In March, the Breakthrough Energy organization founded by Bill Gates disbanded its energy policy team, resulting in dozens of staff members being cut. Now, several of those former employees have established a new nonprofit called the Clean Economy Project. Similar…
Fal.ai, a startup that provides hosted image, video, and audio AI models for developers, has closed a new funding round that values the company at over four billion dollars. According to sources familiar with the deal, the company raised approximately…
The Disrupt Stage, only at Techcrunch Disrupt 2025, is where the biggest bets in technology are made, live and unfiltered. It is the place where startup dreams can turn into a one hundred thousand dollar prize in the Startup Battlefield…
For most enterprise companies, artificial intelligence remains either an unfulfilled promise or a significant security risk. A new effort by Lithuania’s most famous entrepreneur duo to solve this problem has attracted considerable attention and funding. Just months after Nexos.ai emerged…
LangChain announced on Monday that it has raised 125 million dollars at a valuation of 1.25 billion dollars. TechCrunch had previously reported in July that the company, a provider of a popular open source framework for building AI agents, was…
As the entertainment industry grapples with the role of generative AI in filmmaking, Netflix is embracing the technology. In its recent quarterly earnings report, the company informed investors that it is very well positioned to effectively leverage ongoing advances in…
Today, OpenAI launched its new Atlas web browser in a surprise livestream. The show started with CEO Sam Altman speaking directly to the audience. He stated that AI represents a rare, once-a-decade opportunity to rethink what a browser can be.…
Sesame, a conversational AI startup and smart glasses maker, has raised a 250 million dollar Series B funding round. The company also announced it is opening its beta to a select group of testers. The startup is headed by former…
Codi, a startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz and founded by Christelle Rohaut and Dave Schuman, is launching what it describes as the first AI-powered platform to fully automate office management. The company was founded in 2018 with a mission to…
Fal.ai, a startup that provides image, video, and audio AI models for developers, has closed a new funding round that values the company at over four billion dollars. According to sources familiar with the deal, the company raised approximately two…
