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Discovered Materials, a months-old YC startup that uses AI to find chip materials, is offering $200,000 for each solution to five open materials science problems.
The company is said to be significantly dropping the amount it's spending on AI for its engineering teams.
While it's not yet clear what kind of product the smartphone startup is cooking up, Nothing's CEO said the product is designed to leverage AI for productivity gains.
During its busiest week last quarter, Uber said only four people booked a ride using an AI agent.
The startup allows software engineers to deploy teams of agents to work on various aspects of a project simultaneously.
Open source models are becoming more mainstream as enterprises, governments and startups alike rely on the promise of lower costs, more control, and more flexibility. But as incre…
Open source models are becoming more mainstream as enterprises, governments and startups alike rely on the promise of lower costs, more control, and more flexibility. But as incre…
The five-year-old startup raised a $1.3 billion round led by Bessemer.
NYC’s largest startup fundings of October 2026 span fintech, AI infrastructure, robotics, and biotech. Two rounds hit $1B or more. See who raised the money, who wrote the checks,…
Everyone’s giving AI agents access to company data. Almost nobody is making sure they understand the business. Chord just bought Zenlytic to fix that.
Evertrue Capital announces $17M debut fund to back early-stage AI and fintech.
A Kyiv startup’s pocket-sized, 10-ounce receiver lets Ukrainian troops watch the video feeds of Russian drones, though Russian moves toward digital video and AI-guided drones that…
The one-year-old startup is now valued at $300 million.
Two startups tackling the data center water problem are joining forces in a $16 million deal.
Record venture funding in 2026 has been increasingly concentrated in massive AI rounds, while seed- and early-stage deal counts are on the decline. Using Crunchbase data we provid…
This week featured a robust lineup of large rounds, led by manufacturing startup Re:Build, which closed on $2.1 billion, and predictions marketplace Kalshi, which picked up anothe…
Runware is building a factory to turn out prefabricated AI data centers on an assembly line. The real test will be whether it can deliver at that scale.
Travel demand appears to be holding up, but at the same time, investor appetite for travel tech startups has cooled. Even a wave of startups promising to improve travel with AI ha…
Dream is grounded in real physics and construction standards. Just as LLMs learn from text, Dream's world model is trained on more than 100 million square feet of building data ga…
Mintive was founded by two engineers who have been working on AI for decades through Google Brain and Coursera. It's platform promises to help IT easily control enterprise agents.
Crusoe, The Boring Company, Cognition and Stoke Space each raised $1B or more in September. US startups pulled in $27.89B, up 54% from August, and those four rounds alone took $9.…
AI megarounds are masking a shrinking Series A market, leaving seed founders facing higher revenue expectations and longer timelines despite larger seed checks. To improve their c…
Before he built his company, Chetan Reddy spent 15 months working the front offices of medical practices across the U.S. What he saw there led him to build AI agents that finish t…
Revenue growth does not guarantee a larger exit, as declining valuation multiples can outweigh operating gains and reduce enterprise value. Guest author Itay Sagie suggests that f…
After living as a monk while managing Graves’ disease, a former Facebook engineer left Big Tech to pursue meaningful work, eventually founding government software startup FSH Tech…
Disruptive has made headlines in recent years for pouring money into companies like chip startup Groq and the AI voice-generation startup ElevenLabs.
Most robotics startups build for a future that sits five to 10 years away, and warehouses cannot use a future. Brooklyn’s Ultra took the opposite route, shipping a robot that goes…
Simplismart says its annualized revenue run rate has grown fourteenfold in six months, with the U.S. accounting for more than half its revenue.
Jeff Saul and Josh Kaufman built and sold a lending platform that automated only a sliver of the work they once did by hand. Then AI agents got good enough to do the rest. CarbonA…
The financing gives SpaceX another way to fund its rapidly expanding AI ambitions without relying solely on traditional debt markets.
From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.
Hosted by TechCrunch in partnership with Fidelity Private Shares, the full-day event goes beyond fundraising and AI to explore the realities of finding customers, building teams,…
It was another interesting week for AI-related startup funding, with a number of large rounds and quirky companies. The largest financings went to Tenstorrent, a developer of AI p…
Nirva will ship its $249 ambient AI pendant by the end of the year.
Slingshot Insurance, a Minneapolis-based AI-native embedded insurance startup, is emerging from stealth with $27 million in a seed funding round co-led by Rally Ventures and Skywa…
Just 9 months after raising a $180 million seed round, Flapping Airplanes has landed a $1 billion Series A for its mission to build AI models "without ingesting half the internet."
Startup Recursive has released Flint, a free, laptop-sized coding model built largely by its own AI research system, as an early test of AI that improves itself.
Many companies cannot say what their AI agents did yesterday. Two former Doppel engineers built an open-source tool that records what agents do, and a Wall Street trading firm dis…
The startup initially set out to build better, faster, and cheaper surveying hardware in 2021.
Crunchbase News spoke with James Kim, partner at Reach Capital, about how Reach’s education roots inform its broader strategy, what it saw in AI detection company GPTZero, and why…
Electric Plant has built an AI-powered translator to help humans listen to what plants are saying with the subtle electricity coursing through their stems.
Meeting note-taking tool Otter.ai announced on Tuesday that it has raised $320 million from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund (CVF), which provides capital to startups withou…
Broader early-stage AI context for the NYC map.
AI companion app Tolan has raised another $30 million after attracting more than 250,000 active users.
