Year: 2026

SolarSquare in talks to raise up to $60M as India’s rooftop solar market draws major VC interest SolarSquare could be valued at up to $500 million in the financing expected to close next month. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/23/solarsquare-in-talks-to-raise-up-to-60m-as-indias-rooftop-solar-market-draws-major-vc-interest/

These special phone and app features can help protect you from spyware Apple, Meta, and Google offer special security modes that provide your devices more secure against targeted spyware attacks. Here are how those modes work, what they do, and how to switch them on. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/23/you-dont-have-to-click-anything-to-get-hacked-anymore-heres-how-to-fight-back/

Ferrari is using IBM’s AI to create F1 superfans IBM and Scuderia Ferrari HP take TechCrunch inside how they are redefining the fan experience. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/23/ferrari-is-using-ai-to-create-f1-superfans/

Nuclear startup Deep Fission says it’s going public, again, and I have questions Deep Fission is seeking an IPO that could raise $157 million, though investors may have trouble buying the nuclear startup’s story. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/23/nuclear-startup-deep-fission-says-its-going-public-again-and-i-have-questions/

Elon Musk has given up on solar power (on Earth) Elon Muks’s xAI has gone all in on natural gas, while SpaceX is obsessed with orbital data centers. What happened to the “solar-electric economy” he promised? Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/23/elon-musk-has-given-up-on-solar-power-on-earth/

The call centre enters the voice AI era In March, Tech.eu reported on the story of “Rachel,” an AI voice agent created by AI engineer Matt Cortland to call more than 3,000 pubs across Ireland and ask a simple question: how much does a pint of Guinness cost? Using voice

Bliq.ai wins approval for fully driverless road operations in Estonia Driverless car startup Bliq.ai this week announced that it has received approval to operate its vehicles on public roads in Estonia without a driver behind the wheel.  The approval marks the first authorisation of its kind in an EU member

Alice & Bob expands Series B with investment from NVIDIA’s venture arm French fault-tolerant quantum computing company Alice & Bob has raised investment from NVentures, NVIDIA’s venture capital arm, that expands its €100 million Series B round.   The investment supports Alice & Bob’s development of an architecture towards fault-tolerant

REPS raises $23.6M to turn roads into power plants by harvesting energy from traffic Tyrol energy generation startup REPS today announced a $23.6 million equity financing round to scale its Road Energy Production System, a patented “road power plant” that converts vehicle traffic into electrical energy.   Its core product is

Smart ring maker Oura files for IPO in New York Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/smart-ring-maker-oura-files-for-ipo-in-new-york