Science Corporationβs vision-restoring chip wins EU approval TechCrunch By: Tim Fernholz 22 July 2026 at 14:18 "The thing that the space needs is a company making $100 million a year of revenue," Science Corp. CEO Max Hodak said.
Gritt exits stealth with $32 million for robots to build solar plants β then, everything else TechCrunch By: Tim Fernholz 21 July 2026 at 06:00 Gritt is coming out of stealth with $34 million and plans to automate the hardest tasks on construction sites.
OpenAI is scared of open-weight models. Should the US be? TechCrunch By: Tim Fernholz 20 July 2026 at 15:33 Talk of banning Chinese-made open-weight LLMs reveals the challenge of turning AI into a business.
Agility Robotics plants its flag in Teslaβs backyard TechCrunch By: Tim Fernholz 17 July 2026 at 16:19 Agility is opening a new training center for its Digit robots in Fremont, California.
Why the first GPU financiers are turning to inference chips in a $400 million deal TechCrunch By: Tim Fernholz 17 July 2026 at 08:00 A $400 million chip-backed loan points to the next wave of AI infrastructure deals.
Vint Cerf is working on a plan to unleash AI agents on the open internet TechCrunch By: Tim Fernholz 15 July 2026 at 08:00 The guy behind TCP/IP is working on a standard for identifying AI agents in the wild.
A SpaceX vet raised $65M to pull wire harnesses out of the Cold War era TechCrunch By: Tim Fernholz 15 July 2026 at 06:30 Someone has to bundle all the wires that go into rockets, missiles, and satellites.
Sam Altmanβs space data center trash talk is what most experts already believe TechCrunch By: Tim Fernholz 13 July 2026 at 13:28 Responding to Musk accusing him of being a scammer, Altman said, "homeboy you're the one sellling [sic] public market investors on short-term space datacenters."
China is catching up to Elon Muskβs reusable rockets TechCrunch By: Tim Fernholz 10 July 2026 at 12:51 China's state-owned space company recovered its first orbital rocket booster after launch.
Can AI answer the $3 trillion question? TechCrunch By: Tim Fernholz 9 July 2026 at 17:47 The AI ROI debate has returned and the numbers are even bigger, as are, perhaps, the consequences.
How did the government decide OpenAIβs frontier model was safe to release? TechCrunch By: Tim Fernholz 9 July 2026 at 14:22 "Exactly what that dialog looked like between the government and Anthropic and OpenAI is unclear."
Venus Aerospace raises $90M Series B to build a new kind of rocket engine TechCrunch By: Tim Fernholz 8 July 2026 at 10:07 Build a new kind of rocket engine and the world will beat a path to your door.
Former OpenAI exec Kevin Weil is now on the board of Stoke Space TechCrunch By: Tim Fernholz 8 July 2026 at 08:00 Kevin Weil's new role at Stoke Space suggests reusable rockets are the next hot thing in Silicon Valley.