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AI agents are powerful but not yet integrated into everyday life, which often happens in group chats. Jarvie, an AI assistant for iMessage group chats, has raised $8.3M seed funding from a16z, Base10 Partners, and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 is offering up to $190 off Early Bird passes until June 26. The Boston event on November 4 features networking, breakout sessions, and insights for founders at any growth stage.
Swedish startup Fika Jobs raises $4M pre-seed to build a video-first hiring platform where AI agents interview candidates, creating TikTok-like profiles to showcase personality and communication skills beyond resumes.
Groq raises $650M to pivot to its neocloud business after Nvidia's $20B licensing deal and talent poaching, hiring new executives and expanding data centers.
Italian startup Lorika launches Ontop, colorful clip-on frame covers for Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses, aiming to add protection and a louder design aesthetic. The $35-$40 polycarbonate covers do not block cameras or speakers.
Former hacker and SpaceX software lead Dan Roelker now runs Observable Space, a company building advanced telescopes and optical systems to collect and control light for space applications.
TechCrunch announces its Founder Summit 2026 in Boston, a conference for founders to learn from peers and investors, with early bird pricing ending June 26.
Fomo announces a $75M Series B funding round led by Index Ventures and USV, with continued support from Benchmark, aiming to bring on excellent partners.
Y Combinator shares advice on choosing startup ideas in the AI era.
Following the recruitment link shared by Tianyi Cui, DeepSeek is hiring for roles in AI technology, infrastructure, and business, with mentions of compensation.
A startup announces a new approach to desktop AI agents that integrates with applications via OS-level methods rather than computer use, aiming for scalability and lower cost.
Lithuanian startup Mainline launches Drone Radar, an open-source network that uses volunteers' Android smartphones to detect Shahed-type drones by analyzing ambient sounds.
A personal reflection from a UCLA dropout startup founder on how building AI infrastructure changed his perspective on the world's imperfect foundations.
Lovable has grown from 10 to 250+ employees in 18 months, emphasizing in-person work culture and hiring.
MIT Technology Review's daily newsletter covers a startup claiming a breakthrough in making LLMs faster and more efficient, sparking skepticism among experts, and reports on the surge of brain-computer interface trials, including a man with ALS who is a 'power user' of a brain implant.
Miami-based startup Subquadratic claims its new SubQ model solves the quadratic attention bottleneck, making LLMs faster and cheaper. Independent tests from Appen back up many of the claims, though skepticism remains.
Enterprise software company Elastic has agreed to acquire AI startup Deductive AI for up to $85 million. Deductive, which uses AI to automatically catch and resolve software bugs, will enhance Elastic's observability platform with agentic AI capabilities.
AI inference startup Baseten is reportedly raising $1.5 billion at a $13 billion valuation, just months after its previous mega-round, highlighting the enormous investor interest in the inference layer of AI.
The founder of Z.ai expresses confidence in releasing a fable-class GLM model before the end of the year.
General Intuition, a startup building a foundation model for training AI agents in spatial-temporal reasoning using video game data, is in talks to raise $300 million at a $2 billion valuation, with backing from Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt.