selling into is closing'
Generative AI platform Reforged Labs is shutting down after three years due to challenges scaling beyond the gaming sector. Founded in 2023, the company provided AI technology for 'creative strategy and performance marketing in mobile gaming'.
AI can create startups, just not good ones
The U.S. Census Bureau said July 9 that it received 531,423 business applications in June on a seasonally adjusted basis, capping what was for the first half of the year the highest sustained rate of such applications in the 22-year history of the…
To power AI, Khosla and a16z bet this startup can reinvent mining
The last century was fueled by oil and gas. Turner Caldwell is betting the next century runs on metals. “We're entering a metals-driven economy,” said Caldwell, CEO and cofounder at Mariana Minerals, a software-focused mining startup.
VC Money Floods Into US Nuclear Startups As AI Power Demand Explodes
Global VC funding for nuclear fission and fusion startups has already topped $4.5 billion across 81 companies in 2026, on pace to beat 2025's $6.2 billion record. Big Tech figures including Sam Altman and Bill Gates are pouring money into fusion to…
Fortune Tech: Alibaba vs Moonshot, CXMT's big moment, SpaceX's startup surge
Good morning. Somehow, it's August. Hope your inbox isn't too full. Centuries of thinkers have promised us that technology will afford us shorter workweeks and more leisure time, but it hasn't panned out. Ben Franklin's four hours of daily useful…
Exclusive: Former OpenAI exec Fidji Simo discusses her battle with POTS and her startup's plans to cure it with AI and 3,500 vials of blood (so far)
When Fidji Simo announced she was leavin g her role as one of the most senior members of OpenAI's leadership team after a seven year battle with her chronic illness, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, or POTS, the news felt unexpectedly…
How Clean Cement Startups Are Riding the AI Boom
For the last few years, there's been just one story dominating the economy, Silicon Valley, and much of the climate tech world too: artificial intelligence. It has consumed investor's time and money, leaving relatively little for the rest of the…
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