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What happens when AI starts building itself?
Richard Socher's new startup, funded with $650 million, aims to build a self-improving AI system capable of autonomous...
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The Crunchbase Tech Layoffs Tracker
Over 127,000 workers at U.S.-based tech companies were laid off in mass job cuts in 2025, per a Crunchbase News tally,...
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Cerebras raises $5.5B, then stock pops $108%, in the first huge tech IPO of 2026
Cerebras raised $5.5B in funding and went public in what is being called the first major tech IPO of 2026, with its...
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Khosla Ventures is betting $10M on Ian Crosby, whose first startup, Bench, imploded
Khosla Ventures is investing $10M in Ian Crosby's new startup Synthetic, an AI-powered autonomous bookkeeping service...
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Rivian Spinoff Raises $400M for Industrial Robots
Rivian's spinoff company Mind has raised $400M in funding to scale deployment of its AI-powered industrial robots in...
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Nvidia Taps British AI Startup to Build ‘Next Frontier’ of AI
Nvidia partners with British AI startup Ineffable Intelligence to build model training infrastructure for...
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Exclusive: Xpanner Lands $18M To Offer ‘Automation As A Service’ To Construction Sites
Xpanner, a startup that automates construction work by retrofitting equipment with robotics and physical AI technology,...
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Two weeks left: Startup Battlefield 200 applications close May 27
Your shot at VC access, global visibility, TechCrunch coverage, and $100K equity-free funding is running out. Deadline...
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Wirestock raises $23M to supply creative multimodal data to AI labs
Wirestock has raised $23M in funding to supply creative multimodal data including photos, videos, and 3D content to AI...
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April’s Most Active US Investors Included Some Usual Suspects, And Some Unusual Ones
The April rankings of busiest startup investors were topped by well-established VCs such as Andreessen Horowitz and...
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Clio’s $500M milestone arrives just as Anthropic ups the ante
Legal tech startup Clio has reached $500 million in annual recurring revenue, demonstrating strong customer adoption in...
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Cerebras Sees Sizzling Demand For IPO Shares
AI chip startup Cerebras Systems is going public on the Nasdaq after years of private fundraising and previously...
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Tencent plans to ramp up AI spending as China's chip supply allegedly improves
Tencent plans to significantly increase AI infrastructure spending in the second half of 2026, supported by improved...
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AI ambition is crashing into a decade of deferred IT maintenance, says Red Hat CEO
Red Hat's CEO highlights that enterprises are struggling to balance AI deployment ambitions with decades of accumulated...
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Origin Lab raises $8M to help video game companies sell data to world-model builders
Origin Lab raised $8M in funding to create a marketplace where video game companies can sell high-quality licensed data...
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Anthropic courts a new kind of customer: small business owners
Anthropic is expanding its market reach by targeting small business owners with a new offering, signaling a strategic...
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Anduril raises $5B, doubles valuation to $61B
After achieving $2.2 billion in revenue in 2025, the defense tech startup has raised another massive round, led by...
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Red Hat and Intel spotlight scalable AI inference as enterprises move beyond the GPU gold rush
Red Hat and Intel are highlighting the importance of scalable and cost-efficient AI inference systems as enterprises...
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Exclusive: Physician-Founded Saile Raises $2.2M To Help Doctors Find Side Jobs Using AI
Saile, a physician-founded startup, raised $2.2 million in pre-seed funding to develop an AI-powered credentialing and...
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