Investors sue Selena Gomez alleging fraud tied to her mental health startup |

In Brief Posted: 3:12 PM PDT · August 13, 2026 Singer and actress Selena Gomez and her mother are being sued over their mental health…

AI coding startup Cognition reportedly already in talks to raise at $40B valuation |

In Brief Posted: 11:19 AM PDT · August 12, 2026 Cognition, makers of the AI coding agent Devin, is reportedly already talking to investors about…

AI code-testing startup Blacksmith’s valuation jumps almost 10x in less than a year |

As AI makes coding dramatically faster, the next big challenge in software development is testing and validating all that code. Blacksmith has raised a new…

OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide |

In Brief Posted: 12:41 PM PDT · August 8, 2026 NextSlide recently announced that it’s joining OpenAI, with the presentation startup’s team members now working…

Fullcast Named as a Market Shaper in the July 2026 Gartner® Emerging Market Quadrant for AI Agents for Marketing — Startup Vendors

/PRNewswire/ –Fullcast, the leader in go-to-market (GTM) and revenue operations (RevOps) automation, today announced that it has been recognized as a Market Shaper in the…

Travis Kalanick's robotics startup Atoms taps former Uber finance chief as CFO |

Another former Uber executive is joining Travis Kalanick’s robotics and industrial AI startup Atoms, just a few weeks after it raised $1.7 billion. Gautam Gupta,…

Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch their own startup |

Jeff Dean, one of the longest-serving and most influential executives at Google, is stepping down from the search giant to launch his own AI startup.…

Meet the eight startups pitching at Startup Battlefield Australia |

10:02 AM PDT · August 5, 2026 The applications are in. The TechCrunch Startup Battlefield team made their decisions. Eight Australian startups have earned their…

4 of Google’s Top AI Brains Are Leaving—and Launching Their Own AI Startup

At first, the team envisions that those ideas will be codeveloped with humans, but their goal is deeply automating the process. If it works out,…

AWS is helping vibe-coding startup Superblocks, and the implications are big |

Vibe coding startup Superblocks announced a multi-year joint marketing agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that enables its tool to be embedded within the private…