Airbnb rival Sonder Holdings to file for bankruptcy after Marriott ends partnership

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JW Marriott Residences at Reston Station

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This startup is creating a tool to break Nvidia's chip lock-in. Read the pitch deck Spectral Compute used to raise $6 million.

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Michael Søndergaard, the CEO of Spectral Compute
Michael Søndergaard, the CEO of Spectral Compute.

Spectral Compute

Inside the Silicon Valley etiquette class teaching founders charisma, couture, and caviar confidence

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Young tech founders look on as a model from Wilkes Bashford takes to the catwalk, demonstrating an outfit suitable for a presentation.

Slow Ventures

Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian describes where he sees the internet and the 'next wave' of social apps heading

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 29: Alexis Ohanian speaks onstage during WSJ's Future of Everything 2025 at The Glasshouse on May 29, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)
Alexis Ohanian is an investor in Airbuds.

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Teens love this social music app. So does Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian.

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Airbuds

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One of legal's hottest AI startups says it's cracked a way for law firms to get richer

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Max Junestrand

Legora

Startups find Amazon's AI chips 'less competitive' than Nvidia GPUs, internal document shows

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AWS CEO Matt Garman
AWS CEO Matt Garman

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Real estate tech startup Digs raised $19 million to build AI that makes home construction easier. Read its pitch deck.

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Digs cofounders by Frackiewicz and Ryan Fink, wearing black clothes with the company's logo.
Digs cofounders by Frackiewicz and Ryan Fink.

Digs

Google is in early talks to deepen its investment in Anthropic

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Google is in talks to deepen its investment in Anthropic.
Google is in talks to deepen its investment in Anthropic.

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PhDs are the new MBAs for founders in the AI era, as college dropouts remain an outlier

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Building a pet website with Cursor.
Developers use Cursor to build a pet website at a hackathon in Singapore. Cursor has become one of the fastest-growing AI tools.

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