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A Meta spokesperson insisted that the updated terms did not reflect a change in the way Meta crawls the web.

AI coding agents have created an unusual engineering problem: implementation can now move faster than the decisions that…

The composition of Anthropic’s workforce and the type of work getting done have changed significantly in the past year.

The best of the BambooHR alternatives for most UK and EU businesses in 2026 is HiBob. BambooHR is…

Over the weekend, Masad clarified that OpenAI would replace Anthropic as its default model provider. Claude will still be available to customers on the platform.

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.

Masad said the decision was made for a number of different reasons, including cost. Replit announced a partnership with OpenAI in August, but there was never any indication that it was no longer with Anthropic.

Social media numbers are not simple figures. Social media numbers show clear signals about the market and brands…

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 companies, echoing the trends we’ve seen globally.

The agents got in through credentials and connection settings left exposed in app configurations, public code repositories, and overly permissive cloud roles.

Growing a startup involves more than attracting customers and increasing revenue. As a business expands, its financial operations…

Amulya Vishwanath, who spent seven years leading product marketing for NVIDIA’s robotics platforms, says robotics is currently in its “Lego era,” with the basic building blocks like actuators, robotic hands, software, and safety standards still being rebuilt.  This view runs counter to those who believe that robotics, powered by a general foundation model, is about to have […]

Prop firms are a great way for traders to access far more trading capital, all while taking away…

Amulya Vishwanath, who spent seven years leading product marketing for NVIDIA’s robotics platforms, says robotics is currently in its “Lego era,” with the basic building blocks like actuators, robotic hands, software, and safety standards still being rebuilt.  This view runs counter to those who believe that robotics, powered by a general foundation model, is about to have […]

Scroll through a typical day of funding headlines and a pattern shows up: nine-figure rounds for open-source agent…

According to Elorian's evaluations, Glimpse outperforms even GPT-6 Astra on scientific chart reasoning and short-form video captioning, with competitive results on other visual reasoning tasks.

Glycosylation is a natural cellular process in which sugar molecules, called glycans, are attached to proteins, lipids, or…

The data comes from Vercel's AI gateway, a unified API service similar to OpenRouter.

Bolt Graphics has spent roughly six years designing a graphics chip, and the only silicon it has to…

Actor and angel investor Mark Wahlberg says he's OK with using AI in filmmaking, provided it's used "to enhance what you're doing."

California startup Alef Aeronautics flew its electric flying car over Tesla’s new Roadster, and used the moment to…

Counterfeiters are getting better at replicating brands' marks and passing off dupes, known as "superfakes," as genuine items. A startup called Veritas wants to tackle the problem with its own chip that verifies goods.

Nvidia announced planned minority investments in nine European startups, four in France and five in the UK, without…

Replit CEO Amjad Masad envisions a future of “self-driving companies,” where AI agents handle day-to-day tasks and people focus on higher-level decisions.

Cybersecurity today is about far more than watching for intruders, and European investors are paying attention. PitchBook counted…

When I co-founded Whitespace in 2015, “sovereign AI” was not the familiar phrase it is now. We had a more practical ambition: building technology…

Over 127,000 workers at U.S.-based tech companies were laid off in mass job cuts in 2025, per a Crunchbase News tally, and the layoffs have continued into 2026. See the latest companies to cut roles.

The company generated over $30 million in revenue in two years and was acquired by MyFitness for an undisclosed amount of money in March.

Nvidia is giving UK researchers $250 million to make AI agents safer, but none of it will arrive…

As AI enables smaller, faster teams, companies should hire curious, adaptable people who challenge established practices and can be trusted to make independent decisions, according to guest author Eric Francia, who writes that giving employees real responsibility, encouraging questions and investing in continuous learning helps teams innovate, stay engaged and retain talent.

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.

Sprints took about a year to raise its fifth fund, and more than half of it is already…

For the third quarter of 2026, global cybersecurity- and privacy-focused startups pulled in a total of $6.8 billion, per Crunchbase data. That’s up about 50% from the prior quarter and tied for the highest quarterly tally in years.

Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt, Amazon devices chief Panos Panay described a future where ambient AI devices work in the background, anticipating users' needs instead of waiting for commands.

In May, Anduril Industries put its value at $61B. Since October 13, its employees have been able to…

New York-based Chariot Claims has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Silverton Partners to help consumers pursue claims over alleged privacy violations, hidden fees and subscriptions that are difficult to cancel.

METR will publish its own assessments of Anthropic’s risks, incidents, and practices, and the frontier AI model maker has given up the right to block them.

In September 2016, the British Business Bank invested £26 million in a £40 million fund managed by Alice…

Bluesky is bringing “social vibe coding” to its experimental Attie platform, allowing users to create interactive experiences like games, quizzes, and websites that can tap into the social network's audience.

Siemens has already financed Skeleton Technologies, designed its factory, and bought its supercapacitors. On October 14, the German…

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Rabot Energy, a Hamburg climate tech startup, just raised $50 million in Series B, led by Endeit Capital,…

We'll likely learn more about how this will work at the company's upcoming "AI & Autonomy Day" event in December.

Salience Labs, a photonic chip startup based in Milton, Oxfordshire, has closed an oversubscribed $125 million Series B…

The new shopping tool is available in the U.S. across Google Search and the Gemini app.

Erik Bernhardsson helped build Spotify’s music recommendations, then spent six years as CTO of Better.com, and came away…

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Arif Mirza spent almost 10 years getting AI software adopted in the construction industry, starting at Spacemaker, which…

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 devices can summarize conversations, create to-do lists, and integrate with Alexa and Amazon shopping, with prices starting at $74.99.

Silvia Bio, a spinout from the University of Sheffield that has now raised £3 million, led by Northern…

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 how a group of investors, led by Forerunner, are backing that early experience with a $5 million seed funding round.

Langley’s comments come amid mounting scrutiny of Flock from privacy advocates, including the ACLU, and members of the public who are concerned about the misuse of its technology.

Every platform among 2026’s best AI app builders can produce a first version of an app for close…

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 his experience selling Tink, he explains how repeat founders can combine capital, credibility and hard-earned lessons with AI’s development speed to pursue bigger ambitions without shrinking their vision.

The label will appear on the player page and include songs entirely generated by AI or partially, such as AI involved in composition and vocals.

In 2026, sales teams use AI more and more often to communicate directly with potential buyers. Voice agents…

Semiconductors, financial services and space technology led for new Unicorn Board counts with the remainder hailing from a broad swath of industries including biotech, AI infrastructure, AI training, security and frontier labs.

Most companies use AI agents to ship products faster or speed up workflows. Apate.ai sends them undercover to get scammed.

For a while, Tomáš Čupr measured AI by how many people it could replace. He now calls that…

Deezer said that the new toggle will be rolled out by the end of the year.

Nvidia has told Europe how much it plans to spend before saying what it has already spent. In…

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In July 2022, Alastair Paterson, co-founder of the threat-intelligence firm Digital Shadows, sold the company to ReliaQuest for…

Zenzap is used by organizations including Starbucks and Taco Bell.

American manufacturers can often make a part faster than they can send back a price, according to Forgepoint.…

The problem Floqer is trying to solve is familiar to anyone who has worked in sales or revenue operations.

Pear VC has closed its fifth fund at $333 million, about $99 million less than the $432 million…

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FLÆ Robotics has raised over €1 million from Purple Ventures and Garage Angels in order to support its…

Scimplify's annualized revenue run rate has tripled to $200 million as it eyes U.S. expansion.

ai-PULSE, hosted by Paris-based cloud provider Scaleway, returned to Station F on October 13 and drew more than…

Sukhpal Ahluwalia and his family moved from Uganda when he was 13. In 1978, he took out a…

The next generation of super apps will likely emerge in markets where widespread mobile access, weak competition, poor financial services and crises that erode trust in banks create demand for a single trusted platform, writes guest author Nnamdi Okike, co-founder and managing partner of 645 Ventures.

