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For two decades, Tom Mueller built the rocket engines that got things into orbit — the Merlin that…

Overall, May’s active investor tallies painted a picture of a startup funding scene still dominated by familiar names.

Anthropic has been growing at a breakneck pace. The company announced that annualized revenue crossed $47 billion in May, up dramatically from roughly $9 billion at the end of 2025. That trajectory faces a real test, though.

All-in-one software ecosystem provider Scotch is a Denver-based AI-native operating system designed specifically for liquor store owners.

The Airbnb CEO said last year it hasn't struck an LLM partnership because existing products weren't quite ready.

The web is splitting into two layers: one for humans, one for AI agents. The shift is set…

A year ago, building a working application required an engineering team, weeks of development time, and a budget…

On Thursday, June 18, at The Aerospace Corporation Campus, investors, founders, and tech leaders will gather for an evening of conversation exploring some of the most consequential shifts taking place across venture capital, defense technology, artificial intelligence, and advanced industry. Secure your spot today.

A hospice patient used Suno to leave songs behind for their family. Therapists are using it to help…

Meta may have found one way to slash its massive data center bill: tents.

Humans have been cutting down trees to make wooden planks for millennia. The process is fundamentally absurd: you…

Poke, the startup that lets people use AI agents through simple text messages, has become the first AI agent approved for Apple’s Messages for Business platform.

Creators often have to parse through charts and dashboards to understand their performance, but with the new AI assistant, they can get quick answers to questions like "When should I post?" and "What are people saying in my comments?"

The world’s most sophisticated voice AI models break down precisely where the next billion internet users actually live.…

Enterprise software has spent a decade getting better at showing sales teams what is happening. Dashboards got smarter,…

Apple's WWDC nears: Here's what you can look forward to.

The California startup released the fourth-generation of its home assistance robot, Stretch.

For years, Europe’s AI debate has centred on a familiar question: how can the continent convert its world-class…

The most important software in a bank is often the software nobody fully understands anymore. It runs core…

Apple's App Store generated $1.4 trillion in sales, up from $1.3 trillion last year, with $149 billion in sales for digital goods.

When Steijn Pelle’s dentist showed him what it actually takes to run a dental practice, he didn’t go…

All told, global venture funding reached $92 billion in May, marking the second-largest monthly total on record, just behind February, Crunchbase data shows. Of that, Anthropic raised $50 billion, or 54% of the month’s total funding.

Lovable and Google signed an expanded multiyear deal that involves a 5x expansion of Lovable's footprint on Google Cloud, and expanded access to Anthropic Claude.

Enterprises have spent billions on AI. Most of that spending has produced dashboards, copilots, and pilot projects, not…

AI has learned to read language, interpret images, and write code. It still cannot feel matter. That gap,…

If Alphabet's record-breaking $85 billion stock sale signals investor appetite for AI-related offerings, we can see that investors are ready to chow.

Dreambeans is a curated list of AI-illustrated "stories" culled from the personal data in your Google account.

For the past three years, every boardroom conversation has been about AI. Every fund deck has had an…

Amazon will use visual search and AI to show AI-generated product images that match your search queries. The retailer says it will help guide users to products.

Most legal AI startups are being built for law firms. That is where the money is, and where…

Email has survived every wave of workplace technology, from instant messaging to collaboration platforms to AI assistants. Yet…

The startup's own stack for Africa and Middle East is now handling more than 17,000 calls per day.

For many online merchants, expanding across Europe is relatively straightforward. Expanding across Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is…

U.K. regulators are requiring Google offer a tool allowing website publishers to opt-out of generative AI search features. The option will be tested in the U.K. then rolled out globally.

Despite widespread hope of a peace deal, US-Iran talks appear to have stalled. Iran suspended peace talks on…

WhatsApp will charge businesses for using its AI agent based on token usage.

Healthcare systems worldwide face a simple but stubborn problem: there are far more patients than clinicians available to…

Coralogix is among a growing number of infrastructure firms betting that as AI systems move into production, demand will rise for tools that can monitor their behavior, troubleshoot failures, and provide the operational data needed to keep them running reliably.

For decades, heavy industry has relied on control systems designed for a different era. Today, manufacturers face soaring…

Quantum computing has long promised to revolutionise industries ranging from drug discovery and materials science to cybersecurity and…

Already this year, more than $14.6 billion in venture investment has gone into companies in Crunchbase’s military, national security and law enforcement categories, blowing past the sector's previous annual record of $9.6 billion raised in all of 2025.

The cybersecurity company is nearing a $300 million round led by Evolution Equity Partners.

Smartphones, app ecosystems, digital wallets, and high-speed connectivity turned online gaming into an accessible consumer technology product capable…

enGen’s AI Cognitive Engine resolved 2.19 million claim suspensions last year at 99.64 percent accuracy. The architect behind…

Uber's cutback has occurred after the company had reportedly encouraged staff to use AI as much as possible.

