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Startups bet on AI -- and a leaner future
When Eric Lauer needs to hire at Giftory, the online gift-giving platform he runs, he's no longer looking for eager young coders fresh out of college. He wants “mid-career people who are lazy in a smart way” — experienced…
The Skateboarder's Trap: When Startup Instincts Become Startup Risks
Ben Plomion, COO of Pearl, leads AI SaaS in dentistry with 20+ yrs in marketing, growth & ops across AI, computer vision & Web3. I was 12 when I got my first skateboard, and it changed how I saw the world. Skateboarders learn early that the world…
Meet The Startup Hoping To Change The Way The World Uses Technology
Aina argues conventional interfaces with technology are out of date The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution is in full swing. For now, however, it is exclusively a software revolution. Apoorv Shankar, the founder of Aina, wants to change that.
Engineering leadership beyond the workplace: lessons from mentoring startups on building technology that scales
Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. A startup's earliest engineering decisions rarely become business problems overnight. Their impact often becomes visible months later, when customer growth exposes deployment…
Elon Musk's AI Startup Is a Complete Disaster Behind the Scenes
Can't-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Elon Musk's AI startup, xAI, is in turmoil behind the scenes. The company is constantly playing catch-up with rivals Anthropic, with Musk personally obsessed with having his chatbot…
Startups bet on AI -- and a leaner future
He wants 'mid-career people who are lazy in a smart way' -- experienced developers he calls architects who know how to wield AI coding tools to multiply their output rather than write every line from scratch. 'To be an architect, you need that…
Reverse Recruiter' Startup Wants You to Pay If Its AI Agent Finds You a Job
Artificial intelligence has already turned the job market into a slop fest—AI-generated resumes and cover letters getting reviewed by AI screeners who make decisions before a real person even has a chance. A startup called Refer is offering…
China And AI Lead Asia's Startup Funding To Multiyear Peak In Q2
Investment into Asia-based startups soared in the second quarter, boosted by a sharp rise in funding to China-based companies and AI startups. Overall, investors poured $42.8 billion into startup funding rounds across all of Asia in Q2 2026, per…
The startup community curing the Sunday scaries
Business networking is fundamentally broken. The traditional model built around LinkedIn, corporate retreats and boring presentations often feels more like a corporate chore than a genuine opportunity. According to a survey cited by SalezWORKS, 73%…
An AI intimacy startup acquired an app to help couples stay together. Read the LinkedIn DM that sparked the deal.
Two startups with the goal of keeping couples in love got hitched. Arya, a relationship wellness AI startup, recently acquired Flamme, an app with activities for couples like quizzes and milestones, Business Insider has learned exclusively. Arya…
The Next Startup Gold Rush Is in Civilization Technology - Here's Where Entrepreneurs Should Look
The last record-breaking IPO, SpaceX, wasn't a fluke, and the next big IPO won't be a SaaS company or a consumer app either. It's going to be in the growing industry of civilization technology, i.e., the companies that undergird the structures and…
Hitting it big betting on startups in the AI era will be a lot harder, but Silicon Valley might not feel the worst of it
I wish I could have gotten in early on that company. With AI company valuations acting like rocketships, it's easy to play the 'what if' game. The reality is the process isn't as simple as writing a check and watching your money multiply many times…
Chinese AI Startup Moonshot Unveils World's Largest Open-Weight AI Model, Kimi K3
Chinese AI startup Moonshot on Friday unveiled Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter model that it said is the world's largest open-weight AI system and delivers performance approaching US giant Anthropic's frontier Fable model. The launch, which comes…
Bioengineering Alumnus Launches Venture Capital Fund Focused on San Diego MedTech Startups
Garrett Smith knows a thing or two about medtech startups. He founded his first company as a bioengineering PhD student at the University of California San Diego (PhD ‘12). Since then he has stewarded several technologies through FDA…
Robot-data startup raises largest seed round ever in Germany
Robotics data startup Microagi closed a $55 million seed funding round, the largest ever in Germany, the company said Thursday. Microagi made headlines in May when it rolled out a service in New York offering free apartment cleanings, so long as…
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