WindBorne Systems raised $37 million at a $250 million post money valuation in August 2026, led by Khosla Ventures and Galvanize, to expand its AI weather forecasting business beyond government contracts int...
Mitti Labs raised a $9.5 million Series A led by Aramco Ventures on August 5, 2026, to expand its satellite and AI powered platform that helps Asian rice farmers cut water use by 40% and methane emissions by...
On August 5, 2026 , MacPaw and Liquid AI announced a long term partnership to co develop a full on device AI stack for macOS—combining Liquid Foundation Models (LFMs), the Elix local inference engine, and th...
Disney's $1 billion deal with OpenAI to license characters for AI video tool Sora collapsed in March 2026 when OpenAI shut down Sora, which was losing $15M/day against just $2.1M in lifetime revenue.
On August 5, 2026, Anthropic publicly confirmed it is building an in house custom silicon team to design proprietary chips for its Claude AI models, citing chip shortages, soaring inference costs, and the ne...
Tinder is expanding its in person Events feature from a single Los Angeles pilot to 26 cities worldwide by September 2026, with a target of 75 cities by year end.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 has announced a new Real World AI Stage , splitting the conference's AI programming into two tracks for the first time.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 debuts a new Real World AI Stage on October 13–15 at Moscone West in San Francisco, focused on AI systems that operate in the physical world — from autonomous defense drones and edge...
Zoox began charging for robotaxi rides in Las Vegas on August 10, 2026, marking the first time a purpose built autonomous vehicle with no steering wheel or pedals has operated commercially in the U.S., follo...
On August 4, 2026, a divided D.C. Circuit en banc ruled 6 4 that the Trump EPA unlawfully terminated and attempted to claw back $20 billion in Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) grants, reinstating a preli...
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 (Oct 13–15, Moscone West, San Francisco) debuts a new Real World AI Stage focused on AI in physical systems — robotics, defense, manufacturing, edge computing, and ecological restorat...
On August 10, 2026, Amazon owned Zoox began charging passengers for rides in its custom built, steering wheel free robotaxi on the Las Vegas Strip and downtown—the first commercial service of its kind in the...