May 12, 2026

AI voice startup Vapi hits $500M valuation after winning Amazon Ring over 40 rivals: Vapi says its enterprise business has grown 10-fold since early 2025 as companies shift customer support and sales calls to AI agents. Read More

Amazon launches 30-minute delivery across the U.S.: Amazon says its new ultra-fast delivery option brings groceries, household essentials, and other items to customers’ doors in 30 minutes. Read More

Riding an AI rally, Robinhood preps second retail venture IPO: Robinhood files confidentially for its second venture fund, this time targeting growth and early-stage startups. Read More

Oct 13–15 at San Francisco's Moscone West, 10,000 founders, investors, and operators gather for high-signal insights, curated connections, and real momentum.

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GM just laid off hundreds of IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills: Some of the positions focus on AI-native development, data engineering and analytics, cloud-based engineering, and agent and model development as well as prompt engineering and new AI workflows. Read More

Spotify's launches a Wrapped-style recap of your entire listening history: Spotify's new feature will show you the number of unique songs that you listened to until now Read More

Instructure strikes deal with hackers who breached it twice: The maker of the Canvas school software said it "reached an agreement" with the hackers, but provided no guarantees that the hackers would not release the data or keep their word. Read More

Finally, texts between Android and iPhone users can be end-to-end encrypted: Google had urged Apple for years to support RCS texting to make communication between each company's devices more seamless. Read More

Thinking Machines wants to build an AI that actually listens while it talks: Right now, every AI model you've ever used works the same way. You talk, it listens. It responds, you listen. Thinking Machines is trying to change that by building a model that processes your input and generates a response at the same time, so it's more like a phone call than a text chain. Read More

Investors don’t just listen to what you say - they look at how your company operates. Is ownership clear? Do your numbers match your story? Can you answer follow-up questions without digging through spreadsheets? The Fundraise-Ready Startup Kit equips founders with the materials investors expect to see, before pressure is on. Because confidence in the room doesn’t come from slides. It comes from preparation. 

Digg tries again, this time as an AI news aggregator: In an email to beta testers, the company said the site's goal is to "track the most influential voices in a space" and to surface the news that's actually worth "paying attention to." Read More

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