While battery swapping has struggled to take off in much of the world, Canadian auto parts giant Magna International believes the model could work at…
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Chinese automakers are following Tesla’s bet that robots are the next big profit machine |
The hype around humanoid robots isn’t particularly new. Thank Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his Optimus robot, as well as the myriad videos of Boston…
Runable hits $21M to bet AI agents can go from building businesses to growing them |
As artificial intelligence makes it easier than ever to build websites and apps, Indian startup Runable is betting the next opportunity lies in what comes…
Anthropic, Blackstone bet the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not just models |
AI models are becoming ever more capable, but exactly what enterprise adoption will look like remains a big question. In a bid to shape that…
General Intuition’s $2.3B bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world |
As soon as I entered General Intuition’s R&D floor at its New York office, the company’s 31-year-old co-founder and CEO Pim de Witte directed my…
Founders Fund’s outlier bet on humanely killed fish |
Earlier this week, at TechCrunch’s newest StrictlyVC event in El Segundo, Shinkei Systems founder Saif Khawaja and Founders Fund partner Delian Asparouhov sat down for…
‘Pretty Crazy’ Token Usage Is Testing Bosses’ Bet on AI
At the software company 8×8, employees are using Anthropic’s Claude to draft emails, analyze customer feedback, and write code, but so far, their growing reliance…
Datadog veterans launch AI coding startup Niteshift on a bet against Big AI lock-in |
AI coding agent startup Niteshift has raised a $7 million seed round led by Greylock’s Jerry Chen. That’s a modest sum by AI standards, but…
The ‘together tech’ wave might be the most intriguing startup bet of 2026
While the AI fundraising machinekeeps breaking its own records, some founders are building in the other direction. Mirror founder Brynn Putnam just raised money forBoard,…
Coralogix raises $200M on bet that someone needs to watch the AI agents |
Coralogix, a Boston-headquartered software-monitoring startup founded in Israel, has raised $200 million in a new funding round, betting that the rise of AI agents will…