Max Hodak, the former president and co-founder of Neuralink, detailed on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt how his company's work with PRIMA is part of its path toward a novel brain-computer interface (BCI).

Finance teams that go looking for the best AR automation software tend to have one of three problems.…

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 means for founders, and the housing problems he believes still need solving.

Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman predicts a future where personal AI assistants become as commonplace as household appliances, running partly on local devices and partly in the cloud.

After a decade launching products at Google and YouTube, Yann Goarin went looking for the markets Silicon Valley…

Industrial Next helps manufacturers automate complex, delicate tasks that have traditionally required human labor.

A TherapyNotes vs TheraNest decision used to turn on scheduling and clinical notes. That fight has moved. Behavioural…

Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman has a message for AI leaders spreading doomsday warnings: Maybe stop talking? At TechCrunch Disrupt, he argued that the industry's focus on AI's risks is drowning out its potential benefits.

Most finance software fixes one company’s books. The mess starts between two: a buyer disputes an invoice, a…

A federal judge ruled that Apple can access OpenAI's interview materials involving former Apple employees, as well as private messages and testimony from key figures in the case.

Bumble is in advanced talks to go private in a deal with Ithaca Holdings that would value it…

Flox's edge devices can identify animals and use species-specific sounds to drive them away from critical infrastructure.

IonQ builds quantum computers. The company has now agreed to buy a business that does not: Elisity, a…

Meta announced the launch of its new AI-powered feature, “Your Algorithm,” a feature it first launched on Instagram.

M25 roadworks are planned well in advance. Alchera Technologies, a startup based in Cambridge, claims its software can…

University of Michigan spinout Laplace Intelligence uses AI agents and interactive simulation to stress-test robots and self-driving vehicles before deployment. The profitable startup is competing in Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt, October 13-15 in San Francisco.

Hamburg-based 1KOMMA5° reached a $1 billion valuation in June 2023, 23 months after it launched. Its new valuation…

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, will soon.

The co-CEO of an $8 billion defense technology firm has backed a semiconductor startup, arguing that autonomous machines…

Google is making it easier to build and use personal Android apps created with AI, without having to make them available to everyone on the Play Store.

When she was 14, Margarethe Böhme presented a distance-learning platform for refugee camps to the UNHCR. Although the…

Where Muse Spark aimed to be a lightweight model that could perform at low latency, the Wonder models are larger and said to be more capable, with higher benchmark scores and better results on complex tasks like coding.

A website request crosses several systems before a page appears. Power must reach the servers, network equipment must…

A Silicon Valley startup that uses weather balloons and AI to predict the weather won a U.S. military contract worth almost $50 million.

James Dewar and Jamie Cox were both involved in the development of medical AI at Babylon Health, a…

Journalists, entrepreneurs, and even some public relations professionals will tell you that the PR process is broken. But could AI actually make things better?

Anthropic spent weeks examining Decart, then walked away. Now Amazon is reportedly willing to pay more. Amazon is…

Microsoft president Brad Smith calls for urgent AI regulation, saying milk and washing machines have more oversight than AI companies.

Gordon Sanghera led Oxford Nanopore for over 20 years, taking the company from its origins as a university…

Blueprints AI, a bootstrapped startup based in Santa Monica, developed software that produces code-compliant construction blueprints from a photo, PDF, or sketch.

Nuvia, the chip startup Gerard Williams sold to Qualcomm for $1.4 billion in 2021, never announced a product.…

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HyLight, the French startup that builds a 12-metre hydrogen-powered airship, just raised €13 million. Rubio Impact Ventures, DRW,…

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 listen, watch, or record users' activity all the time and gather all possible context.

More than one in five European venture-backed companies sold with a disclosed price since the start of 2025…

Asheem Panakkat, originally from India, was a software engineer and engineering manager at Google, where he worked on…

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On Equity, we debate the impact of data center moratoriums and whether the AI industry has a communication problem.

Voice AI's often misses important points for its context layer, and causes the whole pipeline to break