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As Chinese AI models grow in capability and popularity among U.S. companies, the arguing over what should be done about them has reached a fever pitch.

a16z Speedrun, Ada Ventures, and Snowball VC have invested in Cascade's $3.5 million seed round.

We’ve compiled an overview of some of the top alternative browsers available today aiming to challenge Chrome and Safari.

I spent months building an AI agent platform. I launched it on Product Hunt yesterday. Zero signups. The comments were friendly. Three of the four asked for the same thing — not features, not integrations, not a lower price. They wanted to see what the agents did and what they cost . One put it better than my own landing page ever did: they liked that it wasn't "a black box." So I went to make the cost dashboard better. Instead I found out my product had been lying to me for months, and the lies had a pattern. Here's everything, with the code. 1. Every run cost $0.00 The Cost Analytics page reported $0.02 in total across ~100 executions . I'd assumed that meant the platform was cheap to run. It meant the data was being destroyed at write time. cost_cents = int ( ( llm_response . prompt_tokens * 0.5 / 1000 ) + ( llm_response . completion_tokens * 1.5 / 1000 ) ) A typical run on my platform is 56 prompt tokens and 45 completion tokens. That's 0.0843 cents . int() makes it 0 . Not some runs. Essentially every run — because almost every LLM call costs less than one cent. The production numbers: 189 agent runs, 2 with a non-zero cost. 99% of my cost data was zeroes, and the two survivors were just big enough to clear a whole cent. The rates in that formula were correct. I checked them against the providers' pricing pages; the arithmetic is right. The bug is entirely int() on a value that is almost never ≥ 1. A Decimal would have been the textbook fix, but Decimal / float raises TypeError and ~80 call sites do arithmetic on this number, so I widened the column to a float and kept the unit (cents). It's a dashboard estimate, not money — Paddle handles money — so float rounding is irrelevant here. 2. Workflow costs were never recorded at all Truncation at least loses precision. This one lost everything. WorkflowExecution.total_cost_cents and total_tokens_used had no write site anywhere in the codebase . Not a broken write — no write. The columns had been NULL since the feat

Glow is targeting a new class of endpoint risks created by the rapid adoption of AI agents and developer tools inside enterprises.

Synthesia launched AI Roleplay Sessions, an interactive enterprise training platform where employees practice workplace conversations with AI avatars that provide feedback, scoring, and analytics to help companies measure training effectiveness.

Maritime nuclear energy startup Bluecore Energy has raised $10 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Slauson & Co.

The de-extinction startup is looking to double or triple its previous valuation, according to the report.

The one-year-old startup aims to reinvent financial architecture for autonomous AI transactions.

AI infrastructure company Infinity announced Monday a $15 million raise at a $100 million valuation from investors including Touring Capital, Principal VC, and researchers from companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic.

Flock Safety sits right at the center of the debate over where the line should be drawn between privacy and public safety. That’s why we’re bringing Flock’s founder and CEO Garrett Langley to the stage to speak about those very issues.

For the first time since 2024, StrictlyVC is coming back to New York City — and we're bringing the kind of access you’d expect from an under-wraps event to the whole startup, VC, and dealmaking community.

Web Accessibility for Startups: 5 Small Wins That Scale Palak jain Palak jain Palak jain Follow Oct 7 '25 Web Accessibility for Startups: 5 Small Wins That Scale # webaccessibility # webdev # frontend # startup 21 reactions 4 comments 4 min read

Originally published at boldpilot.club Most startup launches fail not because the product is wrong, but because the planning collapses under its own ambiguity. A solid launch plan template for startups gives you a structure that converts vague intentions — "we'll do some PR, post on social, maybe a Product Hunt thing" — into sequenced tasks with owners and deadlines. If you're building something and your launch plan currently lives as a notes app dump or a half-filled Notion page with seventeen unticked checkboxes, that's the problem this article addresses directly. A usable launch template has five core components: a pre-launch timeline, a channel priority stack, a messaging framework, a metrics baseline, and a post-launch review cadence. Everything else is optional decoration. Why Most Launch Plan Templates Get Abandoned The templates people download from Google — the ones with seventeen tabs and color-coded Gantt charts — get opened once and then quietly archived. I've seen this happen with teams that had more than enough time and resources. The issue is that those templates are designed to look thorough, not to be used under the actual pressure of a launch week. According to CB Insights, 35% of startup failures cite "no market need" as the primary cause, but the second and third most common reasons — running out of cash and not having the right team — are both downstream of poor planning and sequencing. A launch plan that nobody opens doesn't prevent any of those outcomes. The templates that do get used share one quality: they're shallow enough to skim at 11pm the night before a deadline. One page if possible. Two at most. If your template requires a tutorial to operate, it's already failed. I'd push back on the common advice to "start with goals." Goals are fine, but most founders already know what they want — signups, revenue, waitlist growth. What they're missing is the sequencing. Start with the constraint instead: what's your actual launch date, and what ab

The window is almost shut. On August 19, eight startups will take the stage at Stripe Tour Sydney in front of investors, global press, and the Australian tech community. One startup walks away with automatic entry into TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco — no application, no further competition, a guaranteed spot on the world’s most […]

Databricks has remade its image into an AI company and has published research on the cost savings of open weight AI models for coding.

The potential deal highlights a growing trend of complex, multi-stage funding rounds that mask true entry prices.

The prediction market’s Panamanian operation seems odd, even for a company whose CEO had his apartment raided by FBI agents.

It’s not just you: AI startups are taking in a huge amount of seed funding, and in the process making things harder for anyone looking for funding even at a pre-seed stage. We’ve covered the trend in detail, and at this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt event, we want to help pre-seed founders now being held to seed-stage […]

Travel agency Fora announced a $60 million Series D round led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures, valuing the company at $1 billion.