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Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) announced it will receive $85 million from the U.S. Department of Commerce under the CHIPS Act. The award also gives the government a stake in CFS. The funds will go toward R&D and manufacturing capacity for chips and power electronics used in fusion power plants. CFS plans to switch on its Sparc reactor …
Daytona Platforms, a New York-based startup building cloud infrastructure for long-running AI agents, announced a $60 million Series B at a $1 billion valuation led by FirstMark Growth. Total funding is now $91 million. FirstMark also led the company's $24 million Series A in February. Angel investors named include Patrick Collison (Strip…
Anthropic is expected to go public this year at a valuation of as much as $2 trillion, according to TechCrunch citing Bloomberg. At the latest private valuation of $965 billion, early and late-stage backers already hold stakes worth billions. Eric Schmidt owns about 1%, worth nearly $10 billion. Iconiq holds a stake worth $17 billion afte…
Oura filed a patent infringement complaint in a federal court in Texas against Ultrahuman and the Texas-based manufacturer SVTronics. It seeks damages and a permanent injunction to stop U.S. sales of Ultrahuman's redesigned Ring Pro. The suit cites design patent D804,471 and utility patent 12,769,363, which cover the ring's design and int…
Ride-hailing company inDrive has signed a memorandum of understanding with Chinese autonomous driving firm Pony.ai and Nvidia to explore robotaxi testing in Kazakhstan. Testing is planned for Astana in the first half of 2027, initially with a safety operator and with fully driverless rides as the eventual goal. Pony.ai would supply its Ge…
Warhound, a startup backed by Colossal Biosciences CEO Ben Lamm and developed in partnership with Anduril (Palmer Luckey), emerged from stealth on 2026-10-22 with $200 million in funding at a $1.2 billion valuation. Investors include In-Q-Tel, Sequoia and 8VC. The company plans to gene-edit and clone working dogs for the U.S. military, la…
MIT researchers placed 13 AI agents called Eko, each running on Claude Opus 4.7, alone on a simulated desert island for 30 hours with no assigned task. The agents invented their own challenges, which the researchers say show hallmarks of play. In follow-up tests the agents that had played generally beat identical agents with no island exp…
Meta said on its Q3 earnings call that its board approved a new class of non-voting Class C common stock, effective in January (techcrunch.com). The plan was first reported by Semafor. CFO Susan Li said the shares are meant for capital raising, employee compensation and acquisitions, including the AI push, while preserving the voting powe…
Andreessen Horowitz announced on 22 October 2026 that it is renaming its digital asset investment unit from a16z Crypto to a16z Frontier. The practice, led by Chris Dixon, has raised nearly $10 billion across five funds since 2018 and backed Coinbase. The new mandate covers emerging technologies such as AI, robotics and networks connectin…
OpenAI is reportedly working on a private funding round of up to $30 billion at a $1.25 trillion pre-money valuation, led by Coatue and investors in the UAE, according to sources cited by CNBC. An earlier Bloomberg report put the figure at $1.4 trillion, and terms are still under negotiation. The UAE funding may be paired with a deal to s…
Rivian has acquired Third Dimension, a U.K. startup founded in 2024 that uses AI to turn images and video into realistic 3D worlds. Rivian plans to use the technology to turn real-world driving data into simulation environments for its advanced driver-assistance features and for the self-driving system of the robotaxis it plans to supply …
The Browser Company, now owned by Atlassian, announced on 2026-10-22 that it will sunset its Arc browser on December 22, 2026 and direct users to Dia, its AI-first browser. The company cited the rising cost of keeping a browser secure in the age of AI and said its engineering and security teams will focus on Dia. This is product and busin…
1Password launched 1Password for Agents on 22 October 2026. It lets users delegate logins to AI agents without exposing passwords or secrets to the agent. The launch coincides with an Axios report that U.S. banks are detecting agentic activity inside customer accounts and often cannot tell whether it was user-requested. The article presen…
Design platform Canva released Canva Craft, its first image generation model, built by its research team to compete with models from Google, OpenAI, ByteDance and Meta. The article describes a product launch and contains no security incident, vulnerability or threat activity. The model is available to all Canva users through the Dream Lab…
This article is not a security incident. It covers a TechCrunch Disrupt panel with Lovable go-to-market lead Luke Arno, Polsia founder Ben Broca and Theory Ventures investor Tomasz Tunguz on startup growth in the AI era. Arno advised founders not to treat fast early revenue as a sign they are ready to scale. He said a go-to-market motion …
OpenAI has made its Decisions API available to all customers, entering the market for fast, low-cost "decision" or System One models that TypeSafe pioneered with its Jev model. The API is a reconfigured ChatGPT Luna tuned for faster inference, cutting latency from 1-3 seconds to roughly 100-180 milliseconds. The public release adds voice …
Microsoft AI published a study in Science showing its MAI-DxO diagnostic system, which coordinates several AI agents acting as a panel of doctors, correctly diagnosed 83% of complex New England Journal of Medicine cases in simulation. Primary care doctors and general internists working alone scored 36%, though specialists and physician te…
Former OpenAI science lead Kevin Weil has launched Warp Sciences, an AI startup that trains robots to synthesize and test promising drug compounds. Weil announced on X that the company raised $215 million at an $865 million valuation. The round was led by Lightspeed, with participation from IVP, Premji Invest and Lux Capital. Warp Science…
Elon Musk has reportedly invested about $1 billion in the newly formed media company Skydance, according to Semafor, as relayed by TechCrunch. The report comes a few weeks after Paramount completed its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. Co-CEOs David Ellison and Ynon Kreiz are merging Paramount+ and HBO Max and a portfoli…
Spotify confirmed during its Q3 investor call that it is rolling out QR code verification for Family Plan members, which co-CEO Alex Norström called a "routine improvement" to existing verification tools rather than a crackdown. The app prompts members to confirm they live with the plan manager by scanning a QR code shown on the manager's…
