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The funding round was led by Norwest, with participation S Capital VC, Cerca Partners, and Oceans Ventures. Snowflake Ventures also participated as a strategic investor.

Ambrosia Energy wants to build power plants in less than 12 months while undercutting natural gas. It hopes to build gigawatts worth by 2030.

Instead of spending a year raising a formal venture fund, the Sabertooth VC founder used a captive network of LPs to invest in startups like Anthropic, Anduril, and SpaceX.

The startup is one of many entering the RV space, but it's banking on a hybrid power system that can go far beyond campsites.

“A self-indulgent weekend divergence from the usual Vektor memory business content. Consider what happens when you give a developer two days off, unlimited internet archive access, and too many ideas crammed into one article." Writing this article began organically. Which is a funny thing to even have to say in 2026. What does organic even mean now? I don't care, man; I just want to be free to express myself, man. I did not write this on a mechanical typewriter. I wrote it on a PC with my stubby index fingers running Windows software that, miraculously, does not blue screen every ten minutes anymore. It only took Microsoft thirty years to pull that off. To the left sits an analog record player with some secondhand Yamaha bookshelf speakers I found at a charity shop; to the right of me sits a modern dark wood-paneled Zen PC case, a processor that would have occupied an entire room thirty years ago, and a GPU that can synthesize gargantuan piles of AI slop or brilliant code in roughly ten seconds flat. And yet, for all that raw power, it still comes down to an algorithm. It always has. The Sharper Image and the Death of Wonder When I was a kid I used to walk into The Sharper Image store at Faneuil Hall Marketplace in Boston and just stand there. Looking at technology I could not afford while the staff watched me carefully to make sure I did not break anything. I also grabbed some bright coloured rock salt candy; I loved stuff, some core memories right there. That feeling of picking up a piece of technology and not quite knowing what it did, like a ten-year-old ape holding something from another civilisation, you cannot replicate that in a sterile Apple store. The technology is better now. Genuinely better. Faster, smaller, more capable than anything those shelves held. But the sense of wonder at the unknowable object is completely gone. Everything is explained before you touch it. Every product has a thirty-second video, a Reddit thread, a YouTube teardown, a comparis

A massive viral conversation sharing VC horror stories has taken place this week on X. Some are weird. Some are infuriating.

Applications for Startup Battlefield 200 officially close on June 8, 11:59 p.m. PT. Don't wait any longer. Secure your shot at competing on the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 this October at San Francisco's Moscone West.

Supabase, an example of an open source project becoming a fast-growing company, has greatly benefited from AI tools like Claude, Codex, and other vibe-coding platforms.

Overview Hey everyone 👋 If you've ever wanted to experiment with Gemini models, build AI-powered features, or grab an API key without going through a complex setup, Google AI Studio is the tool you're looking for. It's free, it's browser-based, and it's probably the fastest way to go from "I have an idea" to "I have working code." Today I'll walk you through what it is, what you can actually do with it, and why it belongs in every developer's toolkit. Let's dive in! 🤙 What Is Google AI Studio? 🤔 Google AI Studio is a web-based platform where you can interact with Google's AI models, prototype ideas, fine-tune behavior, and export working code, all without writing a single line of infrastructure. Think of it as a sandbox. You can test prompts, switch between Gemini models, tweak parameters, and when something works, click "Get Code" to get a ready-to-use snippet in Python, JavaScript, or REST. No cloud setup, no billing configuration, no long onboarding. Just go to aistudio.google.com , sign in with your Google account, and you're in. It sits at the intersection of playground and development tool. Researchers use it to experiment. Developers use it to prototype. Teams use it to validate ideas before committing to a full integration. What You Actually Need It For 💡 There are a few scenarios where Google AI Studio becomes indispensable: Getting a Gemini API Key: This is often the first reason developers land on AI Studio. It's the official way to get a Gemini API key for free, which you then use in your own applications, in tools like Gemini CLI, Antigravity, or any custom integration. No credit card required for the free tier. Testing Prompts Before Hardcoding Them: Prompt engineering is trial and error. AI Studio gives you a fast feedback loop where you can iterate on prompts interactively, see the output, adjust, and repeat, before embedding anything in your codebase. Exploring Model Capabilities: Not sure if Gemini can handle your specific use case? Test it directl

With just two weeks to go, StrictlyVC Los Angeles is quickly approaching. On Thursday, June 18, at The Aerospace Corporation Campus in El Segundo, investors, founders, and tech leaders will gather for an evening of conversation exploring some of the most consequential shifts taking place across venture capital, defense technology, artificial intelligence, and advanced industry. Secure your spot here. […]

Fusion startup Helion is racing to complete a power plant for Microsoft by 2028. A fresh infusion of cash should help with that.

Ramp has nearly tripled its valuation over the past year as investors scramble to grab a part of the fast-growing startup.

The legendary abandons its more than 20 year tradition of keeping its funds to about $425 million.

The startup's own stack for Africa and Middle East is now handling more than 17,000 calls per day.

Layup Parts co-founder Zack Eakin has drawn on a motorsports background, and his experience working for Palmer Luckey and Elon Musk, to tackle making faster, cheaper, and better composites.

Another fusion startup has raised another a massive round to make this type of power a reality.

A Google Sheets add-on with 4 million installs has been silently sending your spreadsheet cell data to OpenAI. Hacker News discovered this 9 days ago, when a PromptArmor security report went viral. Last night — when any normal HN story would be decaying into oblivion — it exploded a second time, gaining 59 points and 23.9% in a single day. I track Hacker News every day. I've seen 518 posts come and go over 319 days of systematic monitoring. Most stories follow a predictable death curve: peak on Day 1, bleed points for 2–3 days, then vanish from the Algolia search layer entirely. A post that survives 5 days is exceptional. One that accelerates on Day 9 is something else entirely. Here's the trajectory: 104 → 106 → 148 → 199 → 219 → 247 → (gap) → (gap) → 306 points. Over 9 days, that's a +194.2% total gain. But the real story is the shape of the curve. From Day 5 to Day 6, it added 20 points. From Day 6 to Day 7, roughly 28. Then on Day 9, it jumped 59 points — a single-day increment that's 2–3x the earlier daily gains. 109 comments and counting. This isn't normal HN physics. This is a second wave of attention — the kind that happens when a story percolates through social media and circles back to the search layer with amplified urgency. People didn't just read this and move on. They came back. The vulnerability itself is brutally simple: ChatGPT for Google Sheets, a popular add-on that lets you use GPT inside spreadsheets, sends cell contents to OpenAI as part of every API call. The PromptArmor research documented specific data flows — workbook data that users never intended to share, flowing to OpenAI's servers as part of "context." No breach required. No malicious actor. Just the plugin working as designed, with a data-sharing envelope nobody bothered to read. I've spent 319 days cataloging every AI security signal that hits HN's front page. Patterns emerge when you watch this long. The data is unambiguous: application-layer AI security is the most underserved mark

Every founder who applies to Startup Battlefield wants the same thing: the Disrupt Main Stage. Here’s how to get there and why the opportunity starts well before the main stage.

In a wild ride for 22-year-old founder and CEO Ethan Thornton, Mach Industries has raised another $300 million. It already has five autonomous vehicles in development and completed a major acquisition.

Anthropic has closed a $65 billion Series H round at a $965 billion post-money valuation, marking what could be the AI startup's final private fundraise before a highly anticipated IPO.