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AI surveillance startup Flock to cut several hundred jobs amid backlash, sources say
Flock Safety plans to shed about 18% of its employees, people with direct knowledge of the plans said on Thursday, as the maker of AI -powered surveillance cameras and license-plate readers faces mounting opposition to its products from…
Space communications startup AnySignal expands into undersea market
WASHINGTON — An undersea tracking company and a space communications startup are teaming up to build a new link between submerged systems and satellite networks, aiming to make it easier to move data from the ocean to operators anywhere in…
Apple acqui-hires AI startup founded by former NotebookLM developers
The European Union's Digital Markets Act transparency website lists Huxe as Apple's newest acqui-hire, and at least the fourth AI-related deal disclosed this year. Here are the details. In mid-2025, a team of three developers who worked on Google's…
Rwandan startup wins $10,000 at India accelerator
PACIN, a Rwandan fintech startup founded Amen Divine Ikamba, has won $10,000 in seed funding at the AI Ventures Accelerator (AIVA) Demo Day in Gurugram, India. PACIN was among the winning ventures selected from the accelerator's inaugural 2026…
London Celebrates Its Biggest Listing In Years While Other Startups Insist On Looking Elsewhere
This article is for subscribers only. Not every day in Paternoster Square begins with performers dancing to drums, but then again there have been precious few bumper IPOs in London recently. The listing of international mobile payments firm Airtel…
You won't believe what Apple Stores are doing to the iPhone Duo startup screen
iPhone Duo pre-orders are right around the corner. Apple will open the digital queues on October 16 at 5 a.m. Pacific Time, but there's a reason you might want to go to a physical store to collect your iPhone Duo: Apple is adding a nice little…
She Grew Up on Food Stamps and Started a Hedge Fund at MIT. Now Her 8-Figure Startup Counts Nvidia and OpenAI as Clients.
Christina Qi started a hedge fund as an undergraduate at MIT, building it to trade $7 billion per day. A “really bad year in 2020” caused the hedge fund to shut down. Qi then started her current venture, a market data provider called…
SF startup founders are living - and working - in old Academy of Art University dorms
Just steps away from Lafayette Park, the four-story beige building in Pacific Heights once known as Coco Chanel Residence Hall was specifically designated as a space for women's empowerment (opens in new tab). The students who lived there studied…
Exclusive-Sequoia-backed chip startup Nuvacore raising funds at about a $2.5 billion valuation, sources say
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 9: Six-month-old microchip startup Nuvacore, which does not yet have a product, is raising hundreds of millions of dollars at a roughly $2.5 billion valuation to develop a new central processor designed for data centers…
Cloudflare acquires Node.js creator's startup that copied its serverless playbook
Cloudflare is buying the startup co-founded by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl, a longtime competitor that recently built its own open-source version of Cloudflare's serverless computing platform. The company announced on Friday that the entire team…
Same AI, Four Different Jobs: Startup, Mid-Size, Big Tech, IT Services
In March 2025, Y Combinator managing partner Jared Friedman said that a quarter of the W25 batch had codebases about 95% generated by AI. That same year, in Stack Overflow's survey, 28% of developers agreed that their company's IT or InfoSec team…
Compare Log Management Services for Startup SaaS App Logging - 2026
Short answer: when you compare log management services for startup SaaS app logging, choose a managed searchable-log service plus a separate heartbeat monitor for the nightly property pipeline; don't operate ELK merely to learn which import failed…
UP eases building map, plot approvals in industrial development authority areas
Also, the Cabinet approved the renaming of Bhadohi district as Sant Ravidas Nagar Bhadohi, days after CM Adityanath announced this during his visits to Varanasi and Bhadohi. It also okayed the proposal to implement the Uttar Pradesh Interest Waiver…
Telangana targets EV boom with Industrial Policy 2.0 and attracting industry
Director of Industries Nikhil Chakravarthi said that Telangana has been, and continues to be keen to attract electric vehicle manufacturers, battery supplies, and allied companies that would want to relocate to Telangana by means of targeted…
Disrupt 2026 starts in 4 days and prices increase
Four days. That's all that stands between now and TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, when 10,000 founders, investors, and tech leaders descend on Moscone West in San Francisco on October 13-15. It's also your final window to secure discounted online pricing.
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