The groupthink boom: what three top VCs really think about the AI frenzy | TechCrunch
…Two founders with today’s AI tools can make more progress in two months with one round of funding than they could a year ago with ten people, two rounds, and a…
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The pope’s AI encyclical isn’t really about AI | TechCrunch
…industry’s practice of “harvesting and manipulating” human data, he added, poses “fundamental challenges to cognitive freedom.” Topics AI , ai encyclical , Magnifica Humanitas , pope leo xiv , the vatican When you purchase through…
Relativity Networks raises $22 million to bring a faster kind of fiber to data centers | TechCrunch
…As compute projects scale ever larger, Eichenholz thinks it could be a major shift for the industry. “The first era of AI optimized for compute,” he said. “It was GPU, GPU, GPU…
Reed Jobs would rather talk about curing cancer than his last name | TechCrunch
…We’ve funded Nobel laureate labs and first-time grant recipients, and I’m equally happy with either outcome. We look at every modality — small molecules, radiopharmaceuticals, gene therapy, immunotherapy, AI, digital…
The token bill comes due: Inside the industry scramble to manage AI’s runaway costs | TechCrunch
Across the industry, companies are starting to balk at the price of AI. Uber blew through its entire 2026 AI coding budget by April. Microsoft revoked its developers’ Claude Code licenses months…
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AI voice startup Vapi hits $500M valuation after winning Amazon Ring over 40 rivals | TechCrunch
Vapi says its enterprise business has grown tenfold since early 2025 as companies shift customer support and sales calls to AI agents.
Glow emerges from stealth at $1.2B valuation to challenge endpoint security in the AI era | TechCrunch
…Glow is betting that this shift requires a new approach to endpoint security. Founded in 2025, Glow is building an endpoint security platform that helps enterprises monitor and control the software, AI…
Silkroad Innovation Hub’s Road to Battlefield competition continues | TechCrunch
…Those 22 finalists are MoliyAI (Uzbekistan), Sino AI (Uzbekistan), Deepen (Uzbekistan), Fermopolis (Uzbekistan), Oqim App (Uzbekistan), Cerberus (Uzbekistan), Soup (Kazakhstan), CortexAI (Kazakhstan), Scano (Kazakhstan), 4sell.ai (Kazakhstan), WeGlobal AI (Kazakhstan), ZhanCare.AI…
Are orbital data centers all hype, or an actual AI infrastructure solution? | TechCrunch
…about: OpenAI’s $122 billion fundraise and what its near-trillion-dollar valuation says about expectations for AI. Whoop’s $575 million raise and the shift toward “wearables 2.0” (and what…