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Listen Labs Just Hit $69M in Funding, and That Billboard Stunt Is Only Half the Story
There’s a reason [Listen Labs](https://listenlabs.ai/) has been blowing up on [VentureBeat](https://venturebeat.com/technology/listen-labs-raises-usd69m-after-viral-billboard-hiring-stunt-to-scale-ai/) and every tech corner of the internet this month. The company just closed a $69 million Series B led by Ribbit Capital, with Sequoia, Conviction, and Pear VC also in the mix. That puts them at a $500 million valuation with $100 million raised… Continue reading
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SemiCab AI (Algorhythm): The Former Karaoke Company That Just Wiped Billions Off the Freight Industry
I’ve been following AI disruption stories for a while now, but nothing quite prepared me for what happened on February 12th. A company with a market cap of roughly $6 million — yes, single-digit millions — managed to trigger a sell-off that vaporized billions from some of the biggest names in trucking and logistics. The… Continue reading
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Altruist Hazel AI Tax Planning Just Sent Wall Street Into a Panic — Here’s Why
So, a fintech company most people outside the RIA world have never heard of just wiped over $20 billion off the market caps of Charles Schwab, LPL Financial, and Raymond James in a single day. The culprit? A tax planning feature inside an AI tool that costs about $125 a month. Let that sink in.… Continue reading
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Ricursive Intelligence Just Raised $335M in 4 Months — And I Think NVIDIA Should Be Paying Attention
So TechCrunch dropped [a pretty wild story yesterday](https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/16/how-ricursive-intelligence-raised-335m-at-a-4b-valuation-in-4-months/) about [Ricursive Intelligence](https://www.ricursive.com/), and honestly, I’ve been thinking about it since. A $4 billion valuation four months after founding? That’s not just fast — that’s absurd, even by Silicon Valley standards. Here’s the backstory. Dr. Anna Goldie and Dr. Azalia Mirhoseini spent years at Google DeepMind building… Continue reading
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Google Workspace Studio Just Made AI Agents a Thing Everyone Can Build
So Google finally did it. [Google Workspace Studio](https://workspace.google.com/studio/) hit general availability in February 2026, and honestly, it’s one of those products that makes you wonder why it didn’t exist sooner. The idea is dead simple: you describe what you want an AI agent to do in plain English, and Gemini 3 builds the automation for… Continue reading
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Formaly Turns Your Boring Surveys Into Actual Conversations (And People Actually Finish Them)
I’ve been burned by survey tools more times than I can count. You spend an hour crafting the perfect set of questions, send it out, and then watch your completion rate hover around 30%. It’s painful. So when I spotted [Formaly](https://www.formaly.io/) trending on [Product Hunt with 214 upvotes](https://www.producthunt.com/products/formaly), I had to take a closer look.… Continue reading
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Alibaba Qwen 3.5 Just Dropped, and It Brought 10 Million Milk Teas With It
Alibaba picked the perfect moment to launch [Qwen 3.5](https://qwenlm.github.io/). Right before Chinese New Year, when every AI company in China is scrambling for attention, they dropped their next-gen open-source multimodal model — and then threw 3 billion yuan (roughly $420 million) in subsidies on top of it just to make sure nobody could look away.… Continue reading
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Lunair Turns a Single Sentence Into a Fully Animated Explainer Video — And It Actually Works
I’ve seen plenty of “type a prompt, get a video” tools come and go. Most of them produce something that looks like a slideshow with transitions at best. So when [Lunair](https://www.lunair.ai/) popped up on [Product Hunt today](https://www.producthunt.com/) and racked up 364 votes, I was curious but skeptical. After spending some time with it, I have… Continue reading
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Google DeepMind Aletheia Just Solved Math Problems Nobody Could — Here’s Why That Matters
So Google DeepMind quietly dropped something pretty wild on February 12th. It’s called [Aletheia](https://deepmind.google/blog/accelerating-mathematical-and-scientific-discovery-with-gemini-deep-think/), and it’s not just another AI that can ace math competitions. This thing is actually doing *research-level* mathematics on its own — the kind of work that used to require PhD-level expertise and years of effort. Here’s the deal. Aletheia is… Continue reading
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ZenMux Just Hit 1 on Product Hunt — Here’s Why Everyone’s Paying Attention
If you’re building anything with LLMs right now, you probably know the pain. You’ve got OpenAI keys, Anthropic keys, Google keys, maybe DeepSeek too — and suddenly you’re managing a mess of API endpoints, juggling rate limits, and praying that one provider doesn’t go down at 2 AM on a Friday. That’s exactly the problem… Continue reading
