Inside GitHub's Fake Star Economy
Six million fake stars, $0.06 per click, and a VC funding pipeline that treats GitHub popularity as proof of traction. We ran our own analysis on 20 repos and found the fingerprints.
Articles Tagged "Startups"
Perplexity Hits $450M ARR After Agents Pivot
Perplexity's annual recurring revenue crossed $450M in March after a 50% single-month jump driven by its Computer agent platform - not search.
Eclipse Raises $1.3B to Back and Build Physical AI
Eclipse Ventures closed two funds totaling $1.3B to build and back physical AI companies in robotics, defense, and manufacturing as investor conviction shifts from software to machines.
Utah Clears AI to Renew Psychiatric Meds Autonomously
Utah becomes the first government in the world to approve an AI system to autonomously renew psychiatric medication prescriptions, limiting it to 15 lower-risk drugs under a tightly supervised pilot.
Lovable Hits $400M ARR With 146 Employees
Swedish AI app builder Lovable crossed $400 million in annual recurring revenue in February, adding $100 million in a single month with a headcount that wouldn't fill a mid-sized office.
RentAHuman Lets AI Agents Hire People for Physical Tasks
RentAHuman.ai is a marketplace where AI agents hire humans via MCP or REST API for real-world tasks, but 590,000 workers are chasing just 11,300 bounties and most gigs turn out to be startup marketing.
LeCun Raises $1B Seed to Build AI Beyond LLMs
Yann LeCun's AMI Labs closes a $1.03 billion seed round at a $3.5 billion valuation, betting that world models - not large language models - will define the next era of AI.
Three AI Giants Ate 83% of February's $189B VC
Crunchbase data shows February 2026 was the biggest startup funding month in history, with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Waymo absorbing $156 billion of a record $189 billion total.
Founder Loses $2,500 After AI-Coded App Leaks Stripe Keys
A startup founder's vibe-coded app exposed Stripe secret keys in frontend code, letting attackers charge 175 customers $500 each before he could rotate the credentials.
Etched Sohu - Transformer-Only Inference ASIC
Full specs and critical analysis of the Etched Sohu - a transformer-specific ASIC claiming 500K+ tokens/sec on Llama 70B, built on TSMC 4nm with 144GB HBM3E. Bold claims, but no independent benchmarks yet.
The Solo SaaS Founder Playbook for 2026
A complete guide to building, marketing, and scaling a one-person SaaS business using AI coding tools in 2026
AI Now Swallows 61% of All Venture Capital - OECD Report Shows a Market Devouring Itself
An OECD report reveals AI firms captured 61% of global venture capital in 2025 at $258.7 billion, doubling their share since 2022, while mega-deals above $1 billion account for half of all investment value.
