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Applied Computing, founded in 2023, has developed Orbital, a foundation model for oil, gas, refining, and petrochemical facilities. The startup targets a market where facilities with thousands of sens
OpenAI researcher Miles Wang is in talks to launch an AI drug discovery startup, with several other OpenAI researchers expected to join. He is reportedly seeking to raise approximately $200 million at
Former OpenAI executive Kevin Weil has joined Stoke Space's board as a director, the company confirmed. Weil, along with his wife Elizabeth through their fund Scribble Ventures, was an early investor
French AI company Mistral, based in Paris and named after a wind, is often misunderstood despite developing large language models (LLMs). Its chat and agent product Vibe, formerly known as Le Chat, ha
Indian tech entrepreneur Turakhia, 46, is bootstrapping $30 million of his own money to build Neo, an enterprise work platform designed as an AI-native alternative to Microsoft Office. Turakhia previo
The New York Jobs CEO Council and Urban Assembly hosted an AI summit for 150 education and industry leaders, aiming to drive knowledge sharing between those hiring for the future and educators teachin
Patronus AI, a San Francisco-based startup founded in 2023 by former Meta AI researchers Anand Kannappan and Rebecca Qian, announced a $50 million Series B round led by Greenfield Partners, with parti
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) says her staff used AI only for "spellcheck" in an amendment summary for the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act, and denies the technology was used to write the amen
Google is expanding in Alabama with a new data center facility that powers essential digital services and supports long-term regional growth. As part of the expansion, Google is funding 100% of its ow
Indian customer engagement platform MoEngage has acquired Aampe, a startup that assigns a dedicated AI agent to each customer, allowing brands to personalize messaging based on individual behavior rat
Enterprise search company Elastic has agreed to acquire DeductiveAI, a young startup using artificial intelligence to detect and resolve software bugs, in a deal valued at up to $85 million, according
AI inference startup Baseten is reportedly on the verge of closing a massive $1.5 billion funding round at a $13 billion valuation, according to the Wall Street Journal. The raise comes just five mont
Snap is spinning off its internal generative AI video team into a standalone company called Dotmo, with the new venture aimed at building AI models that power interactive gaming experiences. The Snapc
Odyssey, a startup building AI "world models" that simulate the physical environment, has closed a $310 million Series B that pushes its valuation to $1.45 billion. The round was led by Natural Capita
Paris-based robotics startup Genesis AI has unveiled Eno, a humanoid robot that deliberately breaks from the traditional humanoid mold by prioritizing capability over appearance. Backed by former Goog
SpaceX briefly leapfrogged Amazon to claim the title of the world's fifth-most-valuable company on Tuesday, with its market capitalization spiking to $2.9 trillion at one point before retreating. The
SpaceX is acquiring AI coding startup Cursor in an all-stock transaction valued at $60 billion, finalizing a deal first telegraphed just days after the space company's blockbuster public offering in m
Meta is actively dismantling its $2 billion acquisition of Manus, cutting off the Chinese-founded AI agent startup from its internal systems and ending data sharing between the two companies. Accordin
Andrew Yang, the entrepreneur and 2020 presidential candidate, is betting that the next big wave of startup innovation will come from businesses designed to reduce the cost of living rather than extra
Mistral AI, the Paris-based artificial intelligence company, is in early-stage talks to secure roughly €3 billion ($3.5 billion) in new funding at a valuation of about €20 billion ($23.15 billion), ac
Jeff Bezos's physical AI startup Prometheus has closed a massive $12 billion funding round at a $41 billion valuation, marking one of the largest bets ever placed on the emerging physical AI sector. T
Avataar AI, a Peak XV-backed startup focused on video tools for e-commerce, has launched Varya, a new video generation model designed specifically for the Indian market. The company is one of 12 start
Barcelona-based robotics startup Theker has raised $85 million in a Series A round it claims is the largest ever for a European robotics company. Founded by Carla Gómez Cano and Jiaqiang Ye Zhu, the c
Sabertooth Capital, the firm founded by former Playground Global investor Justin Ernest, has deployed nearly $500 million across 10 high-profile startups in the past year, including Anthropic, Anduril
A former Playground Global investor is using special purpose vehicles to help family offices get in on some of the most coveted late-stage tech deals of the moment. Justin Ernest, who spent more than
