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Scimplify co-founder Sachin Santhosh
AI

Scimplify raises $25M to challenge China’s grip on critical materials with AI | TechCrunch

As manufacturers across industries strive to reduce their reliance on Chinese suppliers, Indian startup Scimplify has raised $25...

AI

WindBorne wins a hefty US Air Force contract for its balloon data | TechCrunch

The U.S. Air Force will buy data collected by WindBorne Systems‘ fleet of autonomous weather balloons under a...

AI

We can’t help treating AI like it’s human. But should we? | TechCrunch

In a tan polo shirt, brown leather belt, and round bolo tie, MIT PhD student Wil Norton kind...

AI

A16z’s Olivia Moore on the state of consumer AI | TechCrunch

I wrote this week about the bleak economics of consumer AI – but where some see a crisis,...

Cal AI founder Zach Yadegari
AI

Cal AI’s 19-year-old founder just raised $10M for his new AI startup | TechCrunch

Zach Yadegari, the teen co-founder of calorie tracking app Cal AI, has launched Persona, a new AI agent...

Bloom co-founders Justin Cosmides, Hitesh Chudasama, and Chris Nolte.
Transportation

Bloom raises $3.6M to become the ‘Alibaba’ of American manufacturing | TechCrunch

When Justin Kosmides co-founded Bloom in 2023, his goal was to create a savior for the mobility industry....

A CT scan shows the inside of an iPhone
Hardware

Glimpse wants to give hardware companies an X-ray view of every critical part | TechCrunch

Recalls are no joke. Take the one that sidelined every Chevy Bolt made between 2017 and 2022: A...

Flai co-founders Juan Alzugaray, Ari Polakof, and Alen Polakof
Transportation

Flai’s AI dealership software is booking 50,000 appointments per month | TechCrunch

When Flai was raising its seed round last year, it was just a team of three people pounding...

Etched founders with Sequoia partners
Startups

Etched fields funding offers at $40B+ valuation, sources say | TechCrunch

Although it’s only been a couple of months since Etched raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation,...

Safeworld co-founders
AI

Can Safeworld convince people that GenAI robots won’t hurt them? | TechCrunch

The big trend in robots is handing the keys over to a generative AI model, but that brings...