Replit’s Amjad Masad on the Cursor deal, fighting Apple, and why he’d rather not sell

by News Feed Editor | May 1, 2026 | Technology

Amjad Masad has been building Replit for a decade, but the last 18 months have been something else entirely. The AI coding assistant company went from $2.8 million in revenue in all of 2024 to tracking toward what Masad describes as a billion-dollar annual run rate....

Musely secures $360M from General Catalyst without giving up equity

by News Feed Editor | May 1, 2026 | Technology

Musely, a direct-to-consumer telemedicine platform, has secured over $360 million in non-dilutive capital from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF). The company specializes in compounded treatments for skin, hair, and menopause care. Musely co-founder and CEO...

Meta buys robotics startup to bolster its humanoid AI ambitions

by News Feed Editor | May 1, 2026 | Technology

Meta has acquired humanoid robotics startup Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI) for an undisclosed sum, the social media giant said. “We acquired Assured Robot Intelligence, a company at the frontier of robotic intelligence designed to enable robots to understand,...

Salesforce launches Agentforce Operations to fix the workflows breaking enterprise AI

by News Feed Editor | May 1, 2026 | Technology

Enterprise AI teams are hitting a wall — not because their models can’t reason, but because the workflows underneath them were never built for agents. Tasks fail, handoffs break, and the problem compounds as organizations push agents deeper into back-office...

200,000 MCP servers expose a command execution flaw that Anthropic calls a feature

by News Feed Editor | May 1, 2026 | Technology

Anthropic created the Model Context Protocol as the open standard for AI agent-to-tool communication. OpenAI adopted it in March 2025. Google DeepMind followed. Anthropic donated MCP to the Linux Foundation in December 2025. Downloads crossed 150 million. Then four...

Coatue has a plan to buy up land for data centers, possibly for Anthropic

by News Feed Editor | May 1, 2026 | Technology

Coatue, one of the biggest names in venture capital and hedge funds, has a new plan to generate bigger returns on AI beyond its sizable stakes in Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, and data center companies like Singapore’s DayOne and CoreWeave. It has launched a venture called...