Modal Labs, a startup specializing in AI inference infrastructure, is raising a new round at a valuation of about $2.5 billion, according to four people with knowledge of the deal. Should the deal close on these terms, the financing round would more than double the company’s valuation $1.1 billion announced less than five months ago. […]
Just before a bankruptcy judge was expected to approve the sale of Luminar’s lidar business, an unknown party submitted a bid that apparently rejected the highest bid of $33 million. The offer, made just before Tuesday’s hearing, kicked off a series of quick meetings between Luminar’s remaining leadership team and its lawyers, a “special transaction […]
AI chatbots are getting better at answering questions, summarizing documents, and solving math equations, but they still largely act like helpful assistants for one user at a time. They’re not designed to handle the messier work of true collaboration: coordinating people with competing priorities, tracking long-term decisions, and keeping teams aligned over time. Humans&, a […]
TRAVIS Kelce urged fiancée Taylor Swift to “be wary” of her friendship with Blake Lively, with sources claiming he was uncomfortable with the way the actress was speaking to the global superstar. Bombshell private text messages between the famous women have been made public as part of legal filings in Lively’s ongoing lawsuit with former […]
Resolve AI, a startup developing an autonomous Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), a tool that automatically maintains software systems, has launched a Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, according to three people familiar with the deal. The nominal valuation for the new round is $1 billion, sources said. However, the company’s actual blended valuation was […]
LABOR has been accused of trying to ‘nationalise’ the British car industry by leasing thousands more British cars under Motability. Ten years from now, the taxpayer-funded plan aims to lease 150,000 custom cars – up from just 22,000 today. Sign up for Scottish sun newsletter Thank you! Labor has been accused of trying to ‘nationalise’ […]
Kabir Narang, one of the founders of B Capital and an early backer of several Indian startups, has left the global venture capital firm, TechCrunch has learned and confirmed with the company. Narang is laying the foundation for a new investment platform planned for 2026 that will focus on “compounding at the intersection of technology, […]
In early November, a developer nicknamed Cookie had a routine conversation with Perplexity. She often tasks herself with reading her developer work in quantum algorithms and writing readme files and other documents for GitHub. She is a Pro subscriber and uses the service in ‘best’ mode, which means she chooses which underlying model to use […]
Several public websites designed to allow courts in the United States and Canada to manage the personal information of potential jurors had a simple security flaw that could easily expose their sensitive data, including names and home addresses, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. A security researcher, who asked not to be identified for this story, contacted […]
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Michelle Pfeiffer is excited for next year so she can spend time being a loving and attentive grandmother. During an interview with Fox News Digital, Pfeiffer – who was accompanied by her – said “Oh. What. Fun.” co-star, Felicity Jones – discussed becoming a grandmother for the […]