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At Startup School 2026, YC President & CEO Garry Tan said the next generation of startups will be built by smaller teams than ever before, and that AI agents running on personal infrastructure will compound knowledge ove…
Naïve, an AI infrastructure startup, has raised $28.5 million in a Series A round led by Nexus Venture Partners, after signing up over 30,000 developer customers and scaling annual run-rate revenue to the low double-digi…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced executive changes across its AI units as the company accelerates investments in AI, while Jeff Dean, a 27-year veteran and co-leader of the Gemini effort, is leaving to head AI startup …
Gen Z-focused dating app Ditto, co-founded by UC Berkeley dropouts Allen Wang and Eric Liu, replaces swiping with AI matchmaking and has 150,000 signups, with about 20% of matches leading to dates. The service, available…
Paravo, a startup founded by Cesar Tapia and Eslam Odeh, launched on [date] as the first AI 'revenue engine' for law firms, combining lead generation, AI-powered intake and follow-up, and automated client reactivation in…
Exa, an AI search API company, was the only one of 30+ API vendors that Jason Lemkin, founder of SaaStr, signed up with this year to check in on his experience, sending a four-sentence email from product team member Alin…
Ex-Spotify employees Sidd Motwani, Ian Anderson, and Shivaditya Sinha raised $10 million in seed funding for their startup Malachyte, which brings the AI behind Spotify's recommendations to e-commerce. The platform, call…
AI lab Mirendil has signed a multiyear partnership with Google Cloud worth upward of $100 million to secure compute capacity for its self-improving AI research, CEO Behnam Neyshabur told TechCrunch. The deal, roughly hal…
Google has announced a major shake-up of its AI operations, with DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis stepping back to become chairman and Alphabet's chief scientist, CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu taking over as senior vice-president, an…
Omilia, an Athens-based customer support automation company, has raised $67 million in a Series B round led by Expedition Growth Capital, bringing its total funding to $87 million. The company, which has increased its an…
Jeff Dean, Google's former Senior Fellow and co-founder of Google Brain, left Alphabet on August 5 with three other top researchers—Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals—to launch Discovery Loop, a Palo Alto-based …
PokeBot, a Chinese embodied-AI startup, has raised hundreds of millions of dollars in a pre-A funding round led by Shunwei Capital and Matrix Partners. The months-old company is developing household robots for tasks incl…
Chinese AI company StepFun is reportedly splitting its foundation model and agent-device businesses, moving its phone business into a separate company while the original entity continues model operations. The company is …
Four top Google DeepMind researchers — Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le — have departed to cofound a new AI research startup, Discovery Loop, which Google is investing in. Demis Hassabis is moving f…
A former OpenAI alignment safety lead announced their departure to found Jurassic Park, a startup aimed at resurrecting dinosaurs to defend against misaligned AI, citing the fossil record's 165 million years without a re…
Google chief scientist Jeff Dean is leaving after 27 years to start AI startup Discovery Loop, as Alphabet invests in the venture and provides cloud and computing capacity. Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, will be…
Klaviyo, a publicly traded e-commerce marketing automation platform, has agreed to acquire Agency, a three-year-old AI-powered customer success startup founded by Elias Torres, with terms undisclosed. Torres will join Kl…
Anthropic has signed a $10 billion computing deal with startup Volta Park, founded by former executives, to secure dedicated compute capacity for AI training. The agreement aims to reduce Anthropic's reliance on traditio…
Google chief scientist Jeff Dean is leaving the company after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop, an AI startup focused on accelerating scientific research, with Alphabet as a founding investor and cloud partner. Alphab…
Jeff Dean, Google's longest-serving executive and chief scientist, is leaving the company to launch Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation focused on using AI to accelerate scientific research, with co-founders San…