Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Startups
ClickUp just laid off 22% of staff while deploying 3,000 AI agents and promising million-dollar salaries to survivors — and Gartner’s data quietly says the financial returns aren’t actually showing up
ClickUp has laid off 22% of its workforce while simultaneously deploying roughly 3,000 internal AI agents, with CEO Zeb Evans...
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The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 6/1/26 – AlleyWatch
The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report takes us on a trip across various ecosystems in the US, highlighting some of...
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Anthropic just closed a $65B round at a $965B valuation, and the cap table reveals something closer to industrial policy than a venture deal
Anthropic closed a $65 billion Series H round on 28 May 2026 at a $965 billion post-money valuation, the company...
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The same week Waymo admitted its robotaxis can’t handle rain, SpaceX’s S-1 disclosed $506M flowing to Tesla and $1M to Boring Company — one firm is constrained by physics, the other by accounting
SpaceX’s S-1 filing this month disclosed that the rocket company purchased $506 million of Tesla’s Megapack commercial energy storage products...
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Wall Street is pricing a US-Iran peace deal that Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz and the chair of Senate Armed Services spent Sunday publicly trying to kill
Brent crude fell roughly 4% on Sunday, the dollar index slipped, and S&P futures opened the week with a bid...
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OpenClaw Didn’t Replace My Developer – It Exposed How Little My Developer Was Actually Doing. So Where Are We?
There’s a particular kind of startup panic that kicks in when a tool meant for experimentation starts producing very real...
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A Google Cloud developer woke up to a $17,000 bill from API calls he never made, and the part that actually matters is what it reveals about how cloud platforms define their own security standards
The COO of Google Cloud spent part of last week telling executives that security cannot be bolted onto AI strategies...
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People who keep a tidy desk but a chaotic email inbox aren’t disorganized — they’re managing what other people can see and letting the invisible stuff pile up because nobody is grading it
It’s 9:58 a.m. and Marcus is sweeping a tangle of charger cables, a half-eaten granola bar, and three notebooks into...
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Nobody talks about why growth-stage VCs are suddenly paying software-style multiples for an Indian rooftop installer, and the answer sits inside a government subsidy scheme most foreign investors have never read
Hardware businesses do not trade at software multiples. Except, apparently, when they sit on top of an Indian government subsidy...
Read moreDetailsHow AI Video Is Evolving — And the Startups Leading the Charge
For years, AI video has chased realism. We’re talking sharper frames, smoother motion, fewer artifacts. In many respects, that baseline...
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