Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:
On this day in Portland startup community history: Jive Software unveils expansion plans (2008)
I mean, we all know that they’re moving into new offices in Portland, this summer, but now they’ve revealed that they’re planning to move into offices in Silicon Valley, London, and Zurich.
Last.fm is now independent
Your account, your listening history, and your data remain exactly where they are. The team building Last.fm is the same. The service continues as normal.
IBM and Red Hat Commit $5 Billion to Redefine the Future of Open Source in the AI Era
Project Lightwell will establish a trusted enterprise clearinghouse combined with a global force of engineers to identify and fix vulnerabilities at scale. The clearinghouse will serve as a security coordination layer, using advanced AI capabilities to validate and test fixes across an unprecedented volume of open source code. These capabilities will be offered through commercial subscriptions, allowing enterprises to integrate secure patches directly into their existing software supply chains with enterprise-grade validation and lifecycle management.
London topples Paris to regain European tech top spot – Tech.eu
The Dealroom Global Tech Ecosystem Index data also shows that Europe is home to more of the world’s highest-performing tech ecosystems relative to population size than North America and every other region in the world.
I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
Why these sudden aggressive moves on pricing? Both Anthropic and OpenAI are planning to IPO, but I suspect there’s a more important factor here: I think they’ve finally found product-market fit, with the coding/general-purpose agent products embodied by Claude Code/Cowork and Codex.
Crunchbase Data: Venture Dollars For Black Startup Founders Stay Scarce Despite AI Funding Boom
Only around $942 million — or just 0.32% of total U.S. venture funding — went to startups with a Black founder or co-founder last year, per Crunchbase data. That’s one of the lowest shares in years, and down more than two-thirds from just three years prior.
Beyond the Prompt: Claude Code | Arpan Patel
Once you stop thinking of Claude Code as a prompt-and-wait chatbot and start treating it as an autonomous agent that needs guardrails, your workflow shifts.
Fast is better than slow
A lot of people push back on this because it sounds like hustle culture. But there are lots of ways to move faster that don’t involve working long hours. Jamie Brandon has written a pair of excellent posts on this: Speed matters and Moving faster. You should go and read those if you haven’t already.
Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis | TechCrunch
There is a certain wildness in the tech industry these days that both mimics previous eras of large changes, like cloud computing (runaway costs in the early days), and is like nothing we’ve ever seen before (record revenues accompanied by mass layoffs).
Why Google’s AI can’t spell Google (or anything else) | TechCrunch
These AI models — which can code an app in seconds, or solve problems that have stumped mathematicians for decades — are about as good as a kindergartener at spelling.
Jun 13th – Annual Pre-Father’s Day Artisan Market – STEELPORT Knife Co.
STEELPORT Knife Co., located at 3602 NE Sandy Blvd., is hosting the 6th Annual Pre-Father’s Day Artisan Market on Saturday, June 13th, from 1-4 pm. It’s an ideal opportunity to find the perfect gift for Dad.
Tuesday Town Hall – Level Up Through Community, Tue, Jun 2, 2026, 10:30 AM | Meetup
For the last 17 months at NedSpace, this weekly ritual has been helping Portland entrepreneurs, freelancers, and builders connect authentically.
