AI data company AfterQuery reached a $3.2 billion valuation just 18 months after founding, up from $300 million five months ago, making it Y Combinator's fastest company to reach unicorn status in nearly two decades.
Mercor confirmed a security incident after an extortion hacking crew claimed to have stolen data from the company's systems, tied to a compromise of the open-source LiteLLM project that affected multiple companies.
Gumloop, founded in mid-2023 by Max Brodeur-Urbas, has secured $50 million in Series B funding led by Benchmark, with participation from Shopify Ventures and Y Combinator. The platform enables non-technical employees to build and deploy AI agents for workplace automation without engineering support.
