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Design Arena creators raise $7.9 million to bring taste to AI models | TechCrunch

As co-founder Grace Li tells it, her company started a few weeks before graduation in 2025, with a...

Pangram founders Max Spero and Bradley Emi
AI

As AI content floods the internet, Pangram raises $9M to detect it | TechCrunch

New York-based AI detection startup Pangram is on a mission to combat the AI slop infestation spreading across...

Andon Labs AI vending machine
AI

Claude Opus 5 became downright ruthless when tasked with running a vending machine | TechCrunch

For a year now, the AI safety testing firm Andon Labs has given frontier models various real-world tasks...

Sea wave made of money
AI

How a $250 million acquisition collapsed into allegations of fraud and forged signatures | TechCrunch

When VideoVerse announced its acquisition in September 2025, it felt like a victory for startups across India. VideoVerse...

Blacksmith
AI

AI code-testing startup Blacksmith’s valuation jumps almost 10x in less than a year | TechCrunch

As AI makes coding dramatically faster, the next big challenge in software development is testing and validating all...

Discovered Materials founders Advaith Sridhar and Akash Ramdas
AI

Discovered Materials is playing AI whack-a-mole to hunt cooler chips | TechCrunch

Chips running AI workloads are too hot: That’s one reason why data centers consume so much electricity and...

Hark over flower backdrop
AI

Hark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks | TechCrunch

Hark, a startup that raised $700 million in Series A funding in May, today launched its agent Hark...

Claw holding weight
AI

Tech industry is buzzing after a Claude agent hacked into a gym | TechCrunch

By now, we all realize that Silicon Valley’s AI labs have built the world’s best hackers in the...

AI

AI data startup Micro1 reaches $500M gross run rate amid AI training boom | TechCrunch

The near-bottomless demand for unique AI training data from top labs and corporations is driving a massive boom...

Hohlraum contains the fuel pellet for inertial confinement fusion
AI

Inertia Enterprises finds a way to make its fusion fuel fast | TechCrunch

Fusion startup Inertia Enterprises said it has found a way to cut the time it takes to make...