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AI Training Data Startup Micro1 Hit $500 Million Gross Run Rate in Eight Months
Demand for human-verified AI training data is minting fast-growing startups. Micro1's revenue explosion shows the market is big enough for several players, and the ethical debates are heating up too.
Lovable raises $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation
The European startup that lets anyone build web apps by typing plain-language instructions has doubled its valuation in eight months and now hosts 60 million user projects.
Four startups betting the next wave of AI runs on something better than transformers
The neural network design powering every major chatbot is hitting real limits. A small group of companies thinks it has found a way around them.
OpenAI Buys Presentation Startup NextSlide
The small AI tool that turned rough notes into polished slides is now inside ChatGPT's walls. Here is what we know about the deal.
The team behind Spotify's recommendation engine just raised $10 million to do the same thing for online shopping
Malachyte wants your favourite store to know what you need before you even search for it, using real-time signals instead of last month's purchase history.
Mirendil signs $100 million-plus Google Cloud deal to build AI that improves itself
The AI startup, founded by former Anthropic researchers, will use Google's chips and cloud infrastructure to develop systems designed to get smarter on their own over time.
Four of Google's Most Celebrated AI Scientists Are Leaving to Build a Machine That Does Science Itself
Jeff Dean, the engineer behind Google's search infrastructure and its Gemini AI model, is co-founding Discovery Loop, a startup whose goal is to run thousands of automated experiments and out-invent the world's largest research labs.
Pricing, security gaps, and a job that barely existed two years ago: what's on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
The AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt is back this October, tackling the questions founders are actually losing sleep over: how to charge for AI products, how to secure them, and who the new people running them are.
AI startup Recursive Superintelligence strikes $410 million compute deal with Amazon
A company built around AI that improves itself has committed most of its funding to Amazon Web Services, betting that raw computing power is the real bottleneck.
Enigma raises $70 million to make robots as easy to control as a volume knob
The Israeli-American startup is letting anyone in the world command its robots online, hoping the data will reveal what a truly intuitive human-robot interface looks like.
Jeff Bezos and the UK Government Just Bet $450 Million on a Startup That Hunts for New Materials Using AI
Cambridge-based CuspAI wants to be the search engine for rare materials, cutting the time and cost of finding the physical stuff that powers chips, batteries and beyond.
The ex-DeepMind researcher who raised $300 million before his startup had a product
Andrew Dai spent over a decade helping build some of the most influential AI systems in the world. Now he thinks visual AI is where the next big leap happens, and investors are betting heavily that he is right.
AI Startups Swallowed 80% of All Global Venture Capital in Early 2026
Investors put roughly $242 billion into artificial intelligence companies in just three months. That figure, from data tracker Crunchbase, has no historical parallel. Here is what it means if you work for a living.
Why Silicon Valley's 'Already Made It' crowd is taking junior titles at AI labs
From the co-founder of Monzo to the former CTO of Workday, experienced tech veterans are trading power and prestige for 'member of technical staff' roles at Anthropic and its rivals.