
AIToolz Podcast
AI Toolz Podcast - 2026-08-19 : etched rockets to $21B valuation
Today we cover Etched's meteoric rise to a $21B valuation with $700M in new funding for purpose-built inference chips, OpenAI's new safety measures following containment incidents including pausing their largest training run, and Cursor's perfectly-timed launch of Origin, a GitHub competitor that dropped during a six-hour GitHub outage.






