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TechCrunch Jun 17, 2026 at 13:30 Startups Rising Hot

SpaceX alum nabs $22M to turn rocket engines into geothermal power plants

Critical Energy is turning rocket engines into geothermal power plants, and it wants to build 300 GW per year by 2045.

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Jun 17, 2026 at 13:30 TechCrunch

SpaceX alum nabs $22M to turn rocket engines into geothermal power plants

Critical Energy is turning rocket engines into geothermal power plants, and it wants to build 300 GW per year by 2045.

Jun 17, 2026 at 11:33 SecurityLab

Ракеты уходят на второй план. SpaceX покупает Cursor, чтобы потеснить Codex и Claude Code

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Jun 16, 2026 at 20:11 TechCrunch

SpaceX valuation balloons to $2.6T, briefly passes Amazon

SpaceX's valuation has increased by $1 trillion since its shares started trading on Friday.

Jun 16, 2026 at 16:37 Ars Technica

SpaceX to acquire AI coding platform Cursor for $60 billion

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Jun 16, 2026 at 15:53 TechCrunch

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Jun 16, 2026 at 13:48 TechCrunch

SpaceX passes Amazon as valuation balloons to $2.7T

SpaceX's valuation has increased by $1 trillion since its shares started trading on Friday.

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TechCrunch Jun 17, 2026 at 15:24 Startups
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The slowtech revolution is here to kill your phone addiction and rescue your attention span

“People just really want to take back control of their time, their lives, their attention... They’re down for whatever helps them do that.”

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TechCrunch Jun 17, 2026 at 15:00 Startups
Rising Hot

Collecting robot training data is dirty, unglamorous work. Some AI labs are already paying XDOF to do it.

If physical AI is going to match the accomplishments of LLMs, there's a data problem that needs to be solved.

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TechCrunch Jun 17, 2026 at 14:15 Startups
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Pramaana Labs raises $27M seed round from Khosla Ventures to bring formal verification to AI

Pramaana will focus on highly sensitive verticals like law, drug discovery, and tax preparation — where errors can be costly and reliability is at a premium.

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