Defense startup Pytho AI wants to turbocharge military mission planning and it will show off its tech at Disrupt 2025
Pytho AI is coming out of stealth with an ambitious pitch to the Department of Defense: turn mission planning that…
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Sam Altman’s next startup eyes using sound waves to read your brain
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Sesame, the conversational AI startup from Oculus founders, raises $250M and launches beta
Sesame, a conversational AI startup and smart glasses maker, has raised a $250 million Series B round and is opening…
Sources: Multimodal AI startup Fal.ai already raised at $4B+ valuation
Fal.ai, a startup that hosts image, video, and audio AI models for developers, has closed a new round valuing the…
Eightfold co-founders raise $35M for Viven, an AI digital twin startup for querying unavailable coworkers
While employees spend much of their day communicating and coordinating amongst themselves on projects, this effort is often undermined by…
Prezent raises $30 million to acquire AI services firms — starting with founder’s other company
Prezent, a startup that offers an AI-powered presentation builder to enterprises, said today that it has raised $30 million in…
Perplexity acquires the team behind Sequioa-backed AI design startup Visual Electric
Sequoia-backed AI design startup Visual Electric said that it is joining search startup Perplexity today. The company noted on its…
Marissa Mayer will close her old AI startup, sell assets to her new AI startup
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TechCrunch Mobility: Self-driving trucks startup Kodiak goes public and a shake-up at Hyundai’s Supernal
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. To get…
More executives depart Hyundai’s air taxi startup Supernal
A wider leadership shakeup t Hyundai’s electric air taxi startup Supernal, , is underway just a few weeks after it…
Battery startup Moxion went bankrupt. Now its founder is back to ‘finish what we started’
Just over a year ago, Moxion Power closed its doors, adding its name to a list of high-profile bankruptcies that…
Smartphone maker Nothing to spin off its affordable CMF brand
Hardware startup Nothing said Thursday that it plans to make its affordable device brand, CMF, into an independent subsidiary with…
Do startups still need Silicon Valley? Leaders at Signalfire, Lago, and Revolution debate at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025.
As the startup world descends on San Francisco for TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 — happening October 27–29 at Moscone West —…
Powered by India’s small businesses, UK fintech Tide becomes a TPG-backed unicorn
U.K.-based fintech Tide has entered the unicorn club with a fresh funding of $120 million led by TPG, as the…
Nvidia eyes $500M investment into self-driving tech startup Wayve
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang descended on the United Kingdom this week, armed with a pledge to invest £2 billion ($2.6…
Micro1, a competitor to Scale AI, raises funds at $500M valuation
Micro1, a three-year-old startup that helps AI companies find and manage human contractors for data labeling and training, has raised…
Sources: AI training startup Mercor eyes $10B+ valuation on $450 million run rate
Mercor, a startup that connects companies like OpenAI and Meta with domain experts needed to train and refine their foundational…
Nuclear startup Deep Fission goes public in a curious SPAC
Nuclear startup Deep Fission announced Monday that it has gone public in a reverse merger, netting the company $30 million….
Why is an Amazon-backed AI startup making Orson Welles fan fiction?
On Friday, a startup called Fable announced an ambitious, if head-scratching, plan to recreate the lost 43 minutes of Orson…
Bret Taylor’s Sierra raises $350M at a $10B valuation
Investors are clearly bullish about former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor’s AI agent startup Sierra. Sierra, which helps enterprises build customer…