AI recruiter Alex raises $17M to automate initial job interviews
The Y Combinator startup raised a Series A led by Peak XV Partners.
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OpenAI takes on Google, Amazon with new agentic shopping system
This type of frictionless experience has the potential to spark a new movement in how people shop online – one that moves away from search engines like Google and e-commerce platforms like Amazon towards conversational agents with curated recommendations, comparisons, and easy checkout experiences.
This French VC went from posting on YouTube to raising a $12M fund for Y Combinator startups
Gabriel Jarrosson, a French engineer-turned-YouTuber-turned-investor, has built his VC firm around a single filter: If it isn’t a Y Combinator company, he won’t invest in it.
Amazon’s Echo Pop and Dot speakers are the cheapest they’ve been in months
The Echo Pop and Echo Dot are Amazon’s entry-level smart speakers, and both are currently on sale ahead of Amazon’s October Prime Day (aka Prime Big Deal Days), which officially kicks off on October 7th. Both speakers are currently discounted to their lowest prices since the middle of June, which means they’re beating their summer […]
RidePods is the first iPhone game you control with AirPods
Developer Ali Tanis has released the first game for iPhones and iPads that’s played using Apple’s AirPods as a wearable motion controller. The RidePods – Race with Head gameplay is relatively basic – you’re just steering a motorcycle through oncoming traffic at high speeds – but instead of swiping the screen or tiling your phone, […]
Vibe coding Anything nabs a $100M valuation, after hitting $2M ARR in its first two weeks
Anything raised an $11 million funding round led by Footwork.
Vibe-coding startup Anything nabs a $100M valuation after hitting $2M ARR in its first two weeks
Anything raised an $11 million funding round led by Footwork.
Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.5 in latest bid for AI agents and coding supremacy
Anthropic’s latest AI model spent 30 hours running by itself to code a chat app akin to Slack or Teams. It spat out about 11,000 lines of code, according to Anthropic, and it only stopped running when it had completed the task. The model, Claude Sonnet 4.5, was announced today, and its ability to operate […]