Amanda Smith

Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, technology, and human interest. Her work has been published in highly respected titles including The Guardian, Business Insider, and National Geographic. Amanda is a regular contributor at CNET, where she’s covered AI since 2024.

Founder stories

This founder raised $103M to fix general ledger accounting software

This once unglamorous category is now a major AI battleground

BYAmanda Smith

Jul 30, 2026

Founder stories

This co-founder raised $20M to use AI to bring toys to life

He’s bullish on the $43M “kidult” industry

BYAmanda Smith

Jul 23, 2026

He built a coding agent. ClickUp bought it.

Plus two more stories you might have missed.

BYAmanda Smith

Jul 20, 2026

Founder stories

The AI founder who sold his company to ClickUp

It now powers ClickUp Brain

BYAmanda Smith

Jul 16, 2026

Solo AI Builder/No code

This technologist built a tool to check AI’s wellbeing

She calls it a welfare protocol

BYAmanda Smith

Jul 9, 2026

Solo AI Builder/No code

This founder built the AI OS for DTC companies

Helping small companies 10x their size

BYAmanda Smith

Jun 25, 2026

New/Upcoming AI Startups

This founder built a simulation platform for FDA submissions

And created a new category of AI tools

BYAmanda Smith

Jun 18, 2026

Founder stories

This AI music video generator platform does $5M ARR

Long live the music video

BYAmanda Smith

Jun 11, 2026

New/Upcoming AI Startups

This founder built an AI tone detection tool

For socially conscious companies and individuals

BYAmanda Smith

Jun 4, 2026

AI in HR & Hiring

This AI recruiter automates first-round interviews

What’s the deal with these AI interviewers?

BYAmanda Smith

May 27, 2026

Founder stories

This founder built the integrations infrastructure used by big AI labs

You’ve probably used it without knowing it

BYAmanda Smith

May 21, 2026

Insight and commentary

A social network for AI agents? Yes, it’s real.

Bots and their creepy plots

BYAmanda Smith

May 14, 2026

Insight and commentary

Are AI agents the new SaaS?

The SaaS apocalypse

BYAmanda Smith

May 7, 2026

New/Upcoming AI Startups

This founder gets small businesses on streaming platforms

AI is the big unlock

BYAmanda Smith

Apr 30, 2026

Insight and commentary

AI will reshape jobs, not replace them

Don’t believe everything you read on Reddit

BYAmanda Smith

Apr 28, 2026

Insight and commentary

What’s really behind the TBPN-OpenAI deal?

It’s not what you might think

BYAmanda Smith

Apr 23, 2026

Solo AI Builder/No code

This foodie founder built an AI sous chef

Eat and earn, with this AI tool

BYAmanda Smith

Apr 21, 2026

Insight and commentary

People really hate AI right now

Data centers, job losses and collective unease

BYAmanda Smith

Apr 16, 2026

Founder stories

They hit unicorn status faster than nearly any AI company in history

70 people. $250M ARR. Zero marketing.

BYAmanda Smith

Apr 9, 2026

New/Upcoming AI Startups

This founder built a faster way to test software

Ship faster and break less

BYAmanda Smith

Apr 2, 2026

New/Upcoming AI Startups

This founder’s AI tool helps fund retirements

He’s making financial planning fun

BYAmanda Smith

Mar 26, 2026

The one-person AI company is here

How a single operator can now build and scale a business with AI tools alone

BYAmanda Smith

Mar 24, 2026

New/Upcoming AI Startups

This founder is building AdSense for AI

Monetization is built into the experience, elegantly

BYAmanda Smith

Mar 19, 2026

New/Upcoming AI Startups

She built AI shopping agents before ChatGPT

Now she’s building Wizard alongside former Walmart e-commerce CEO Marc Lore.

BYAmanda Smith

Mar 12, 2026

This first-time founder is doing $250M+ a year

Also inside: the AI answering 800,000 calls, a $42M creative AI startup, and social AI in group chats.

BYAmanda Smith

Mar 11, 2026

Amanda Smith

This founder raised $103M to fix general ledger accounting software

This co-founder raised $20M to use AI to bring toys to life

He built a coding agent. ClickUp bought it.

The AI founder who sold his company to ClickUp

This technologist built a tool to check AI’s wellbeing

This founder built the AI OS for DTC companies

This founder built a simulation platform for FDA submissions

This AI music video generator platform does $5M ARR

This founder built an AI tone detection tool

This AI recruiter automates first-round interviews

This founder built the integrations infrastructure used by big AI labs

A social network for AI agents? Yes, it’s real.

Are AI agents the new SaaS?

This founder gets small businesses on streaming platforms

AI will reshape jobs, not replace them

What’s really behind the TBPN-OpenAI deal?

This foodie founder built an AI sous chef

People really hate AI right now

They hit unicorn status faster than nearly any AI company in history

This founder built a faster way to test software

This founder’s AI tool helps fund retirements

The one-person AI company is here

This founder is building AdSense for AI

She built AI shopping agents before ChatGPT

This first-time founder is doing $250M+ a year

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