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Conntour uses AI models to let security teams query camera feeds using natural language to find any object, person, or situation.
Also, Lucid Bots has seen demand accelerate over the last year for its window cleaning drones and power washing robots.
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Brinc launched its newest 911 response drone this week, as the company seeks to expand its prominence in the public safety industry.
Also, Arinna builds solar cells specifically for spacecraft and has developed an ultrathin new material that it expects to be far more flexible and more efficient than current technology.
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Gimlet Labs just raised an $80 million Series A for tech that lets AI run across NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, ARM, Cerebras and d-Matrix chips, simultaneously.
Also, Flighty's new feature will give users real-time updates about why operations at an airport are disrupted.
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Helion is reportedly negotiating a deal that would see it sell 12.5% of its power output to OpenAI.
Also, after four years, and multiple subpoenas and depositions, the beleaguered EV startup, Faraday Futures, has dodged yet another bullet.
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AI startups accounted for 41% of the $128 billion in venture dollars raised by companies on Carta last year — a record-high annual share.
Also, an anonymous Substack post accuses compliance startup Delve of “falsely” convincing “hundreds of customers they were compliant” with privacy and security regulations.
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Fervo landed a large new loan with terms that strongly suggest the company's most turbulent days are behind it.
Also, K2's Gravitas is an ambitious project that aims to demonstrate the tech needed to build data centers in space.
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Rebel Audio is a new all-in-one podcasting tool that allows creators to record podcasts, edit, clip content for social, and publish episodes, all without ever leaving the platform.
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Rubi has developed an enzymatic process to turn carbon dioxide into cellulose that's ready to be spun into lyocell or viscose.
Also, Niv-AI raised $12 million in seed funding to measure and manage GPU power surges.
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The startup also announced a $5M 'rescue fund' to help credit unions ditch legacy software for its AI-native platform.
Also, at Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's urging, Frore developed liquid-cooling tech for chips. That shift helped it just raise $143 million.
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Written by TechCrunch's Amanda Siberling. The AI industry is constantly churning out news, like major acquisitions, indie developer successes, public outcry, and existentially dangerous contract negotiations.
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This is the largest early-stage funding in China’s brain computer interface industry.
Also, Benchmark’s new patner Everett Randell, sees Gumloop's enterprise automation as the largest opportunity in AI.
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The startup, which was created by Rivian founder RJ Scaringe, is looking to train on data from, and deploy in, Rivian's factory.
Plus, Replit raised a new $400 million round and said it hopes to have $1B in ARR by year's end.
And, Breakout Ventures is finding growing success by backing early-stage startups in scientific fields such as biology and chemistry.
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Canopii's robotic farms can autonomously grow 40,000 pounds of herbs and leafy greens a year while being the size of a basketball court.
Also, Legora, an AI platform for lawyers, is now valued at $5.55 billion following a $550 million Series D led by Accel to fuel its growth in the U.S.
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-The fund currently offers retail investors exposure to eight startups, including Mercor, Ramp, and Stripe, with plans to expand its portfolio.
-Unlike a vibe-coded product built by a college dropout, Eridu's co-founder, Drew Perkins, has been inventing networking tech since the dawn of the internet.
-The company launched its first product, a Game Boy-style handheld device called the Chromatic, in 2024.
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The startup, co-founded by Tesla and Apple alumni, has sold nearly 1,000 of its motorbikes so far.
Also, AI procurement startup Lio announced a $30 million Series A in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz.
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A source close to the company says the round assigns Science a post-money valuation of $1.25 billion.
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The AI-powered customer support startup is the latest example of a fast-growing, young company that's providing employee liquidity.
Also, Crunchbase data shows a record $189 billion of global venture capital flowed to startups last month, with AI startups nabbing 90% of the capital.
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Some AI founders are using a novel valuation mechanism to manufacture unicorn status.
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Fig traces data flows in the security stack and then alerts security teams when changes at any point affect detection or response capabilities.
Also, the four-year-old startup Cursor saw its revenue run rate double over the past three months, according to one Bloomberg source.
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After wooing Cal AI for months, MyFitnessPal has successfully acquired its up-and-coming rival, Cal AI, the app built by teens soaring on the apps stores.
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