I canβt help rooting for tiny open source AI model maker Arcee TechCrunch By: Julie Bort 8 April 2026 at 05:35 Arcee is a tiny 26-person U.S. startup that built a high-performing, massive, open source LLM. And it's gaining popularity with OpenClaw users.
Firmus, the βSouthgateβ AI data center builder backed by Nvidia, hits $5.5B valuation TechCrunch By: Julie Bort 8 April 2026 at 02:46 Nvidia-backed Asia AI data center provider Firmus has now raised $1.35 billion in six months.
Uber is the latest to be won over by Amazonβs AI chips TechCrunch By: Julie Bort 8 April 2026 at 00:46 Uber is expanding its AWS contract to run more of its ride-sharing features on Amazon's chips. This is a thumb-of-the nose at Oracle and Google.
Delve did the security compliance on LiteLLM, an AI project hit by malware TechCrunch By: Julie Bort 26 March 2026 at 08:03 LiteLLM offers an AI open source project used by millions that was infected by credential harvesting malware.
Harvey confirms $11B valuation: Sequoia triples down TechCrunch By: Julie Bort 25 March 2026 at 23:27 Investors like Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, and Elad Gil can't get enough of AI legal tech startup Harvey.
Another deep tech chip startup becomes a unicorn: Frore hits $1.64B TechCrunch By: Julie Bort 17 March 2026 at 01:47 At Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's urging, Frore developed liquid-cooling tech for chips. That shift helped it raise $143 million.
The wild six weeks for NanoClawβs creator that led to a deal with Docker TechCrunch By: Julie Bort 14 March 2026 at 01:09 Gavriel Cohen is living an open source developer's dream as his project has achieved acclaim and a partnership with Docker in a matter of weeks.
In a vote of confidence for Metaβs Threads, Kalshi adds sharing feature TechCrunch By: Julie Bort 11 March 2026 at 07:01 Kalshi now offers a share option that will automatically embed the relevant prediction market chart into a Threads post.
Mandiantβs founder just raised $190M for his autonomous AI agent security startup TechCrunch By: Julie Bort 11 March 2026 at 02:21 Kevin Mandia founded Armadin to create autonomous cybersecurity agents, software designed to learn and respond to threats without a human in the middle.