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- by Dominic-Madori DavisOrbio announces $21 Million Series A in round led by Dawn Capital.
- by Anthony HaStartups are trying to "ride that SpaceX IPO wave."
- by Jagmeet SinghTech leaders debate whether the Anthropic episode is a wake-up call for India’s AI ambitions.
- by Rebecca BellanAndrew Yang made a list of everything Americans overpay for — housing, food, wireless — and thinks the next startup gold rush is giving that money back.
- by Theresa Loconsolo, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, Sean O'KaneThe IPO market is back, and it’s not the same companies leading the charge. FAANG had a good run, but a new acronym is taking over: MANGOS — Meta (or Microsoft, depending on who you ask), Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, and SpaceX. Half of that bunch is heading to public markets in the same window, and it’s a stress test for investors, for valuations, and for […]
- by Anna HeimUnlike humanoid robots designed around a fixed form — think Boston Dynamics — Theker's machines are built to be reconfigured.
- by Sarah PerezBluesky's latest feature is group chats, arriving amid a shift in focus on building features for smaller communities.
- by Tim FernholzQuantum Space says SPACs aren't dead as it seeks a $1.2 billion deal to build military spacecraft.
- by Jagmeet SinghAlt Carbon said the agreement followed more than a year of scientific review and due diligence, with Microsoft requiring additional verification and data-sharing measures.
- by Jagmeet SinghThe decision comes as India emerges as the world’s largest GCC market.
- by Theresa LoconsoloAndrew Yang’s 2020 presidential campaign was based on a warning that automation and AI would hollow out the labor market and concentrate wealth in the hands of a few. At the time, ideas like Universal Basic Income felt fringe. Now Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Bernie Sanders are all saying versions of the same thing. An entrepreneur at heart, […]
- by Theresa Loconsolo, Rebecca BellanAndrew Yang’s 2020 presidential campaign was based on a warning that automation and AI would hollow out the labor market and concentrate wealth in the hands of a few. At the time, ideas like Universal Basic Income felt fringe. Now Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Bernie Sanders are all saying versions of the same thing. An entrepreneur at heart, […]
- by Sarah PerezBacked by Alexis Ohanian’s 776 and Kindred Ventures, Zest uses transaction data and AI to generate restaurant recommendations based on users’ real dining habits and the places they frequent.
- by TechCrunch EventsWhile Silicon Valley continues pushing aggressively into large language models and consumer-facing AI products, many European companies are focused on applying AI to complex systems already embedded into everyday life.
- by Julie BortAI coding agent startup Niteshift has raised a $7 million seed round from a who's who of angels. It's betting companies will want power over, not lock-in with model makers.
- by Aisha MalikThrough the acquisition, WMG aims to better track when its artists' work is used in AI-generated content or for training AI models.
- by Ram IyerThe funding round was led by Norwest, with participation from S Capital VC, Cerca Partners, and Oceans Ventures. Snowflake Ventures also participated as a strategic investor.
- by Rebecca BellanDecart is launching Oasis 3, a real-time world model that generates photorealistic driving environments for autonomous vehicle testing, now available via API for developers to build on.
- by Joanna GlasnerIn the U.S., the largest financings went to enterprise software company NinjaOne and blockchain technology provider Digital Asset. The largest deals of the week, however, were for European companies.
- by Marlize van RomburghThe SpaceX offering caps a remarkable journey for a company that has raised nearly $12 billion in private investment since its founding in 2002 to become the world’s most valuable venture-backed startup. Along the way, the company helped redefine both the space industry and the late-stage venture market.
- by Judy RiderA public SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic would become some of the best-capitalized acquirers on the planet, writes MGV's Marc Schröder, who explains that the bigger impact for startups is likely to be stronger M&A activity, with acquisitions rather than IPOs being the most important exit path for many founders and investors.
- by Gené TeareWith a strong focus on logistics, payroll, construction and other sectors, San Francisco-based Base10 Partners has raised two funds totaling $850 million: a seed and Series A fund 4, and a Series B fund 2 to invest in automation for the real economy.
- by Joanna GlasnerNot only is a round of $100 million not remarkably large anymore, it’s not even atypical.
- by Crunchbase NewsOver 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.
- by Joanna GlasnerThe semiconductor startup space continues to sizzle. So far in 2026, investors have poured around $10 billion into seed through pre-IPO rounds for companies in Crunchbase’s semiconductor category.
- by Gené TeareA total of 29 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in May, but the standout trend was not new AI models, but rather the businesses helping enterprises put AI to work.
- by Guest AuthorSuccessful vertical AI startups are increasingly using channels like private equity networks and industry conferences to drive distribution, recognizing that larger deal sizes require a fundamentally different go-to-market playbook than traditional vertical SaaS. Guest author Medha Agarwal, a general partner at Defy.vc, explains just what that means.
- by Joanna GlasnerStartup investors were in a spendy mood this week, backing more than a dozen rounds in the multiple hundreds of millions. Of those, the biggest one went to spend-management platform Ramp, which closed on $750 million, followed by three $500 million rounds for companies in the AI and space tech sectors.
- The history of distributed computing is one of protocol proliferation followed by consolidation. Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM), Java remote method invocation (RMI), and early simple object access protocol (SOAP) competed for the enterprise integration market in the late 1990s before representational state transfer (REST) quietly won by being simpler and HTTP-native. Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), Internet Relay Chat (IRC), and a […]
- The US government last night issued an unprecedented export control directive ordering Anthropic to immediately suspend all access to its top-tier Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 models for foreign nationals, citing unspecified national security authorities. In response, Anthropic has blocked all public access to both models, globally — meaning no users around the world can access them at this time, even paying enterprise customers and Anthropic employees internally. […]
- Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.7-Code this week, an open-source update to its K2 coding model family, claiming leaner reasoning and double-digit performance gains.K2.7-Code is built on the same trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts architecture as its predecessor K2.6, and drops in via an OpenAI-compatible API — which matters for teams already running K2.6 in production gateways.When K2.6 launched in April, it topped OpenRouter's weekly LLM leaderboard — a ranking based on actual API […]
- Large language models continue to struggle with hallucinations, presenting a major roadblock for real-world enterprise applications. Reducing these errors is a messy business, forcing model developers to navigate a strict tradeoff where eliminating factual errors often suppresses valid answers.In a new paper, Google researchers introduce the concept of "faithful uncertainty," a metacognitive technique that aligns a model's response with its internal confidence. This alignment allows the model to offer appropriately […]
- The creators of the hit, enterprise-friendly, open source OpenClaw variant NanoClaw are partnering with software supply chain management leader JFrog to launch a new, joint security integration they say will protect NanoClaw autonomous agents from malicious code injection. "These agents are doing things that you cannot necessarily control, and you cannot necessarily train," said Gal Marder, Chief Strategy Officer at JFrog, in an exclusive interview with VentureBeat.Available immediately, the partnership […]
- Most enterprise RAG pipelines start the same way: a text parser converts web pages and documents into plain text so they can be chunked and indexed for retrieval. That conversion step destroys retrieval signals — and according to new research, it's responsible for the majority of wrong answers.A research team from UC Berkeley, Princeton University, EPFL and Databricks published a paper this week introducing PixelRAG, a system that skips that […]
- Agent skills have become an important part of real-world AI applications, providing a mechanism — a set of instructions saved in a folder of text-based markdown (.md) files, usually — for models to adapt to specific enterprise use cases and complex workflows. However, optimizing these skills is a slow process and faulty process, as they cannot be trained in the same way as the parameters of the underlying AI model. […]
