<p>AI hardware startup Tenstorrent raised nearly $700 million in new funding. Tenstorrent raised a $693 million Series D round that values the company at more than $2.6 billion, Bloomberg first reported. The round was led by Samsung Securities and AFW Partners. Other investors include Hyundai and Jeff Bezos&#8217; Bezos Expeditions, among others. The Toronto-based company [&hellip;]</p>

<p>AI hardware startup Tenstorrent raised nearly $700 million in new funding. Tenstorrent raised a $693 million Series D round that values the company at more than $2.6 billion, Bloomberg first reported. The round was led by Samsung Securities and AFW Partners. Other investors include Hyundai and Jeff Bezos&#8217; Bezos Expeditions, among others. The Toronto-based company [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Intel has announced that CEO Pat Gelsinger has retired, effective December 1, and stepped down from the company&#8217;s board of directors. Intel execs David Zinsner and Michelle Johnston Holthaus have been named interim co-CEOs. Zinsner is Intel&#8217;s CFO, while Holthaus is GM of Intel&#8217;s client computing group. Holthaus has also been appointed to the newly [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Indoor climbing is a tricky sport to track. That&#8217;s why Spanish startup&nbsp;Lizcore&nbsp;caught TechCrunch&#8217;s eye at MWC&nbsp;earlier this year. The team of two co-founders &#8212; led by CEO Edgar Casanovas Lorente, a climbing instructor and guide turned entrepreneur &#8212; were showing off hardware they hope will see climbing gyms ushering in the kind of social gamification [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Indoor climbing is a tricky sport to track. That&#8217;s why Spanish startup&nbsp;Lizcore&nbsp;caught TechCrunch&#8217;s eye at MWC&nbsp;earlier this year. The team of two co-founders &#8212; led by CEO Edgar Casanovas Lorente, a climbing instructor and guide turned entrepreneur &#8212; were showing off hardware they hope will see climbing gyms ushering in the kind of social gamification [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Photonics &#8212; a field that underpins light-based systems for manipulating data &#8212; has a bright future, as the rise of AI demands better computing performance, but it has yet to be fully applied to a new generation of chips. German startup Akhetonics hopes to change that. It has raised a €6 million seed funding round [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Photonics &#8212; a field that underpins light-based systems for manipulating data &#8212; has a bright future, as the rise of AI demands better computing performance, but it has yet to be fully applied to a new generation of chips. German startup Akhetonics hopes to change that. It has raised a €6 million seed funding round [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Raspberry Pi is better known for its single-board computer with a ton of ports sticking out. The most recent of which is the Raspberry Pi 5, which was introduced in September 2023. These small computers are perfect for the education market and for tech enthusiasts looking for a cheap computing device to power an interactive [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Raspberry Pi is better known for its single-board computer with a ton of ports sticking out. The most recent of which is the Raspberry Pi 5, which was introduced in September 2023. These small computers are perfect for the education market and for tech enthusiasts looking for a cheap computing device to power an interactive [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A new paper from the Federal Trade Commission found that many smart-device makers fail to disclose to consumers how long they will provide software updates for their products. The agency looked at 184 different smart devices, ranging from hearing aids to security cameras, and found that nearly 89% of them don’t provide buyers with information [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A new paper from the Federal Trade Commission found that many smart-device makers fail to disclose to consumers how long they will provide software updates for their products. The agency looked at 184 different smart devices, ranging from hearing aids to security cameras, and found that nearly 89% of them don’t provide buyers with information [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine, wants to get into hardware — kinda sorta. Aravind Srinivas, Perplexity&#8217;s founder and CEO, posted on X on Monday that he was considering making a &#8220;simple, under $50&#8221; device to &#8220;reliably answer&#8221; questions &#8220;voice to voice.&#8221; He promised that Perplexity would &#8220;definitely&#8221; sell such a device if the post got [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine, wants to get into hardware — kinda sorta. Aravind Srinivas, Perplexity&#8217;s founder and CEO, posted on X on Monday that he was considering making a &#8220;simple, under $50&#8221; device to &#8220;reliably answer&#8221; questions &#8220;voice to voice.&#8221; He promised that Perplexity would &#8220;definitely&#8221; sell such a device if the post got [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Battery tech is pivotal as the world leans into electrification to power decarbonization in the race against climate change. But rising demand is putting more attention on the limits and drawbacks of current generation lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery technology. This is where Cambridge University spin-out Molyon hopes to come in: the U.K. startup is developing next-gen [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Battery tech is pivotal as the world leans into electrification to power decarbonization in the race against climate change. But rising demand is putting more attention on the limits and drawbacks of current generation lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery technology. This is where Cambridge University spin-out Molyon hopes to come in: the U.K. startup is developing next-gen [&hellip;]</p>

<p>After the European Union opened a competition investigation into Corning earlier this month, citing concerns over alleged exclusive dealing, the Gorilla Glass maker has offered a raft of changes to its contract clauses aimed at settling the probe. The U.S. company is a supplier to major electronics brands, including Apple&#8217;s iPhone, and the changes could [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Meet the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W, a tiny board designed around a microcontroller that lets you build hardware projects at scale. Raspberry Pi is once again using the RP2350, its own well-documented microcontroller. But what is a microcontroller again? As the name suggests, microcontrollers let you control other electronic components or devices. Regular Raspberry [&hellip;]</p>

<p>It’s not exactly a secret that Apple has explored the possibility of building a television. Before his death in 2011, co-founder Steve Jobs famously told biographer Walter Isaacson that he’d “finally cracked it,” but no full-fledged Apple TV (as opposed to the Apple TV set-top box) has emerged in the years since. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman [&hellip;]</p>

<p>MatX, a startup designing chips that support large language models, has raised a Series A of approximately $80 million, three sources say, less than a year after raising its $25 million seed round.&nbsp; Spark Capital led the investment, valuing the company at a pre-money valuation in the mid-$200 million range and a post-money valuation in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>MatX, a startup designing chips that support large language models, has raised a Series A of approximately $80 million, three sources say, less than a year after raising its $25 million seed round.&nbsp; Spark Capital led the investment, valuing the company at a pre-money valuation in the mid-$200 million range and a post-money valuation in [&hellip;]</p>