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And the winner of Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2026 is: Intero Biosystems
For three days this week in San Francisco, 20 eager startups participated in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. The top 20 were chosen to represent the best of the Startup Battlefield 200, and they competed for a chance to take…
This startup wants to make clean energy the default for data centers
The U.S. is on track to add a record 86 gigawatts of new wind, solar, and battery storage capacity this year—roughly the size of the U.K.'s entire grid. And there's far more clean energy in the pipeline, with low-cost proposed projects that…
Asia's Startup Funding At Near Record High In Q3, Driven By AI
Asia's startup funding held up at the second-highest level in years in the third quarter, even as investment fell slightly from Q2 totals. Overall, investors put $38.5 billion into reported seed- through growth-stage financings for countries in the…
What Running A Bootstrapped Startup Teaches You About Venture Capital
Erhan Kaya, Founder & CEO of Zoviz, turns any name into a designer-grade logo and complete brand kit in under a minute. When I started bootstrapping a technology company, funding it with my own money instead of outside investors, I believed…
AI Startup Wants Every Company to Assign You Your Own Personal Stalker
If there is one thing this moment of techno-negativity—from the rejection of Flock Security cameras to the distrust of AI companies gobbling up data—tells us, it's that people hate feeling watched. You could put the brightest minds of…
This startup just raised $21 million to expose companies' messes of AI agents
AI agents are starting to outnumber humans in many high-tech workplaces, and they can be far trickier to monitor. Opsin, an AI security and governance startup, announced Thursday it raised $21 million to meet the moment. As employees across the…
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[INTERVIEW] Korean startup targets 'legal AI music' via copyright tracking
More than half of the new tracks uploaded to French streaming service Deezer each day are now made by artificial intelligence (AI). The company said such uploads peaked in June at about 90,000 a day, up from roughly 10,000 in January 2025. The…
Chinese startup DexForce trains humanoid robots using virtual data to slash costs
At the offices of Chinese startup DexForce, a screen shows a virtual robot placing objects on a table. It repeats the task as the angle of its arms, the colour of the table and the objects themselves change. SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT…
India's Billionaire Family Offices Are Betting Big On Homegrown AI Startups
Signage of Uniphore at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January Summary is AI-generated, newsroom-reviewed India's AI startups gain $1B+ valuations amid rising domestic and global interest Billionaire family offices lead investments to boost…
A startup wants to sell sunlight at night. Its latest test lit up Mount Whitney.
On Saturday night, residents of Lone Pine, a small Eastern Sierra town near Mount Whitney, were baffled by a pair of blinding lights illuminating the desert south of town. In what should have been a pitch-black sky, the beams seemed to come out of…
Rocket startup LEAP targets 2028 orbital launch
WASHINGTON — A Colorado rocket startup is aiming to enter the market for dedicated small-satellite launches in 2028 as growing demand for access to orbit creates new opportunities for smaller rockets. You'll also receive our weekly Editor's…
The $22B startup co-founder working to make chatbots talk back
When Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni moved to trademark her voice last week, she highlighted growing fears about AI deepfakes sounding ever more convincingly like the people they impersonate, from politicians to CEOs. But she also shone a…
An AI-for-Climate Startup Won Nvidia's Backing-After Putting the Climate Part on Ice
Nvidia's Jensen Huang visited Paris this week to unveil a slate of investments in French startups, the chip giant's latest move to solidify its position at the heart of the AI industry. One of the companies, Entalpic, began life with the goal of…
LinkedIn's top Israeli startups of 2026 ranking filled with AI, cybersecurity
LinkedIn shared its 2026 ranking of the best Israeli startups on Wednesday, with the newly unveiled identity security firm Oak, which was launched publicly in July with a $60 million seed investment, leading the ranking. Greylock Partners, Accel…
GM Mulls Letting Startups Into Its $145M Battery Lab
GM is weighing whether to open its soon-to-be-finished battery development center in Warren, Michigan to outside startups, giving smaller players a shot at manufacturing expertise they could never afford to build themselves. The idea came up at the…
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