The funding round was led by Norwest, with participation from S Capital VC, Cerca Partners, and Oceans Ventures. Snowflake Ventures also participated as a strategic investor.
Decart is launching Oasis 3, a real-time world model that generates photorealistic driving environments for autonomous vehicle testing, now available via API for developers to build on.
Users under 16 years old will get a separate profile to show Stories and Spotlight posts to friends that they follow back.
Electricity demand from AI data centers is pushing everyone — including automakers like GM and Ford — into the energy storage business.
Fusion power startup Avalanche Energy said its reactor prototype heated a plasma to over 10 million degrees C.
Ambrosia Energy wants to build power plants in less than 12 months while undercutting natural gas. It hopes to build gigawatts worth by 2030.
Waymo created a new computer model to help it better understand how humans behave in crash scenarios that its robotaxis encounter.
The 168-megawatt facility will support Meta's global AI computing needs and can be expanded over time.
The exec, Emad Dlala, has left just a few months after being promoted to SVP of engineering and digital, TechCrunch has learned.
Google just made it significantly cheaper to enjoy its budget AI subscription tier.
Instead of spending a year raising a formal venture fund, the Sabertooth VC founder used a captive network of LPs to invest in startups like Anthropic, Anduril, and SpaceX.
GM is developing an entirely new sodium-ion battery chemistry for use in everything from data centers to its own factories.
I'm desperate for a personal AI assistant, but do I really want to become the kind of person who can't function without the friendly robot voice in my phone?
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 is going to be a big hit with the web's vibe coders.
If those same AI workloads can be handled by cheaper models without affecting quality, it would mean a massive shift in the economics of AI.
Apple primarily made the case for an improved experience with its long-standing Siri assistant, which like most other announcements had a hefty helping of AI.
Check Point said hackers broke into dozens of organizations by exploiting a VPN bug in several of its products used across the government.
Anthropic is releasing Claude Fable 5, its first Mythos-class model available to the public. The model comes with guardrails that block responses in high-risk areas like cybersecurity and biology.
Anthropic is releasing Claude Fable 5, its first Mythos-class model available to the public. The model comes with guardrails that block responses in high-risk areas like cybersecurity and biology.
Founder and CEO RJ Scaringe has called it "maybe the most important thing we've launched to date."