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Dify, which offers an open source platform for building and running AI applications and agentic workflows, raised a $30 million pre-Series A led by HSG at a valuation of $180 million (FinSMEs)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 10, 2026

Featured Podcasts Squeak: How Sierra is getting ahead in the AI race | Co-founder Bret Taylor Grit explores what it…

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How Circle, Stripe, Coinbase and others are building a stablecoin-based agentic payments infrastructure that makes microtransactions between AI agents economical (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 8, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: The Most Successful AI Company You’ve Never Heard Of | Qasar Younes Interviews with world-class product…

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Q&A with Skild AI CEO Deepak Pathak on building a general-purpose brain for robots, standing out among big tech robotics efforts, the path to AGI, and more (Alex Heath/Sources)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 26, 2026

Featured Podcasts The Talk Show with John Gruber: “Serious Opinionators”, with Adam Engst The director’s commentary track for Daring Fireball.…

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A look at the challenges some AI developers face in building models to extract billions of high-quality tokens from hard-to-parse PDFs for training purposes (Josh Dzieza/The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 24, 2026

Featured Podcasts Squeak: How Malwarebytes is protecting millions in the age of AI scams | Marcin Kleczynski Grit explores what…

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How tech companies including Meta and OpenAI are building data centers with their own private power plants, a risky bet that will increase carbon emissions (Evan Halper/Washington Post)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 20, 2026

Featured Podcasts Access: Notion CEO Ivan Zhao questions whether AI is really killing software companies A show about the inside…

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Q&A with Gokul Rajaram, investor and former product manager at Google, Meta and others, on developing AI-changing products, building ad businesses, and more (Patrick O’Shaughnessy/Invest Like The Best on YouTube)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 31, 2026

Featured Podcasts Access: Where will we go when the robots take over, with Sari Azout from Sublime A show about…

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Analysis: Oracle removed $66 billion in debt from its balance sheet related to building AI data centers using SPVs; Meta moved $30 billion, xAI moved $20 billion, and CoreWeave moved $2.6 billion (Tabby Kinder/Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 24, 2025

Tiger children / Financial Times: Analysis: Oracle removed $66 billion in debt from its balance sheet related to building AI…

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Dell, HP and other tech companies warn of possible memory chip supply shortages in the coming year due to demand from building AI infrastructure (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 26, 2025

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Community Living, Sex, and Silicon Valley’s Groupthink Problem — With Ellen Huet The Big Technology…

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Flexion, which is building a complete autonomy stack for humanoid robots, raised a $50 million Series A from DST Global Partners, NVentures and others, after a seed of more than $7 million (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 23, 2025

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: A Guide to Difficult Conversations, Building Trusted Teams, and Designing a Life You Love | Rachel…

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A look at Indian startups like TuluAI, which are building LLMs for low-resource languages by creating datasets almost from scratch with community participation (Rest of World)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 22, 2025

Featured Podcasts The Talk Show with John Gruber: “Lincoln Bio Services,” with Stephen Robles The director’s commentary track for Daring…

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Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2.7-Code, claiming 30% lower reasoning token usage than K2.6, available under a modified MIT license (Sean Michael Kerner/VentureBeat)

Sources detail frustration within Meta’s applied AI team, formed in March to support superintelligence labs, over menial projects, ‘overwhelming’ work, and more (Wired)

Roku is in talks to sell itself; its shares have risen about 24% this year, giving the company a market value of $19.9 billion (Bloomberg)

SpaceX debuts on Nasdaq at $150, after a price of $135, making Elon Musk the world’s first billionaire; SPCX is up about 30% intraday, for a market cap of around $2.3 billion (Alex Harring/CNBC)

Sam Bankman-Fried loses bid to overturn fraud conviction and 25-year prison sentence following FTX collapse (Luc Cohen/Reuters)

Browsing: building

Dify, which offers an open source platform for building and running AI applications and agentic workflows, raised a $30 million pre-Series A led by HSG at a valuation of $180 million (FinSMEs)

How Circle, Stripe, Coinbase and others are building a stablecoin-based agentic payments infrastructure that makes microtransactions between AI agents economical (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)

Q&A with Skild AI CEO Deepak Pathak on building a general-purpose brain for robots, standing out among big tech robotics efforts, the path to AGI, and more (Alex Heath/Sources)

A look at the challenges some AI developers face in building models to extract billions of high-quality tokens from hard-to-parse PDFs for training purposes (Josh Dzieza/The Verge)

How tech companies including Meta and OpenAI are building data centers with their own private power plants, a risky bet that will increase carbon emissions (Evan Halper/Washington Post)

Q&A with Gokul Rajaram, investor and former product manager at Google, Meta and others, on developing AI-changing products, building ad businesses, and more (Patrick O’Shaughnessy/Invest Like The Best on YouTube)

Analysis: Oracle removed $66 billion in debt from its balance sheet related to building AI data centers using SPVs; Meta moved $30 billion, xAI moved $20 billion, and CoreWeave moved $2.6 billion (Tabby Kinder/Financial Times)

Dell, HP and other tech companies warn of possible memory chip supply shortages in the coming year due to demand from building AI infrastructure (Bloomberg)

Flexion, which is building a complete autonomy stack for humanoid robots, raised a $50 million Series A from DST Global Partners, NVentures and others, after a seed of more than $7 million (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

A look at Indian startups like TuluAI, which are building LLMs for low-resource languages by creating datasets almost from scratch with community participation (Rest of World)