A mysterious new AI model called Ox Alpha has driven certain corners of the internet into a frenzy of speculation about who actually built it. The free model was released on OpenRouter on Thursday, where it was described as “a reasoning model designed for coding, sustained agentic work, and production workload.” On X, Stripe CEO
AI accounting startup Rillet announced a $100 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation on Tuesday, led by Iconiq. Returning investors included Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia. Rillet, which emerged from stealth in 2024, is quickly becoming one of the hottest AI startups in the enterprise resource planning (ERP) industry. The company’s platform deploys AI
In a summer full of movies we’ve seen before in some form, “Bad Counselors” is nothing more than a novelty: a movie with a faith-based message disguised as a frat farce, complete with PG-13 yocks and a cameo from an “American Pie” alum. Well, “masking” may be unfair. Chris Dowling’s film is earnest in its
Glow, a cybersecurity startup founded by former Meta and Snowflake executives, emerged from stealth as a unicorn, betting that artificial intelligence is changing the way companies protect employee devices. The Palo Alto-based startup said Wednesday it raised $180 million in an all-equity Series A funding round that valued it at $1.2 billion, with backing from
Physical credentials used to be all that was needed for identity management in an enterprise. But now that humans work alongside machines and AI agents in digital environments, even identity tools built for the cloud era are proving inadequate. That’s the gap that Israeli startup Oak is trying to stealthily fill, he says. Co-founded by