The founder’s guide to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Everything you need to know
Disrupt Stage: The biggest conversations in technology, featuring the founders, CEOs, and industry leaders…
Etched’s valuation doubles to $21B in a month
Etched delivers its AI tech as full systems that it calls "frontier inference clusters."…
Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350 million at a $2.5 billion valuation
Instinct, a startup founded only last year and helmed by a 23-year-old, has managed…
Cognition hits $48B valuation, signaling investors believe AI coding is far from a winner-take-all market
Cognition leases an Nvidia server cluster that costs hundreds of millions of dollars annually,…
Robots are waiting for a ChatGPT moment: Nvidia’s Les Karpas explains why at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
The world hasn't been the same since ChatGPT made its debut in November 2022,…
4 days to save up to $200: Reason 2 of 5 to be at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Four days. That's how long you have left to save up to $200 on…
Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ Brandon Sorbom and Helion’s David Kirtley on bringing fusion to the grid at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
For decades, commercial fusion power has seemed perpetually out of reach. Now two companies…
HackerRank’s AI interviewer offers a glimpse into what job interviews could become
Chakra represents a bet against the kind of technical assessment business HackerRank spent years…
AI coding startup Cognition raises $1B at $25B pre-money valuation
Cognition, the makers of the autonomous AI software engineer named Devin, has raised more than…
Lovable signs multiyear deal with Google Cloud to up usage 5x, source says
Lovable and Google announced an expanded multiyear collaboration on Wednesday. Lovable, the fast-growing Stockholm…
Source: Elastic agrees to buy CRV-backed DeductiveAI for up to $85M
DeductiveAI, a startup that uses AI to catch and resolve bugs in software, has…
The DeepMind trio who built a poker AI are now making money for quant hedge funds
Still, this is one of the more notable AI companies in the region for…
Charles Hudson shares the common mistakes he’s seen after investing in 500+ startups
Charles Hudson has spent more than a decade investing in early-stage startups. As the…
Edtech platform raises $4.5M to help teach students how to vibe code
Dora Palfi comes from a family of teachers. Naturally, then, "it was instilled in…
Silicon Valley loves young founders. Until it doesn’t.
For Arlan Rakhmetzhanov, 19, there is no middle ground. Either he builds a company…
India’s Yulu raises $93M as quick-commerce boom fuels e-bike demand
About 500 of the new bikes are already running in Bengaluru and are being…
