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Claude Duet app is Anthropic’s bet on agents
Claude Duet is available through waitlist for Pro and Max plan users
Nirva raises $33M for a pendant that only listens to you
Nirva will ship its $249 ambient AI pendant by the end of the year.
DeepSeek reportedly raises $15B days after US restrictions
DeepSeek has reportedly raised $15 billion in one of China's largest funding rounds, just days after the US ordered fed…
Tesla says it will start selling Cybercabs by end of year
Tesla said Wednesday it will start selling its Cybercab to customers by the end of the year, even as federal regulators…
Exclusive: Slingshot Raises $27M In Seed Funding To Build An Insurer For Those Small Policies Sold At Checkout
Slingshot Insurance, a Minneapolis-based AI-native embedded insurance startup, is emerging from stealth with $27 millio…
The AI IPO Wave Is The Dot-Com Bubble’s Evil Twin. Anthropic’s Delay Just Proved It.
In this guest article from Airrived co-founder and CEO Anurag Gurtu, he contends that Anthropic’s rapid revenue growth …
Acquirers Are Snapping Up Boom-Era Startups That Haven’t Raised Funding In Years
A number of companies whose names might feature on a playlist of 2021 boom-era unicorns have sold to acquirers in recen…
Your Next Customer Might Be An Agent. Here’s How To Build Your Brand For Both Humans And AI.
As AI agents increasingly recommend and purchase products, brands must appeal to both machines and humans by documentin…
Blackstone’s Jas Khaira says fears over AI-buildout debt are overblown
Blackstone’s AI head on why the PE giant isn't panicked by market jitters.
TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026: Everything you need to know
TechCrunch Founder Summit is a full-day gathering in Boston on November 4 where founders across all stages connect with…
Year-old AI lab Flapping Airplanes raises $1B at a $6B valuation
Just 9 months after raising a $180 million seed round, Flapping Airplanes has landed a $1 billion Series A for its miss…
Legal AI startup Legora raises $550M Series E at $8.8B valuation
Legal AI startup Legora announced Wednesday that it raised a $550 million Series E round, valuing it at $8.8 billion.
Blacksmith hits unicorn valuation after Sequoia leads Series C
Blacksmith, a platform that lets companies build and test AI code more effectively, just announced a $66 million Series…
Mach9 raises $34M after pivoting to AI CAD software
The startup initially set out to build better, faster, and cheaper surveying hardware in 2021.
When A Startup Sells, Its Employees’ Equity Plans Can Change Overnight
Startup acquisitions can reshape employees’ finances and careers, with individual outcomes depending on a variety of co…
Meta wants to pay for its broad AI buildout with a newly created class of stock
The social media giant is planning a new stock strategy to help power its broad investments in AI models and services.
What Is Gridifcation
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LatAm Startup Funding Jumps 26% In Q3 As VCs Begin ‘Rediscovering’ The Region
A continued boom in late-stage and growth funding combined with a surge in seed-stage funding helped buoy venture inves…
Amazon is taking its biggest shot at Nvidia yet with new TorchNeuron dev tool
Amazon wants to break Nvidia’s hold on PyTorch, the free toolkit used to build most AI apps, so that more developers ru…
Replika’s founder built the AI assistant she pitched at Disrupt 12 years ago
Eugenia Kuyda's newest startup Wabi is positioned to take advantage of an idea she had more than a decade ago. Wabi off…
How To Build A Billion-Dollar Company Without Venture Capital
Founders can build billion-dollar businesses without venture capital by prioritizing customer revenue, pricing for qual…
Fintech Funding Fell 21% In Q3 As Deals Grew Scarcer
All told, fintech startups raised $10.6 billion globally in the third quarter of 2026, down 28.4% from $14.9 billion in…
Anthropic pitches AI safety bill that may block a model if 50+ people could be killed
The proposed policy seems to offer protections against AI running amok but actually forbids federal agencies from block…
Hugging Face CEO warns that Netflix’s OpenAI hack documentary isn’t accurate
Before you share the Netflix documentary "AI Gone Rogue," take note. Clem Delangue, Hugging Face's co-founder who is fe…
Anthropic’s cloud partnerships are getting messy
Anthropic is reportedly struggling to secure enough compute from cloud providers that increasingly view it as a competi…
SpaceX’s AI business is beating expectations
SpaceX hit profitability in the third quarter, with net income of $4.4 billion. AI was the engine.
Eric Schmidt reportedly owns about half as much of Anthropic as CEO Dario Amodei
Eric Schmidt’s fortune is about to get even bigger.
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