Brendan Foody, the co-founder of AI talent platform Mercor, which most recently hit a $10 billion valuation, publicly accused Sequoia Capital of running what he called a "Sequoia scam" involving "dual
A new AI startup called Quilty is making bold claims that its software can predict whether a film will be a box office hit or a flop just by analyzing a screenplay. Founded by film producers Simon Hor
While the AI sector continues to dominate venture capital headlines, a counter-movement of "together tech" startups is emerging as one of the most compelling bets of 2026. On the latest episode of Tec
Founders have just three days left to apply for Startup Battlefield 200, with the application window closing on June 8 at 11:59 p.m. PT. The flagship startup competition will culminate at TechCrunch D
While AI startups continue to attract record-breaking funding rounds, a counter-movement of founders is building products designed to pull people away from their screens and back into physical, in-per
Mira Murati, the former chief technology officer of OpenAI who now runs her own AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab, broke a roughly 18-month media silence this week with a carefully measured sit-down w
Lovable, the Stockholm-based "vibe-coding" startup, has struck an expanded multiyear deal with Google Cloud that will quintuple its footprint on the platform, according to a person familiar with the a
AethexAI, a voice AI startup focused on underserved markets in Africa and the Middle East, has closed a $3 million pre-seed round led by 4DX Ventures, with Enza Capital, Dorm Room Fund, Mojo Ventures,
Microsoft on Tuesday introduced ASSERT, an open-source framework designed to help developers test whether AI systems behave correctly for their specific products and services. Short for Adaptive Spec-
Legendary director Martin Scorsese has joined forces with Black Forest Labs, the German AI image-generation startup, as both a partner and adviser. The 82-year-old filmmaker confirmed to The New York
Cyera, the AI-focused data security startup founded in 2021, is closing a funding round of at least $300 million led by Evolution Equity Partners that would value the company at $12 billion, according
WindBorne Systems, a startup founded by Stanford students in 2019, released its WeatherMesh 6 AI weather forecasting model on June 1, 2026, claiming it outperforms the systems developed by the Europea
Box founder Aaron Levie sparked widespread discussion this week with a social media post describing tech CEOs as "uniquely prone to AI psychosis." The comment was examined on TechCrunch's Equity podca
In 2022, Craig Campbell turned down investor funding to start a website instead of chasing the AI boom that was swallowing up the tech industry. Campbell, a former Meta engineer and serial entrepreneu
Cognition has secured $1 billion in funding at a $26 billion valuation, making the two-year-old startup one of the most valuable AI companies in the industry. The company created Devin, one of the fir
A startup called Shift is offering to clean New Yorkers' homes for free — with one condition. The company wants to record everything its cleaners do: scrubbing dishes, wiping counters, dusting furnitu
Groq, the AI chip startup, is seeking to raise $650 million in fresh capital from its existing investors as it pushes deeper into the inference neocloud market, according to sources cited by Axios. Th
Box founder Aaron Levie has coined the term "AI psychosis" to describe a troubling pattern in corporate America: the executives making decisions about replacing workers with AI are often the least qua
AI chip startup Groq is seeking to raise $650 million in fresh capital from its existing investor base, according to sources cited by Axios. The San Jose-based company is positioning this funding roun
AI training startup Shift is offering free home cleaning services, but customers will have to accept a small trade-off: cameras mounted on cleaners' heads recording every swipe of the sponge and vacuu
Glean, the enterprise AI search platform sometimes called "the Google for work," has hit $300 million in annual recurring revenue, tripling its $100 million revenue mark from just 15 months prior. The
Anthropic has closed a massive $65 billion funding round at a $965 billion post-money valuation, positioning the AI company for what could be its final private fundraising before going public. The Ser
Anthropic has launched Opus 4.8, the latest iteration of its flagship AI model, marking the fastest upgrade cycle in the company's recent history. The new model arrived just 41 days after Opus 4.7 hit
Remote, a seven-year-old payroll company headquartered in Amsterdam, announced it has crossed $300 million in annual recurring revenue and achieved cash-flow positive status. But the metric the compan
Cognition, the startup behind the autonomous AI software engineer Devin, has secured over $1 billion in new funding at a $25 billion pre-money valuation, the company revealed Wednesday. This marks a d
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