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The problem with giving everyone in a company access to AI tools is that people will use them in unexpected ways. And that fact is steadily seeding fears that companies now have new, gaping security holes in their systems or, at least,…
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TechCrunch ·The startup will sell some of its assets to Disney for $20 million.
TechCrunch ·In a recent interview with Crunchbase News, Brendan Wallace, founder, CEO and chief investment officer of Fifth Wall, discussed the AI shift, why proptech funding totals may overlook some of the sector’s biggest investments, what it all…
Crunchbase News ·When Keelan Miskell began winding down his crypto startup this year, he didn’t think its data was worth much: the users were anonymous, the company just a few years old. But he’s since turned the firm’s digital archives into real money.…
MIT Technology Review ·Companies in France are deploying agentic computing across industries spanning space, financial services, the public sector and scientific research, demonstrating how the country’s ecosystem has moved from ambition to application. France’s…
NVIDIA ·Freightmate, an AI startup co-founded by two ex-Flexport employees, settled Flexport's trade secrets suit. The founders acknowledged acquiring about 2,000 confidential Flexport shipping documents and using some, but denied their product…
GeekWire ·Amazon is in talks to buy Decart for around $7 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported. The startup makes software that helps AI models run faster on different kinds of chips, including Amazon's Trainium, and has already worked with AWS…
GeekWire ·President Donald Trump created a new task force last week focused on artificial intelligence, which he has renamed “super intelligence.” Tech leaders have called repeatedly called on Washington to create guardrails for the industry, with…
NC Newsline ·Tomorrow at 8 a.m. PT, it all begins z— 10,000+ founders, investors, and tech operators will gather at San Francisco’s Moscone West for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 for three days of ideas, connections, and startups shaping what comes next.…
TechCrunch ·One of the core promises of AI is that the more it knows about a person, the better it will be able to assist them with tasks and make appropriate suggestions, which, if you'll believe the tech companies, requires apps and devices to…
TechCrunch ·We recorded this week’s GeekWire Podcast at Front Burner Studios near Pike Place Market with co-owner Seth Paul, CEO of security startup Qinsay. We discussed Shield AI’s AI-piloted fighter jets, the White House crackdown on Microsoft, and…
GeekWire ·As the AI startup boom progresses, investors appear to be leaving few niches unfunded. That was apparent in this week’s lineup of large funding rounds, which featured AI infrastructure providers, a foundational model developer, a content…
Crunchbase News ·Active startup investors largely kept up or increased their dealmaking pace in the third quarter, even as overall venture funding declined with the absence of new record megarounds for AI leaders.
Crunchbase News ·AI companies can build durable moats by embedding their products in essential customer workflows, explains tech adviser Itay Sagie, who shares why founders should prioritize measurable customer dependence, while investors and acquirers…
Crunchbase News ·Album partners Sid Krommenhoek, Cash Allred, and Ty Boswell discuss adapting early-stage venture capital to AI disruption, capital-intensive markets, and reindustrialization while maintaining an unwavering, founder-first investment…
TechBuzz News ·Great companies take more than a great idea. Through Rev1 Insider Insights, we introduce Rev1 team members, advisors and partners who work alongside entrepreneurs as they validate markets, solve early challenges, make connections and turn…
Rev1 Ventures ·The cohort will spend the coming months refining their strategies, building connections and preparing to present their progress to investors and industry leaders at the Trailblazer HealthTech Accelerator Startup Showcase on December 10.…
JumpStart Inc. ·Vesta, an AI-native software startup that helps lenders originate mortgages, announced a $30 million round led by Conversion Capital.
TechCrunch ·Mecka AI collects and analyzes human motion data to train humanoid robots and other kinds of robots. The startup pays people to record everyday tasks.
TechCrunch ·From Nvidia and Chime to Obvious Ventures and Anthropic, explore the entire roundtable agenda at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register now to save up to $100 on your pass and get a second pass at 50% off.
TechCrunch ·As AI IPOs bring greater scrutiny, argues guest author Maor Farid, founder and CEO of Leo AI, investors will increasingly prioritize customer spending growth, sustainable margins and deployment efficiency over rapid revenue growth alone.
Crunchbase News ·In total, investors poured $92 billion into seed- through growth-stage rounds for U.S. and Canadian startups in the third quarter, per Crunchbase data. That’s a 35% decline from the prior quarter but up 50% from year-ago levels.
Crunchbase News ·Some of the AI industry’s fastest-growing startups are becoming serial acquirers, buying smaller companies to fill product gaps, enter new markets and bring specialized teams in-house, a review of Crunchbase data shows. While AI giant…
Crunchbase News ·Ghost's first product is Core, a personal computer designed specifically for AI agents that can take actions on a person's behalf.
TechCrunch ·TechCrunch attended Pear’s latest demo day and discovered which startups generated the most buzz, from spatial models to chips for local AI.
TechCrunch ·Global venture funding totaled $159 billion in Q3 2026 with close to 6,000 startups funded, Crunchbase data shows. And while the third quarter was the lowest for startup investment so far this year, it still exceeded every other quarter…
Crunchbase News ·Over the summer I talked to the CEO of Springboards, a startup building an LLM that’s designed to come up with a wider variety of responses than its mainstream rivals do. At the start of the call, he said something that’s been stuck in my…
MIT Technology Review ·Enterprise AI is no longer a future ambition. It is in full operational flight. Model capabilities are advancing faster than most organizations can absorb, while the cost of performance continues to fall. Globally, AI investment is set to…
MIT Technology Review ·AI factories are built by the megawatt, even by the gigawatt. Each megawatt factory costs roughly $60 million, and AI factory operators will only commit capital on that scale with a clear view of the return on investment. Three key things…
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