Month: May 2026

Waymo dominates autonomous vehicle registrations as Tesla trails behind A new law and AV tracker tool gives the clearest accounting yet of how many robotaxis and self-driving trucks are in Texas. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/28/waymo-dominates-texas-autonomous-vehicle-registrations-as-tesla-trails-behind/

How to apply to Startup Battlefield 2026, what you need ahead of the June 8 deadline Startup Battlefield applications are due tomorrow, so now’s the time to put the finishing touches on your submission! Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/28/how-to-apply-to-startup-battlefield-2026-what-you-need-ahead-of-the-june-8-deadline/

The internet is being rebuilt for machines As AI agents move from experiments to production, AWS, Cloudflare, and others are redesigning cloud infrastructure for a future dominated by machine-generated internet traffic instead of human users. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/28/the-internet-is-being-rebuilt-for-machines/

Caudal Energy raises £4.3M to scale fin-inspired tidal power technology Caudal Energy, a company developing a new class of predictable renewable power systems, has raised £4.3 million in funding, led by Oxford Science Enterprises (OSE) and Empirical Ventures, with participation from other investors, including existing investors Zero Carbon Capital and

iFAST Diagnostics bags £5M to speed up infection testing and tackle antimicrobial resistance UK biotech iFAST Diagnostics has closed a £5 million funding round. iFAST is addressing the $4 billion (and growing) Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AST) market. It has developed a test delivering results in under three hours from a

Mykor lands £4M to scale waste-based construction materials Mykor, a UK biotechnology company developing low-carbon construction materials from industrial and agricultural waste, has secured £4 million in funding to accelerate the scale-up of its industrial biofabrication technologies. The round was led by Clean Growth Fund, with participation from the British

London data centre firm Pure DC secures $2.7BN for European and Middle East expansion A London-headquartered data centre firm today said it had secured $2.7bn in financing, with the funds earmarked to expand across Europe and the Middle East amid soaring AI workload demands.   Pure Data Centres (Pure DC),

RevEng.AI raises $15M to secure AI-generated software RevEng.AI, a cybersecurity company focused on software supply chain verification, has raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by NATO Innovation Fund, with participation from Sands Capital, In-Q-Tel, IQ Capital, and Episode One. The company is building a binary-native verification

Bek Ventures, formerly Earlybird Digital East, loses four investment team members in matter of months Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/bek-ventures-investment-team-departures-earlybird

Can AI make us better parents? Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/ai-parenting