Eugenia Kuyda's newest startup Wabi is positioned to take advantage of an idea she had more than a decade ago. Wabi offers a personal AI assistant with a twist, free and downloada…
AI assistant startup Town nabbed a unicorn valuation on Monday, announcing a $108 million Series B round co-led by Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures.
Jared Zelman once asked a friend to hold up cue cards during his enterprise sales calls, and it made him a better seller than he was alone. That moment exposed a hole in the sales…
A Meta spokesperson insisted that the updated terms did not reflect a change in the way Meta crawls the web.
Startup investors aren’t exactly hitting pause, but they did scale back on giant rounds this past week, with just two startup financings in the multiple hundreds of millions.
A missing purchase order. An invoice sent to the wrong person. Weeks of follow-up. Tarek Alaruri watched small clerical slips like these stall payments at a freight company, then…
Overall, investors put $38.5 billion into reported seed- through growth-stage financings for Asian startups in Q3, per Crunchbase data. Of that, a majority went to AI-focused comp…
Benchmark says the Valley’s rule against backing rivals is getting harder to keep.
Meta and Apple have teamed up for the launch of the social media giant's newest model, Muse Spark Open, which will run locally on Apple silicon.
The most capable system inside a 50-person freight brokerage is often someone who has worked there for 20 years, and nobody has ever written down what that person knows. A 23-year…
Amazon-owned Bee has launched its first new AI devices since its acquisition, including an updated wearable and a credit-card-sized recorder that attaches to smartphones. The devi…
The founders detailed how their startup is developing AI that can design chips, learn from each iteration, and improve subsequent designs, all with the goal of automating and acce…
Get a 50% discount on the last two days of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, October 14-15, in San Francisco. Register now and join the rest of the startup ecosystem. Today, it's all about…
Zenzap is used by organizations including Starbucks and Taco Bell.
In this Crunchbase News exclusive, we spoke to Marklo AI founder Jessica Herrin about her solution to the marketing problems she encountered when building earlier startups, and ho…
Complex, interconnected problems like compliance require a comprehensive product from the outset, argues guest columnist Daniel Kjellén, CEO and co-founder of Freda. Drawing on hi…
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We've released our research paper "Emergence World: A Platform for Evaluating Long-Horizon Multi-Agent Autonomy". The paper explores a critical challenge in AI evaluation: most benchmarks measure performance on short, isolated tasks, while real-world autonomous systems operate
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Our CEO & Co-Founder, Satya Nitta, joins @EvanKirstel, one of the world's leading B2B tech influencers and a trusted voice on AI and enterprise technology, for a special interview about Emergence World. The conversation will unpack why the research was launched, what emerged https://t.co/lQFLsTzRA1
Meet our Forward Deployed Creatives. They sit alongside agency and in-house brand teams as those teams adopt generative workflows for the first time. Their job: solve the biggest friction in creative AI adoption, the gap between what FLORA can do and how a team actually works. https://t.co/eCd2l37hrV
Years at Pentagram taught her the craft, and now she's using AI to extend it. Catherine Chung, Forward Deployed Creative at FLORA, walks through the workflows she actually uses: logo iteration, concepting, world building, typography, systematic design. June 22, 12pm EST. Come https://t.co/0szxtYKlkJ
Our CEO, Satya Nitta, was interviewed on @BBC Business Today this morning to discuss Emergence World, our groundbreaking long-horizon study of autonomous AI agents operating in complex simulated societies. The findings reinforce what may be one of the most important challenges
@daytonaio AI Builders meetup hits NYC 🗽 on June 23 powered by @Oracle & @Datadog. Talks from @daytonaio, @Oracle, @datadogdevs, @useblacksmith, and @AnchorBrowser: agent-driven QA, cloud architecture for AI workloads, how AI is reshaping CI, and more. We'll close out the https://t.co/BtDQqSLMi3
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"Build me a Snake game in Vite + React" → game runs inside the chat. "Make it red themed" → the running game updates live. We worked with @CopilotKit to build a generative-UI coding agent backed by @daytonaio sandboxes. Every tool call streams as a live card. So does the https://t.co/gLZaJFV4ou
Emergence World Season 2. Coming soon. In Season 1, we asked a simple question: what happens when autonomous agents are left to govern themselves over time? The results reinforced something we believe is increasingly important. Evaluating AI on isolated tasks tells us very https://t.co/5RErYwWrGo
The AI conversation has focused heavily on bigger models and faster chips. But we've long believed that AI progress will depend on something less visible: better data. Bobby Samuels wrote about this for InfoWorld: we have a “data gap." This is the distance between what models https://t.co/yI7V2qg3Tq
Work product almost never sits in one tidy folder. It is scattered across inboxes, calendars, deal files on SharePoint, CRM records, and shared drives. That's why today we're announcing OAuth Connected Apps for Brightwave. Simply connect your Microsoft 365, Salesforce, https://t.co/6wPYnL3Usj
As our community continues to grow, so does our team. We're currently hiring for two exciting roles: • Research Scientist / Research Engineer: https://t.co/Fiheq9CK76 • Senior ML Engineer – Agentic Systems & AI Infrastructure: https://t.co/DOLJRInzK4
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As part of NY Tech Week, FLORA gathered creatives to talk about what it means to create in the generative era, alongside installations by talented artists. Speakers from Hebbia, Art Basel, Bullish, and FLORA. Thank you to everyone who came through. https://t.co/7sHJUgCQ4k
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