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This London Startup Wants to Kill Your Keyboard With a $150 AI Microphone
Relay's new voice-to-text app is available now for Mac users. The hardware arrives in early 2027, and the founders think you'll barely touch your keyboard after that.
Three ex-SpaceX engineers are building a robot factory to make steel parts for AI data centres
Their startup, 1872, opened its first facility in Cincinnati this month. The goal: automate most of the steel fabrication process by 2027, starting with the frames that hold modular data centres together.
He Offered Job Interviews to Anyone Who Got a Tattoo. Then the Internet Found Out.
The founder behind the viral 'tattoo for an interview' story says the backlash missed the point. Here is what actually happened at that party.
This startup uses AI to hunt for chip materials that run cooler
Discovered Materials raised $9 million to deploy AI agents that test thousands of potential new chip materials a day, aiming to cut the heat that makes data centres so expensive to run.
A startup called Naïve wants AI software to run your entire company, and 30,000 developers signed up to try it
Naïve just raised $28.5 million to let AI agents handle the paperwork, phone numbers, payments and cloud setup that normally eat a founder's first weeks. The real prize, though, is cutting the runaway cost of keeping those agents running.
Klaviyo buys AI startup Agency and gets a new product chief in the same deal
The e-commerce marketing platform is acquiring a three-year-old AI startup founded by a serial entrepreneur who once hired Klaviyo's own CEO, and is now joining to lead its AI push.
A $20 million startup wants AI to fix its own deployment mess
Getting AI to actually work inside a large company is so painful that a new wave of expensive consultants has emerged just to handle it. June thinks software can replace them.
AI startup admits tattoo-for-interview stunt was 'reckless'
LemonLime offered job interviews in exchange for permanent tattoos. Seven people took the deal. Now the company is apologising.
Smallest.ai raises $13 million to build a voice AI that you cannot tell is a machine
The startup wants AI phone agents to sound so natural that callers never notice they are not speaking to a person. Here is how it plans to do that, and what it means for anyone who ends up on hold.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Lineup: Amazon, Replit, Tether and More Will Take the Stage in October
The three-day San Francisco conference runs October 13 to 15 and brings together some of the biggest names in AI, crypto and hardware. Tickets are up to $300 cheaper if you move before the pricing window closes.
Dili raises $21.7 million to use AI for the paperwork nightmare of America's construction boom
A startup called Dili has secured fresh funding to help infrastructure projects, think data centres and factories, stay on the right side of the overlapping federal rules that govern wages, safety and the environment.
Martha Stewart co-founded an AI app that manages your home for you
Hint launches today as a free iPhone app that builds a profile of your house from public records, tracks maintenance tasks, and answers questions about your insurance and energy bills.
Cognition buys Poke for up to $100 million to make its AI coding assistant friendlier
The startup behind Devin, an AI that writes and fixes code, has acquired a chat app known for feeling more like a conversation than a command line. The bet: personality sells.
A $1.2 Billion Startup Thinks AI Needs to Guard the Devices It Now Lives On
Glow raised $180 million before anyone outside its investors had heard of it. Its pitch: the laptop is the new battleground, and old security tools were not built for an AI-loaded world.
OpenAI Researcher Leaves to Build AI Drug Discovery Startup, Seeking $200M at $2B Valuation
Miles Wang, who studied how AI can speed up science, is reportedly heading out of OpenAI to start a company focused on finding new medicines faster.