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  14 hours ago

  Clock’s ticking: Save up to $900 on TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 tickets before prices rise

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  Tick-tock! Time’s almost up to save up to $900 on individual passes to TechCrunch Disrupt 2025! Or go big and grab an Early Bird ticket now and get a second for your +1 at 90% off — but only for a limited time. These unbeatable deals disappear May 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT — don’t miss out. Lock in your ticket …

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  18 hours ago

  Deel wants Rippling to hand over any agreements involving paying the alleged spy

  TechCrunch - Julie Bort

  Deel has lobbed a new volley in the ongoing legal battle with rival HR tech startup Rippling. Deel filed a motion, containing a series of letters, asking the Irish court to make Rippling hand over information. In one letter, Deel wants unredacted versions of witness affidavits, including the famed …

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  2 days ago

  Y Combinator startup Firecrawl is ready to pay $1M to hire three AI agents as employees

  TechCrunch - Julie Bort

  Y Combinator-backed startup Firecrawl is back on the hunt for AI agent employees. As we reported back in February, its first attempt didn’t yield an AI worth hiring. But it’s now placed three new ads on YC’s job board for “AI agents only” and has set aside a $1 million budget total to make it happen. …

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  3 days ago

  AI startup Cohere acquires Ottogrid, a platform for conducting market research

  TechCrunch - Kyle Wiggers

  AI startup Cohere has acquired Ottogrid, a Vancouver-based platform that develops enterprise tools for automating certain kinds of high-level market research. Sully Omar, one of the founders of Ottogrid, announced the deal Friday in a post on X. He didn’t disclose the terms. Ottogrid will sunset its …

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  3 days ago

  The Nuclear Company raises $51M to develop massive reactor sites

  TechCrunch - Tim De Chant

  The Nuclear Company is taking an old approach to building new nuclear reactors. Rather than gin up a new design or try to mass manufacture smaller reactors, it wants to develop a series of reactors using existing designs. The two-year-old startup announced a Series A last month led by Eclipse with …

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  3 days ago

  AI video startup Moonvalley lands $53M, according to filing

  TechCrunch - Kyle Wiggers

  Roughly a month after Moonvalley, a Los Angeles-based startup developing AI tools for video creation, said it secured $43 million in new funding, the company has raised more, according to a filing with the SEC. The filing, submitted Thursday, reveals that Moonvalley actually landed (so far) around …