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A lens the size of a thumbnail — and the South Korean startup that makes it — could become the optical backbone of the AI glasses era. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story

As artificial intelligence agents become more powerful, agentic AI governance becomes increasingly important – and yet, today’s governance solutions struggle to keep AI agents from going off the rails. In my last article in this series, I discussed the state of the art for keeping agents on the rails: multiple diverse adversarial validators with multilayer…

Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2025 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding deal…

A code migration agent finishes its run, and the pipeline looks green. But several pieces were never compiled — and it took days to catch. That’s not a model failure; that’s an agent deciding it was done before it actually was. Many enterprises are now seeing that production AI agent pipelines fail not because of…

After achieving $2.2 billion in revenue in 2025, the defense tech startup has raised another massive round, led by Thrive and a16z, it says. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story

Coco Robotics has made more than 500,000 deliveries with its zero-emissions robots since they hit the streets in 2020. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story

Despite what some experts have characterized as an environment increasingly hostile to AI R&D, North America continues to receive the bulk of AI venture dollars. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story

Every year, donors contribute billions of dollars to charities, yet the donation process still feels outdated and cumbersome. Founders Dan Eblagon and Ron Levy believe there is an easier way to donate, leading to the creation of Bono, a platform designed to facilitate a more modern and streamlined approach to giving.  The platform (named after…

Capsule is upgrading its AI-powered video editing assistant for marketing, sales, and media teams following the close of a $12 million round of Series A funding, the company announced on Wednesday. The upgraded editor will include new features like AI suggestions and support for real-time collaboration. The new version of its studio software will feature…

A handful of engineers who worked at Lucid Motors and on Apple’s electric car project have launched a new startup that puts a fresh spin on electric hub motors. The new startup, called Conifer, has developed its motor to be free of rare earth elements by using more abundant ferrite magnets, which the company says…