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Lovable says it has hit $500M in annualized revenue, with 1 million new projects a week
Europe’s fast-growing vibe coding startup, Lovable, tells TechCrunch it has surpassed $500 million in annualized revenue run rate. Lovable last discussed its revenue in February, when the company said it crossed $400 million. In August, 2024, Lovable said it could hit...
How an e-scooter founder raised $5 million to build space data centers
Here’s one metric for tracking SpaceX’s IPO later this week: The company has changed the venture industry’s perspective on long-term, capital-intensive space so much that a talented founder with no space experience can fund a space data center company. Orbital, a new...
Evotrex raises $30M to build the RV that doesn’t need a charging station
Evotrex has been around for just two years, but the startup is already planning to build and sell its first hybrid RV travel trailers next year, targeting around 1,000 units annually. To get there, Evotrex has closed a $30 million Series A funding round, bringing its...
Zepto’s IPO filing reveals fast growth, bigger losses, and a valuation question nobody’s answered yet
Indian quick-commerce startup Zepto has unveiled plans for an initial public offering that could be valued at about $1 billion, putting one of Y Combinator’s biggest bets outside the U.S. on the path to public markets. The filing, released Monday, offers a rare look...
Why Apple’s slow-and-steady AI bet is starting to look pretty smart
For years, Apple has been accused of being one of the biggest stragglers in the AI arms race. Doubters have argued that Apple’s lack of a clear AI strategy have cost it its edge, and Wall Street analysts have worried that the gap could start hurting iPhone sales. Now,...
Mercor’s Brendan Foody calls out Sequoia, accusing it of ‘dual-pricing’ valuation tricks
In recent days, founders and founders-turned-investors took to X to share horror stories about being mistreated by VCs. Their complaints ranged from VCs falling asleep during pitch meetings to investors suggesting a founder fire a co-founder. Brendan Foody, co-founder...
As OpenAI files for IPO, Sam Altman’s eye-scanning company is doing layoffs, report says
OpenAI announced on Monday that it confidentially filed for an IPO, marking what could become one of the defining public offerings of the decade. And then there’s OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s other company, Tools for Humanity, which is reportedly conducting layoffs,...
Apple’s WWDC AI demos looked more real after $250M false ad settlement
The vibe of Apple’s 2026 Worldwide Developers Conference felt like a spouse proudly listing all the items on a honey-do-list they’d finally completed. Rather than showcase something exciting and new, Apple launched the keynote detailing fixes to last year’s “Liquid...
Researchers trained an open source AI search agent, Harness-1, that outperforms GPT-5.4 on recalling relevant information
A joint research collaboration between researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), UC Berkeley, and the open source AI-native vector database platform Chroma unveiled Harness-1, a 20-billion parameter open-source search agent built atop...
Writer launches AI agents that can act without prompts, taking on Amazon, Microsoft and Salesforce
Writer, the enterprise AI agent platform backed by Salesforce Ventures, Adobe Ventures, and Insight Partners, today launched event-based triggers for its Writer Agent platform, enabling AI agents to autonomously detect business signals across Gmail, Gong, Google...
Uber taps Hertz to clean, charge, and fix its Lucid Motors robotaxis
Uber’s forthcoming luxury robotaxi service with Lucid Motors and Nuro is getting a fourth partner: Hertz. The companies announced Thursday that Hertz will provide “day-to-day vehicle asset management, including charging, maintenance, repairs, cleaning, and depot...
SpaceX backer 137 Ventures raises $700M for two growth-stage funds
VC firm 137 Ventures announced Thursday that it has raised more than $700 million across two new growth-stage funds to back startups “with the potential for significant market impact.” In the past year, the firm, founded by former Founders Fund investor Justin...
Dental practice software maker fixes bug that exposed patients’ medical records
Practice by Numbers, the developer of a patient management software used in thousands of dentist’s offices, has fixed a security flaw that exposed the private health records of patients on a portal that comes bundled with the software, TechCrunch has learned. One...
X announces a rebuilt ad platform powered by AI
Elon Musk’s X is still trying to woo back advertisers — this time with a rebuilt, AI-powered ads platform that started to rollout on Thursday. The tech company initially struggled to grow ad revenue in the first few years of Musk’s reign, leading it to shift its focus...
Netflix wants you to watch ‘Clips,’ its TikTok-like vertical video feed
You’ve heard of Instagram Reels — now get ready for Netflix Clips. Netflix is redesigning its mobile app and introducing Clips, a vertical video feed intended to help users discover new content by sharing highlights from original Netflix programming. “Think of ‘Clips’...
Spotify introduces verified artist badges to help distinguish humans from AI
As AI-generated artists and tracks flood music streaming platforms, Spotify is rolling out a new “Verified by Spotify” badge to help listeners more easily identify authentic human artists. To receive the badge, artists must meet certain criteria. Spotify looks for an...
Meta says its business AI now facilitates 10 million conversations a week
Meta doesn’t come up much in discussions of the top AI products these days, but its products are still benefiting from the ongoing surge of interest in the technology. The company’s business AI tools facilitated about 10 million conversations per week as of late...
Instagram cracks down on content aggregators
Instagram announced on Thursday that accounts that regularly repost content they didn’t create, or primarily share other people’s work as photos and carousels, will no longer be eligible for recommendations across the app. The Meta-owned platform says the idea behind...
Netomi raises $110 million as Accenture and Adobe bet on AI for customer service
Netomi, the San Francisco-based startup building AI systems for enterprise customer service, said Thursday that it has raised $110 million in new funding in a round led by Accenture Ventures, with participation from Adobe Ventures, WndrCo, Silver Lake Waterman, NAVER...
SoftBank is creating a robotics company that builds data centers — and already eyeing a $100B IPO
Tech companies are racing to build out infrastructure that can further drive the automation boom. Now, Japanese multinational SoftBank reportedly plans to create a new company designed to automate the creation of that infrastructure. SoftBank is putting together a new...
Amazon, Meta join fight to end Google Pay, PhonePe dominance in India
Amazon and Meta are among the big companies set to lobby India’s payments body over the dominance of Walmart-owned PhonePe and Google Pay in the country’s fast-growing instant payments network. Executives representing platforms including Amazon Pay, WhatsApp, CRED,...
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Never See Rejected Parts Again With A Coordinate Measuring Machine
It’s any shop’s worst nightmare – after winning a profitable contract on a large number of parts, you get to work, measure it the same way you’ve been doing it for years, send off the first shipment, and it comes back rejected. Your quality assurance is out of date...
What is APM?
If you’re involved in tech, you’ve probably heard of “APM.” No, Starcraft fans, we’re not talking about actions per minute. We’re talking about Application Performance Management, one of the most important principles in app programming. But what is APM, exactly? It’s...
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