AIR raises $50M to help companies vet the skills and add-ons AI agents use | TechCrunch
As companies start giving AI agents access to an increasing portion of their systems, a nascent software supply chain seems…
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Fambot introduces an ‘AI chief of staff’ for families | TechCrunch
AI agents that perform tasks on your behalf to help solve your daily problems are all the rage in Silicon…
India’s Unacademy sells to rival upGrad for $206M, about 94% less than its peak valuation | TechCrunch
Unacademy, once one of India’s most valuable edtech startups, has been acquired by rival upGrad at a valuation of just…
How Sweden built one of Europe’s hottest startup ecosystems | TechCrunch
Sweden is perhaps one of the world’s hottest tech hubs right now. It has long been home to Spotify and…
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 other companies call for action to defend against rogue AI | TechCrunch
Over a hundred tech companies — including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft — have signed an open letter urging both…
Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350M at a $2.5B valuation | TechCrunch
Instinct, a startup founded only last year and helmed by a 23-year-old, has managed to ride the wave of AI…
Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45B deal with Nscale | TechCrunch
Anthropic has signed a deal to rent about $45 billion in AI compute from Nscale, a British AI infrastructure company,…
What’s driving Sweden’s startup boom, from Lovable to Legora | TechCrunch
Vibe-coding darling Lovable just raised $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation, roughly doubling its worth in eight months. But Lovable isn’t the only Stockholm startup putting…
Hearing tech startup Legato emerges from stealth with $12M and a peek at its AI hearing glasses | TechCrunch
Hearing loss affects an estimated 50 million adults in the United States, but only around 20% of those with diagnosed…
India’s Ringg gets backing from Peak XV as it pushes voice AI past the phone call | TechCrunch
More than 76% of consumers in India prefer talking to businesses over a phone call, according to a recent study…
Gamma acquires Accel-backed design startup Lica | TechCrunch
Presentation startup Gamma has acquired Accel-backed design startup Lica in a bid to build out its own design research lab,…
Accel-backed Keenable is indexing the web for AI agents | TechCrunch
Search engines were built and optimized for people, who can’t spare the time or attention required to scan entire web…
Instinct’s powerful AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns | TechCrunch
Everyone is buzzing about Instinct, an AI personal assistant still in private access, not only for its incredible capabilities, but…
Valor, Point72 back General Intuition at $6B valuation as AI startup pushes into robotics | TechCrunch
New York-based General Intuition, the startup building a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents to move through space and…
Harvard’s $699 startup bootcamp offers AI avatars of its instructors | TechCrunch
As Harvard Business School seeks to expand its reach, it’s leaning on AI avatars to provide individual feedback. These avatars…
Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research | TechCrunch
Inherent, a London AI lab founded by Google DeepMind alumni, says its AI agent just outperformed much larger models from…
Michael Polansky is training an AI model on skin that’s still alive | TechCrunch
Michael Polansky is remarkably unassuming for someone operating in a corner of the world known for outsize egos. Seated at…
How AI accounting startup Rillet raised $100M and became a unicorn in 48 hours | TechCrunch
Rillet co-founder and CEO Nicolas Kopp seems justifiably confident as we talk over Zoom a day after his company announced…