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Glow, a cybersecurity startup that uses AI agents to monitor software and developer tools, emerges from stealth with a $180M Series A at a $1.2B valuation (techcrunch.com)
1 hour ago Startup AI

Gritt, which is developing an AI system that helps build infrastructure like solar panels, emerges from stealth with a $26M Series A and $34M in total funding (techcrunch.com)
1 day ago AI Solar

X relaunches its Android app after a year-long rewrite from scratch; Nikita Bier calls it “one of the largest engineering projects” in the company's history (techcrunch.com)
1 day ago Android

Natural, which aims to help companies let their AI agents make autonomous payments, raised a $30M Series A led by Forerunner, bringing its total raised to $40M (techcrunch.com)
1 day ago AI

Cybersecurity companies say hackers are exploiting vulnerable WordPress versions to take over websites; WordPress patched two critical security flaws last week (techcrunch.com)
1 day ago WordPress

Infinity, founded by Jeremy Nixon, the creator of hacker network community AGI House, to build an inference library that runs on all chips, raised a $15M seed (techcrunch.com)
1 day ago Hacker

A look at the nonprofit Current AI, backed by $400M in commitments from many partners including $100M from France, that's funding open, public AI infrastructure (techcrunch.com)
2 days ago France AI

AI inference startup General Compute gets a $400M loan from tech investment firm Upper90, seemingly the first deal using inference-specific chips as collateral (techcrunch.com)
4 days ago Startup AI

DoorDash launches a limited beta of DoorDash CLI, which lets users place orders via an AI agent, available by waitlist to macOS developers in the US and Canada (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago AI Canada

Google updates its AI video editor Vids with Gemini Omni and a feature that lets users create custom digital avatars using a selfie and voice recording (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago Google AI

Beehiiv launches Community, which lets subscribers chat with each other, adds programmatic ads and an AI tool that helps creators manage their audiences (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago AI

Google says users in the US can now link to and interact with some apps in AI Mode, including Instacart, Canva, and YouTube Music (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago Google AI YouTube

Fora, which connects travel agents with travelers and offers agents AI tools, raised a $60M Series D at a $1B valuation led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago AI

San Diego-based Self Inspection, which uses AI to assess body damage on a car with as little tech as a smartphone camera, raised $10M led by Sheryl Sandberg (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago AI

Meta will now notify parents if teens discuss suicide or self-harm with Meta AI and is working on alerts to emergency services for users at risk of self-harm (techcrunch.com)
6 days ago AI

Apple publishes a policy for upcoming Maps ads, says home services ads are banned, medical services ads will be “evaluated on a case-by-case basis”, and more (techcrunch.com)
6 days ago Apple

Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman's $1.5B AI implementation company, announced in May, launches with the name Ode with Anthropic and 100 engineers (techcrunch.com)
6 days ago AI

Rime, which helps companies field calls using AI voice models trained on conversational data it records in a studio, raised a $24M Series A led by M13 (techcrunch.com)
6 days ago AI

Indian AI coding startup Emergent raised a $130M Series C at a $1.5B post-money valuation, up from $300M in January, bringing its total funding raised to $230M (techcrunch.com)
6 days ago India Startup AI

Israel-based Oak, which is building an AI-native identity access management system, comes out of stealth with a $60M seed (techcrunch.com)
7 days ago Israel AI

Sources: OpenAI researcher Miles Wang is leaving the company to launch an AI drug discovery startup, and is in talks to raise $200M at a $2B valuation (techcrunch.com)
7 days ago Startup AI

Anthropic faces ridicule and criticism for an ad titled “There's hope in hard questions” that unsettled viewers with weird graveyard imagery and doomer-ist tone (techcrunch.com)
7 days ago

Overtone, a “voice- and audio-forward” dating service founded by Hinge creator Justin McLeod that uses AI to make “highly curated introductions”, raised $18M (techcrunch.com)
7 days ago AI

Google Images launches a Pinterest-like redesign with a browsable, dynamic gallery of images, and adds a way for users to create AI images in Search (techcrunch.com)
7 days ago Google AI

Nikita Bier says X made a “tweak to boost visibility of your posts to your mutuals”, or those who users follow back, to avoid replies becoming a “battleground” (techcrunch.com)
8 days ago

Singapore-based and Alibaba-backed video generation startup PixVerse says it closed a Series C extension to raise $439M total for the round, valuing it at $2B+ (techcrunch.com)
8 days ago Alibaba Startup Singapore

Sources: Nous Research, the startup behind Hermes, an open-source agent and OpenClaw rival, is raising $75M+ at a $1.5B valuation led by Robot Ventures (techcrunch.com)
8 days ago Startup Robot

Bluesky interim CEO Toni Schneider becomes the company's permanent CEO, four months after succeeding Jay Graber (techcrunch.com)
11 days ago

Apple says OpenAI leadership “normalized” misconduct and OpenAI's hardware business is “rotten to its core by its illegal reliance” on stolen trade secrets (techcrunch.com)
11 days ago Apple

Filing: college social app Fizz accuses Maveron's Jerry Lu of giving confidential info to rival Sidechat after he met with Fizz as a potential investor in 2022 (techcrunch.com)
11 days ago

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