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Station F in Paris is where Europe's AI ambitions are taking shape. With $15 billion raised by European AI companies in 2025 and the EU AI Act creating a compliance moat, the next wave
Sandstone just closed a $30 million Series A to build AI tools for corporate in-house legal departments, a segment most legal tech has ignored for years. With in-house teams spending 57% of their time
Token prices dropped 67% and enterprise AI bills still exploded to $7 million a year. Companies like Uber and Microsoft are already paying the price. Here's what the data says and what to do
Startup Battlefield 200 applications close June 8, 2026. TechCrunch is selecting 200 early stage startups for Disrupt 2026 and a shot at $100,000 in funding with no equity attached. Most founders won't apply. Here's
Mira Murati spent 18 months building Thinking Machines Lab in near total silence. Now she's re-emerging with over $2 billion raised and a team pulled from the world's top AI labs. The power shift
Lovable signed a multiyear deal with Google Cloud targeting a fivefold jump in platform usage, according to a source with direct knowledge of the agreement. This isn't just a cloud contract. It's a signal
Lovable signed a multi-year deal with Google Cloud targeting 5x platform usage growth, according to a source. The AI app builder crossed 4 million monthly visitors in early 2026 and it's done playing small.
OpenRouter just doubled its valuation to $1.3 billion in under a year, and it doesn't own a single GPU. While the big labs burn billions training models, this API gateway is quietly collecting a
Most ARR figures coming out of AI startups in 2026 are fiction. Founders annualize single good months, count unsigned LOIs, and bury churn while VCs look the other way. Here's exactly how the game
The AI gold rush is real, but it's not what most founders think it is. The top 10 AI companies absorbed over $200 billion in 2025 investment while 89% of startups never survived to