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Factory hits $1.5B valuation to build AI coding for enterprises

The three-year-old startup raised $150 million led by Khosla Ventures.

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Apr 16, 2026 at 22:55 TechCrunch

Factory hits $1.5B valuation to build AI coding for enterprises

The three-year-old startup raised $150 million led by Khosla Ventures.

Apr 15, 2026 at 19:28 TechCrunch

OpenAI updates its Agents SDK to help enterprises build safer, more capable agents

OpenAI has expanded the capabilities of its agent-building toolkit, as agentic AI continues to grow in popularity.

Apr 14, 2026 at 16:05 TechCrunch

Financial risk management platform Pillar raises $20M seed in round led by a16z

Pillar hopes to offer sophisticated, institutional-grade tools to small and medium-sized enterprises. "Our goal is to make hedging as acc...

Apr 13, 2026 at 06:00 OpenAI News

Enterprises power agentic workflows in Cloudflare Agent Cloud with OpenAI

Cloudflare brings OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 and Codex to Agent Cloud, enabling enterprises to build, deploy, and scale AI agents for real-world ta...

Apr 8, 2026 at 20:12 Hacker News

Show HN: Druids – Build your own software factory

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OpenAI is acquiring Promptfoo, an AI security platform that helps enterprises identify and remediate vulnerabilities in AI systems during...

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