Reco raises $55M as AI agent security startups crowd the market | TechCrunch
Terms like “AI sprawl” have become common fare on tech social media and in thought leadership as enterprises start deploying
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Protego Ventures closes debut $125 million fund for Israeli defense tech | TechCrunch
Defense and venture capital used to rarely overlap, but that’s no longer the case. Defense tech VC dealmaking set a
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Exclusive: Ex-Tesla team raises $12.5M to put supply chains on autopilot | TechCrunch
Supply chain startup Atomic came out of stealth last year with founders who promised to use their experience at Tesla
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Anthropic's prospectus details losses, growth, and, yes, a warning that its AI could end humanity | TechCrunch
Anthropic devoted nearly a third of its hotly anticipated IPO prospectus to risk factors, according to the Financial Times, which
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Peak XV ups Surge seed investment ceiling to $5M, unveils 18-startup cohort | TechCrunch
Peak XV Partners, one of the largest venture capital firms investing in markets including India and Southeast Asia with more
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OpenAI reportedly ditches model over safety concerns | TechCrunch
OpenAI had planned to release yet another AI model next month, but has decided to nix the release over safety
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Aurora CFO says 30,000 driverless trucks by 2030 isn't as far-fetched as it sounds | TechCrunch
Autonomous vehicle technology company Aurora told investors last week that it expects to have more than 30,000 self-driving trucks on
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Source: Inference provider Modal Labs closing in on $750M round at $15.75B valuation | TechCrunch
AI inference infrastructure provider Modal Labs is nearing a $750 million funding round led by Accel at a $15.75 billion
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AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 billion | TechCrunch
AMD is acquiring World Labs, one of the leading developers of deep learning models intended to understand physical reality, in
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Shopify opens checkout to browser-based AI agents | TechCrunch
While some retailers, like Amazon (and Adidas, apparently!), are blocking AI agents from making purchases on users’ behalf on their
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