Silicon Valley startup Sabi just emerged from stealth with a non-invasive brain-computer interface disguised as a regular beanie. Packing up to 100,000 miniature sensors and a custom brain foundation model, the cap translates silent internal speech directly into text on screen at an initial 30 words per minute. If it delivers, seamless mind-controlled computing might finally skip the brain surgery.
Factory just raised $150 million at a $1.5B valuation to bring autonomous AI coding agents to enterprise engineering teams. Led by Khosla Ventures, the platform lets developers switch across foundation models like Claude and DeepSeek, already landing enterprise customers like Morgan Stanley. It shows investor hunger for AI coding tools is still red-hot despite heavy incumbents.
Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal just unveiled Parallel Web Systems with $30M in backing from Khosla Ventures and others to build an "Internet for AI." The startup launched its Deep Research API, aiming to replace human-centric browsing with a programmatic web tailored for autonomous AI agents.
Tech leaders just sounded the alarm on how drastically AI will upend the global workforce. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned the shift will hit certain workers far harder than others, urging proactive planning. Meanwhile, venture capitalist Vinod Khosla predicted AI could handle 80% of 80% of today's jobs within a decade, heavily impacting doctors and accountants.
