Vibe-coding startup Lovable is on the hunt for acquisitions

Lovable’s founder said the fast-growing vibe coding startup is looking for startups and teams to join its company.

Startup Gimlet Labs is solving the AI inference bottleneck in a surprisingly elegant way

Gimlet Labs just raised an $80 million Series A for tech that lets AI run across NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, ARM, Cerebras and d-Matrix chips, simultaneously.

Sam Altman-backed fusion startup Helion in talks with OpenAI

Helion is reportedly negotiating a deal that would see it sell 12.5% of its power output to OpenAI.

Cursor admits its new coding model was built on top of Moonshot AI’s Kimi

Building on top of a Chinese model feels particularly fraught right now.

Delve accused of misleading customers with ‘fake compliance’

An anonymous Substack post accuses compliance startup Delve of “falsely” convincing “hundreds of customers they were compliant” with privacy and security regulations.

What happened at Nvidia GTC: NemoClaw, Robot Olaf, and a $1 trillion bet

CEO Jensen Huang took the stage at Nvidia’s GTC conference this week in his signature leather jacket to deliver a two-and-a-half-hour keynote, projecting $1 trillion in AI chip sales through 2027, declaring that every com…

AI startups are eating the venture industry and the returns, so far, are good

AI startups accounted for 41% of the $128 billion in venture dollars raised by companies on Carta last year — a record-high annual share.

Bluesky announces $100M Series B after CEO transition

The additional funds have been used to scale Bluesky’s team, while the company continues to develop Bluesky’s app and the underlying ATProto that powers it.

TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200 nominations are still open

Nominate your startup, or one you know, for TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200 before May 27. Chance to win $100,000 equity-free funding and VC access.

Anori, Alphabet’s new X spinout, is tackling one of the world’s most expensive bureaucratic nightmares

Anori aims to shrink down the pre-development process by getting all parties, including the city, on to a unified platform from the start so that compliance conflicts are surfaced in weeks instead of months or years.