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My odd last name, “Wunker,” comes from the medieval German word for “flag-waver.” We were the idiots in the army carrying just a flag. Miraculously, someone survived to become my ancestor. And that is why this story, from my new book AI and the Octopus Organization, is especially meaningful to me: Until the mid-nineteenth century, Europe’s armies consisted of heavily drilled regiments that stood shoulder to shoulder and fought in tightly coordinated formations. Each regiment...

Slow or stopped permitting and a frozen visa process are existential threats for some startups.

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OpenAI employees sold $6.6B in shares, leading company's valuation to jump to $500B.

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Perplexity has acquired Visual Electric, an AI Design tool. Its team is going to lead a new agents experience group at Perplexity.

Founder Bryan Onel says too many companies are doing the bare minimum to meet their security compliance obligations, and raised $33 million to help his customers get both compliant and secure.

Leverage Edu places over 10,000 students annually into universities across 11 countries.

Einride raised the funds five months after founder Robert Falck left the CEO role and took over as executive chairman of the board.

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Eazewell helps families navigate end-of-life planning, from coordinating a funeral to canceling someone's mail, with the help of AI.

Prickly Pear Health provides medical support for women’s brain health, a voice-first, AI-powered companion that helps women in their 30s to 50s navigate the hormonal changes that affect brain health.

A startup called Deta is releasing a new app called Surf, which is a remix of an AI browser and NotebookLM.

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Simple is an AI-powered health coaching app that helps people lose weight.

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Periodic Labs has raised from a tech industry who's who, including Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia, Elad Gil, Jeff Dean, Eric Schmidt, and Jeff Bezos.

What happens when your first 10 hires aren’t people at all? At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, we’re digging into the new wave of startups replacing or augmenting early employees with AI agents.