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Circleback opens a free tier to fend off Granola, Wispr and Calendly
The YC-backed notetaker is trading its $20.83 paywall for unlimited free transcription as the meeting-AI market crowds up.
Jaeden SchaferEditor in Chief4 min read
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Gamgee, the ChatGPT dog cancer vaccine startup, launches with Y Combinator backing
Paul Conyngham's Rosie story becomes a company pitching personalized mRNA vaccines, with a 75% tumor reduction claim from one case.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Business
Blacksmith raises $45M Series B at $550M valuation as AI code testing booms
The code-validation startup's valuation jumped nearly 10x in under a year as AI-generated code overwhelms testing pipelines.
Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Business
Discovered Materials raises $9M to hunt cooler chip materials with AI agents
The Y Combinator alum is running thousands of AI-agent guesses a day to find semiconductor materials that run cooler than today's chips.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Business
Naïve raises $28.5M to let AI agents spin up and run entire companies
The startup signed 30,000 developer customers within months by packaging incorporation, payments, and infrastructure behind one API.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Business
Dili raises $21.7M to bring AI compliance to the US infrastructure boom
The Khosla-backed startup is already running compliance on 700 construction projects, from data centers to manufacturing plants.
Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Business
Asana buys no-code agent builder StackAI for $75M
The acquisition folds StackAI's workflow agents into Asana's AI Studio as the company pitches itself as an operating system for human-agent teams.
Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Business
Human Archive raises $8.2M to turn India's gig workers into robot trainers
The startup pays workers $1 per hour to wear camera-equipped caps while cleaning homes and cooking meals, selling the data to AI labs.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Careers
AI debt collectors take over 11,000-complaint industry as delinquency surges
Voice agents now handle 70 million monthly calls for debtors, cutting human head count by more than half at some agencies.
Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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