Anthropic vs. the Pentagon, the SaaSpocalypse, and why competitions is good, actually

The Pentagon has officiallydesignatedAnthropica supply-chain riskafter the two failed to agree on how much control the military should have over its AI models,includingitsuse inautonomous weapons…

City Detect, which uses AI to help cities stay safe and clean, raises $13M Series A |

City Detect, a company that uses vision AI to help local governments monitor the health of buildings and neighborhoods, announced on Friday a $13 million…

Luma launches creative AI agents powered by its new ‘Unified Intelligence’ models |

AI video-generation startup Luma on Thursday launched Luma Agents, designed to handle end-to-end creative work across text, image, video, and audio. Luma Agents are powered…

Science Corp. raises $230M as it races to bring its brain implant to market |

While most of the venture world has been chasing AI deals, Max Hodak — the co-founder and former president of Neuralink — has been working…

Cluely CEO Roy Lee admits to publicly lying about revenue numbers last year |

The $7 million in annual recurring revenue that Cluely co-founder and CEO Roy Lee shared with TechCrunch last summer was a lie, Lee admitted on…

DiligenceSquared uses AI, voice agents to make M&A research affordable |

A typical merger-and-acquisition process is time-consuming and expensive, even for the largest, well-staffed private equity firms. In addition to spending countless hours meeting with senior…

Hardware testing startup Nominal hits $1B valuation, raises $155M in 10 months |

In Brief Posted: 10:59 AM PST · March 5, 2026 Nominal on Thursday announced a fresh $80 million Series B extension round at a $1…

Zeno raises $25M to speed up production of its battery-swap motorbikes |

The EV transition might have hit a hurdle in the U.S., but it’s not slowing down in East Africa, where several startups are vying for…

How 1,000+ customer calls shaped a breakout enterprise AI startup |

Thisisn’tDavid Park’s first rodeo. Theveteranfounder and TechCrunch Startup Battlefield alumnus has certainly been battle-tested in the enterprise arena.On thisepisode of Build Mode,ParkjoinsIsabelle Johannessen to discuss…

Lio raises $30M from Andreessen Horowitz and others to automate enterprise procurement |

Lio’s co-founders know firsthand that procurement — the process enterprises use to purchase services from vendors — is often a bottleneck. Vladimir Keil, the company’s…