Elad Gil on which AI markets have winners and which are still wide open; also, Locket’s social app is picking up steam with Gen Alpha

a16z pauses its famed TxO Fund for underserved founders, lays off staff

Pine Labs aims to take Indian fintech global even as it cuts valuation for IPO

Sam Altman says ‘enough’ to questions about OpenAI’s revenue; plus, Bluesky hits 40 million users, introduces ‘dislikes’ beta

YC alum Adam raises $4.1M to turn viral text-to-3D tool into AI copilot; also, Cluely’s Roy Lee on the ragebait strategy for startup marketing

Bevel raises $10M Series A from General Catalyst for its AI health companion; plus, IntrCity SmartBus lands $30M to deepen its grip on India’s intercity travel market

The Prompting Company snags $6.5M to help products get mentioned in ChatGPT and other AI apps, plus India’s Snabbit valuation doubled to $180M in 5 months

Phia’s founders on how AI is changing online shopping, plus, Grammarly rebrands to ‘Superhuman,’ launches a new AI assistant

AccessGrid raises $4.4M to help turn phones into key fobs; also, Mem0 raises $24M to build the memory layer for AI apps

Oxford spinout RADiCAIT uses AI to make diagnostic imaging more affordable and accessible

Israeli intelligence vets raise $20M to track developer buying signals; plus, Mercor quintuples valuation to $10B with $350M Series C

India, the market BlaBlaCar once walked away from, is now its biggest

Tensormesh raises $4.5M to squeeze more inference out of AI server loads; also, Palantir enters $200M partnership with telco Lumen

Redwood Materials raises another $350M to power up its energy storage business, also, Wonder raised $12M to bring AI content to Hollywood

Why Cohere’s ex-AI research lead is betting against the scaling race

Top OpenAI, Google Brain researchers set off a $300M VC frenzy for their startup Periodic Labs

a16z-backed Codi launches AI agent office manager

Scale AI alum raises $9M for AI serving critical industries in MENA

Oura launches redesigned app and 'Cumulative Stress' feature

A new wave of social media apps provide hope in a doomscrolling world