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Cursor

SpaceX closes its $60B Cursor deal - the editor now runs on the largest GPU fleet on Earth.

All-stock, effective 14 August. What it changes for the builders who live in the editor.

FUNDING AUG 15
Funding
Lovable

Lovable raises $400M at $13.3B - $500M ARR with 146 people.

The Series C doubles the valuation in eight months. The ratio is the story.

FUNDING AUG 12
Funding
234 startups
YC S26 Demo Day

YC's Summer 2026 Demo Day: 234 startups, and the batch that turned to hard tech.

Energy, chips and robots on stage - and what a solo founder should take from it.

FUNDING SEP 11
AI Tools
GPT-6
Astra

OpenAI ships GPT-6 'Astra' and calls it its best model for software engineering yet.

Big claims on coding and computer use - and a reasoning technique that is harder to audit.

AI TOOLS SEP 4
Builders
$401M
team of two

Two brothers, a stack of AI tools and $20K: the reported $401M first year of Medvi.

The closest thing yet to the one-person billion-dollar company - and its caveats.

BUILDERS SEP 14
Funding
Bolt

Bolt.new hit $40M ARR in 4.5 months. Here's the anatomy of the ramp.

No sales team, no ad spend - just a demo that went viral and a product anyone could use.

FUNDING 5 MIN
Launches
Lovable

Lovable ships Teams - vibe-coding just went multiplayer.

Real-time collaboration, roles and shared prompts land for the breakout builder tool.

LAUNCHES 3H
AI Tools
Cursor

Cursor vs Bolt vs Lovable: the same app, built three ways.

Three prompts, three products, one honest benchmark of what today's tools ship.

AI TOOLS REVIEW
Playbook
$0→$1

Pre-sell it: get paid before you write a line of code.

The pre-sale playbook - validate demand and collect revenue before you build.

PLAYBOOK 7 MIN
Builders
Suno

A designer built a $30K/mo music app in a weekend with Suno.

The one-person media company playbook spreads from video into audio.

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