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Sifted acquires Onstage in first deal to expand European founder events ascendants.in
70 startups seek Rs 1,500 cr investments at ASSOCHAM event The Hans India
Edubuk Announces $50 Million Strategic Investment Commitment from Nimbus Capital ascendants.in
Astranova Mobility Raises Rs 60 Crore in Series A to Expand EV Fleet Financing ascendants.in
DeepSeek halts fundraising after becoming AI’s most sought-after startup Cryptopolitan
Rentomojo IPO Plan: Startup Eyes ₹1,200 Crore Public Issue ascendants.in
Deepinder Goyal’s Temple Raises $54M, Hits $190M Valuation ascendants.in
Nava Raises $22 Million to Build AI Infrastructure for Enterprises Across Asia-Pacific ascendants.in
The lawsuit will likely renew debates about whether term employment agreements are enforceable under California. law
Bayshore Exits Stealth With €6.9 Million to Bring AI Into Legal and Compliance Workflows ascendants.in
AI Funding Roundup: Where Venture Capital Is Actually Betting Right Now Times Tabloid
An awe-inspiring hacktivist who hacked two controversial government spyware makers may be the most prolific hacker to have never gotten caught. What do we know about Phineas Fisher?
The Boring Company Eyes $20B Valuation in $4B Funding Round Whalesbook
Recykal Secures $23 Million Bridge Round to Expand Circular Economy Technology and Global Presence ascendants.in
Elon Musk’s Boring Company reportedly raising funding at a $20 billion valuation TechCrunch
How MENA startups can sharpen their investment pitches Arab News
BusinessNext Raises $40 Million From ServiceNow Ventures at $700 Million Valuation ascendants.in
DeepSeek Eyes $7 Billion Funding Round As China’s AI Race Moves Into A New Phase ascendants.in
WeRize Raises $7 Million in Pre-Series C Round Led by Sony Innovation Fund ascendants.in
Investment momentum continues in MENA amid conflict Arab News PK
Indian Listed New-Age Tech Company Tracker: Market Cap, Revenue & More Inc42
Cursor Targets $2 Billion Raise at $50 Billion Valuation as AI Coding Race Intensifies ascendants.in
President Trump directed the U.S. military not to conduct new strikes in Iran on Friday, breaking a nearly two-week streak of daily attacks, two sources with knowledge of the decision said. Why it matters: The president's directive came after he approved daily strikes over the previous 13 days. It is unclear if Trump's order on Friday was a one-off or whether the lull will continue. Trump's decision reflects both his willingness to provide more space for diplomacy and a recognition that — short
Kalshi claims the trailer is “defamatory” and contains “both fabricated documents and false and misleading statements.”
Democrats selected former Maine Senate President Troy Jackson on Saturday to challenge Republican Sen. Susan Collins this fall after Graham Platner's embattled campaign ended. Why it matters: Jackson's selection is another win for the left flank of the Democratic party, which lined up behind another progressive candidate as their best shot at flipping one of the most important seats to win back Senate control. Driving the news: Delegates to a special nominating convention selected Jackson Saturd
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
A close call in Northern Virginia revealed just how poorly data centers respond to grid disruptions. Here's how to fix the problem.
AI's impact on American life isn't just at work. It's also at home, where it's helping with dinner and bedtime, learning our routines, overhearing arguments and never clocking out. Why it matters: The AI debate has largely focused on jobs and productivity. But a quieter shift is unfolding at home, where AI is also evolving from an on-demand assistant into an always-on presence that remembers, anticipates and increasingly acts like a member of the family. "The barriers to entry for families — in
Data: CBPP; Map: Sara Wise/Axios American food assistance has been rocked by a regulatory earthquake while millions have been dropped from one of the nation's premier safety net programs, tightening the strain on food banks and state agencies. The big picture: As the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) continues to undergo a historic remolding, food banks say they're staring down a gap they can't fill. "We've been operating kind of in emergency management mode," says Terri Shoemaker
President Trump used his speech at Friday's rescheduled White House Correspondents' Association Dinner to condemn the political violence that postponed the annual event — and in the next breath attack and insult the gathered press. The big picture: The president opened with jokes to the hundreds of assembled journalists and even made a little fun of himself, in a speech that started light — before descending into a litany of familiar complaints about reporters and prominent Democrats. Zoom out:
OpenAI's fancy new AI keypad will be a lot of fun for some, while many others are probably not going to touch it.
The company ticked off a few more boxes on the second Starship V3 flight, but appears to have had another issue relighting the booster's rocket engines.
The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.
Money has evolved into far more than the cash in your wallet or your bank account. And at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, we’re devoting an entire stage to that progression.
