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Valthos
NYC company founded in 2024 by Kathleen McMahon and Tess van Stekelenburg, developing next-generation biodefense technology.
In the news
- Should AI Be Regulated City by City? New York Should Think Carefully Before AnsweringNew York has real reasons to worry about AI. But a city-run permit system for every AI tool sold here would hit startups hardest.
AlleyWatch · Oct 4, 2026
- OpenAI safety employee resigns, claiming the company’s ‘culture is broken’By his own admission, David Robinson is “something of a cliché”: an employee at a leading AI company who issues a dire warning while resigning from their job.
TechCrunch AI · Oct 3, 2026
- Who’s to Blame When A.I. Goes Rogue?Many think artificial intelligence companies should be held liable for their runaway technology. But legal scholars say applying existing law could be messy.
New York Times Technology · Oct 3, 2026
- Call it AI, call it Super Intelligence, only 2% of consumers are buying itThis week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called “morally binding.” Trump also signed an executive order officially rebranding AI as “super intelligence,” and meanwhile, Meta and OpenAI are putting friendlier faces on their AI products, even as t
- It’s not AI anymore, it’s ‘super intelligence’ (according to the White House)This week, the White House got nearly every major tech CEO in one room — Zuckerberg, Bezos, Musk, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei among them — to sign an AI safety pledge that President Donald Trump called “morally binding.” Trump also signed an executive order officially rebranding AI as “super intelligence,” and meanwhile, Meta and OpenAI are putting friendlier faces on their AI products, even as t
- A.I. Agents: Cute, Cuddly and Maybe Catastrophically Dangerous?“It’s going to be gnarly for a little while.”
- Russia’s Latest Propaganda? A.I.-Generated War Songs.Russians are creating and spreading music glorifying the invasion of Ukraine, using platforms built in the United States.
- ChatGPT can now virtually try on clothes for youOpenAI is rolling out new shopping features for ChatGPT that let users virtually try on clothing and accessories using their own photos and save products they like to a Favorites library.
Recent developments
- OpenAI has 17 open roles listed, including Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering, Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - NYC, Forward Deployed Software Engineer - NYC.[8]
Alumni 1 went on to found or lead
- PAravind SrinivasResearch Scientist→Cofounder, President, CEO at Perplexity
Funding history
- OpenAI raised $6.6 billion in October 2024 at a $157 billion valuation, from investors including Microsoft, Nvidia and SoftBank.[4]
- OpenAI raised $40 billion in April 2025 at a $300 billion post-money valuation, led by SoftBank with participation from Microsoft, Coatue, Altimeter and Thrive Capital.[5]
Product
- OpenAI released GPT-4 in March 2023, following ChatGPT, which was released in November 2022 and reached over 100 million users within two months.[6]
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