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OpenAI announced it has acquired a tiny startup called Torch for an undisclosed sum. An unnamed source told The Information that OpenAI paid $100 million worth of equity for the startup. Torch’s four-person team is joining OpenAI, both companies said. Torch was working on an app that combined all of a person’s medical information for…

The Federal Communications Commission has given SpaceX approval to launch another 7,500 of its second generation Starlink satellites…

Andreessen Horowitz just announced the firm has raised a little more than $15 billion in new funding. The haul represents over 18% of all venture capital dollars allocated in the United States in 2025, according to firm co-founder Ben Horowitz, but even more jaw-dropping is that it brings the organization to more than $90 billion…

In Brief Posted: 3:59 PM PST · January 8, 2026 Image Credits:jpa1999 / Getty Images Data security startup Cyera continues on a growth tear. On Thursday, it announced a $400 million Series F funding round at a $9 billion valuation. The New York-based outfit has now raised over $1.7 billion. This funding comes just six…

Image Credits:GTMfund 11:27 AM PST · January 8, 2026 Building software products has never been easier, so why are so many well-funded startups failing to take off no matter how good their product is? In this season finale episode of Build Mode, our guest has an answer: Startups have focused too much on product development and not…

Skylight, known for its digital picture frame, has a new digital product that puts software and AI at the center…

Ford says the new generation of BlueCruise will be 30% cheaper to build than the current technology…

Over the past few days, several posts on LinkedIn and Twitter/X went viral after one of the most talked about AI companies in San Francisco suddenly vanished from LinkedIn: Artisan AI.   The company’s LinkedIn page, individual employee profiles, and posts from executives all displayed a “This post cannot be displayed” message.   The startup had been…

Image Credits:Justin Sullivan / Getty Images 8:17 AM PST · January 2, 2026 Tesla annual sales have fallen for the second year in a row, a drop fueled by the removal of the federal tax credit in the U.S. and competition from Chinese automakers. Tesla delivered 1.63 million vehicles globally in 2025, a 9% fall…

Arya.ag, an Indian agritech company offering storage facilities near farms and offering lending services to hundreds of thousands of farmers, has drawn investor interest and remained profitable even as global crop prices continue to fall in a volatile commodities market. The investor interest has taken shape in the latest all-equity Series D round from GEF…