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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 will feature Ricursive Intelligence co-founders Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini in a session on AI-designed hardware.
Reporting: techcrunch.com
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Dealroom forecasts European defense startups will raise $10.5 billion in 2026, more than double the EU-27 total from the previous year.
Reporting: msn.com
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Tangent Robotics has raised $4.5 million in pre-seed funding, according to reports.
Reporting: roboticstomorrow.com
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Canva has acquired two companies—Simtheory, an AI collaboration and agent management platform, and Ortto.
Reporting: thedailystar.net
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San Francisco-based Trebellar has raised an $18 million Series A to replace spreadsheets with AI-native software for corporate real estate.
Reporting: commercialobserver.com
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Replit has acquired Atta, an Egypt-founded startup specializing in interactive charting and data analysis, to integrate its technology into Replit’s platform.
Reporting: weetracker.com
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A report cited by MSN suggests tech layoffs passed 225,000 in 2026, with AI increasingly mentioned as a factor.
Reporting: msn.com
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Lola Vision Systems, a startup developing chips designed to run AI models on a single piece of silicon, has been named to TechCrunch’s Battlefield 200 list.
Reporting: techcrunch.com
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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 has announced the last five judges for its Startup Battlefield 200 pitch competition.
Reporting: techcrunch.com
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A novel, *The Grammar of Silence* by R Seshasayee, has become an unlikely obsession among startup founders and early-stage investors.
Reporting: yourstory.com
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Helsinki-based AI cloud startup Verda has raised $189 million in a Series B round led by Emergence Capital.
Reporting: datacenterdynamics.com
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Cohere today released North 2, a rebuilt platform for deploying AI agents inside large organizations.
Reporting: siliconangle.com
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Iterate.ai has released Lifeboat, an inference engine for large language models that embeds confidential computing and claims to run two to six times more concurrent AI agent sessions per GPU than existing solutions.
Reporting: siliconangle.com
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TechCrunch has revealed the full speaker lineup for Disrupt 2026.
Reporting: techcrunch.com
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LeapXpert, a governed communications startup, has integrated its platform with Cisco’s Webex to allow users to message clients on WhatsApp without leaving the collaboration app.
Reporting: siliconangle.com
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A growing number of venture-backed B2B SaaS startups are rebuilding their tech stacks in 2026, according to reporting from TechLoy.
Reporting: techloy.com
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Seattle-based startup Orbital Robotics is set to deliver a pair of robotic arms to the International Space Station, GeekWire reported.
Reporting: geekwire.com
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Namespace has raised $42 million in a Series B round, just seven months after closing its Series A, tech.eu reported.
Reporting: tech.eu
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Google Cloud partner Promevo has launched Insights, a platform designed to track adoption of Google’s Gemini Enterprise, the AI agents employees build with it.
Reporting: siliconangle.com
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Clockwork Systems, a startup optimizing AI chip clusters for data centers.
Reporting: siliconangle.com
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