Anthropic becomes first AI startup to join the Frontier carbon removal coalition TechCrunch By: Tim De Chant 17 June 2026 at 19:30 Anthropic has joined the Frontier coalition, which received another $915M in pledges to fund carbon removal projects.
SpaceX alum nabs $22M to turn rocket engines into geothermal power plants TechCrunch By: Tim De Chant 17 June 2026 at 14:30 Critical Energy is turning rocket engines into geothermal power plants, and it wants to build 300 GW per year by 2045.
DOJ claims xAIβs unpermitted gas turbines are a matter of βnational, economic, and energy securityβ TechCrunch By: Tim De Chant 16 June 2026 at 16:05 The Justice department says the Pentagon needs xAI to keep using its unpermitted gas turbines.
This startupβs super metals could soon be in military drones, luxury watches, and chefβs knives TechCrunch By: Tim De Chant 16 June 2026 at 12:25 Instead of heating metals, Foundation Alloy beats them into submission. The startup has raised $22 million to scale up production of its alloys.
Endurance Energy raises $54M to harness a massive untapped energy source TechCrunch By: Tim De Chant 11 June 2026 at 15:00 SpaceX alumni Andrew Redd is betting the ocean has vast amounts of untapped geothermal energy.
Everyone wants a piece of Teslaβs battery business TechCrunch By: Tim De Chant 10 June 2026 at 21:21 Electricity demand from AI data centers is pushing everyone β including automakers like GM and Ford β into the energy storage business.
Avalancheβs desktop fusion reactor delivers blistering-hot plasma TechCrunch By: Tim De Chant 10 June 2026 at 13:15 Fusion power startup Avalanche Energy said its reactor prototype heated a plasma to over 10 million degrees Celsius.
Why 2 SpaceX alumni are betting on solar and batteries to power the AI craze TechCrunch By: Tim De Chant 10 June 2026 at 13:00 Ambrosia Energy wants to build power plants in less than 12 months while undercutting natural gas. It hopes to build gigawatts' worth by 2030.
GM joins race to build batteries for AI data centers and the grid TechCrunch By: Tim De Chant 9 June 2026 at 22:00 GM is developing an entirely new sodium-ion battery chemistry for use in everything from data centers to its own factories.