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Lyte, a physical AI startup building sensing and perception technology for robots, has raised a Maverick Silicon-led $165 million Series C funding at a $1.6 billion post-money valuation.

The Builders Stage is returning to TechCrunch Disrupt, bringing together founders, startup operators, and investors for practical conversations on what it takes to build and scale.

Large e-commerce platforms face a technical bottleneck: they need to score millions of items instantly without delays. The…

In the first half of this year, 58 venture-backed companies joined the public listings at $1 billion or above, per Crunchbase data. With the year’s end now in sight, a small window remains for other startups to launch 2026 IPOs, so we took a look at notable venture-backed startups that Crunchbase’s predictive intelligence suggests are potential IPO candidates within the next six months.

The acquisition also leaves Sequoia-backed Serval as the de facto startup leader in AI IT service automation, industry watchers believe.

Catch, an AI agent that provides end-to-end assistance with executive administration, secured $5 million in seed funding, with…

On our new Real World AI stage, we’ll be focusing on the intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways we’ll continue to see a blending of the two.

In 2013, Dieter De Mesmaeker presented American investors with strong growth figures but failed to secure their investment.…

OpenAI’s new Astra model will use “recurrent depth,” a technique that allows the model to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models.

Pharosyn, a London-based startup that develops AI systems for the commercial departments of pharmaceutical companies, has raised $3…

The internet has a trust problem, and it’s not just because social media feeds are filling up with AI slop. AI-generated text and images are now making their way into job applications, product reviews, and even insurance claims, leaving platforms and users alike scrambling to figure out what’s real.  A handful of startups have cropped up in the past couple of […]

“How are you ever going to find a co-founder or an engineer that wants to work on that…

Wandercraft is in talks to raise around €100 million, according to people familiar with the matter cited by…

The internet has a trust problem, and it’s not just because social media feeds are filling up with AI slop. AI-generated text and images are now making their way into job applications, product reviews, and even insurance claims, leaving platforms and users alike scrambling to figure out what’s real.  A handful of startups have cropped up in the past couple of […]

For three years, Matt Clifford had advised two UK prime ministers on artificial intelligence and is now joining…

"The United States has a strong interest in continuing to develop a robust and competitive artificial intelligence industry that sets the standard for the practice and procedure of AI use globally," the brief reads.

AfterQuery has reportedly raised a Series B at a $3.2 billion valuation, according to Forbes, one of the…

Wonderful said it will use its $550 million Series C funding to develop products faster, expand its FDE teams, and meet demand for its products.

Cognition is closing in on a new funding round of around $1 billion at a valuation of roughly…

Jio is betting it can turn an aging computer into an AI-ready PC for as little as about $11 for two months.

Security companies are scrambling to build products that can monitor not just agents but also the tools and add-ons they use.

Chris Watson studied gene regulation in failing hearts at Queen’s University Belfast for 15 years to find a…

As startups scale from a handful of desks to full-blown offices, most founders pour their attention into headcount,…

Félix, a Miami-based AI-powered WhatsApp remittance platform for Latino immigrants, announced on Tuesday that it has secured $200 million in Series C funding co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst.

AI model-training startup AfterQuery has reportedly raised a round that valued it at $3.2 billion, just five months after announcing its $30 million Series A at a $300 million valuation in April.

Donald Trump Jr. advises Polymarket. He also advises Kalshi, Polymarket’s biggest rival, and holds Kalshi equity worth more…

OpenAI previewed the precautions it is taking as it prepares to release Astra, its newest, cyber-critical LLM.

Real estate tech startup investors are being more selective about their bets and putting more money into companies using AI and other technology to make construction, property operations and real estate transactions faster and less expensive.

While some of the features see Google playing catch-up to Apple, which already offers similar features for iPhone users, others specifically leverage Gemini to provide various improvements.

Orchestra has secured $3.3 million in seed funding, led by Differential Ventures. Moonfire, which led the earlier $1.3…

Fable 5.1 includes changes meant to reduce token cost and false-positive restrictions from the model's safeguards.

Andreessen Horowitz has topped up its fifth Growth fund to $8.5 billion, adding $1.75 billion to the $6.75…

INLEAP Photonics, a German startup that produces lasers capable of stopping drones without putting anybody in danger, raised…

With Google Pics, Google is pushing deeper into the creative software market dominated by Canva and Adobe, but with a distinctly AI-first approach.

OpenAI said that the integration provides read-only access to health records for clinicians.

Nscale has closed roughly $3 billion in investment-grade debt to bankroll two GPU campuses in the US, the…

The startup wants to do for IT infrastructure what Cursor did for software engineering.

Two engineers set up a rocket company in Elche, a Spanish city famous for shoe production, immediately after…

Amazon is adding a new Alexa-powered feature called “Update Me When” that can send personalized alerts about product launches, tours, books, shows, and other events that could trigger a purchase.

Holifya has raised €2 million to expand its AI-powered GLP-1 obesity clinic in Milan. The proportion of eligible…

While most climate technology companies are still working to become profitable, Cloover, a Berlin-based cleantech, achieved profitability within…

AIR's platform can discover agents running at a company, continuously vets any skills and add-ons they use, and blocks any unwanted behavior.

Fambot is building an AI “chief of staff” to help families manage the emails, calendars, school updates, sports schedules, and other logistics of raising kids.

Dr Gesa Miczaika began raising funds for Auxxo’s second fund in 2022, and the process took three years…

While the AI boom has disrupted funding patterns across the startup sphere, biotech has remained a rare steady sector for investment. For the past few years, global funding to biotech startups has hovered between $36 billion and $40 billion. Per Crunchbase data, 2026 is on track to stay close to that range.

Apple says it has evidence that a former employee destroyed evidence of data theft after learning he was under investigation.

Versions of OpenAI's ChatGPT and SpaceXAI's Grok will join Google's Gemini on the Pentagon's central portal for AI tools.

As frustration over AI influencers has been growing, Instagram is limiting the reach of undisclosed AI profiles.

Blue Voice is trained on department-specific laws, local ordinances, protocols, and guidelines that general-purpose AI tools can't access on the public internet.

The three-year-old startup says it reached $15 million in ARR and profitability before raising its latest $15 million round.

Nvidia invests $3.5 billion into Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek. The deal shows how Nvidia plans to stay essential to AI infrastructure as Big Tech begins to build its own AI chips.

Circleback is also introducing new pricing plans starting from $14 per month.

The U.S. is shutting out more foreign-made drones and robots. China’s scale means the global competition may simply move elsewhere.

Elon Musk says a secretive new SpaceX foundry will let him cast his own turbine blades and get gas power online 18 months faster than anyone else — but it's a bet on a fuel source that's already triggering lawsuits and health studies everywhere his (and others') turbines have gone in.

Caterpillar has spent decades putting autonomous machines to work at remote mining sites. It's now bringing that experience to AI deployment.