Semiconductor startup Positron has secured $230 million in Series B funding, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The outfit plans to use the capital to speed up deployment of its high-speed memory chips, a critical component for the chips used for AI workloads, sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch.
The round, which brought Positron to a $1 billion valuation, was co-led by Arena…
Lotus Health nabs $35M for AI doctor that sees patients for free
February 4, 2026
A growing number of people are asking OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other LLMs about their health, often discovering that the chatbots provide remarkably useful medical insights.
KJ Dhaliwal (pictured left), who in 2019 sold the South Asian dating app Dil Mil for $50 million…
Fitbit founders James Park and Eric Friedman have announced the launch of a new AI startup called Luffu that aims to help families proactively monitor their health. The duo are developing an “intelligent family care system” that will start with an app experience…
Peak XV Partners, a leading venture capital firm in India and Southeast Asia, has seen a fresh round of senior departures. These follow other leadership exits over the past year as it pushes ahead with plans to deepen its focus on AI investing and expand its footprint in the U.S., while keeping India as its largest market.
The latest departures stem from an internal disagreement with senior…
Carbon Robotics built an AI model that detects and identifies plants
February 3, 2026
What is and isn’t a weed that needs to be eliminated in the field is determined by the eyes of the farmer – and now, increasingly, by a new AI model from Carbon Robotics.
Seattle-based Carbon Robotics, which builds the LaserWeeder – a robot fleet that uses…
Sometimes, you might be sitting on a hot product and not know it until the market demands it.
After launching as a digital business card that doubled as a lead capture tool for sales teams, Birmingham, Alabama-based Linq pivoted a few times before landing on an idea last…
Digital meeting notetakers like Read AI, Fireflies.ai, Fathom, and Granola help record and transcribe online meetings. But for in-person or more versatile options, many people prefer physical recording devices. These physical notetakers transcribe audio and give users summaries and action items of meetings using AI.
Some of these devices are wearable – pins or pendants with dedicated mics…
A peek inside Physical Intelligence, the startup building Silicon Valley’s buzziest robot brains
February 2, 2026
From the street, the only indication I’ve found Physical Intelligence’s headquarters in San Francisco is a pi symbol that’s a slightly different color than the rest of the door. When I walk in, I’m immediately confronted with activity. There’s…
The viral personal AI assistant formerly known as Clawdbot has a new name – again. After a legal challenge from Claude’s maker, Anthropic, it had briefly rebranded as Moltbot, but has now settled on OpenClaw as its new name.
The latest name change wasn’t…
Anthropic brings agentic plug-ins to Cowork
February 2, 2026
Earlier this month, Anthropic launched Cowork, a new agentic tool designed to take the benefits of its AI coding assistant Claude Code and transform it into a more general-use tool that non-coders could benefit from. Now Anthropic has launched a new feature within Cowork to make it even more powerful for enterprise users.
Behold, the plug-in.
The idea behind plug-ins is simple: They are designed…
