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Shinkei makes a refrigerator-sized robot called Poseidon to kill fish quickly and humanely.

French serial entrepreneur and open-source legend Jean-Baptiste Kempf has been building Kyber, an infrastructure layer to control remote devices in real time.

Forget stickers, GIFs, and emoji reactions. Pixi is betting that the next evolution of messaging is interactive augmented reality (AR).

Forget stickers and GIFs, a new app called Pixi Garden wants you to send interactive augmented reality characters through iMessage instead.

Pixi Platforms has launched Pixi Garden, a new iPhone app that lets users send AI-powered augmented reality characters through iMessage.

Pixi CEO Mark Drummond thinks headsets are not worth the hassle for AR developers. Drummond was managing the Character Intelligence Team at Apple, which helped develop Vision Pro.

If physical AI is going to match the accomplishments of LLMs, there's a data problem that needs to be solved.

With this acquisition, DeepL is opening an office in San Francisco to expand its U.S. business.

Cloud 66 published analysis of post-deployment operational challenges, arguing that day-two infrastructure work including patching, scaling, and incident response presents greater complexity than initial application deployment.

Hyundai Motor America supported Operation Frodo's latest cross-country dog rescue mission in the all-electric IONIQ 9. In partnership with Animal Rescue Rigs, an all-volunteer crew transported 16 endangered shelter beagles from Omaha, Nebraska to adoptive homes in the Portland, Oregon area.

Anthropic's popularity with business users is growing so well that the latest beef with the government might actually boost it, data from Ramp suggests.

Probably wants to prevent hallucinations and factual errors from reaching users, and achieve accuracy on par with deterministic systems.

Limitless Labs raised $20 million in a Series A round co-led by Dell Technologies Capital and Square Peg to develop agentic AI for computer-aided manufacturing, using AI agents trained on metal-cutting physics, CAD geometry, and machine constraints.

Respond.io, one of Malaysia's startups to watch, uses AI agents to handle high volumes of customer inquiries and charges per convo, not per seat.

CNBC reports SpaceX has announced an all-stock agreement to acquire Cursor maker Anysphere for $60 billion, with the merger expected to close in the third quarter of 2026.

The Guardian reports that SpaceX has agreed to buy San Francisco-based Anysphere, owner of the Cursor AI coding tool, in a transaction expected to close in the third quarter of 2026.

Startup Baseten is reportedly close to finalizing a $1.5 billion round at a $13 billion as the “inference gold rush" marches on.

TechCrunch spoke to investors to find the hottest startups in the Spring 2026 YC batch. Some of them commanded valuations of over $175 million, VCs said.

Chi-Hua Chien has spent more than two decades as a venture capitalist, but he thinks like a cultural anthropologist.

The former Sequoia Capital leader is filling an "existing vacancy" on SpaceX's board, days after the company went public in the largest IPO ever.

What will it take for personal AI agents to finally click? NEA partner Tiffany Luck joins Equity to discuss that, this year's AI IPOs, and the startups helping enterprises track their AI spend.

World models are the next big thing in AI beyond LLMs and, with this round, Odyssey has cemented itself as one of the startups to watch.

The corporate venture arm ends after 10 years and 80 investments.

Israeli startup Limitless Labs, formerly LimitlessCNC, secured a $20 million Series A led by Dell Technologies Capital and Square Peg to build an AI platform that automates portions of CNC programming for precision mechanical manufacturing.

African payments infrastructure company Flutterwave has hit a new valuation and landed blockchain company Ripple as an investor and partner.

Tel Aviv-based Limitless Labs closed a $20 million Series A co-led by Dell Technologies Capital and Square Peg, bringing total funding to $27.3 million; the company develops a Physical AI agent for CNC machining used by customers including Blue Origin and Cadillac F1.

Instead of heating metals, Foundation Alloy beats them into submission. The startup has raised $22 million to scale up production of its alloys.

Radical Numerics, a San Francisco-based AI research lab, raised a $50 million seed round to advance multimodal models that learn directly from DNA, RNA, and proteins. The financing will fund hiring and continued model scaling.

Tel Aviv-based Limitless Labs secured $20 million in Series A funding co-led by Dell Technologies Capital and Square Peg, with participation from Grove Ventures, Meron Capital, and Kinetica, to scale its Physical AI Foundation Model for CAD/CAM-based CNC programming.

New York-based Copia Automation closed $26 million in additional funding to extend its industrial code management and resiliency platform for operational technology teams.

Copia Automation secured $26 million in additional funding co-led by AE Ventures and Squadra Ventures to expand its industrial code management and recovery platform across multi-vendor manufacturing environments.