Former Anduril engineer raises $42 million to build Amazon of composite parts
Zach Eakin practiced at Palmer Lackey before selling his new startup investors. When Eakin left Lucky’s defense startup Anduril in 2024 to start a new composites company called Layup Parts, Lucky brought him into a workshop with Anduril co-founders Brian Schimpf and Matt Grimm. Eakin told TechCrunch that he got different feedback from each. Mr. […]
Microsoft gives developers a better way to control AI agent behavior
As AI agents become increasingly capable, enterprises are facing new challenges as they race to power them across their applications, workflows, and products. It’s about ensuring that agents do what they’re supposed to do when they’re deployed in different environments. Microsoft is trying to solve this problem with a new open source standard called Agent […]
OpenAI launches new Codex tools for white-collar jobs
OpenAI is serious about appealing to enterprise users. On Tuesday, AI Labs released a new feature set for Codex aimed at expanding the use of agent tools in the workplace. Along with the new tools, the company released an internal report on how Codex is being used for knowledge work, and found that its uses […]
Board, a new gaming startup from Mirror founder Brynn Putnam, has raised $20 million and has already sold thousands of dollars
Board, a three-year-old New York-based startup building what the company calls “together tech” – technology designed to bring people physically into the same room, has completed a $20 million Series A led by Union Square Ventures. General Partner Michael Mignano will join the company’s board of directors, marking his first investment since joining USV. The […]
Password manager Dashlane announces hackers have stolen some customers’ password vaults
Password manager maker Dashlane announced that hackers have obtained at least 12 encrypted vaults used to store customer passwords during a weekend cyberattack. The company announced on its website that hackers brute-forced its two-factor authentication system and granted access to approximately 20 customer accounts. By breaking that two-factor mechanism, hackers were able to download a […]
Turning your wallet into a cyberdeck is the most fun way to take on big tech
When I reach out to self-proclaimed “open source bad guy” CC for an interview, I’m sure she’ll email me back from her pink mermaid purse. “I’m having a lot of fun with it,” she says of the seashell cyberdeck. “It’s a Tamagotchi. It’s also an e-book reader. It’s networked to my vault and server, so […]
Anthropic expands Claude mythology to critical infrastructure in over 15 countries
Anthropic announced Tuesday that it will expand Project Glasswing, a collaborative industry initiative to use AI to discover and fix critical software vulnerabilities, to approximately 150 new organizations in more than 15 countries. The news comes a day after Anthropic announced it had secretly filed for an initial public offering after a $65 billion funding […]
Alphabet plans to raise $80 billion to build AI
Google’s parent company Alphabet announced on Monday that it plans to raise $80 billion to pay for a planned massive AI infrastructure buildout. Alphabet will sell its stake and use the proceeds to pay for “general corporate purposes, including capital expenditures to expand AI infrastructure and global computing,” the company said in a statement. Part […]
Defense technology darling Mach Industries valued at $1.8 billion, quadrupling in one year
Mach Industries, a three-year-old defense technology startup run by 22-year-old founder and CEO Ethan Thornton, has raised $300 million in Series C funding at a valuation of $1.8 billion, the company announced Monday. The increase nearly quadruples the company’s valuation in one year. In June 2025, Mach raised $100 million at a valuation of $470 […]
Nvidia, Microsoft, Dell and HP aim to capture $200 billion CPU market with AI agent PCs
Nvidia opened Taipei’s giant Computex trade show with literal fanfare on Sunday. The chipmaker announced a new PC CPU called RTX Spark (which the company calls a “superchip”), adding to the growing roster of PC makers that will soon launch AI PCs powered by it. Nvidia says the ultra-fast 1 petaflop chip is designed to […]