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Exclusive: Positron raises $230M Series B to take on Nvidia’s AI chips | TechCrunch
Semiconductor startup Positron has secured $230 million in Series B funding, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The outfit plans to use the capital to speed...
Qualcomm backs SpotDraft to scale on-device contract AI with valuation doubling toward $400M | TechCrunch
As demand grows for privacy-first enterprise AI that can run without sending sensitive data to the cloud, SpotDraft has raised $8 million from Qualcomm...
Quadric rides the shift from cloud AI to on-device inference — and it’s paying off | TechCrunch
Companies and governments are looking for tools to run AI locally in a a bid slash cloud infrastructure costs and build sovereign capability. Quadric,...
AI cloud startup Runpod hits $120M in ARR — and it started with a Reddit post | TechCrunch
Runpod, an AI app hosting platform that launched four years ago, has hit a $120 million annual revenue run rate, founders Zhen Lu and...
Even as global crop prices fall, India’s Arya.ag is attracting investors — and staying profitable | TechCrunch
Arya.ag, an Indian agritech company offering storage facilities near farms and offering lending services to hundreds of thousands of farmers, has drawn investor interest...
Ex-Splunk execs’ startup Resolve AI hits $1 billion valuation with Series A | TechCrunch
Resolve AI, a startup developing an autonomous site reliability engineer (SRE), a tool that automatically maintains software systems, has raised a Series A led...
Exclusive: Everbloom built an AI to turn chicken feathers into cashmere | TechCrunch
Cashmere sweaters are everywhere these days, often at unbelievably low prices. The appeal is obvious: if you’ve ever worn cashmere, you know it’s soft,...
Flaw in photo booth maker’s website exposes customers’ pictures | TechCrunch
A company that makes photo booths is exposing pictures and videos of its customers online thanks to a simple flaw in its website where...
Exclusive: OSHA investigating new crane accident at SpaceX’s Starbase facility | TechCrunch
A construction worker building a concrete wall at SpaceX’s Starbase site in November was crushed by a large metal support that fell from a...
No, you can’t get your AI to ‘admit’ to being sexist, but it probably is | TechCrunch
In early November, a developer nicknamed Cookie entered a routine conversation with Perplexity. She often tasks it with reading her developer work in quantum...
