This former Big Tech engineers are using AI to navigate Trump’s trade chaos

Amari AI is making custom AI-powered software that helps customs brokers modernize and minimize constantly shifting trade policies.

Freeform raises $67M Series B to scale up laser AI manufacturing 

“I think we’re the only quote-unquote manufacturing company out there that has H200 clusters in a data center on site.”

Canva gets to $4B in revenue as LLM referral traffic rises

The creative company’s monthly active users increased 20%, growth that was partially propelled by adoption of its AI tools.

DG Matrix raises $60M to make data center power smarter

The startup is making solid-state transformers capable of intelligently aggregating power from a number of different sources before sending it to data center racks.

Climactic launches hybrid fund to get startups through the ‘valley of death’

The new project, called Material Scale, will initially focus on climate tech startups in the apparel industry.

Running AI models is turning into a memory game

When we talk about the cost of AI infrastructure, the focus is usually on Nvidia and GPUs — but memory is an increasingly important part of the picture.

After all the hype, some AI experts don’t think OpenClaw is all that exciting

“From an AI research perspective, this is nothing novel,” one expert told TechCrunch.

As AI data centers hit power limits, Peak XV backs Indian startup C2i to fix the bottleneck

C2i has raised $15 million as it tests a grid-to-GPU approach to reducing power losses in AI data centers.

Indian pharmacy chain giant exposed customer data and internal systems

A backend flaw in web admin dashboards used by one of India’s largest pharmacy chains, exposed thousands of online pharmacy orders.

The SEC closed its investigation into Fisker

The financial regulator revealed in a response to a TechCrunch records request that the probe was closed in September 2025.