Companies and governments are looking for tools to run AI locally in a bid to slash cloud infrastructure costs and build sovereign capability. Quadric, a…
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Tiger Global and Microsoft to fully exit Walmart-backed PhonePe via its IPO |
3:19 AM pst · January 22, Tiger Global and Microsoft are primed to fully exit PhonePe, the Walmart-backed Indian payments startup that has updated its…
From invisibility cloaks to AI chips: Neurophos raises $110M to build tiny optical processors for inferencing |
Twenty years ago, a Duke University professor, David R. Smith, used artificial composite materials called “metamaterials” to make a real-life invisibility cloak. While this cloak…
Irony alert: Hallucinated citations found in papers from NeurIPS, the prestigious AI conference |
12:34 pm ps · January 21, 2026 AI detection startup GPTZero scanned all 4,841 papers accepted by the prestigious Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems…
OpenEvidence hits $12B valuation, with new round led by Thrive, DST |
In Brief Posted: 10:01 am ps · January 21, VCs who have backed OpenEvidence are apparently not worried about new health information products from OpenAI…
Everstone combines Wingify and ABTasty for $100M+ digital experience optimization platform |
Private equity firm Everstone Capital is bringing together India’s Wingify — a company that helps businesses test different versions of their websites to improve sales…
Indian vibe-coding startup Emergent triples valuation to $300M with $70M fundraise |
In a sign of the demand, or hype, for AI startups, Emergent, an Indian startup building an AI “vibe-coding” platform, has raised $70 million less…
Eat App wants a bite of India’s restaurant reservation business with an acquisition and Swiggy partnership |
Dubai-based restaurant reservation startup Eat App aims to make India a focal point of its business with new fundraising, an acquisition, and partnering with Swiggy…
BioticsAI, which won Disrupt’s Battlefield competition in 2023, gains FDA approval for its AI-powered fetal ultrasound product |
TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield 2023 winner, BioticsAI, announced on Monday that it has received FDA clearance for its AI software that helps detect fetal abnormalities in…
Rogue agents and shadow AI: Why VCs are betting big on AI security |
What happens when an AI agent decides the best way to complete a task is to blackmail you? That’s not a hypothetical. According to Barmak…