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…
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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…
A married founder duo’s company, 14.ai, is replacing customer support teams at startups | TechCrunch
The customer service industry is in a bit of flux, thanks to AI. Investors and corporate leaders have rung alarm…
A founder duo’s company, 14.ai, is replacing customer support teams at startups | TechCrunch
The customer service industry is in a bit of flux, thanks to AI. Investors and corporate leaders have rung alarm…
Investors spill what they aren’t looking for anymore in AI SaaS companies | TechCrunch
Investors have been pouring billions into AI companies over the past few years, as the technology continues to hold sway…
Plaid valued at $8B in employee share sale | TechCrunch
Plaid, a company that connects financial applications to users’ bank accounts, enabling payments and data verification, has allowed employees to…
Trace raises $3M to solve the AI agent adoption problem in enterprise | TechCrunch
For all their potential, AI agents have been slow to make an impact in the enterprise, and one new startup…