The Signal. Not the Noise.
The Signal. Not the Noise.
Funding rounds, acquisitions, new ventures and the bold founders building at the frontier of AI and crypto. Follow the money shaping tomorrow’s technology landscape.
The whale has resurfaced. DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup offshoot of High-Flyer Capital Management quantitative analysis firm, became a near-overnight sensation globally in January 2025 with the release of its open source R1 model that matched proprietary U.S. giants. It’s…
TechCrunch has confirmed that Delve was the compliance company that performed the security certifications for Context AI, the AI agent training startup that last week disclosed a security incident. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story
As regulatory pressure intensifies and geopolitical uncertainty reshapes technology procurement, enterprises are rethinking control over their entire stack, with sovereign architectures emerging as the defining framework for that effort. The convergence of VMware migration, Kubernetes ingress modernization and AI governance…
Cybersecurity tends to be one of the more resilient sectors for startup funding, as customers know it’s cheaper in the long run to pay for it than go without. Even so, investment to the space reliably fluctuates from quarter to…
Returning backers a16z and Thrive are expected to lead the round. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story
The standard guidelines for building large language models (LLMs) optimize only for training costs and ignore inference costs. This poses a challenge for real-world applications that use inference-time scaling techniques to increase the accuracy of model responses, such as drawing…
Real-time threat intelligence company Team Cymru Inc. today announced the launch of Total Insights Feed, a unified threat intelligence platform that is designed to replace legacy indicator list-based feeds with machine-actionable, scored intelligence across the full surface of the internet.…
Methodology This tracker includes layoffs conducted by U.S.-based companies or those with a strong U.S. presence and is updated at least bi-weekly. We’ve included both startups and publicly traded, tech-heavy companies. We’ve also included companies based elsewhere that have a…
Adobe today launched its most ambitious AI offensive to date, unveiling the Firefly AI Assistant — a new agentic creative tool that can orchestrate complex, multi-step workflows across the company’s entire Creative Cloud suite from a single conversational interface —…
The involvement of AMD, Arm, and the venture arm of Qualcomm is about more than money. It’s also about tapping into the variety of compute platforms that Wayve’s self-driving system will need to use. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story
