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This AI model evaluation platform hit $100M ARR in 8 months — its competitor just shut down

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0800

There’s building a product users like, and then there’s building a product enterprises pay millions for. Arena just proved how wide that gap can be.

The AI model evaluation platform, spun out of UC Berkeley in April 2025, announced Tuesday that its enterprise service AI Evaluations has hit $100 million in annualized recurring revenue — just eight months after launch. The product uses human feedback data to help companies assess how AI models perform in real business environments, with traceable test samples and service-level agreements baked in.

Data of 5,000 Startup Founders Leaked in South Korea Government Competition Hack

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0800

There’s a particular kind of dread that comes when a targeted ad knows something it shouldn’t. For roughly 5,000 startup founders in South Korea, that dread became real this month — and it’s now clear their data was stolen, not guessed.

Tianya Community Founder Dismisses Skeptics as Traffic Cools After Relaunch: 'Failure Is Unlikely This Time'

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 07:12:00 +0800

Three years after going dark, Tianya Community — one of China’s earliest and most iconic internet forums — flickered back to life on June 1. Half a month later, the initial surge of nostalgia-driven traffic has predictably ebbed. But for founder Xing Ming, that cooling-off was not a warning sign; it was the plan all along.