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It’s been a whirlwind year for the database of choice for the vibe-coding world: Supabase. On Friday Supabase announced that it raised a fresh $100 million Series E on a $5 billion valuation, led by Accel and Peak XV. This is just four months after closingits $200 million Series D on a $2 billion valuation,led […]

The U.S. government shutdownthat began this week is the first in seven years. While it might not feel immediately disruptive, for startups waiting on permits, visas, or regulatory approvals, even a few weeks can become an existential problem.  On this episode ofEquity, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Max Zeff talk through how uncertainty is affecting

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While AI coding startups like Cursor close brow-raising rounds on barely three years of existence, Replit’s path to a$3 billion valuationhas been anything but swift. For CEO Amjad Masad, who’s been building tools to democratize programming since 2009, it’s a story of persistence through multiple failed pivots, years stuck at the same revenue plateau, and

A new study by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and SII Generative AI Research Lab (GAIR) shows that training large language models (LLMs) for complex, autonomous tasks does not require massive datasets. Their framework, LIMI (Less Is More for Intelligent Agency), builds on similar work in other areas of LLM research and finds that “machine autonomy

Google wants its coding assistant, Jules, to be far more integrated into developers’ terminals than ever. The company wants to make it a more workflow-native tool, hoping that more people will use it beyond the chat interface.  Jules, which the company first announced in December 2024, will gain two new features: a Jules API to

Anthropic has a new chief technical officer, former Stripe CTO Rahul Patil. Patil started at the company earlier this week, taking over from co-founder Sam McCandlish, who will move to a new role as Chief Architect. As part of the change, Anthropic is updating the structure of its core technical group, bringing the company’s product-engineering

OpenAI’sSora appfor AI videos is a viral hit, despite being invite-only for now and limited to users in the U.S. and Canada at launch. Onits first day, Sora saw 56,000 downloads, and is now ranked as the No. 3 Top Overall app on the U.S. App Store, according to new data from app intelligence provider

Google is bringing itsAI coding agentJulesdeeper into developer workflows with a new command-line interface and public API, allowing it to plug into terminals, CI/CD systems, and tools like Slack — as competition intensifies among tech companies to own the future of software development and make coding more of an AI-assisted task. Until now, Jules —

Allan Brooks never set out to reinvent mathematics. But after weeks spent talking with ChatGPT, the 47-year-old Canadian came to believe he had discovered a new form of math powerful enough to take down the internet. Brooks — who had no history of mental illness or mathematical genius — spent 21 days in May spiraling