From TechCrunch: AI usage keeps climbing, but spending has stalled. Price cuts and smarter cost controls among the biggest spenders could challenge investor assumptions about AI hypergrowth.
Growing companies that outgrow entry-level accounting software face a hard choice: Stay put or gamble on a mid-market ERP that promises automation but often brings cost and disruption.
Path automates industrial welding; Georgian led, joined by a consortium including Yamaha Motor's venture arm.
Mercor supplies human experts to train and evaluate AI models, drawing on a network of more than 5 million domain experts.
Strands (AWS) says Amazon replaced Sonnet 4.6 with its Strands Decider in an agent workflow and saved millions; 689 points and 242 comments on HN.
An analysis of the tech job market in late 2026: product managers seem to be benefiting most in the AI era, demand for engineers is plateauing, and more — PMs are winning, engineers are plateauing, designers are hurting, and the biggest AI hiring boom isn't in software
The WSJ says Goldman Sachs Alternatives led the Series B at a ~$400M valuation; Daylight says revenue grew more than 40-fold in a year.
