Editor’s note: The following is the second profile in a series of articles about startup founders from non-technical backgrounds who have launched successful venture-backed companies. Read the previous interview with MagicSchool AI founder Adeel Khan here. Before founding Trunk Tools, an AI startup for the construction industry, Sarah Buchner spent more than a decade working…
Visa’s president of technology, Rajat Taneja, walked the VB Transform 2026 audience through aiming Anthropic’s Mythos at Visa’s own payment network. The model stitched minor weaknesses into working exploit chains, and Visa open-sourced the harness that governed the hunt. That’s what it looks like when an enterprise has the engineering depth to act on what…
Phia, the shopping startup co-founded by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, is once again under fire for its alleged business practices. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story
Some of Wall Street’s biggest financial firms are partnering with Nvidia Corp. to pour a half-trillion dollars of funding into the artificial intelligence industry’s massive infrastructure buildout. Nvidia said today it has struck deals with Apollo Global Management Inc., BlackRock Inc., Blackstone Inc., Brookfield Corp., The Goldman Sachs The Goldman Sachs Group and KKR &…
As enterprise codebases grow, AI agents tasked with analyzing them are buckling under the weight of long-horizon tasks that require multiple interactions and tool calls. Dividing the work among a team of agents seems like the obvious fix, but it introduces a fatal flaw: most multi-agent systems are not designed for agents to coordinate among…
Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2026 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding deal…
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Lumilens Inc., a provider of optical networking chips for artificial intelligence clusters, launched today with $900 million in funding. The company raised the bulk of the capital, $700 million, through a Series C round that valued it at $5.51 billion. Atreides Management, Bain Capital Ventures, Meritech, Seligman Ventures and Spark Capital jointly led the investment….
Editor’s note: The following is the first profile in a series of articles in coming weeks about startup founders from non-technical backgrounds who have launched successful venture-backed companies. In November 2022, Adeel Khan was doing something rare for a longtime educator: taking time off. Having launched his career as a teacher in Atlanta Public Schools,…
At Kilo Code, engineers are reading or writing code themselves only about 1% of the time now, according to co-founder Emilie Schario — the rest is agents. That shift is forcing new questions onto dev teams: which systems are safe to hand over, who cleans up when models goof up, how to support multi-model architectures,…