Reports of “SaaS being dead” are misguided, writes guest author Bob Morse, who contends that AI will enable software companies to move beyond selling productivity tools to deliver knowledge-work outcomes directly, unlocking massive unmet demand for services, ultimately growing the software industry.

NVIDIA has announced the Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot, the first open humanoid robot reference design built on…

Microsoft on Tuesday took the wraps off Adaptive Spec-driven Scoring for Evaluation and Regression Testing, an open source framework for spinning up AI evaluations.

The caveat is that one of the world's most famous living directors is using the tech solely for storyboarding.

Doctors can sequence your entire genome. They still cannot fully read your immune system, the biological layer that…

Warren Buffett once admitted he “screwed up” by not buying Google earlier. His successor Greg Abel just wrote…

Launched at Build, Microsoft Scout is a new AI assistant meant to bring the power and flexibility of OpenClaw into the Microsoft 365 system.

As people increasingly refuse to answer calls from unknown numbers, scammers are shifting their tactics by spoofing trusted phone numbers and using AI deepfake technology to sound like authority figures, family members, or employers.

For two decades, e-commerce has optimised for convenience. Platforms became faster, search became smarter, and checkout friction all…

The specification lets developer, compliance, and security teams define their own policies for agents to follow in portable policy files.

Trade finance has spent two decades digitising the invoice. Twinco Capital decided to go further upstream, to the…

The class action lawsuit, filed in Seattle by Virginia resident Charles Sigwalt, claims that Ring's Familiar Faces feature stores images of passersby without consent.

Poindexter Labs has raised a £2 million seed round led by Episode 1. The London-based company aims to…

When TFN first covered Phia’s $35.5 million Series A in January, the lead investors were the story: Notable…

After industry objections, President Trump signed a revised AI executive order requiring only voluntary prerelease government reviews of advanced models.

Legal tech startup Bayshore has emerged from stealth with an $8 million seed round to turn legal rules…

OpenAI released a set of six plug-ins aimed at specific jobs: data analytics, creative production, sales, product design, equity investing, and investment banking. Available from within the Codex app, each of the new tools bundles integrations, instructions, and context to allow Codex to approximate a specific job.

Anthropic has officially entered the public markets race. Today, Anthropic PBC confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on…

"The company is experiencing strong demand for its AI solutions and services from enterprises and consumers, at levels that are exceeding the company’s available supply," Alphabet said in its statement.

Anthropic said Monday that it has submitted a confidential filing for a proposed IPO, marking an escalation in the race among generative AI behemoths to make it first to the public market.

When investor trust is built through repeated in-person encounters, authentic conversations and thought leadership on meaningful problems, relationships and visibility matter more than aggressive fundraising outreach, argues guest author Alyx van der Vorm, whose startup raised $14 million as the result of personal interactions.

AI is transforming financial services, but some of the industry’s most expensive and time-consuming processes still rely heavily…

If Nvidia has cracked a way to bring AI agents easily, safely, and usefully to the masses, it could — and should — be big.

Meta is developing an AI-powered pendant and plans to begin testing it within the next year, according to…

The lawsuit partially revolves around a shooting at Florida State University last year, and ChatGPT's alleged role in the incident.

So far this year, investors have put about $7.8 billion into Boston-area startups, per Crunchbase data. That puts the region on track for a moderate annual gain and the strongest tally in about four years.

The company says it needs "significant" water resources to cool its data centers, and that access to abundant, affordable water is a challenge.

Sam Altman spent years making AI useful for people who sit at desks. Now he wants to make…

Solar went from 40 gigawatts of annual deployment to 600 in a decade, not because it got more…

Anthropic, now an AI powerhouse that has landed top-tier enterprise customers, was once considered an underdog in the emerging world of large language models.

In 2013, Dr. AJ Cooper co-founded a smartwatch company called Olio Devices. It raised $10.2 million, built a…

WindBorne benefits from its unique combination of model-building and data collection. The company now has about 400 balloons in flight gathering sensor readings at any given time, launched from 15 sites around the globe. The advances in its current model come from improvements in how the data collected by the balloons is fed into the models.

For decades, cybersecurity has largely followed the same playbook: detect a breach, investigate the damage, and respond after…

Alternative search engine DuckDuckGo launches 'no AI' web extensions for Chrome and Firefox users.

Balderton Capital has launched ‘Built in Europe,’ a pan-European advertising campaign backed by 100+ founders including Revolut, Mistral…

When governments need to know what is happening on the other side of a cloud bank, in the…

Masayoshi Son and Emmanuel Macron met when the French president visited Japan earlier this year. What followed was…

Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has a new mission.

On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether tech CEOs are "uniquely prone to AI psychosis."