Wayve launches $85M employee tender offer at $8.5B valuation | TechCrunch
Wayve, a UK-based self-driving tech startup, is allowing its employees to sell a portion of their vested equity. The $85…
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The DeepMind trio who built a poker AI are now making money for quant hedge funds | TechCrunch
Three former DeepMind researchers who created an AI that beat humans at poker have now applied the same technology to…
Nvidia competitor Etched hits $5B valuation, $1B in sales for AI chip | TechCrunch
Nvidia AI chip competitor Etched issued a progress report on Tuesday, after TSMC successfully manufactured its chip earlier this year.…
The AI jobs debate just got messier | TechCrunch
AI-related job loss fears grow each time another company announces a round of layoffs. Through May of 2026, companies announced…
Vibe coding platform Base44 launches own model as AI startups seek defensibility | TechCrunch
Base44, the vibe coding platform that Wix acquired for $80 million just one year ago — when the company was…
South Korean tech giants commit over $550B to ease ‘RAMageddon’ | TechCrunch
The world’s two largest memory chip companies plan to invest $518 billion (~800 trillion won) to build four new memory…
Arena, the AI leaderboard everyone uses, is now a $100M business | TechCrunch
Just eight months after launching its commercial service, AI leaderboard provider Arena, which originated as a research project at UC…
Pocket raises $11M in bet on rising demand for AI note-taking devices | TechCrunch
Unlike AI gadgets like Rabbit or Humane, companies building dedicated gadgets for recording and transcribing meetings have actually seen some…
Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models as Anthropic’s export ban drags on | TechCrunch
On Wednesday, Chinese cybersecurity firm 360 reportedly unveiled Tulongfeng, an AI tool it says can go head-to-head with Anthropic’s Mythos.…
Corgi, the buzzy Y Combinator-backed insurance tech startup, says it didn’t steal an open source product | TechCrunch
Y Combinator-backed insurance tech startup Corgi became embroiled in yet another controversy earlier this week when Papermark, maker of open…
Former Infosys chief has a new startup that wants to challenge the IT services world | TechCrunch
For decades, IT services firms made billions of dollars by allowing companies to outsource tech tasks like customizing, integrating, and…
Superhuman acquires AI detection startup GPTZero | TechCrunch
GPTZero, the three-year-old AI detection startup that Princeton grad Edward Tian first built as a senior thesis project, has been…
WhatsApp gets new chief as Meta taps India’s CRED founder Kunal Shah, and invests $900M in startup | TechCrunch
Meta is betting on India for WhatsApp’s next chapter, naming entrepreneur Kunal Shah to lead the messaging app and succeed…
Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M | TechCrunch
Over the last several years, fusion power has gone from the butt of jokes — always a decade away! —…
Source: Elastic agrees to buy CRV-backed DeductiveAI for up to $85M | TechCrunch
DeductiveAI, a startup that uses AI to catch and resolve bugs in software, has agreed to be sold to enterprise…
AI inference startup Baseten reportedly raising $1.5B months after its last mega-round | TechCrunch
AI inference company Baseten is close to finalizing a stunning $1.5 billion funding round at a $13 billion valuation, the…
The 11 standout startups from YC’s Demo Day, according to VCs | TechCrunch
With each new season comes another YC Demo Day. On Tuesday, the Spring 2026 cohort was unveiled, filled with defense…
Anthropic becomes first AI startup to join the Frontier carbon removal coalition | TechCrunch
Anthropic is joining Frontier, the carbon removal collective, contributing to a new $915 million tranche of funding and marking its…