South Korea’s LetinAR is building optics behind AI glasses |

Imagine you’re riding a motorcycle at 160 kilometers per hour when an arrow appears, floating on the road ahead, telling you exactly where to turn.…

The haves and have nots of the AI gold rush |

In Brief Posted: 1:17 PM PDT · May 16, 2026 The vibes around the current AI boom aren’t great, even in the tech industry, according…

Marketing operating system Nectar Social raises $30M Series A led by Menlo |

In Brief Posted: 12:26 PM PDT · May 16, 2026 AI-powered marketing platform Nectar Social announced Thursday that it raised a $30 million Series A…

OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman takes charge of product strategy |

In Brief Posted: 8:33 AM PDT · May 16, 2026 OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman is officially taking the reins of the company’s product…

$60B AI chip darling Cerebras almost died early on, burning $8M a month |

Today, Cerebras Systems is a public company that sells AI chips for inference to giants like OpenAI and AWS. It held a blockbuster IPO on…

The OpenAI trial wraps up, and the Musk founder machine keeps spinning

The Musk v. Altman trial came to a close this week, and the final arguments kept circling back to one question:can we trust the people…

Meridian Ventures launched $35M fund to back MBA-deferred founders |

Meridian Ventures was born out of a shared experience: deferred MBAs. Now, founders Devon Gethers and Karlton Haney have raised a $35 million fund to…

Lovable just backed a company that’s looking to bring vibe coding to hardware |

Lovable, the AI-powered app-building platform, has backed a Danish hardware startup, Atech, that wants to introduce “vibe coding” to the process of creating hardware. Lovable…

Startup Battlefield 200 applications close May 27 |

Your shot at VC access, global visibility, TechCrunch coverage, and $100,000 equity-free funding is running out. Startup Battlefield 200applicationsofficially close in just two weeks. If…

Clio’s $500M milestone arrives just as Anthropic ups the ante |

10:24 PM PDT · May 13, 2026 While AI is now being applied to everything from healthcare to customer support, no single use case has…