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Google DeepMind and A24 Partner on AI Filmmaking Tools
Google DeepMind and A24 are teaming up to build AI filmmaking tools.
Salesforce Acquires Fin for $3.6B to Boost AI Customer Service
Salesforce says it wants to use Fin's team and technology to improve Agentforce, its existing enterprise platform that businesses can use to build custom AI agents that automate tasks.
Probably Raises $9M for Reliable AI Infrastructure
Probably wants to prevent hallucinations and factual errors from reaching users, and achieve accuracy on par with deterministic systems.
Morning Stack: AI Job Search and Resume Builder
Morning Stack: Revolutionizing AI Powered Job Searches and Resume Customization Morning Stack harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to transform the wa…
DoorDash's AI Chatbot Simplifies Food Ordering
The new chatbot, called Ask DoorDash, allows users to search the app for what they're looking for in their own words instead of having to scroll through restaurants and stores to build a cart.
Quantum Space Aims for $1.2B Military SPAC Deal
Quantum Space says SPACs aren't dead as it seeks a $1.2 billion deal to build military spacecraft.
Bluesky Introduces Group Chats, Boosting Community Features
Bluesky's latest feature is group chats, arriving amid a shift in focus on building features for smaller communities.
Theker Secures $85M for Versatile Factory Robots
Unlike humanoid robots designed around a fixed form — think Boston Dynamics — Theker's machines are built to be reconfigured.
Jeff Bezos’ Prometheus Secures $12B for Physical AI
The new round values the physical AI startup that aims to automate heavy engineering and drug design at $41 billion.
Deploy Personal Apps with AI Agent Buildy
Title: Efficient Personal App Deployment with AI Agent Buildy Deploying personal applications efficiently is now streamlined with AI Agent Buildy, a powerful to…
Buildy.so: Revolutionizing AI Tools on Hacker News
Buildy.so: Transforming AI Tools on Hacker News Buildy.so has surfaced as a game changer in the AI tool landscape, garnering significant attention on platforms …
FablePool: Crowdfund AI Projects with Public Development
FablePool: Revolutionizing AI Project Funding with Community Driven Development FablePool is an innovative platform designed to crowdfund AI projects, ensuring …
Andrew Yang's AI and Automation Solutions
Andrew 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, […]
PWNC: 25 Years of Dependency-Free Web Development
PWNC: A Legacy of 25 Years in Dependency Free Web Development PWNC (PWNC acronym explained elsewhere), stands as a pioneer in the realm of dependency free web d…
AI Startups Encouraging Off-Screen Experiences
While the AI fundraising machine keeps breaking its own records, some founders are building in the other direction.  Mirror founder Brynn Putnam just raised money for Board, a startup focused on bringing people together through in-person games and social experiences. Cyberdeck creators are going viral crafting whimsical DIY computers that literally encourage users to touch grass. Unlike the AI-free browser crowd, this doesn’t just feel like backlash, […]
GM's New Battery Facility Accelerates Electric Future
GM wants to slash EV prices by deploying new battery tech up to a year earlier than planned. This building is key to making that happen.
Helion Secures $465M for Microsoft Fusion Power Plant
Fusion startup Helion is racing to complete a power plant for Microsoft by 2028. A fresh infusion of cash should help with that.
Meta Builds Data Centers in Tents to Cut Costs
Meta may have found one way to slash its massive data center bill: tents.
AirTrunk Plans $30B AI Data Center Expansion in India
The Australian data center operator plans to set up 5GW of capacity in India.
NVIDIA Cosmos: Open Platform for Physical AI Development
NVIDIA Cosmos is an open platform of world models, datasets, and tools that enables developers to build Physical AI for robots, autonomous vehicles, smart infrastructure, and more.
Two Ex-Goldman, Meta Founders Build Voice AI for Africa, Middle East
The startup's own stack for Africa and Middle East is now handling more than 17,000 calls per day.
AI Tool: Create Third Places with AI for Community Building
AI Tool: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Community Building In today's interconnected world, fostering a sense of community is more crucial than ever. AI…
AI Weather Startup WindBorne Outperforms Government Forecasts
WindBorne benefits from its unique combination of model-building and data collection. The company now has about 400 balloons in flight gathering sensor readings at any given time, launched from 15 sites around the globe. The advances in its current model come from improvements in how the data collected by the balloons is fed into the models.
Ex-Meta CTO Launches $250M Climate Fund with Gigascale Capital
Mike Schroepfer's Gigascale Capital has raised a large fund to back founders building climate-friendly solutions for the world's energy and material shortages.
Where Are Startup Battlefield Alumni Now? TechCrunch Check-In
We wanted to show you what happens after the confetti falls. We checked in with some of our recent alumni, many of whom have sat down with us on Build Mode: The Founder Survival Guide, TechCrunch's podcast for founders at every stage.
