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…
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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,…
Dili raises $21.7M to bring AI compliance to the infrastructure boom | TechCrunch
We already know that making AI work will mean bringing a lot of new data centers and power infrastructure online.…
Thinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng left the company citing health reasons, then joined OpenAI | TechCrunch
Lilian Weng, co-founder of Thinking Machines, announced this week that she would step down from her role, citing health issues.…
Hint, a new AI startup co-founded by Martha Stewart, offers an AI assistant for homeowners | TechCrunch
Martha Stewart is entering the AI software era in the most Martha Stewart way possible: she has joined the co-founding…
MCP startup Runlayer accuses Rippling of stealing its product idea | TechCrunch
Runlayer, a startup that offers a secure Model Context Protocol gateway — a standard for letting AI models and agents…
Fish Audio raises $52M seed to build AI voice models for creators and enterprises | TechCrunch
The market for AI-generated voice models is massive. Creative use cases require AI voice models to be more expressive, while…
Enigma raises $71M to make controlling a robot as easy as adjusting the volume | TechCrunch
Multiple robotics companies are tackling one of AI’s hardest problems: building foundation models capable of executing tasks they were never…
Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M | TechCrunch
Prentis, a new AI research lab focused on computer use models, co-founded by serial entrepreneur Ritankar Das and tech heavyweights…