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Horizon3, whose AI penetration testing platform NodeZero helps find and exploit attack paths in production systems, raised a $250M Series E at a $2B valuation (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-3 AI

June, which aims to help enterprise AI deployment by finding bottlenecks and building agents, emerges from stealth with $20M led by Marc Benioff's Time Ventures (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-3 AI

YouTuber Hank Green faces online criticism after using ChatGPT to help research a script, and says his LLM usage “is not healthy for me or good for the world” (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-3 YouTuber

Sensor Tower: India's mobile app market generated a record $345M in consumer spending in Q2, up 35% YoY; ChatGPT ranked No. 1 by downloads and No. 2 by revenue (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-1 India Mobile Sensor

Snap says its recommendation systems will be adjusted so only videos created by real people, not AI-generated ones, are eligible for Spotlight recommendations (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-1 AI

SpaceXAI says it will remove 69 gas turbines used to power the Colossus data centers near Memphis by July 2027, as it moves to a 1.2 GW natural gas power plant (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-1

Apple CFO Kevan Parekh says Services surpassed 1.5B paid subscriptions, up from 1B in January 2025, but a gaming slowdown and App Store changes hurt growth (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-31 Apple

Okta agrees to acquire AI identity security startup Permiso; source: the acquisition is valued at just under $200M and is structured as an almost all-cash deal (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-31 Startup AI

London-based Inforcer, which helps managed service providers handle their clients' Microsoft 365 accounts, raised a $50M Series C led by Insight Partners (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-31 Microsoft London

In Q4, Microsoft's Anthropic investment saw a $3.2B gain, while its OpenAI investment was marked down ~$600M but has generated a $5B gain on a full-year basis (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-30 Microsoft 4Q

Waymo gradually resumes freeway routes, starting with Phoenix, more than two months after suspending them to improve performance around construction zones (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-29

Encore AI, which studies companies' customer interactions to train and deploy AI voice agents, raised a $30M Series A led by Team8, Planven, and The Garage (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-29 AI

Lake Mary, Florida-based Spur Intelligence, which helps distinguish human and bot traffic to find fake users and threats, raised $200M led by Insight Partners (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-29 Intelligence

Fish Audio, which offers AI voice models for creators and enterprises and has $21M in ARR, raised a $50M seed led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-28 AI

Richard Socher's Recursive Superintelligence signs a $410M, multiyear AWS compute deal to support its self-improving AI systems, after raising $650M in May (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-28 AI

Baidu begins testing its purpose-built Apollo Go RT6 robotaxis with human safety operators in outer London; Baidu plans to deploy the taxis on Lyft's Freenow (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-28 London

Cursor introduces Cursor Start, a ~$7 monthly subscription exclusive to India, its third-largest market, priced below its standard $20 Pro monthly subscription (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-28 India

Enigma, which runs large-scale experiments exploring how humans interact with robots, emerges from stealth with a $70M seed led by Index Ventures and Ribbit (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-27 Robot

Sources: Prentis, which develops computer use models and is co-founded by Reid Hoffman and Marc Pincus, is in talks to raise $100M at a $1B valuation (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-25

Cognition acquires the makers of Poke, an AI assistant that users can access via messaging services, in a deal valuing Poke's parent in the “low nine figures” (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-25 AI

Mobileye founder and CEO Amnon Shashua plans to step down after nearly three decades, as the company pushes into robotaxis and humanoid robots (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-24 Robot

Anthropic makes its Opus and Sonnet models available in voice mode, and says voice mode can now tap into some connected apps like Gmail, Slack, and Notion (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-24 Slack

AegisAI, which uses AI agents to detect AI-driven spear-phishing attacks, raised a $36M Series A led by Battery Ventures, bringing its total funding to $49M (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-24 AI Battery

OpenAI expands ChatGPT Health, which helps users with health-related queries and connects to services like Apple Health, to all logged-in US users over 18 (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-24 Apple

Runway launches Runway Media Router, which it says is the first built specifically for generative media, as it expands from AI video to AI infrastructure (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-24 AI

AI inference chip startup Etched raised a $300M Series C led by Sequoia, with a16z, SK Hynix, others participating, at a $10.3B valuation, up from $5B in Dec. (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-24 Startup AI

ServiceNow invests $40M in banking software specialist BusinessNext, valuing the 24-year-old Indian company at $700M and taking a roughly 5% stake (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-23 India

Travis Kalanick's robotics startup Atoms raised $1.7B led by a16z, with Uber and others participating; Ben Horowitz will join the startup's board (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-23 Uber Startup Robot

Yope, a social network that has ~15M registered users for its “micro communities” and no algorithms, ads, or public content, raised $12.3M seed led by Northzone (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-23 Algorithm

WhatsApp updates its CarPlay and Android Auto integrations to include message playback, replies and more, now lets users sign up from its iPad app, and more (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-22 Android WhatsApp iPad

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