AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team | TechCrunch
Relay, an AI-powered workflow automation tool that was launched in 2021 with the goal of becoming the new Zapier, is…
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Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+ | TechCrunch
Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire OpenRouter, according to a new report in Bloomberg. OpenRouter helps customers select different…
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! —…
Investors sue Selena Gomez alleging fraud tied to her mental health startup | TechCrunch
Singer and actress Selena Gomez and her mother are being sued over their mental health startup, Wondermind. The plaintiffs in…
Lovable confirms new $13.3B valuation, raises another $400M | TechCrunch
Europe’s favorite vibe-coding startup Lovable has confirmed previously reported whispers that it was raising another mega round at a $13.3…
AI code-testing startup Blacksmith’s valuation jumps almost 10x in less than a year | TechCrunch
As AI makes coding dramatically faster, the next big challenge in software development is testing and validating all that code.…
Accel closes oversubscribed $550M India fund within weeks, 19 months after its last | TechCrunch
Accel has closed a new $550 million India fund, less than two years after raising its previous India-focused vehicle, as…
General Catalyst leads $1.1B round into 2-month-old River AI | TechCrunch
River AI, an AI startup founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has secured $1.1 billion in funding in a seed/Series…
Now Rippling is counter-suing tiny startup Runlayer | TechCrunch
HR startup Rippling filed a lawsuit Monday accusing MCP gateway startup Runlayer of infringing on three of its patents, according…
This former notorious red-light district is now one of the world’s top AI hubs | TechCrunch
What every U.K. AI startup wants to know these days is, how can I get office space in King’s Cross?…
Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch their own startup | TechCrunch
Jeff Dean, one of the longest-serving and most influential executives at Google, is stepping down from the search giant to…
Anthropic signs $10B deal with AI cloud startup Volta | TechCrunch
Anthropic has been on a cloud partnership spree in recent months, and its latest move is reportedly a $10 billion…
AWS is helping vibe-coding startup Superblocks, and the implications are big | TechCrunch
Vibe-coding startup Superblocks announced a multiyear joint marketing agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that enables its tool to be…
A Marc Benioff-backed startup thinks AI can solve the AI deployment problem | TechCrunch
It’s so hard for big businesses to get AI tools working reliably that whole new organizations of forward-deployed engineers or…
Repeat founder Ryan Williams raises $10M seed for an AI startup for private credit managers | TechCrunch
Ellis AI announced Thursday its emergence from stealth with $10 million in seed funding from investors including First Round Capital,…
Smallest.ai raises $13M to build ultra-fast voice AI that sounds genuinely human | TechCrunch
While AI agents are increasingly capable of solving customer support problems, most people can still tell immediately when they’re talking…
Okta buys AI security startup Permiso; source says for about $200M | TechCrunch
Okta on Thursday agreed to acquire AI identity security startup Permiso Security, betting that demand for protecting AI agents and…
Nscale buys Anyscale as it seeks to own more of the AI compute stack | TechCrunch
In a bid to capture more of its customers’ AI spending, British AI neocloud Nscale is buying software startup Anyscale,…