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For decades, humans have sought to harness the power of the stars to generate electricity here on Earth. And for…

Well, the data is out. AI startups accounted for 41% of the $128 billion in venture dollars raised by companies on…

Breakout Ventures has closed a $114 million Fund III to back AI-focused early-stage startups working in scientific fields such as…

Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI), a new Paris-based startup cofounded by Meta’s former chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, announced Monday it…

Last fall, as venture capitalists were sinking record sums into artificial intelligence, a group of investors gathered to appraise a…

In just over a week, negotiations over the Pentagon’s use of Anthropic’s Claude technology fell through, the Trump administration designated…

The Pentagon has officially designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk after the two failed to agree on how much control the military should have over…

John Davie wanted Buyers Edge Platform, the hospitality procurement enterprise he founded and still leads, to benefit from the AI…

Anthropic might have misgivings about giving the US military unfettered access to its AI models, but some startups are building…

No matter what mechanism, there’s still a bet made. Maybe you are offering a better deal. As far as the…

As competition among AI startups heats up, founders and VCs are turning to novel valuation mechanisms to manufacture a perception…

The customer service industry is in a bit of flux, thanks to AI. Investors and corporate leaders have rung alarm…

Investors have been pouring billions into AI companies over the past few years, as the technology continues to hold sway…

This week on TechCrunch’s founder-focused podcast, Build Mode, Isabelle Johannessen is joined by Sarah Lucena, the CEO and co-founder of Mappa, a behavioral intelligence platform that uses voice…

Riley Walz, a software engineer famous for his online stunts, is joining OpenAI to research and develop new ways for…

The grifters, according to RentAHuman, are fading. “We’re taking safety extremely seriously,” Liteplo says. But the duo also acknowledge that…