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Germany’s armed forces have commissioned Bremen-based startup Polaris to develop a two-stage, fully reusable hypersonic space plane — and given the team just three years to build it. Dubbed Aurora,…
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Summarize this content to 3 bullet points Optifye.ai, a Y Combinator-backed startup, sparked massive social media backlash this week after its demo went viral. The video, which shows how the…
Donald Trump has the distinction of being the first U.S. President elected in the AI era. While he has rightly recognized the importance of AI with his decisions to appoint…
Alliance of Angels Executive Director Angie Parker. (Photo courtesy of Angie Parker) Angie Parker is the new executive director of Alliance of Angels, the Seattle-based investment group. A University of…
From left: GeekWire editor Taylor Soper; TiE Seattle President Prashant Mishra; FUSE founding partner Brendan Wales; Madrona investor Sabrina Wu; Trilogy Equity Partners Principal Elisa La Cava; Pioneer Square Labs…
Summarize this content to 3 bullet points OpenAI is finally making its video generation model, Sora, available to users in the European Union, the U.K., Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland.…
Sequoia's Roelof Botha apparently sees another greed cycle brewing in venture capital where the least sophisticated investors could get hurt. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.…
Summarize this content to 3 bullet points Snowflake plans to expand its startup accelerator with $200 million in additional commitments, the tech giant that specializes in cloud-based data storage said…
Summarize this content to 3 bullet points Figure is planning to bring its humanoids into the home sooner than expected. CEO Brett Adcock confirmed on Thursday that the Bay Area…
I tell Amazon’s Alexa to shut up on a near daily basis. I have almost zero interest in speaking to Gemini after our first awkward chat. The hitches, misunderstandings, and…
To prepare to take over the real world, AI models are first conquering virtual ones. On Tuesday, Anthropic kicked off its Twitch livestream titled "Claude Plays Pokémon." Without human intervention,…
In its annual letter released Thursday, payments giant Stripe declared that it was “seeing an AI boom” with its data revealing that artificial intelligence startups are growing more rapidly than…
Exia Labs co-founders Serj Kazar (left) and Jonathan Pan. (Exia Labs Photo) Jonathan Pan spent five years in the U.S. Army and then ventured into the video game industry. Now…
Blue Origin’s NS-31 spacefliers include Lauren Sanchez, Jeff Bezos’ fiancee; Gayle King, co-host of “CBS Mornings”; pop superstar Katy Perry; and Aisha Bowe, Kerianne Flynn and Amanda Nguyen, three advocates…
When it comes to AI software, you can build something clever, but that’s not always the same as building something that is secure. With so much software now getting written…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a lunar lander from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, kicking off the latest attempt to touch down on the Moon's surface. Houston-based startup…
ResilienceVC, a new seed-stage fintech venture capital firm based out of Washington, D.C., is announcing its $56 million debut fund, the firm shared exclusively with TechCrunch. Founded by Tahira Dosani…
Interest rates remain high, tech IPOs are still sparse, and uncertainty looms around regulatory action and funding constraints. But startup leaders are generally optimistic about the future, according to a…