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TechCrunch Startup News

Listen to select TechCrunch articles on startups coverage—who's raising, who's exiting, who's changing the world.

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World’s first enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months; plus, turning idle car inventory into rental revenue

Factory CEO just accused his VC board adviser of spying for Cognition

Ex-Tesla team raises $12.5M to put supply chains on autopilot; plus, EliseAI raises $350M, doubles valuation to $4B

AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 billion; Physical AI chip developer SiMa AI hits $1.45B valuation

Ocean surveillance startup Quartermaster raises another $140M

Nexterity wants to automate the hard, dangerous part of pipefitting; plus, Feather is building the ‘Android of robotics’ for developers

Modal Motors is trying to cut China out of electric motors entirely; plus, PitPro’s first tire-changing robot goes live in Canada

a16z is challenging Silicon Valley’s love for drop-outs by launching a school; plus, AstroForge is putting AI in command of its next spacecraft

A small but growing number of founders are betting on bringing people together offline

Comp AI sets eyes on a continuously agentic future for security and compliance

Clean tech startup Fluxnium found a way to tap 50,000 years’ worth of nuclear fuel; plus, Hang Ten Systems nabbed another $53m

Early Anthropic hire, former METR COO have found a way to rein in rogue AI agents; plus, health benefits platform Thatch reaches $1B valuation

Superhuman acquired notetaker Fathom; plus, OpenAI bought smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging, and AI infrastructure company Cornelis raised $205M

Fusion power startups find new partners in the defense world; plus, Mecka AI nears $500M valuation amid rush for robot training data

Defense tech Mach Industries doubled its valuation in 3 months; plus, Maven Robotics wants to steal your robot deployment deal

CloudNC raises $20M to automate manufacturing’s most pressing bottlenecks; plus, Sequoia doubles down on Cymphony

Nuclear startup Bluecore Energy raises $50M seed round, just two months after launch; plus, Poseidon Aerospace eyes first pilotless test flight, and Stoke Space raises another billion

Travis Kalanick’s Atoms might be getting into the robotaxi business; plus, Krafton doubles down on India

Ollie is betting its focus on privacy can help it win the AI assistant race; plus, Qualcomm backs Ultrahuman

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