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How a Manufacturing CEO Once Spurned Venture Capital, Then Turned to It
He had bootstrapped his on-demand manufacturing startup SendCutSend to $200 million in total revenue. But when the artificial-intelligence boom brought an explosion of customers spending across robotics, data centers, aerospace and other…
Exclusive | This Manufacturing CEO Once Spurned Venture Capital. Now He's Taking $110 Million.
The chief executive of a custom sheet-metal and parts business, Jim Belosic, spent years mocking Silicon Valley's ignorance and dismissing venture capitalists as “grifters.” He bootstrapped his on-demand manufacturing startup…
How Silicon Valley and Private Finance Are Reshaping War
Bluesky When Smedley Butler said, “War is a racket,” he couldn't have imagined that a sitting US president would time announcements about major military operations in order to manipulate the stock market. But as the US economy has…
Exclusive | A $50 Million Rocket Deal Fueled by Trump's Hypersonic Dreams
Rocket maker Exquadrum isn't particularly old in the business of defense contracting. But the 24-year-old company has still been around a year longer than Ethan Thornton, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology dropout who is taking it over in an…
Mach Industries just spent $50M to solve a major defense tech problem
Three-year-old Mach Industries has acquired solid rocket motor startup Exquadrum in a $50 million cash-and-equity deal, the Huntington Beach-based defense startup tells TechCrunch. Exquadrum — now rebranded as Mach Energetics — has…
How Metropolis built a $5 billion AI infrastructure company out of America's parking problem
Alex Israel knows where autonomous vehicles go to sleep at night. Israel is the CEO of Metropolis, an AI computer vision infrastructure company that processes $5 billion in annual payments volume, controls more than 4,200 locations across the…
Forward launches Predict to verify network changes before they reach production
Network verification company Forward Inc. today launched Forward Predict, a new capability that lets network teams test proposed changes against a digital twin of their production network before deploying them. The company says Predict runs every…
Embodied AI Fuels Record Robotics Funding In China As IPO Momentum Builds
Venture investment in China's robotics sector has hit an all-time high this year, Crunchbase data shows, as several well-funded startups in the space make IPO debuts. Just through mid-May, China-based robotics companies this year have raised $5.6…
Michael Burry adds to beaten-down stocks while warning of echoes of dot-com bubble
Michael Burry added to several beaten-down positions while doubling down on his warning that the market's artificial intelligence boom is creating the kind of distortions last seen during the dot-com era. The investor, best known for predicting the…
We asked top startup investors how they use AI. Here's what they said.
Venture capitalists have spent the last few years hunting for the next great AI startup. Increasingly, they're also using AI to scout for the next OpenAI or Anthropic. Early-stage investors are weaving chatbots and agents into nearly every part of…
Musk Turns to Loyalists to Rebuild xAI Ahead of SpaceX IPO
Elon Musk has long viewed artificial intelligence as critical to his sprawling business empire. Now, he's increasingly relying on allies from across his other companies as he scrambles to rebuild his AI firm, xAI, after slipping behind rivals. The…
Intel Corporation (INTC) Presents at J.P. Morgan 54th Annual Global Technology, Media and Communications Conference Transcript
Intel Corporation (INTC) J.P. Morgan 54th Annual Global Technology, Media and Communications Conference May 19, 2026 12:55 PM EDT Harlan Sur - JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division All right. Good afternoon…
The 50-year-old law that governed every software company just broke. Here's what replaces it
In 1975, a software engineer named Fred Brooks published a management book that described the inherent difficulty of scaling technology companies. He called it The Mythical Man-Month, and the title gestured at a simple insight: more manpower…
AI imagineer.' 'Design crafter.' 'Builder.' Why design is suddenly full of Frankenjobs
Across job listing sites over the past few months, you might have noticed something curious. Alongside traditional titles like “designer,” “engineer,” and “product manager,” a new crop of roles is…
'Big Short' investor Michael Burry warns of similarities between AI boom and dot-com bubble
Famed investor Michael Burry is warning that the current rush to pour billions of dollars into artificial intelligence bears eerie similarities to the dot-com bubble of the early 2000s. “History is not a perfect guide, but I see so many…
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