Stack Overflow is remaking itself into an AI data provider
Stack Overflow wants to remake its classic problem-solving forum into a tool for translating human expertise into an AI-accessible format.
Luminal raises $5.3 million to build a better GPU code framework
Inference optimization startup Luminal has announced $5.3 million in a seed funding round led by Felicis Ventures, with angel investment from Paul Graham, Guillermo Rauch and Ben Porterfield.
Anthropic announces $50 billion data center plan
Anthropic has launched an ambitious new data center partnership with the UK-based Fluidstack, committing $50 billion to building facilities across the US.
A better way of thinking about the AI bubble
AI isn’t all or nothing, and even good bets can turn sour if you aren’t careful about how you make them.
Laude Institute announces first batch of ‘Slingshots’ AI grants
Slingshots AI grants provide resources that would be unavailable in most academic settings. Its debut program has 15 startups focused on AI evaluation.
Inception raises $50 million to build diffusion models for code and text
Diffusion models already power AI image generators, but Inception thinks they can be even more powerful applied in software development.
Microsoft built a fake marketplace to test AI agents — they failed in surprising ways
The research raises new questions about how well AI agents will perform when working unsupervised — and how quickly AI companies can make good on promises of an agentic future.
Meta has an AI product problem
Meta’s AI spending is starting to make Wall Street nervous.
Cluely’s Roy Lee on the ragebait strategy for startup marketing
Cluely’s Roy Lee has a message for startup founders: you should be thinking harder about how to go viral.
Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko is a big fan of agentic coding
Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt, Yakovenko said he’s become increasingly comfortable taking a backseat in software development tasks.