Saturday, March 21, 2026

Vercel, which helps developers host web apps and AI agents, says its run-rate GAAP revenue hit $340M at the end of February, up 86% YoY, amid the AI coding boom (Richard Nieva/Forbes)

Richard Nieva / Forbes:
Vercel, which helps developers host web apps and AI agents, says its run-rate GAAP revenue hit $340M at the end of February, up 86% YoY, amid the AI coding boom  —  One of the most popular ways to view the Epstein Files, an interface called Jmail that mimics a Gmail inbox, is hosted on Guillermo Rauch's $9.3 billion unicorn Vercel.



Sources: OpenAI aims to grow to about 8,000 employees by the end of 2026, from ~4,500 today, as it seeks to arrest Anthropic's momentum with business customers (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Sources: OpenAI aims to grow to about 8,000 employees by the end of 2026, from ~4,500 today, as it seeks to arrest Anthropic's momentum with business customers  —  OpenAI plans to almost double its headcount by the end of the year as it accelerates a push to sell to businesses and gain ground …



A look at China's rapidly expanding robotics sector, which now has roughly 140 companies hoping to build humanoids, fueled by massive state-backed investments (Chang Che/The Guardian)

Chang Che / The Guardian:
A look at China's rapidly expanding robotics sector, which now has roughly 140 companies hoping to build humanoids, fueled by massive state-backed investments  —  How close are we to the sci-fi vision of autonomous humanoid robots?  I visited 11 companies in five Chinese cities to find out



Sunday, March 15, 2026

Scanner, which helps organizations build cloud-native security data lakes for threat hunting, detection, and response, raised a $22M Series A led by Sequoia (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek)

Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek:
Scanner, which helps organizations build cloud-native security data lakes for threat hunting, detection, and response, raised a $22M Series A led by Sequoia  —  The company connects AI agents to security data lakes for interactive investigations, detection engineering, and autonomous response.



Indian edtech startup upGrad plans to acquire rival Unacademy in an all-stock deal; Unacademy was valued at less than $500M in 2025, down from $3.5B in 2021 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Indian edtech startup upGrad plans to acquire rival Unacademy in an all-stock deal; Unacademy was valued at less than $500M in 2025, down from $3.5B in 2021  —  Unacademy, once a one of India's most valuable edtech startups, is set to be acquired by rival upGrad in an all-stock deal …



Tether, flush with cash, has been investing in diverse sectors ranging from sleep tech company Eight Sleep to humanoid robotics company Neura Robotics (PitchBook)

PitchBook:
Tether, flush with cash, has been investing in diverse sectors ranging from sleep tech company Eight Sleep to humanoid robotics company Neura Robotics  —  Beyond fintech and crypto startups, Tether has now backed a mattress-maker and a humanoid robotics specialist.



Study: most AI-generated videos on social media about the war in Iran push pro-Iranian views, often exaggerating its military capabilities and sophistication (New York Times)

New York Times:
Study: most AI-generated videos on social media about the war in Iran push pro-Iranian views, often exaggerating its military capabilities and sophistication  —  A torrent of fake videos and images generated by artificial intelligence have overrun social networks during the first weeks of the war in Iran.



Vercel, which helps developers host web apps and AI agents, says its run-rate GAAP revenue hit $340M at the end of February, up 86% YoY, amid the AI coding boom (Richard Nieva/Forbes)

Richard Nieva / Forbes : Vercel, which helps developers host web apps and AI agents, says its run-rate GAAP revenue hit $340M at the end ...