Netflix may have paid $600 million for Ben Affleck’s AI startup | TechCrunch
Last week, Netflix announced the acquisition of InterPositive, an AI company co-founded by Ben Affleck that helps filmmakers edit footage…
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Mandiant’s founder just raised $190M for his autonomous AI agent security startup | TechCrunch
Kevin Mandia, who founded the cybersecurity startup Mandiant in 2004 and sold it to Google for $5.4 billion in 2022,…
Legora reaches $5.55 billion valuation as AI legal tech boom endures | TechCrunch
Legora, an AI platform for lawyers, is now valued at $5.55 billion following a $550 million Series D set to…
Sandbar secures $23M Series A for its AI note-taking ring | TechCrunch
Sandbar, a startup by former Meta employees Mina Fahmi and Kirak Hong, attracted much attention last year when it showed…
AI network startup Eridu emerges from stealth with hefty $200M Series A | TechCrunch
Drew Perkins has been inventing computer network tech and building startups since the dawn of the internet age. Now he’s…
Uzbekistan’s Uzum valuation leaps over 50% in 7 months to $2.3B | TechCrunch
Uzbekistan fintech Uzum has reached a $2.3 billion valuation — about 53% higher than just seven months ago — as…
Yann LeCun’s AMI Labs raises $1.03B to build world models | TechCrunch
AMI Labs, the new venture co-founded by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun after he left Meta, has raised $1.03 billion…
Slate Names New CEO Months Before Launching Its Cheap EV Truck
Just months before it’s set to launch its roughly $25,000 electric pickup truck, Slate Auto has a new CEO. Peter…
Sandberg, Clegg join Nscale board as this ‘Stargate Norway’ startup hits $14.6B valuation | TechCrunch
Amid growing demand for data centers that can deliver AI compute at scale, Nvidia-backed British AI infrastructure company Nscale is…
Will the Pentagon’s Anthropic controversy scare startups away from defense work? | TechCrunch
In just over a week, negotiations over the Pentagon’s use of Anthropic’s Claude technology fell through, the Trump administration designated…
Luma launches creative AI agents powered by its new ‘Unified Intelligence’ models | TechCrunch
AI video-generation startup Luma on Thursday launched Luma Agents, designed to handle end-to-end creative work across text, image, video, and…
Oura acquires Doublepoint, a startup that specializes in gesture recognition technology | TechCrunch
Oura announced on Thursday that it has acquired Doublepoint, a startup that specializes in technology that enables users to control…
How 1,000+ customer calls shaped a breakout enterprise AI startup | TechCrunch
This isn’t David Park’s first rodeo. The veteran founder and TechCrunch Startup Battlefield alumnus has certainly been battle-tested in the enterprise arena. On this episode of…
Lio raises $30M from Andreessen Horowitz and others to automate enterprise procurement | TechCrunch
Lio’s co-founders know firsthand that procurement — the process enterprises use to purchase services from vendors — is often a…
AWS launches a new AI agent platform specifically for healthcare | TechCrunch
Amazon Web Services announced Thursday the launch of Amazon Connect Health. This AI agent-powered platform is meant to help healthcare…
One startup’s pitch to provide more reliable AI answers: Crowdsource the chatbots | TechCrunch
John Davie wanted Buyers Edge Platform, the hospitality procurement enterprise he founded and still leads, to benefit from the AI…
Why AI startups are selling the same equity at two different prices | TechCrunch
As competition among AI startups heats up, founders and VCs are turning to novel valuation mechanisms to manufacture a perception…
Stripe wants to turn your AI costs into a profit center | TechCrunch
Stripe on Monday released a preview of a new feature that could help AI startups (and other companies) solve the…