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  • Meridian Just Came Out of Stealth, and Finance Bros Are Paying Attention

    There’s been a lot of noise in fintech this week, but [Meridian’s debut](https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/11/meridian-ai-raises-17-million-to-remake-the-agentic-spreadsheet/) caught my eye for a specific reason — they’re not just slapping an AI chatbot onto Excel and calling it a day. Meridian is building a standalone financial modeling IDE, basically treating spreadsheets the way Cursor treats code. Instead of bolting an… Continue reading

  • Unicorne Might Be the Most Honest Startup Leaderboard I’ve Ever Seen

    There’s no shortage of “top startups” lists out there, but most of them are based on funding rounds, press coverage, or plain hype. [Unicorne](https://www.unicor.ne/) takes a completely different approach — it ranks the top 20 fastest-growing tech startups based on actual, verified revenue data. Not self-reported screenshots. Not projections. Real payments confirmed through Stripe, Paddle,… Continue reading

  • Simile Just Raised $100M to Build AI Copies of Real People — And It’s Wild

    If you’ve been anywhere near tech Twitter or [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-12/ai-startup-nabs-100-million-to-help-firms-predict-human-behavior) in the past 24 hours, you’ve probably seen the name [Simile](https://simile.ai/) pop up. The company just emerged from stealth on February 12 with a $100M Series A led by Index Ventures, and the whole thing feels like a sci-fi plot that somehow became a real business.… Continue reading

  • The Biological Computing Co. (TBC) Is Growing Actual Brain Cells to Run AI — And Just Raised $25M to Prove It

    Okay, this one genuinely caught me off guard. [The Biological Computing Co.](https://www.tbc.co/) — or TBC — just came out of stealth with a $25 million seed round and what might be the wildest pitch in AI right now: using lab-grown living neurons as a compute layer for frontier AI models. Not simulated neurons. Not “brain-inspired”… Continue reading

  • OpenHarness: Got an Open Source Idea? Let AI Agents Build It for You — for Free

    I stumbled across [OpenHarness](https://openharness.dev) on a [Show HN post](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46982105) yesterday and honestly had to read the pitch twice. The concept is wild: you submit an open source project idea, the community votes on it, and if it hits 100 upvotes, AI coding agents — we’re talking Codex, Claude, Cursor — just… build it. For free.… Continue reading

  • Runway Gen-4.5 Just Took the Top Spot in AI Video — And It’s Not Even Close

    I’ve been following the AI video space pretty closely, and honestly, [Runway Gen-4.5](https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-runway-gen-4.5) caught me off guard. Not because another model dropped — that happens every other week — but because this one actually delivers on the hype. With an Elo score of 1,247 on the [Artificial Analysis Text-to-Video leaderboard](https://artificialanalysis.ai/leaderboards/video-generation), it sits above Google’s Veo… Continue reading

  • Backslash Security Just Raised $19M Because Nobody’s Watching the AI Writing Your Code

    So here’s a question that’s been bugging me lately: everyone’s obsessed with vibe coding — letting Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, and a dozen other AI agents write code for you — but who’s actually making sure that code isn’t a security nightmare? Turns out, [Backslash Security](https://www.backslash.security/) has been thinking about this for a while, and… Continue reading

  • Qwen-Image-2.0 Just Dropped and I Honestly Wasn’t Expecting This

    So Alibaba’s Qwen team quietly dropped [Qwen-Image-2.0](https://qwen.ai/research) on February 10th, and it’s been making serious noise across [VentureBeat](https://venturebeat.com/ai/qwen-image-is-a-powerful-open-source-new-ai-image-generator-with-support-for-embedded-text-in-english-chinese/) and the broader AI community. The [Hacker News thread](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46957198) blew up pretty fast too, with hundreds of comments debating whether this thing can actually dethrone FLUX and Midjourney for text rendering. Spoiler: it probably can. Here’s what… Continue reading

  • Complyance Just Raised $20M to Let AI Agents Handle Your Compliance Headaches

    Compliance work is one of those things nobody talks about at dinner parties, but every large company burns an absurd amount of time and money on it. Reviewing evidence, assessing vendor risks, tracking controls across frameworks like HIPAA, ISO, and NIST — it’s tedious, repetitive, and painfully manual. That’s the exact pain point [Complyance](https://www.complyance.com/) is… Continue reading

  • Nessie Labs Turns Your Messy AI Chat History Into an Actual Second Brain

    If you’re anything like me, you’ve got hundreds — maybe thousands — of AI conversations scattered across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and who knows what else. Some of them contain genuinely useful insights. Most of them? Buried forever, never to be found again. That’s exactly the problem [Nessie Labs](https://nessielabs.com/) is going after, and honestly, it’s about… Continue reading