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Valor Equity Partners looks to raise a $2.5B Fund VII, per Bloomberg
New details have emerged about Valor Equity Partners’ Fund VII, which last year filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to begin raising capital. Bloomberg reported Wednesday that the fund is targeting at least $2.5 billion in capital, a...
Slate Auto’s radically simple electric truck starts at $24,950
Slate Auto, the EV startup backed by billionaire Jeff Bezos, has finally revealed the starting price of its electric truck: $24,950. That’s excluding taxes, title, license, registration, governmental fees, destination charges, documentation fees, and any optional...
How to invest when everything is moving too fast
TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC evening in Los Angeles late last week brought together two of the more straight-talking investors working in AI right now. Carter Reum is co-founder of M13, an early-stage firm with $2.5 billion in assets under management that has been a seed...
Walmart-backed Flipkart expands quick-commerce push as Amazon ramps up in India
As quick commerce becomes India’s next e-commerce battleground, Walmart-backed Flipkart said Wednesday that its Minutes service has built a network of 1,000 micro-fulfillment centers — small, strategically located warehouses designed to enable deliveries in minutes —...
India’s MoEngage bets that the future of marketing is millions of AI agents
Indian customer engagement software firm MoEngage, which serves brands across global markets, has acquired San Francisco-based startup Aampe in an all-cash deal, betting that AI agents that make decisions for individual customers will become the future of marketing....
Superhuman acquires AI detection startup GPTZero
GPTZero, the three-year-old AI detection startup that Princeton grad Edward Tian first built as a senior thesis project, has been acquired by Superhuman, the companies announced on Tuesday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, though Tian told Business Insider that...
After betting the firm on Anthropic, Menlo Ventures raises victorious $3B fund
Menlo Ventures announced $3 billion in funds on Tuesday, the largest raise in its 50-year history, driven in large part by its AI portfolio, especially Anthropic. Its stake in the model maker is now worth about $14 billion, sources told Bloomberg. To hear the folks at...
Klue says hackers stole credential from 2022 that led to customer data breaches
Market research company Klue has confirmed that a credential dating back to 2022, which was part of a limited pilot, was used by hackers earlier this month to steal reams of data from its corporate customers, including several cybersecurity companies. The new detail...
Mark Zuckerberg wants Meta to launch its own prediction market
Mark Zuckerberg is betting that prediction markets are the future. The New York Times reports that Zuck wants Meta to have its own Polymarket-like smartphone app and has given the go-ahead to develop one, internally calling it “Arena.” The app would be independent of...
Cerebras says its chips run a trillion-parameter AI model nearly 7 times faster than GPU clouds
Less than a week after completing the largest tech IPO of 2026, Cerebras Systems is making its most aggressive play yet to dominate the fast-growing AI inference market. On Monday, the Sunnyvale-based chipmaker announced that it is now running Kimi K2.6 — a...
Enterprise AI agents keep failing because they forget what they learned
RAG architectures are good at one thing: surfacing semantically relevant documents. That's also where they stop.A framework called a decision context graph addresses that gap by giving agents structured memory, time-aware reasoning, and explicit decision logic....
GitHub confirms 3,800 internal repos stolen through poisoned VS Code extension as supply chain worm hits Microsoft’s Python SDK
GitHub confirmed on May 20 that a poisoned VS Code extension installed on an employee’s device gave attackers access to roughly 3,800 internal repositories at the Microsoft-owned code storage and authorship platform. The threat group TeamPCP, formally tracked by...
Customers say Trump Mobile is leaking their personal information
President Trump’s namesake cell phone provider and smartphone maker Trump Mobile is leaking customer data, including mailing addresses and email addresses, according to reports. On Tuesday, YouTubers Coffeezilla and penguinz0, who both said they ordered Trump Mobile’s...
Intuit to lay off over 3,000 employees to refocus on AI
Enterprise software giant Intuit is letting go 17% of its staff, or about 3,000 people, as it seeks to divert resources towards baking in AI into its products, Reuters reported, citing an internal memo sent to employees. The memo by CEO Sasan Goodarzi said the layoffs...
AI search startups are blowing up
Yesterday’s big news was Google’s plan to blow up its traditional Search in favor of an AI-powered experience — but Google isn’t the only company planning for the next generation of discoverability. This morning, Bloomberg has news of the Andreessen-backed Exa Labs,...
Stability AI releases a new audio model that can create six-minute songs
Stability AI, the company behind Stable Diffusion, is releasing a new family of audio models, called Stability Audio 3.0. The top model can generate professional-grade music of more than six minutes long, the company claimed. The company is releasing four new models...
NanoClaw’s creators are turning the secure, open source AI agent harness into an enterprise ‘second brain’
The creators of NanoClaw — the hit open source, enterprise-friendly variant of autonomous AI agent harness OpenClaw — are moving towards commercializing their technology for enterprises at scale, aiming to provide them with secure AI agents, and an ever-updating...
Startup Battlefield 200 applications close in one week: Window to nominate and apply for the most promising startups ends May 27
Your shot at VC access, global visibility, TechCrunch coverage, and $100,000 in equity-free funding is gone in a week. Startup Battlefield 200 applications close May 27. If you’re building a breakout startup — or know a founder who is — this is the moment to act....
NanoClaw creator turns down $20M buyout offer, raises $12M seed instead
NanoCo, the company behind security-focused OpenClaw alternative NanoClaw, has raised an oversubscribed $12 million seed round following a viral launch, its founders tell TechCrunch. The funding was led by Valley Capital Partners, and saw participation from Docker,...
GitHub says hackers stole data from thousands of internal repositories
GitHub, the popular developer platform owned by Microsoft, confirmed it was hacked and attackers had stolen data from around 3,800 internal code repositories. The code hosting and sharing giant said in a series of posts on X that it has “no evidence of impact to...
Quartermaster is building a maritime hive mind
Oceans — to state the obvious — are big. That makes it hard for governments, shipping companies, and insurance providers to know exactly what’s happening on them at any particular moment. It doesn’t help that these modern-day ships often aren’t equipped with modern...
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In some regards, technology is making trucking safer. Many of these technologies serve several purposes like reducing liability, making theft of products harder and saving everyone time. Here are the top technological innovations that are making trucking safer already...
Everything You Need to Know About ASO, the Latest Optimization Technique
Search engine optimization, or SEO, is currently dominating the marketing world. Soon, businesses will have a new metric to worry about—ASO, short for app store optimization. ASO is coming out with a force thanks to the upcoming release of iOS 11 and the iPhone 8 and...
Creating the Best Website for Your Restaurant
If you own or run a restaurant, it is necessary that you have a professional and functional website. A great website is important for all businesses because most people use the Internet to find businesses, as opposed to using the yellow pages of phonebooks, but a...
How to Make Sure Your New Gadget Is the Best on the Market
Keeping Up With the eJoneses: How to Make Sure Your New Gadget Is the Best on the Market It seems that every week there is a new gadget on the market, with flashy advertising and lots of bold statements about how this is the gadget that is going to beat every other...