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Eruditus, an Indian edtech startup, is in advanced stages of talks to secure about $150 million in new funding, two sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch, in what would…

TPG nears $150M funding in India’s Eruditus at $2.3B valuation

AI models are being applied to every dataset under the sun, but are inconsistent in their outcomes. This is as true in the medical world as anywhere else, but a…

Piramidal’s foundation model for brainwaves could supercharge EEGs

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Marc Andreessen’s family plans to build a ‘visionary’ subdivision near the proposed California Forever utopia city

Marc Andreessen’s family is planning to build a large housing development near the proposed California Forever city.

Marc Andreessen’s family plans to build a ‘visionary’ subdivision near the proposed California Forever utopia city

EV startup Canoo’s chief technology officer Sohel Merchant has left the company, two people familiar with his departure have told TechCrunch. Merchant was one of the members of Canoo’s founding…

Canoo’s chief technology officer is out amid wider reorg

360 One Asset, an investor in National Stock Exchange (NSE), has increased its valuation for India’s top stock exchange to $29.9 billion.

360 One lifts its valuation of India’s National Stock Exchange to $29.9B

The pellets can be stored in piles or silos, moved around using conveyor belts, and transported via rail cars.

Cache Energy’s mysterious white pellets could help kill coal and natural gas

BEVC is the latest life sciences VC to add planetary health to its portfolio, suggesting that the trend is catching hold.

Life sciences investor BEVC raising $25M climate fund

Eppo has closed a new funding round that values the company at over $100 million.

Eppo lands new cash to grow its app, website and AI experimentation business

Simulating the real world is a tremendously complex problem if you want to do it at any useful level of fidelity. Traditional techniques are holding back design teams at vehicle…

BeyondMath’s ‘digital wind tunnel’ puts a physics-based AI simulation to work on F1 cars

AI models have proven capable of many things, but what tasks do we actually want them doing? Preferably drudgery — and there’s plenty of that in research and academia. Reliant…

Reliant’s paper-scouring AI takes on science’s data drudgery

Pakistani startup PostEx is entering Saudi Arabia as first global market after hitting $21 million ARR in the South Asian nation.

Pakistan’s PostEx to enter new markets, starting with Saudi Arabia

Amazon is considering shifting its payments offerings in India into a standalone app, three sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch, as the e-commerce giant aims to boost usage of…

Amazon considers moving Amazon Pay into a standalone app in India

Thomas Ingenlath is having perhaps a little too much fun in his Polestar 3, silently rocketing away from stop signs and swinging through tightening bends, grinning like a man far…

With the Polestar 3 now ‘weeks’ away, its CEO looks to make company ‘self-sustaining’

The layoffs occurred in waves over the past two years, and as recently as the last few weeks.

3D printing stalwart Formlabs confirms ‘small number’ of layoffs

One of the first topics tackled was the impractical nature of today’s video generators.

Filmmakers say AI will change the art — perhaps beyond recognition

World Labs, a stealthy startup founded by renowned Stanford University AI professor Fei-Fei Li, has raised two rounds of financing two months apart, according to multiple reports. The latest financing was…

NEA led a $100M round into Fei-Fei Li’s new AI startup, now valued at over $1B

Chinese autonomous vehicle company WeRide has received the green light to test its driverless vehicles with passengers in California.  The step comes as WeRide begins the process to go public…

Chinese robotaxi startup WeRide gets approval to carry passengers in California 

ArborXR, a startup that helps companies remotely manage AR and VR devices, believed that enterprise customers would be the primary targets for AR and VR devices. Now, that bet is…

ArborXR secures $12M to boost its management platform for AR and VR devices

PayZen aims to make healthcare more affordable by enabling patients to pay their bills in interest and fee-free instalments over time.

PayZen secures $32M Series B, $200M debt facility to grow its ‘care now, pay later’ product

Tally, a nine-year-old fintech that helped consumers manage and pay off their credit card debt, has shut down, according to the company. In a LinkedIn post that was shared earlier…

a16z-backed fintech Tally, which raised $172M in funding, is shutting down after running out of cash

When users click on an event on Polymarket, they will now see a summary of news related to the event based on search results from Perplexity.

Prediction marketplace Polymarket partners with Perplexity to show news summaries

Kazam, an Indian EV charging solution provider, has raised $8 million to expand its footprint in the country and enter Southeast Asian markets.

India’s Kazam powers up to roll out EV charging in Southeast Asia

Autonomy founder Scott Painter is spinning out a new company called Autonomy Data Services, or ADS, he tells TechCrunch in an exclusive interview. 

Why Scott Painter is selling a beach house to start a new vehicle software company

Anysphere, a two-year-old startup that’s developed an AI-powered coding assistant called Cursor, has raised over $60 million in a Series A financing at a $400 million post-money valuation, two sources…

Anysphere, a GitHub Copilot rival, has raised $60M Series A at  $400M valuation from a16z, Thrive, sources say

The startup’s core technology is a proprietary material that absorbs moisture from the air, allowing air conditioning to cool buildings more efficiently.

Humidity sucks. Transaera has a new way to deal with it

Cocoon is a new startup built on the belief that greener steel production and the creation of concrete slag doesn’t have to be an either/or proposition.

Cocoon is transforming steel production runoff into a greener cement alternative

YouTube is testing an integration with Google Gemini to help creators brainstorm video ideas, titles and thumbnails. The Google-owned company announced the launch of the new Brainstorm with Gemini feature…

YouTube is testing a feature that lets creators use Google Gemini to brainstorm video ideas

New York-based fintech Payoneer has acquired Skuad, a Singapore-based global HR and payroll startup, for $61 million in cash, the company exclusively told TechCrunch.  Payoneer said it could also pay…

Fintech Payoneer is buying 5-year-old global payroll startup Skuad for $61M in cash

African e-commerce company Jumia is selling 20 million American depositary shares over the next couple of weeks, TechCrunch has learned. The at-the-market transaction is to take advantage of strong results…

Jumia plans to raise more than $100 million in secondary shares to drive stalled user growth  

Cala Systems’ water heater pairs an advanced heat pump with an AI-powered control system to forecast hot water demand.

AI-powered water heater could banish cold showers and carbon pollution