Teen founders raise $6M to reinvent pesticides using AI — and convince Paul Graham to join in
Two teenage founders walked into Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham’s backyard with an idea no one in agriculture seemed to want — an AI model…
Category: Ai/Robotics
Google augments AI shopping with conversational search, agentic checkout and an AI that calls stores for you
Google is rolling out a suite of AI shopping updates just ahead of the holiday season. The company on Thursday unveiled a host of new…
Coding assistant Cursor raises $2.3B 5 months after its previous round
Developer AI coding tool Cursor continues to gobble up venture capital as its valuation keeps climbing. On Thursday, Cursor announced a $2.3 billion funding round…
Microsoft’s plan to fix its chip problem is, partly, to let OpenAI do the heavy lifting
Microsoft is taking a page from OpenAI’s playbook, literally. Bloomberg first reported that the tech giant plans to leverage its partner’s custom chip development to…
Milestone raises $10M to make sure AI rhymes with ROI
GenAI has become a key part of coding workflows, but most companies struggle to track its use, let alone its return on investment. Israeli startup…
‘Chad: the Brainrot IDE’ is a new Y Combinator-backed product so wild, people thought it was fake
When former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo spoke at TechCrunch Disrupt, someone from the audience asked him if HBO’s hit satire Silicon Valley would be revived.…
ElevenLabs strike deals with celebs to create AI audio
ElevenLabs struck a deal with actors Michael Caine and Matthew McConaughey to AI-generate their voices, the company announced this week. Hollywood and AI have an up-and-down relationship, with AI…
Court rules that OpenAI violated German copyright law; ordered it to pay damages
A German court ruled that OpenAI’s ChatGPT violated the nation’s copyright laws by training its language models on licensed musical work without permission, multiple news outlets, including The Guardian reported. The decision came from…
Veteran leads Isembard efforts to reshore U.S. manufacturing
Isembard is working to enable U.S. reindustrialization. Source: Isembard For production to be effectively brought back to the U.S., small and midsize enterprises need at…
What startups want from OpenAI
Marc Manara, OpenAI’s head of startups, says the reality of AI has advanced far beyond ideas and experiments. AI-native companies are hitting $200 million in…