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Cloudflare acquires Deno to improve its Workers programming model | TechCrunch

Cloudflare announced Friday that it’s acquiring Deno, the startup behind the programming runtime of the same name.According to...

TypeSafe AI co-founders Erik Gafni, Sasha Sheng, and Diogo Almeida.
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The maker of non-text AI model Jev valued at $7.5B just weeks after launch | TechCrunch

TypeSafe AI, the developer of Jev, a new type of AI model that gained rapid popularity after launching...

AI agents, AI swarm, agent hackers
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Kevin Mandia’s new ‘agent swarm’ security startup Armadin raises $255.5M at $2.5B valuation | TechCrunch

Kevin Mandia, best known as the founder of cybersecurity startup Mandiant that sold it to Google for $5.4...

ElevenLabs logo/splash screen
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AI voice startup ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22B | TechCrunch

Voice AI startup ElevenLabs announced today that it’s allowing employees to cash out a portion of their vested...

Midi Health, startups, venture capital
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a16z-backed EliseAI raises $350M, doubles valuation to $4B | TechCrunch

AI startup EliseAI announced on Tuesday that it has raised $350 million at a $4 billion valuation, double...

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Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B | TechCrunch

In its first acquisition since going public last month, Bending Spoons on Tuesday said that it has agreed...

Simile founder and CEO Joon Sung Park
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Synthetic-user startup Simile raises $200M at $2B valuation 5 months after $100M Series A | TechCrunch

Add another member to the fast-and-furious AI unicorn club: Simile. Just five months after emerging from stealth and...

Mockup of Valar Atomics site
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Sequoia’s Shaun Maguire leads $1B round for nuclear startup Valar Atomics | TechCrunch

Valar Atomics confirmed the whisperings that it was raising a giant round led by Sequoia on Monday. The...

render of LLM AI bot reading multiple books at once
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Bot-detection startup Spur nabs $200M from Insight | TechCrunch

Spur Intelligence, a cybersecurity startup based in Lake Mary, Florida, has raised a $200 million round led by...

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OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide | TechCrunch

NextSlide recently announced that it’s joining OpenAI, with the presentation startup’s team members now working on ChatGPT.The NextSlide...