Nectar, an AI-powered operating system for marketing, is launching a new AI agent designed to take a lot of the manual work out of influencer…
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Phota Labs uses AI to turn everyday photos into professional-looking shots |
A new iOS app called Phota Labs gives users access to a personal AI photo assistant that turns everyday snapshots into images that look like…
Nine Korean startups vie for a spot in Disrupt 2027’s Startup Battlefield 200 competition |
TechCrunch’s yearly Startup Battlefield 200 competition sees hundreds of companies from across the world trying every year to get a chance to pitch in front…
With $720M round, Britain’s Fractile gets a leg up in the race for AI chips |
11:34 AM PST · November 11, 2026 Fractile, a British startup developing AI chips, has raised a $720 million Series C backed by Britain’s Sovereign…
OpenAI acquires Odessia, travel startup created by Sonder founder |
OpenAI has acquired an AI travel agent called Odessia, according to Odessia’s founder, Francis Davidson. Davidson says in a post announcing the deal that he’s…
PSI is trying to make a business out of AI-driven scientific discovery |
David Turturean, a recent MIT graduate and a member of the technical staff at the startup lab Physical Superintelligence (PSI), used early access to Anthropic’s…
After challenging Google’s Android with Cyanogen, its co-founder takes aim at Windows for AI era |
Almost a decade after Cyanogen shut down its Android operating-system business following a years-long, unsuccessful effort to loosen Google’s dominance, its co-founder, Kirt McMaster, is…
AI hardware startup Nominal triples valuation to $3B in 8 months |
In Brief Posted: 11:21 AM PST · November 9, 2026 Nominal, a four-year-old, Austin-based startup that offers an AI platform purpose-built for engineering and testing…
How a Blue Wave midterm might reshape the AI industry
Democrats’ historic victories in this week’s U.S. midterm elections could also transform the tech industry. The public voted on 41 data center-related ballot measures on…