Indian vibecoding startup Emergent announces over $100 million in ARR in just 8 months
Indian vibecoding platform Emergent, founded just eight months ago, says it now generates run-rate revenue of more than $100 million annually due to surging demand from small businesses and non-technical users. The company announced Tuesday that its annual run-rate revenue has doubled to $100 million in the last month. It currently has more than 6 […]
Airbnb expands ‘book now, pay later’ service globally
Airbnb announced on Tuesday that it is rolling out a “Book Now, Pay Later” feature globally that allows users to secure reservations without paying immediately. This allows users to cancel their reservations without losing their advance payment, even if their plans change. The company launched this feature in the U.S. last year for domestic travel. […]
Travel when you have money: a16z’s search for the next European unicorn
Gabriel Vazquez, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, recently revealed that he took nine flights from New York to Stockholm in the past year. His visit included stops at companies like Loveable, where he worked from the office, but it was also a journey to find a future Swedish unicorn before crossing the Atlantic. This became […]
How Ricursive Intelligence raised $335 million in 4 months at a $4 billion valuation
The co-founders of startup Ricursive Intelligence seemed destined to become co-founders. CEO Anna Goldie and CTO Azalia Mirhoseini are very well-known in the AI community, and they were among the AI engineers who “received a weird email from Zuckerberg with a crazy offer,” Goldie told TechCrunch with a laugh. (They didn’t accept the offer.) The […]
Flapping Airplanes on the future of AI: ‘We want to try really radically different things’
There’s been a bunch of exciting research-focused AI labs popping up in recent months, and Flapping Airplanes is one of the most interesting. Propelled by its young and curious founders, Flapping Airplanes is focused on finding less data-hungry ways to train AI. It’s a potential game-changer for the economics and capabilities of AI models — […]
After the hype, some AI experts think OpenClaw isn’t all that exciting
For a disjointed moment, it looked as if our robot overlords were about to take over. After the creation of Moltbook, a Reddit clone that allows AI agents using OpenClaw to communicate with each other, some people were fooled into thinking computers were starting to organize against us. Computers are arrogant humans who dare to […]
Fractal Analytics’ quiet IPO debut signals deep-rooted AI concerns in India
Fractal Analytics, India’s first IPO company, had a not-so-strong first day on the public market as enthusiasm for technology collided with nervous investors recovering from a steep slide in India’s software stocks. Fractal was listed on Monday at Rs 876 per share, below the issue price of Rs 900, but fell further in afternoon trade. […]
OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI
Peter Steinberger, who created the AI personal assistant now known as OpenClaw, has joined OpenAI. OpenClaw, formerly known as Clawdbot and then Moltbot, has rocketed to popularity over the past few weeks with its promise to be “an AI that actually does things,” like managing your calendar, booking flight tickets, and even participating in social […]
India has 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users, says Sam Altman
CEO Sam Altman said ahead of the government-sponsored AI Summit that India has 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users and the country is one of the world’s largest markets for OpenAI. On Sunday, Altman outlined the growing adoption of ChatGPT in India in an article published in the Indian English-language daily Times of India, as […]
Enterprise AI is competing for land. Glean builds layers beneath the interface.
The battle for enterprise AI is heating up. Microsoft bundles Copilot with Office. Google is pushing Gemini into Workspace. OpenAI and Anthropic sell directly to enterprises. All SaaS vendors are now shipping AI assistants. In the scramble for interfaces, Glean is betting on something less tangible: a layer of intelligence underneath. Seven years ago, Glean […]