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The $100m cheque is Navi's first institutional money and lands roughly 35% below the $2bn Sachin Bansal sought in 2024. It also sets a visible comparable ahead of an IPO refiling.
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A $26 million seed funds a demonstration unit and a claim of 3 cents per kilowatt hour. The headline compactness figure arrives without a stated baseline.
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Blackburn and Blumenthal set a 1 September deadline for 13 questions. The broadest one asks for every US algorithmic experiment where TikTok withheld a protection, and how many minors were caught in it.
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The hypersonic missile maker raised $1bn to build a high-rate production line in New Mexico. The disclosed contract book is 26 times smaller than the valuation.
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No settlement, no money, no fees. Runlayer's year-long design partner released a rival MCP gateway the same night the litigation ended, and that is the lesson for founders.
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The startup says crystal growth now takes 30 minutes instead of up to a week, and a whole pellet two to three hours. Nine of its ten stated barriers remain.
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Thirty features landed at once, but the tell is Clips: Patreon now accepts that audiences are assembled on TikTok and Reels, and is rebuilding discovery around that fact.
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A $300 million Series C doubles Etched's valuation in seven months on $1 billion of orders and hardware almost nobody outside the cap table has run. Buyers now have a number to price against.
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Agent OS wires AI agents into live trading through MCP, sub-accounts and payment APIs. The scope a user grants, not the model behind it, is now the control surface.
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A denial of a Bloomberg report on SpaceX buying Cognition leaves the compute relationship unaddressed, and leaves buyers choosing coding tools from a shrinking independent field.
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The Rivian spinout's Series D takes it to $455 million and past a $1 billion valuation. The only product shipping is a $4,500 e-bike that arrived months late.
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The AI accounting startup raised $100mn led by ICONIQ and names Oracle, SAP, Workday, Microsoft and NetSuite as pre-AI relics. Its proof point is a finance team of three.
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Tesla cut its Powerwall lease by more than two-thirds after Base Power raised $2 billion. The product being sold is grid capacity, and the hardware is now an acquisition cost.
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The startup opened what it calls the world's largest human data center last week. Its diagnosis of the field is testable; most of the evidence for its own machines is self-reported.
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Anthro Energy broke ground in Louisville on a 25 GWh electrolyte plant backed by roughly $45.6 million in public money. It does not produce until 2028, a year after Chinese rivals plan trial runs.
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A free year of Pro for Airtel's 360 million customers drove 5.9 million downloads in a single month. The renewal cliff has started, and Sensor Tower's revenue data is the only early read.
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The gap is about 41 percent, the source is unnamed, and the company is preparing a share sale. Anyone signing a multi-year model contract should price the difference.
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The Detroit startup opened a 50,000-square-foot plant to make its upfitting kits powertrain-agnostic after GM killed BrightDrop and Ford shelved the next electric Transit.
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The startup says a new model, Canto, will cut error rates from 30% to under 10% after weeks of user complaints. It is also entering meeting notes, where three incumbents already sit.
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Nvidia confirmed it will underwrite the first 4.25GW at the Pike County site, after cutting its reported exposure from $250bn to $120bn. The scarce input here is credit, not GPUs.
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The workflow automation startup that set out to replace Zapier is cutting off paying users on September 14 while its founder becomes VP of Product for Google Chrome.
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A $52mn seed closes with an $18mn top-up and a first office outside Africa. The argument that production can stay put now rests on a $100mn bookings number.
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A DST Global-led Series B quadruples the company's valuation since January. The interesting part is what the money is for: compute contracts that decide who is still shipping at renewal.
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The acoustics make the demo. The product decision is whether $15 million lasts through an NFPA approval process that normally takes about three years.
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The largest standalone RSS reader ran unusably slow for over a week while its homepage sold AI threat intelligence. Its CEO blames Mark as Read, and heard about a broken iOS app from a reporter.
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The Zipline partnership repeats the robotaxi playbook: invest in every provider, build none of them. The stated target of a million deliveries a day by the end of 2029 is the testable part.
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One alleged user is accused of generating more than 7,000 explicit images of a single child with Grok. That figure is a discovery target, not a talking point.
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Archer Aviation bought its former courtroom adversary plus a software unit and a drone maker. The consideration was equity, and the acquired assets sell things today.
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Anthropic's CEO rejects the claim that his risk warnings drove the data center backlash and points at undelivered promises instead. That shifts the burden from marketing to disclosure.
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Mozilla shut a product it bought in 2017 because browsing habits had changed. Users answered by paying someone else for the same feature.
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A TechCrunch guide to spotting hacked AI accounts documents the gap: ChatGPT and Perplexity offer multi-factor authentication, Claude sends a link to your email and has no password at all.
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A rejected $60.50-a-share bid has become a negotiation over price, and the structural antitrust objection points at the two assets integrators care about most: Braintree and Venmo.
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The Administrative Office of the US Courts will add a "spyware/hacking" category to its annual Wiretap Report, creating a countable public figure where there has never been one.
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The French startup's only public number is 3,000 tokens per second on a 2-billion-parameter model. Its 30x claim for real LLMs has not been shown yet.
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Noreva expects US gas above $10 per million BTU at some hubs, against just under $3 at Henry Hub today. Fuel is roughly half the cost of power from a large plant.
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Minnesota's 30-plus plants and the FBI's seven states point at small municipal operators, and at a suspected Iranian campaign that no longer looks opportunistic.
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