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Cursor went from $100 million in annualized revenue to $2 billion in just 13 months—a twentyfold surge that outpaced the early growth of Slack and Zoom and ranks among the fastest revenue expansions ever reported by a software company.

Startups

Cursor's Twentyfold Revenue Leap: Extraordinary Growth Masked by Accounting Ambiguity

The AI coding editor's reported revenue surged from $100 million to $2 billion in 13 months, outpacing Slack and Zoom's early trajectories, but the headline masks critical unknowns about margins, sustainability and the true composition of those figures.
Blue Proton Initiative: four 17-year-olds are building AI-powered livestock monitoring with Arduino

Startups

Four Italian teenagers build AI livestock monitoring on Arduino—and aren't waiting to finish school

In Forlì, four 17-year-olds are developing a real-time cattle monitoring system using computer vision and Arduino hardware, proving that the tools to tackle genuine problems are available now.
SoftBank is putting $200 million into the excavator-automation startup Gravis Robotics, whose headline productivity figure was stated two different ways on announcement day, with no published method behind either version

Startups

SoftBank's $200M Gravis Robotics bet hinges on a productivity claim that keeps shifting shape

The Swiss excavator-automation startup announced a Series A investment from SoftBank on 17 August, but the core productivity metric it uses to justify the funding has appeared in multiple formulations with no published methodology to support any of them.
A Chat With Chris Kincade, Founder Of Starling Memory Works, On Why Your AI Doesn’t Know Your Business

Startups

Building AI That Actually Understands Your Company: Chris Kincade on Starling Memory Works

The founder of Starling Memory Works explains why most AI tools have it backwards—and how giving organisations sovereign control over their own knowledge changes everything.
The Importance of Being First

Startups

The Underrated Career Move: Why Joining a Startup Early Matters More Than You Think

Lorenzo Bergadano, CTO and co-founder of Quido AI, argues that becoming one of the first employees at a startup—a path rarely discussed in career literature—offers a unique learning opportunity that rivals founding or working at established firms.
Swish Basket Wants Every Hoop on Earth to Talk to Each Other — and the NBA Is Already Playing

Startups

Swish Basket's AI Rim Sensor Turns Every Court Into a Connected Network—and the NBA Is Already In

A Tel Aviv startup has raised $3.2 million to wire basketball hoops worldwide into a single live game, with the NBA already deploying the technology at international training schools.
Cambridge Aerospace was just valued at $3.4 billion, less than two years after it was founded — and the two numbers that would let anyone test that valuation, the price of one Skyhammer and the size of its UK contract, have never been published as fi

Startups

The $3.4 billion question: Cambridge Aerospace's valuation rests on numbers nobody will reveal

The British drone-killer company was valued at $3.4 billion in August, but the price of its product and the size of its defence contract remain shrouded in secrecy.
Run Rob Run: Building a Music-Reactive Goo with Three.js and WebGPU

Studios

How a Developer Built a Music-Reactive Portfolio with Three.js and WebGPU

Run Rob Run demonstrates how to craft a responsive digital object that morphs from an organic blob into a cube while reacting selectively to music. The project reveals the technical and artistic choices behind making motion feel intentional rather than chaotic.