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Grammarly secures $1B in non-dilutive funding from General Catalyst

Grammarly has secured a $1 billion commitment from General Catalyst. The 14-year-old writing assistant startup will use the new funds for its sales and marketing efforts, freeing up existing capital to make strategic acquisitions. Unlike a traditional venture round, General … Continue reading

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Top 30 startups announced for VivaTech 2025 Innovation of the Year Award

The Innovation of the Year Award celebrates the boldest and most visionary startups exhibiting at VivaTech 2025. Open to all exhibiting companies, the award honors those pushing boundaries and redefining industries. Startups were scored on Innovation & Creativity, Market Disruption, … Continue reading

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Inside the AI revolution: Top insights and breakthroughs from our partners at TechCrunch Sessions: AI

At TechCrunch Sessions: AI, the spotlight is on the future of artificial intelligence and the startups shaping it. This high-energy event brings together founders, investors, and technologists to explore how AI is transforming industries — from the pitch deck to … Continue reading

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Black Forest Labs’ Kontext AI models can edit pics as well as generate them

Black Forest Labs, the AI startup whose models once powered the image generation features of X’s Grok chatbot, on Thursday released a new suite of image-generating models — some of which can both create and edit pics. The most capable … Continue reading

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Hugging Face unveils two new humanoid robots

AI dev platform Hugging Face continued its push into robotics on Thursday with the release of two new humanoid robots. The company announced a pair of open-source robots, HopeJR and Reachy Mini. HopeJR is a full-size humanoid robot that has … Continue reading

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Perplexity’s new tool can generate spreadsheets, dashboards, and more

Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine gunning for Google, on Thursday released Perplexity Labs, a tool for subscribers to Perplexity’s $20-per-month Pro plan that can craft reports, spreadsheets, dashboards, and more. Perplexity Labs is available on the web, iOS, and Android, … Continue reading

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Tesla alum’s Heron Power closes $38M Series A to transform key grid technology

Drew Baglino’s startup is hoping to

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In a victory for Palmer Luckey, Meta and Anduril work on mixed reality headsets for the military

On Thursday, Anduril and Meta announced news that feels like a fairy tale ending for Anduril co-founder, Palmer Luckey. The two companies are working together to build extended reality (XR) devices for the U.S. military, Anduril announced in a blog … Continue reading

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Tesla pleads for Senate to spare its booming energy business

If the Senate were to pass it with those repeals in tact, it could have a devastating impact on Tesla’s energy division.

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US government sanctions tech company involved in cyber scams

The Treasury said FUNNULL was involved in providing infrastructure for pig butchering crypto scams.

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