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Brex says it has secured a license in the EU, allowing it to issue credit and debit cards and offer its spend management products to European customers (techcrunch.com)
13 days ago Europe

OpenAI says GPT-5 is its first “unified” AI model and combines the reasoning abilities of its o-series of models with the fast responses of its GPT series (techcrunch.com)
14 days ago AI

Lina Khan cites Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny, saying letting startups grow independently, rather than be acquired, can generate “enormous value” (techcrunch.com)
14 days ago IPO Startup

Elon Musk says that xAI will bring back Vine's video archive, and xAI's newly launched Grok Imagine feature, available to X Premium+ subscribers, is “AI Vine” (techcrunch.com)
14 days ago AI Elon Musk

Google says Big Sleep, DeepMind and Project Zero's vulnerability research tool “powered by Gemini”, found 20 flaws in various popular open-source software (techcrunch.com)
14 days ago Google

Uzbek fintech and e-commerce company Uzum raised $65.5M led by Tencent and VR Capital at a ~$1.5B valuation, up from $1.16B in March 2024 after a $114M Series A (techcrunch.com)
14 days ago VR Fintech Tencent

Spend management startup Alaan raised a $48M Series A led by Peak XV, one of the Middle East's largest Series A rounds for a fintech, after a $2.5M seed in 2021 (techcrunch.com)
14 days ago Fintech Startup

OpenMind, which is developing an OS for humanoid robots, raised $20M led by Pantera and unveils Fabric, a protocol that lets robots share info with one another (techcrunch.com)
14 days ago Robot

Tavily, which is helping AI agents connect to live web data, raised a $20M Series A led by Insight Partners and Alpha Wave, taking its total funding to $25M (techcrunch.com)
14 days ago AI

Google launches its asynchronous coding agent Jules out of beta, with a free plan capped at 15 daily tasks and higher limits for Google AI Pro and Ultra users (techcrunch.com)
14 days ago

Fundamental Research Labs, which is working on AI applications in different fields, including a general-purpose consumer assistant, raised a $30M Series A (techcrunch.com)
20 days ago AI

Instagram now requires users to have a public account with 1,000+ followers to go live, aligning with TikTok; previously, the feature was open to all users (techcrunch.com)
20 days ago Instagram

TikTok launches a new version of its app called TikTok Pro in Germany, Portugal, and Spain, allowing users to earn “virtual sunshine” to support charities (techcrunch.com)
20 days ago Germany Spain Portugal

Google rolls out Gemini 2.5 Deep Think, its most advanced reasoning model, which can consider multiple ideas simultaneously, to $250-per-month Ultra subscribers (techcrunch.com)
20 days ago Google

San Mateo-based observability service Observe raised a $156M Series C led by Sutter Hill Ventures with participation from Snowflake, Madrona, and others (techcrunch.com)
20 days ago

OpenAI removes a ChatGPT feature that let users make their conversations discoverable by Google and other search engines, calling it a “short-lived experiment” (techcrunch.com)
20 days ago Google

TikTok adds new safety features, including enhanced parental controls, and publicly launches Footnotes, its Community Notes-like feature, in the US (techcrunch.com)
22 days ago

YouTube is rolling out age estimation tech in the US to identify teen users and serve more age-appropriate content, regardless of the birthday given at signup (techcrunch.com)
23 days ago YouTube

Julius AI, which acts like a data scientist by analyzing data and running predictive models from natural language prompts, raised a $10M seed led by Bessemer (techcrunch.com)
23 days ago NLP AI

Harmonic, an AI math startup co-founded by Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev, unveils its model Aristotle, saying it achieved gold medal performance on the 2025 IMO (techcrunch.com)
23 days ago Startup AI Mathematics

Anthropic to debut new rate limits for Claude Pro and Max on Aug. 28, likely curbing <5% of users, saying some run Claude Code “continuously in the background” (techcrunch.com)
23 days ago

Chrome will debut AI-generated store reviews to US shoppers, where clicking an icon just to the left of the URL will show a popup with store reputation info (techcrunch.com)
24 days ago AI Chrome

Rune Technologies, which is developing AI-enabled software to transform manual processes in military logistics, raised a $24M Series A by Human Capital (techcrunch.com)
25 days ago AI Logistics

US insurance giant Allianz Life says hackers stole the personal information of the “majority” of its customers, staffers, and employees, in a mid-July breach (techcrunch.com)
26 days ago Insurance

Source: India orders ISPs and app stores to block 25 streaming services, like Ullu and ALTT with millions of downloads, for allegedly promoting obscene content (techcrunch.com)
26 days ago India

Apple expands its App Store age rating system; developers must disclose app content, such as violent themes, letting Apple calculate and assign age ratings (techcrunch.com)
27 days ago Apple

Google is testing a vibe-coding tool called Opal that lets users create mini web apps using text prompts or remix existing apps, available in the US via Labs (techcrunch.com)
27 days ago Google

X is testing using Community Notes to highlight posts that are liked by users with different perspectives (techcrunch.com)
27 days ago

Google launches Web Guide, an AI-powered Search Labs experiment that organizes Google Search results by grouping pages related to specific aspects of the query (techcrunch.com)
28 days ago Google AI

LegalOn, whose contract review tool uses AI to identify risks and suggest edits, raised a $50M Series C, bringing its total raised to $200M+ (techcrunch.com)
28 days ago AI

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