AfterQuery ascends from $300M to $3.2B in five months, proving that hype compounds faster than revenue.
Read full article →When your board signs off on language this dystopian, you have to assume the lawyers stopped reading halfway through.
Read full article →When venture capitalists discover that asking regulators nicely doesn't work, they simply buy airtime to ask voters instead.
Read full article →Claude's makers bet one-third of their war chest on a startup backed by the chip company they depend on—nothing could possibly go wrong.
Read full article →When $400 million in fresh capital flows to a coding platform with no visible business model, you know the cycle is healthy.
Read full article →After settling allegations of deliberately addictive design, Meta positions itself as the industry's moral leader—and calls on rivals to adopt its 'standards.'
Read full article →Data centers are now the great subplot animating elections, which is either the future or a sign we've stopped thinking about actual problems.
Read full article →Turns out building synergies across an imaginary border is harder when there's actual tariffs.
Read full article →Founders' sense of community responsibility may derail sale of unprofitable open-source hub that has somehow convinced Silicon Valley it is priceless.
Read full article →New York's governor positions herself as the Democrat willing to admit the tech industry funds elections.
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