Alibaba gaming unit Lingxi Games nears $1.5B Trustar sale
Private equity firm Trustar Capital is in talks to buy Alibaba's Lingxi Games, a deal sources value at around $1.5B.
Naran banks $10M to put gig drivers on the path to vehicle ownership
Mobility fintech Naran has raised $10M from UAE investor Landel to expand rent-to-own vehicle financing across Latin America and Africa.
Animade’s motion wizards join Duolingo’s design studio
Duolingo has bought London animation studio Animade, folding its team into the language app's design studio to keep learners coming…
DeepSeek opens Harness, a plugin-style rival to Claude’s agent tools
DeepSeek released its open-source Harness agent framework as a counter to Claude Cowork, letting developers swap models and tools as…
Unreleased Model 2 pushes Anthropic to raise its misalignment flag
Anthropic's latest risk report upgrades the chance of smaller-scale misalignment from very low to low and confirms an unreleased model…
French startup Kog bets software can make GPUs decode faster
French startup Kog is racing to prove that software tuning, not new silicon, can make standard data center GPUs decode…
Commonwealth leads fusion funding race with $3.94B banked
A TechCrunch census of fusion startups shows Commonwealth Fusion Systems has banked $3.94B, about a third of all private capital…
Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 hunts 2,400 software flaws ahead of open release
The Chinese lab's open-source model tops coding and vulnerability benchmarks.
Wondermind backers take Selena Gomez to court over $1.2M
Investors accuse the singer and her mother of securities fraud tied to the mental health startup.
Zetwerk refiles for IPO as $310M raise leans on debt relief
India's manufacturing network plans a fresh issue to pay down borrowings.
