9:11 AM PST · November 5, 2026 Food delivery startup Wonder is moving closer to becoming a publicly traded company after confidentially filing for an…
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A YC startup is putting $1M behind 5 unsolved materials science problems for AI |
Discovered Materials, a months-old San Francisco startup using AI models to find new substances for building advanced chips, announced a million-dollar challenge for AI models…
Aina’s smart ring has a screen, a joystick, and a mic so you can talk to AI agents |
Hardware startup Aina released a smart ring today that features a screen, a joystick, and a mic so that you can talk to your agents…
Axiom Math wants to keep AI slop out of mathematics |
It feels like AI is cracking a new math problem every week. Last month, OpenAI alone released719 manuscriptsclaiming solutions to some of the field’s hardest…
Nothing CEO says company’s mysterious AI-first device is dropping next month |
In Brief Posted: 2:13 PM PST · November 4, 2026 Nothing, the smartphone startup behind the distinctive Nothing Phone, is working on an AI product,…
Open source AI is booming. Hugging Face explains who profits. |
11:30 AM PST · November 4, 2026 36 min Open source models are becoming more mainstream as enterprises, governments and startups alike rely on the…
Building on open source AI? Hugging Face’s policy chief on the costs, risks, and trade-offs
Open source models are becoming more mainstream as enterprises, governments and startups alike rely on the promise of lower costs, more control, and more flexibility.…
Founder Summit 2026: Doors open at 9 a.m. ET in Boston |
Today at 9 a.m. ET, founders, investors, and startup leaders are gathering at SoWa Power Station in Boston for TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 for a…
AI inference startup Fal doubles its valuation to $16B as demand surges |
In Brief Posted: 11:34 AM PST · November 3, 2026 Fal, a San Francisco-based startup that hosts and runs AI video, image, and audio models,…