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Nominal Raises $240 Million at $3 Billion to Tell Engineers Whether Their Machines Work

Nominal Raises $240 Million at $3 Billion to Tell Engineers Whether Their Machines Work

The defense boom drove its growth. Its next market is every company building machines that run on AI.

NOV 10, 2026
6 MIN READ
How Texas Went From "Speed of Business" to a Data Center Freeze

How Texas Went From "Speed of Business" to a Data Center Freeze

Texas courted AI data centers in 2025. By fall 2026, it had paused them, and Abbott lost reelection.

NOV 08, 2026
4 MIN READ
Anthropic's IPO Window Is Narrowing. Its Chip Story Now Carries the Pitch.

Anthropic's IPO Window Is Narrowing. Its Chip Story Now Carries the Pitch.

Growth slowed and Cat Wu left for OpenAI. Now Anthropic is selling IPO buyers a chip story.

NOV 07, 2026
5 MIN READ
Midterms Just Started. Here's What Elon, a16z, and Big Tech Want From the Ballot

Midterms Just Started. Here's What Elon, a16z, and Big Tech Want From the Ballot

Tech's biggest donors are betting that Tuesday matters. Where their money went shows what they expect in return.

NOV 02, 2026
5 MIN READ
Anthropic's S-1, in 10 Numbers

Anthropic's S-1, in 10 Numbers

Anthropic's first public financials, one number at a time.

OCT 26, 2026
10 MIN READ
Tesla Factory Veterans Are Building Physical AI That Works on a Real Production Line

Tesla Factory Veterans Are Building Physical AI That Works on a Real Production Line

Industrial Next trains its robots in simulation, then sends them to the factory.

OCT 26, 2026
15 MIN READ
The Strategy Tax: What World Labs Risks by Joining AMD

The Strategy Tax: What World Labs Risks by Joining AMD

What happens to a frontier lab once it has a parent company?

OCT 25, 2026
10 MIN READ
Can Money Buy Time? Why AMD Bet $8.2 Billion on Fei-Fei Li's World Labs

Can Money Buy Time? Why AMD Bet $8.2 Billion on Fei-Fei Li's World Labs

Nvidia spent 20 years getting close to AI researchers. AMD is trying to close that gap with a single deal.

OCT 25, 2026
10 MIN READ
AI Is Squeezing Software Wrappers. Pigment Just Raised $250 Million Because It Isn't One.

AI Is Squeezing Software Wrappers. Pigment Just Raised $250 Million Because It Isn't One.

Before selling anything, the French startup spent its first years building a planning engine. Now companies from Anthropic to L'Oréal plan on it, and investors value it at $2.3 billion.

OCT 21, 2026
5 MIN READ
Otter.ai Takes $320 Million Without Selling a Share, Five Times the Venture Money It Raised in a Decade

Otter.ai Takes $320 Million Without Selling a Share, Five Times the Venture Money It Raised in a Decade

Free built Otter's user base. The new money is for selling to the companies those users work at.

OCT 20, 2026
5 MIN READ
Get the Heck Off Localhost: The Habit That Built WonderSearch

Get the Heck Off Localhost: The Habit That Built WonderSearch

Interview with Dalton and Dale Ng, WonderSearch Co-founders

OCT 19, 2026
18 MIN READ
Arkor: Would You Skip Your Wedding For Your Startup?

Arkor: Would You Skip Your Wedding For Your Startup?

Interview with Hina Nakahira, Arkor Co-founder & CEO

OCT 12, 2026
16 MIN READ