A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya is a startup offering fun music apps without any AI prompting | TechCrunch
As AI rages on, new startups are creating tools for people to create music using generative AI prompts in the…
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The 9 buzziest startups from Y Combinator’s latest Demo Day, according to VCs | TechCrunch
Another Y Combinator Demo Day took place on Thursday, but this batch looked a little different. While every cohort brings…
Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests | TechCrunch
British fintech Revolut confirmed that it disclosed sensitive customer information to an unauthorized third party after receiving fraudulent requests sent…
Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training data | TechCrunch
Mecka AI, a startup that collects and analyzes human motion data to train humanoid robots and other robotics, is nearing…
Central Eurasia names its 2026 Road to Battlefield winners: Cerberus, WeGlobal AI, and LOOQ | TechCrunch
Cerberus, WeGlobal AI, and LOOQ took the top three spots at the regional final of Road to TechCrunch Startup Battlefield…
Thrive Capital led VCs into pro sports ownership; Collaborative Fund just upped that play | TechCrunch
Collaborative Fund, the 15-year-old, New York-based generalist venture firm that has roughly $1 billion under management and which made early…
India’s Pocket FM doubles revenue run rate to $500M as AI powers 93% of audio content | TechCrunch
Pocket FM, an Indian audio storytelling platform, has doubled its annualized revenue run rate to $500 million over the past…
AI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce talks | TechCrunch
Listen Labs, a market research startup that uses voice AI to conduct customer interviews, recently signed a term sheet for…
Cognition hits $48B valuation, signaling investors believe AI coding is far from a winner-take-all market | TechCrunch
Cognition, the startup developing coding assistant Devin, announced it raised $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation. The round, which…
Mistral raises €3B as sovereign AI becomes big business | TechCrunch
French AI lab Mistral AI on Tuesday said it has raised €3 billion (about $3.58 billion) at a post-money valuation…
Opaque recurrence, and other AI terms that you should probably know | TechCrunch
AI is rewriting the world and, at the same time, inventing a whole new language to describe how it’s doing…
Startup ARR is less secure than ever, new research shows | TechCrunch
AI has ushered in a lot of never-happened-before moments, but one of the most transformative is its impact on enterprise…
Abliteration.ai is making a business out of removing AI guardrails | TechCrunch
It just became much easier to access one of the world’s most capable open-weight AI models, stripped of its guardrails…
Builders Stage agenda revealed for Disrupt 2026 | TechCrunch
The Builders Stage is returning to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, bringing together founders, startup operators, and investors for practical conversations on what it…
Palo Alto Networks paid $500M for Thrive-backed Console, sources say | TechCrunch
Palo Alto Networks paid $500 million in cash and stock to acquire Console, a two-year-old startup that uses AI agents…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s new Real World AI Stage features Nvidia, robots, and extinct animals | TechCrunch
At our past TechCrunch Disrupt events, AI has taken center stage, both throughout our programming and in a stage of…
HiddenLayer nabs $100M as enterprises rush to secure their AI deployments | TechCrunch
When AI security startup HiddenLayer raised its $50 million Series A three years ago, one of the big questions in…
Adobe acquires Indian market intelligence startup Rilo | TechCrunch
Adobe has acquired India-based marketing intelligence startup Rilo in a deal involving licensing and team acquisition, TechCrunch learned and the…