Alfredo Mercedes left a high-paying job at Defense Unicorns to launch VU Talent Partners, an AI recruiting platform embedded within VU Venture Partners. He says the AI talent market is overheated with crazy comp and retention issues. His solution? A data-powered platform that scales with startups.
Google and AI coding platform Replit are deepening their strategic partnership to push “vibe coding” into more companies. The move comes as Replit projects it will hit $1 billion in revenue by the end of 2026, fueled by AI-assisted development.
Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire told Wired that the next five to ten years will see a massive shift to a blockchain-based “economic OS.” The company’s USDC stablecoin, worth $78 billion, is just the foundation for this new “money as an app platform.”
Facing overwhelming alert volumes, global toll road operator Transurban built an in-house agentic AI system. The result? A 60% reduction in triage times and 100% coverage of security incidents.
AWS CEO Matt Garman once thought Amazon needed a million developers to meet demand. Now, with AI, he believes the constraint has flipped from labor to ideas. He also disclosed that the Bedrock service is already a multi-billion dollar business.
Snowflake is bringing Anthropic’s Claude AI directly into its data cloud in a major new partnership. The deal, reportedly worth $200 million, aims to let enterprises build AI agents that can analyze data with high accuracy while staying within Snowflake’s security walls. It’s a big move in the race
In the fierce battle for top AI researchers, tactics are getting personal. OpenAI’s Mark Chen revealed that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg hand-delivered homemade soup to an OpenAI employee as a recruiting pitch. Chen says the move was shocking but that OpenAI has returned the favor in kind.
Meta is making a major design play, hiring Apple’s longtime design studio head Alan Dye. He’ll lead a new creative studio inside Reality Labs, aiming to treat AI as a “new design material” for future devices.
In a major shift, Micron is exiting its Crucial consumer memory business to prioritize AI and data center chips. The brand will ship products until the end of February 2026. This move comes as AI demand causes severe memory shortages and price spikes.
AI is now a common part of hiring, with 88% of employers using it for screening. But a new study finds that giving candidates a choice between an AI or human interviewer could backfire, creating a new hurdle for low-ability job seekers.
