FirstClub bucks India’s speed obsession, quickly triples valuation to $120M with premium approach
FirstClub has raised $23 million in a Series A round co-led by Accel and RTP Global to expand its premium quick commerce platform.
The Download: seafloor science and military chatbots
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Inexpensive seafloor-hopping submersibles could stoke deep-sea science—and mining Last week, two oblong neon submersibles started to descend nearly 6,000 meters into the Pacific Ocean. Throughout the rest of May, they will…
CoreWeave acquires agent-training startup OpenPipe
CoreWeave hopes the YC-backed startup will help it expand down the stack, and cash in on enterprises developing AI agents.
My Profitable Company Is Worthless to Investors — Here’s Why That Works in My Favor
My business is profitable, stable and 25 years strong — but it has no transferable value. Here’s why some successful companies just aren’t built to sell and why that’s not always a problem.
Anthropic Is Now One of the Most Valuable Startups of All Time: ‘Exponential Growth’
In a new funding round earlier this week, AI startup Anthropic raised $13 billion at a $183 billion valuation.
SpaceX gets the green light to more than double its Florida launches
SpaceX is one step closer to nearly tripling the number of Falcon 9 launches from Florida.
How AI Is Turning High School Students Into the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs
As AI reshapes education, students are turning school problems into products and building the future economy.
Pornhub owner pays $5M settlement to FTC over historic failure to block abusive content
Pornhub owner Aylo will pay a $5 million settlement to the FTC and Utah over allegations that the company knowingly profited off of illegal materials.
Google brings Material 3 Expressive to Pixel 6 and newer devices, along with other features
The tech giant is introducing Material 3 Expressive to Pixel phones, Adaptive Audio for the Pixel Buds Pro 2, on-wrist navigation for the Pixel Watch, new AI writing tools in Gboard, enhanced audio sharing capabilities, the ability to create custom Android bots, and more.
Orchard Robotics, founded by a Thiel fellow Cornell dropout, raises $22M for farm vision AI
The startup uses truck-mounted cameras to collect and analyze data about crop health.
Google’s NotebookLM now lets you customize the tone of its AI podcasts
When generating an Audio Overview, users can now choose whether they want their AI podcasts to be formatted like a “Deep Dive,” “Brief,” “Critique,” or “Debate.”