Alphabet Seeks $80B for AI Expansion
"The company is experiencing strong demand for its AI solutions and services from enterprises and consumers, at levels that are exceeding the company’s available supply," Alphabet said in its statement.
Data Engineering Zoomcamp: Free 9-Week Data Pipeline Course
Data Engineering Zoomcamp is a free 9-week course on building production-ready data pipelines. The next cohort starts in January 2026. Join the course here 👇🏼
Sweetpad: VS Code Extension for iOS/Swift Development
Streamline Your iOS/Swift Projects with Sweetpad for Visual Studio Code Introduction Developing for iOS using Swift can be demanding, but integrating Sweetpad ,…
Build Your Own Tech: Learn Programming with CodeCrafters
Master programming by recreating your favorite technologies from scratch.
Maka Kids Raises $3M for Well-being Focused Streaming App
Maka Kids is building a streaming app for children ages zero to six featuring content designed for healthy development. The startup has now raised $3 million in seed funding to scale its platform.
Convective Capital Raises $85M for Disaster Resilience
After launching to invest in fire tech, Convective is broadening its mandate to disaster resilience.
Open-Source .docx Editor Library for Document Apps
Optimizing Document Management: Open Source .docx Editor Libraries In the dynamic field of document management, open source .docx editor libraries play a pivota…
AI Engineering from Scratch: Learn, Build, and Ship with GitHub
Learn it. Build it. Ship it for others.
Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic's Pre-training Team
Pre-training is responsible for the large-scale training runs that give Claude its core knowledge and capabilities, according to the company. It's also one of the most expensive, compute-intensive phases of building a frontier model.
Google Unveils New Android CLI for AI-Powered App Development
Google is embracing the rise of AI coding agents with new Android tools designed to work with platforms like Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex, allowing developers — or their AI assistants — to build Android apps faster from the command line.
Google’s AI Studio: Build Android Apps in Minutes
Google unveiled new web-based AI tools that can generate native Android apps in minutes, as the company expands its push into AI-powered software development.
Google Unveils Gemini 3.5 Flash: Revolutionizing AI Agents
Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash, its most powerful coding and agentic AI model yet, at the company's annual developer conference. It is capable of autonomously executing complex tasks and building software from scratch.
12-Factor Principles for Production-Ready LLM Software
What are the principles we can use to build LLM-powered software that is actually good enough to put in the hands of production customers?
Microsoft AI Agents for Beginners: 12 Lessons to Start Building
12 Lessons to Get Started Building AI Agents
End-to-End Tutorials for Production-Grade GenAI Agents
End-to-end, code-first tutorials for building production-grade GenAI agents. From prototype to enterprise deployment.
AI Startup Aims to Build Self-Improving AI
Richard Socher's new $650 million startup wants to build an AI that can research and improve itself indefinitely — and he insists it will actually ship products.
Meridian Ventures Launches $35M Fund for MBA-Deferred Founders
This new fund will back founders building enterprise technology in the United States. Meridian is agnostic, co-founder Devon Gethers said, noting that the firm has already invested in companies in fintech, logistics, healthcare, and of course, AI.
NVIDIA AI Blueprints: Video Search and Summarization
Suite of reference architectures for building GPU-accelerated vision agents and AI-powered video analytics applications.
Origin Lab Raises $8M for AI Data Marketplace
Origin Lab will serve as a marketplace where AI labs can buy high-quality licensed data, and video-game companies can sell it.
Hollow: Local Multi-Agent OS for Tool Creation
Hollow: Local Multi Agent OS for Crafting Intelligent Tools Hollow is a pioneering local multi agent operating system designed for the seamless creation and int…
Dessn Secures $6M for AI-Powered Design Tool
A new startup called Dessn has raised $6M to build AI-powered design tools that work directly with production codebases.
Exaforce Secures $125M for Real-Time AI Cybersecurity
As bad actors weaponize AI to exploit software vulnerabilities at unprecedented speed, companies are increasingly recognizing the need to bolster their cybersecurity defenses. The round valued the three-year-old startup at $725 million.
Google and SpaceX Plan Orbiting AI Data Centers
Google and SpaceX are in talks to build data centers in orbit, pitching space as the future home for AI compute, even as costs today remain far higher than on the ground.
Safe-Install: Secure NPM Installs with Trusted Builds
Safe Install: Secure NPM Installs with Trusted Builds NPM, the Node Package Manager, is essential for many developers, but it also presents security challenges.…
Gigacatalyst: Embed AI Builder in Your SaaS
Embed AI Capabilities into Your SaaS with Gigacatalyst Incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) into your Software as a Service (SaaS) applications can signif…