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EquiLibre Technologies, a Prague-based AI lab founded by three ex-DeepMind researchers, is now valued at more than $500 million.

“We can take power from a plasma,” Kieran Furlong, co-founder and CEO of Realta Fusion, told TechCrunch. The milestone shows “what’s possible,” he added.

Google is updating its image generator to make it faster and cheaper, making it a more useful tool for creators looking to make AI content.

A new video shows the final production version of the upcoming Clicks Communicator, a BlackBerry-like smartphone that runs modern apps.

Nvidia AI chip competitor Etched says it has already booked $1 billion under contract for the inference systems powered by its chip.

Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5 brings stronger agentic capabilities, lower pricing, and improved safety, positioning the model as a cheaper alternative to Opus, GPT-5.5, and Gemini Pro.

Acti is betting the smartphone keyboard is the next home for AI assistants. The startup’s new keyboard for iOS and Android works across apps and lets users create custom AI-powered shortcuts using natural language.

The updates include translations, new tools for hosts, and more.

But the company is still claiming that New Glenn will return to flight this year.

The company may finally be ready to try to deliver on Elon Musk’s years-long promise of launching a robotaxi network of its own.

X has launched a hosted MCP server, making it easier for developers to connect AI applications with the company’s API.

Stealthy startup Arcturus uses lasers to infuse carbon nanomaterials into copper, dramatically improving its ability to conduct electricity.

Users will be able use AI to create newsletters based on their recordings.

From October 10-16, host a Side Event and command the room during the week of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.

Proton’s Lumo 2.0 is dropping this week, giving users a broader variety of capabilities.

OKX is bringing together payments, identity and reputation into a marketplace for AI agents.

A new report finds “high-intensity AI adopters” saw headcount increase 10.2%. Among those companies, entry-level headcount rose by 12%, countering the rhetoric that AI kills junior jobs. 

Wix-owned vibe coding platform Base44 has started rolling out its own AI model — with hopes that it will eventually outperform frontier models.

VCs remain thirsty to fund AI coding startups. This one, founded by investor, Chamath Palihapitiya, is no exception.

Google is expanding Gemini’s personalized AI image generation to eligible free users in the U.S., allowing the chatbot to create images based on your interests and data from connected Google apps.

Kobo users can now automatically sync their reading progress to StoryGraph, making it easier to track books, reading stats, and challenges without relying on Amazon’s Goodreads.

The companies confirmed to TechCrunch that their unusual partnership in Phoenix recently ended after nearly three years..

As Anthropic forges a closer relationship with the state of California, the federal government has made an enemy out of the OpenAI rival.

The world’s two largest memory chip companies vow to build more memory lab fabs as South Korea positions itself as an AI tech powerhouse country.

The startup, which runs a popular free AI leaderboard, launched its commercial service just last September.

Cursor has launched a new mobile app for remote oversight over coding agents.

The Trump administration’s moves threaten $121 billion in new solar and wind power, two energy sources that are the biggest contributors to new capacity in the U.S.

TIDAL’s new policy will prevent AI-generated music from making money on its service.

The Supreme Court’s decision to limit geofence warrants is a win for privacy advocates, who called their use unconstitutional but sought an outright ban.

The all-stock deal values Iridium at $8 billion, and gives Rocket Lab even more firepower to compete against Amazon and SpaceX.