Helix Carbon says it can make iron cheaper by recycling blast furnace pollution | TechCrunch

The iron and steel industries are among the biggest polluters in the world. Plenty of startups have tried to cut the industry’s emissions, mostly by developing new ways to make…

Licube wants to be the fuel provider to the fusion power industry — see how at TechCrunch Disrupt | TechCrunch

If fusion power pans out, and there are signs that it will, the world will need a lot more lithium. That’s the bet behind Licube, a startup that has licensed technology…

Flox Intelligence is building AI to keep wildlife away from trains, airports, and roads | TechCrunch

When I was eight, I remember our train to Mumbai ground to a halt with a great noise. When we started moving again, a good eight hours later, someone pointed…

Laplace Intelligence red-teams robots and self-driving cars before they hit the real world | TechCrunch

If there’s one lesson the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident taught us, it’s that AI agents can be unpredictable.  “Imagine if something like that happened in the physical world,” Howie Sun, CEO…

MIT startup says it can turn diesel trucks into cheaper hydrogen haulers — see it at Disrupt | TechCrunch

Diesel fuel powers everything from shipping to agriculture, and with prices hitting record highs in recent weeks, governments around the world are scrambling to contain the fallout.  For now, that’s…

Honeyjar offers AI tools to improve PR and comms at every company | TechCrunch

Journalists, entrepreneurs, and even some public relations professionals will tell you that the PR process is broken (buy me a drink sometime, and I’ll give you my rant). But could…

This AI startup says it can generate permit-ready blueprints in minutes | TechCrunch

Nearly two decades ago, a young college student wrote his final thesis about software capable of generating design documents for school buildings. Al Dram was studying architecture — following in…