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Google revives talks to acquire Wiz at higher valuation

Google’s parent company Alphabet is again in advanced talks to acquire cloud cybersecurity startup Wiz, a person familiar with the deal told TechCrunch....

Bench is charging people for services they already paid for, some customers say

After Employer.com acquired bankrupt accounting startup Bench in a fire-sale late last year, CEO Jesse Tinsley pledged on LinkedIn and elsewhere to honor...

Anthropic CEO says spies are after $100M AI secrets in a few lines of code

Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei is worried that spies, likely from China, are getting their hands on costly “algorithmic secrets” from the U.S.’s top...

Scimplify raises $40M to help manufacturers access specialty chemicals

Scimplify, an Indian startup that helps pharmaceutical and agriculture companies access a range of specialty chemicals, has raised $40 million in a new...

Infinite Uptime bags $35M to help factories optimize equipment usage

Infinite Uptime, an Indian startup that offers predictive maintenance solutions for factories, has raised $35 million in a Series C funding round to...

Tammy Nam joins AI-powered ad startup Creatopy as CEO

Creatopy, a startup that uses AI to automate the creation of digital ads, has brought on a new CEO: Tammy H. Nam. ...

SXSW 2025: What were paying attention to

TechCrunch will be on the ground at SXSW 2025 — the annual tech, music, comedy, and film conference that kicked off Friday in...

Cursor in talks to raise at a $10B valuation as AI coding sector booms

Investor interest in AI coding assistants is exploding. Anysphere, the developer of AI-powered coding assistant Cursor, is in talks with venture capitalists...

Google co-founder Larry Page reportedly has a new AI startup

Google co-founder Larry Page is building a new company called Dynatomics that’s focused on applying AI to product manufacturing, according to The Information....

Google DeepMind, Cohere, and Twelve Labs explain how founders can build with their AI models at TechCrunch Sessions: AI

There seems to be a new, more impressive AI model every week. Given the rapid pace, how can founders best position themselves to...

Not all cancer patients need chemo. Ataraxis AI raised $20M to fix that.

Artificial intelligence is a big trend in cancer care, and it’s mostly focused detecting cancer at the earliest possible stage. That makes a...

Aspiration co-founder and board member defrauded investors of $145M, prosecutors say

Just over four years ago, climate-friendly fintech startup Aspiration was on the verge of a $2 billion public listing. Now, one of the...

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