16 articles tagged with “startups”.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 has unveiled a first look at its Smart Systems Stage agenda, focused on energy, infrastructure, and technology, including AI's growing strain on the grid.
Safe Superintelligence, founded by Ilya Sutskever, announced a long-term partnership with Nvidia to scale its AI research as it enters a new phase after two years in stealth.
An episode of TechCrunch's Equity podcast discusses why Moonshot AI's Kimi appeared to unsettle both Silicon Valley and Wall Street.
Prentis, a new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus, is reportedly in talks to raise $100M, wagering that automating routine computer tasks will overtake coding as AI's biggest use case.
Midjourney, known for AI image generation, has acquired the personalized astrology app Co-Star. The deal reportedly closed in spring, with terms undisclosed.
Cognition has acquired AI assistant Poke in a deal valuing it in the low nine figures, bringing Poke's conversational interaction model to Cognition's coding agent Devin.
AegisAI, founded by former Google security executives, has raised $36M to fight AI-driven spear phishing with AI agents that examine each message for subtle anomalies.
Atoms, a robotics company founded by Travis Kalanick, has raised $1.7 billion led by a16z, with Uber among its investors.
Yope has raised $12.3 million in seed funding to build a private social app centered on small groups of friends and family, avoiding algorithmic feeds and ads.
Robotics startup Gritt has emerged from stealth with $34 million in funding, aiming to automate difficult construction work beginning with solar plants.
Venture capitalist Neil Rimer, co-founder of Index Ventures, predicts that the significant wealth AI is creating in Silicon Valley will have to be redistributed voluntarily or involuntarily.
Alexandre LeBrun, CEO of world model startup AMI Labs, declines to describe the company's AI as 'AGI' or 'superintelligence,' pushing back against common industry framing.
Applied Computing secured a $20M Series A to develop a foundation AI model aimed at the oil, gas and petrochemical industry.
Ode has launched with backing from Anthropic and Blackstone, wagering that embedding engineers inside enterprises is central to accelerating AI adoption.
A TechCrunch piece looks at why successful, already-rich tech figures are working intensely again, motivated by AI's defining moment and the prospect of greater earnings.
Lyzr, a startup building AI agents for enterprises, said it used its own agent to conduct a $100 million fundraising round.