Australia was the first country to issue a ban in late 2025, aiming to reduce the pressures and risks that young users may face on social media, including cyberbullying, social media addiction, and exposure to predators.
The contract between the two companies ends in May 2028, Uber told TechCrunch.
The indictment, which was unsealed Friday, alleges the Volkswagen engineers used confidential insider information to buy stock in Rivian.
Enterprises deployed AI agents ahead of the controls needed to manage them — and they did it knowingly. That is the central finding across the five parallel surveys VentureBeat Research fielded in June, spanning every layer of the agentic stack. Now those enterprises are retrofitting to catch up with their own standards, and they are budgeting for it: In each of the five control layers we measured, 57 to 68% of enterprises plan to switch vendors or add new ones within 12 months, and roughly a th
The U.S. and U.K. are planning to convene a high-level meeting in London next week that will focus on a potential international coalition to protect maritime shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, two European diplomats and two other sources with knowledge told Axios. Why it matters: The reopening of the strait for commercial shipping is a key element of any U.S. exit strategy from the war with Iran and of efforts to stabilize global energy markets. The itinerary and date are still under discussion a
The acquisition brings Poke’s conversational style and interaction model to Cognition’s coding agent Devin, reflecting a growing belief that how AI assistants interact with users is as important as the models powering them.
A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone's data, opening up fresh questions about a person's constitutional rights at the U.S. border.
Anduril is said to be raising a new round of funding that may push its valuation up to about $100 billion, per Reuters.
South Carolina has been preliminarily tapped to hold the first Democratic presidential primary of 2028, as a key panel of party leaders picked the Palmetto State over Nevada on Friday after a contentious, racially fraught debate. Why it matters: It's a coup for Black leaders who argued the party's most loyal voters — represented by South Carolina's large Black population — deserved to have the first chance to weigh in on who should be Democrats' next presidential nominee. The vote by the Democra
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on Friday, a model the company says delivers nearly all the intelligence of its top-of-the-line Claude Fable 5 at half the cost — a launch that signals how the AI race is shifting from raw capability to the economics of daily use. The model, available immediately on all of Anthropic's platforms, is priced at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, unchanged from its predecessor, Opus 4.8. It becomes the new default model on Claude Max, Anth
Opus 5 will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases.
AI tools have democratized the opportunity to build, shortening the timelines of success and enabling more young people to start successful companies without stepping foot inside a Big Tech company.
The offline messaging app surged in popularity in India amid protests in New Delhi.
Chinese AI lab Moonshot’s open model Kimi went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do with how the U.S. AI industry reacted to it. Meanwhile, an unreleased OpenAI model wandered outside its test environment and ended up connected to a real security breach at Hugging Face — a reminder […]
Sam Altman's side project — which seeks to scan the world's eyeballs and turn them into unique digital identifiers — has raised some fresh cash through a crypto sale.
The White House has found new legal ways to keep tariffs flowing. But it's not enough to fully replace the revenue from the import taxes the Supreme Court struck down. The intrigue: The administration's replacement tariffs would raise about $105 billion a year — replacing about 60% of the revenue lost when the Supreme Court invalidated the administration's emergency tariff regime, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Why it matters: The administration's new tariffs are na
President Trump will meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Tuesday, the Israeli Prime Minister's office said in a statement. Why it matters: Netanyahu has met with Trump in the Oval Office six times since Trump returned to office a year-and-a-half ago — more than any other world leader. But Netanyahu is deeply unpopular in Washington these days, among Democrats, Trump's close circle and the MAGA base. Trump is considering resuming major combat operations in Iran th
The wars in Iran and Ukraine show how the drone tech revolution makes it easier — and cheaper — to interrupt energy supplies by striking refineries and oil tankers. Why it matters: It's an important reason why oil traded at $100 per barrel this week and gasoline and diesel fuel are so expensive these days. Looking ahead, the way drones are reshaping modern warfare has high stakes for how policymakers and companies view new and existing power grids, pipelines, liquefied natural gas ports and plen
We ask almost every AI architect and leader the same thing in private: What AI risk worries you most? Almost all of them fire back the same response: a killer pathogen, spreading too silently, widely and quickly to stop. Why it matters: The rare agreement among AI experts flows from the belief these advanced models could help a bad actor create a deadly pathogen before the government and industry perfect detection and prevention systems. This isn't a likely scenario. And some of AI's biggest opt
Sarvam AI Looks to Scale Up With Fresh Funding Talks as India’s Sovereign AI Push Gains Ground ascendants.in
DTI gives young entrepreneurs a funding head start Inquirer.net