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…
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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…
PayPal Ventures shutters as company restructuring continues | TechCrunch
PayPal Ventures is taking a break. Five sources told Fortune that the corporate venture arm, which was founded in 2016,…
Payments startup Flutterwave hits $3.2B valuation, backed by Ripple | TechCrunch
African payments infrastructure company Flutterwave announced Tuesday a Series E round that values the company at $3.2 billion. This round,…
Probably raises $9M to build a more reliable kind of AI | TechCrunch
As LLMs have grown more powerful, hallucinations have proven stubbornly difficult to avoid. Errors pop up in even the smartest…
Sarvam becomes India’s newest AI unicorn with $234 million funding round led by HCLTech | TechCrunch
Sarvam has raised $234 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, the company announced on Monday. The Bengaluru-based company is now…
As AI agents become employees, NewCore emerges with $66M to give them identities | TechCrunch
Cybersecurity startup NewCore emerged from stealth with $66 million in funding on Monday, aiming to solve a challenge it believes…
Orbio raises $21 million to automate hiring and onboarding for frontline workers | TechCrunch
After Sergi Bastardas’ decade at Amazon and floriculture startup Colvin, one thing always stood out — the feeling that there…
As Anthropic suspends access to new models, India debates its AI future | TechCrunch
Anthropic’s sudden move to suspend access to its newest AI models following a U.S. government directive has raised fresh questions…
Andrew Yang thinks the next big startup opportunity is lowering the cost of living | TechCrunch
Entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Andrew Yang has a theory about where the next wave of startup opportunity lies, and…
Cheaper, faster, and culturally aware, Avataar’s video AI is built for India’s scale | TechCrunch
India’s AI model output has been slow compared to the U.S., Europe, and China. Only a few startups are releasing…
Jeff Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12B to build an ‘artificial general engineer’ for the physical world | TechCrunch
Prometheus, the physical AI startup co-founded by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj, the former co-founder of Verily, Google’s life sciences…
Datadog veterans launch AI coding startup Niteshift on a bet against Big AI lock-in | TechCrunch
AI coding agent startup Niteshift has raised a $7 million seed round led by Greylock’s Jerry Chen. That’s a modest…