The AI boom has made it possible for a significantly wider range of people to dip into development, create code, and launch software for the first time. There are pros and cons to this, even for established developers who are being pushed to use it to produce work faster. Replit sits at the center of…
Airbound, an Indian startup constructing autonomous drones, has raised $37 million in recent capital because it pushes to make transferring items by the air as low-cost as trucking them by street. The Sequence A spherical, led by Greenoaks with participation from DoorDash, Lachy Groom, Lightspeed, and Humba Ventures, comes lower than a yr after Airbound…
Over the weekend, Amazon significantly raised the prices of its {hardware} units, jacking them up by as a lot as 60% in some instances. The value explosion impacted Hearth TVs, Echos, Kindles, and Eeros. One egregious instance that’s been cited is that of the Echo Dot, considered one of Amazon’s least expensive good audio system,…
Alabama’s attorney general announced Monday that it sent a subpoena to OpenAI as part of an investigation into the company’s alleged “complete lack of oversight and adequate safeguards” in the Hugging Face incident. The investigation comes weeks after OpenAI admitted that one of its unreleased and guardrail-free cybersecurity models had escaped an isolated environment, connected…
Situational Consciousness, the AI centered hedge fund that was Wall Road’s fleeting obsession, is having a really dangerous month. The corporate, led by twentysomething OpenAI alum Leopold Aschenbrenner, went all-in on quite a lot of AI investments and, for a interval, loved phenomenal progress. Then, on the finish of July, a downturn in AI shares…
Oura, the smart ring maker, with offices in San Francisco and Finland, is reportedly planning to raise up to $3 billion as soon as next month in a U.S. IPO that values the more than 900-person company at [spits out coffee] north of $16 billion, according to Bloomberg. The outlet adds that investors are expected…
Information extraction teams face a recurring choice. Small encoder models are cheap but rigid, and large language models are flexible but expensive per document. Fastino released GLiNER2.5 to narrow that gap. The release replaces span enumeration with boundary prediction: the model scores where an entity starts and ends instead of scoring every candidate span against…
President Donald Trump bought as much as $50,000 worth of SpaceX shares on June 23, according to a financial disclosure first reported by Reuters, two weeks after the record-setting IPO of Elon Musk’s company. It’s not clear what price Trump paid for the shares, but by that point they had fallen from their highs of…
Zillow and Redfin have reached a settlement with the Federal Commerce Fee (FTC) and 5 states, ending a legal fight over a 2025 partnership that the FTC claimed damage competitors within the rental-listing market. The settlement was introduced on Monday, simply because the case was scheduled to move towards trial this morning. The case stems…
You don’t need a keynote session to make noise at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Sometimes the best way to meet investors, customers, and partners is by exhibiting directly on the Expo Hall floor at San Francisco’s Moscone West from October 13-15. That’s exactly what our Exhibit Program offers, and it’s still open to showcase your startup, and get the added bonus of additional tickets for Disrupt…
