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A profile of Runway, an AI video generation startup that trains models directly on observational data, is now valued at $5.3 billion and added $40 million in ARR in the second quarter (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 15, 2026

Featured Podcasts Hard fork: AI Security Returns + Mythos Mayhem Featuring Nikesh Arora + Hot Mess Express The future is…

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A profile of Emil Michael, who made his name as an aggressive dealmaker for Uber, as he plays a leading role in the Pentagon’s conflict with Anthropic (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 8, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: AI revenues explode, Dario’s memo, McDonald’s CEO’s baby burger The Big Technology Podcast takes you…

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Snowflake agrees to acquire Observe, an observability platform built on Snowflake databases; the deal was previously valued at around $1 billion (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 8, 2026

Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: Snowflake agrees to acquire Observe, an observability platform built on Snowflake databases; the deal was previously…

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Arbiter, which uses AI to automate healthcare administrative tasks, comes out of stealth with a $52 million seed from multiple family offices at a $400 million valuation (Rebecca Torrence/Business Insider)

By Stacey D. WallsNovember 23, 2025

Featured Podcasts The Talk Show with John Gruber: “Lincoln Bio Services,” with Stephen Robles The director’s commentary track for Daring…

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OPENAI announces API updates, including GPT-5 Pro, Sora 2 in Overview, and GPT-Realtime-Mini, a vocal model which is 70% cheaper than GPT-Realtime (Rebecca Bellan / Techcrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 6, 2025

Rebecca Bellan / Techcrunch:: OPENAI announces API updates, including GPT-5 Pro, Sora 2 in Overview and GPT-Realtime-Mini, a vocal model…

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Chipmaker Cerebras Systems raised a G series of $ 1.1 million in Fidelity, the capital of Trump Jr. in 1789, and others to a post-money assessment of $ 8.1 billion before its IPO (Rebecca Szkutak / Techcrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsSeptember 30, 2025

Rebecca Szkutak / Techcrunch:: Chipmaker Cerebras Systems raised a G series of $ 1.1 billion in Fidelity, the capital of…

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Transit Software Company Via Transit shares closed $ 49.51 when they started in Nyse, above the IPO price of $ 46, giving via a market capitalization of ~ 3.9 billion dollars, after having increased $ 492.9 million (Rebecca Bellan / Techcrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsSeptember 13, 2025

Featured podcasts Big Technology Podcast: Do we care about the iPhone Air ?, Nepal’s Discord Revolution, Culture 996 of San…

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Q&R with the CEO of the British Library Rebecca Lawrence on the consequences of a major October 2023 Cyberatack, Stinging, AI for text analysis, and more (Mishal Husain / Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsJuly 6, 2025

Featured podcasts Podcast by Lenny: Solo founder, out of $ 80 million, 6 months: The Base44 Bootstrapped Startup Success Story…

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Synthflow, based in Berlin, a code without code allowing companies to build and deploy customer service agents of personalized voice, has collected a series of $ 20 million AD by ACCEL (Rebecca Szkutak / Techcrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 24, 2025

Rebecca Szkutak / Techcrunch:: Synthflow, based in Berlin, a code without code allowing companies to create and deploy customer service…

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Houging Face unveils two Open Source Humanoid robots, the full -size Hopejr of $ 3,000 and an office unit from $ 250 to $ 300, which should be shipped by the end of 2025 (Rebecca Szkutak / Techcrunch)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 30, 2025

Rebecca Szkutak / Techcrunch:: An embroidered face reveals two Open Source humanoid robots, the full -size Hopejr of $ 3,000…

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a CoreWeave-linked data center raised $900 million via five-year junk bonds, priced at par for a 7.5% yield, as the industry increasingly shifts to high-yield bonds (Gowri Gurumurthy/Bloomberg)

Microsoft launches MAI-Thinking-1, its first advanced reasoning model, trained “from scratch on clean data, without distillation of third-party models” (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Internal position: Guy Rosen, Meta’s chief information security officer who previously oversaw Meta’s election integrity work, will leave in the coming months (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

Meta Expands Teen Account Safety Features to Limit Harmful Content on Instagram, Facebook and Messenger, including Nutrition, Weightlifting and Anxiety (Eli Tan/New York Times)

Chey Tae-won, president of SK Hynix, said the company plans to double the capacity of its memory chips over the next five years, in response to a shortage that could last until 2030 (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

Browsing: Rebecca

A profile of Runway, an AI video generation startup that trains models directly on observational data, is now valued at $5.3 billion and added $40 million in ARR in the second quarter (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

A profile of Emil Michael, who made his name as an aggressive dealmaker for Uber, as he plays a leading role in the Pentagon’s conflict with Anthropic (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)

Snowflake agrees to acquire Observe, an observability platform built on Snowflake databases; the deal was previously valued at around $1 billion (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)

Arbiter, which uses AI to automate healthcare administrative tasks, comes out of stealth with a $52 million seed from multiple family offices at a $400 million valuation (Rebecca Torrence/Business Insider)

OPENAI announces API updates, including GPT-5 Pro, Sora 2 in Overview, and GPT-Realtime-Mini, a vocal model which is 70% cheaper than GPT-Realtime (Rebecca Bellan / Techcrunch)

Chipmaker Cerebras Systems raised a G series of $ 1.1 million in Fidelity, the capital of Trump Jr. in 1789, and others to a post-money assessment of $ 8.1 billion before its IPO (Rebecca Szkutak / Techcrunch)

Transit Software Company Via Transit shares closed $ 49.51 when they started in Nyse, above the IPO price of $ 46, giving via a market capitalization of ~ 3.9 billion dollars, after having increased $ 492.9 million (Rebecca Bellan / Techcrunch)

Q&R with the CEO of the British Library Rebecca Lawrence on the consequences of a major October 2023 Cyberatack, Stinging, AI for text analysis, and more (Mishal Husain / Bloomberg)

Synthflow, based in Berlin, a code without code allowing companies to build and deploy customer service agents of personalized voice, has collected a series of $ 20 million AD by ACCEL (Rebecca Szkutak / Techcrunch)

Houging Face unveils two Open Source Humanoid robots, the full -size Hopejr of $ 3,000 and an office unit from $ 250 to $ 300, which should be shipped by the end of 2025 (Rebecca Szkutak / Techcrunch)