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Google launches its virtual clothes try-on feature, letting users upload photos of themselves, in the US and updates price alerts to let users specify an amount (techcrunch.com)
28 days ago Google

The Laude Institute, a nonprofit that runs the K Prize multi-round AI coding challenge, says a Brazilian prompt engineer won with just 7.5% of the right answers (techcrunch.com)
28 days ago AI Brazil

Sundar Pichai says the Gemini app has 450M+ MAUs, with daily requests up 50%+ from Q1, AI Overviews has 2B+ MAUs, and AI Mode has 100M+ MAUs in the US and India (techcrunch.com)
28 days ago India AI

YouTube gives Shorts creators access to new generative AI features powered by Veo 2, including an image-to-video tool and new effects (techcrunch.com)
29 days ago AI YouTube

PayPal announces PayPal World, an upcoming platform designed to simplify cross-border payments via Venmo, India's UPI, Tencent's Tenpay, and Mercado Pago (techcrunch.com)
29 days ago India Tencent

AI compliance startup Delve raised a $32M Series A at a $300M valuation led by Insight Partners with participation from CISOs at Fortune 500 companies (techcrunch.com)
30 days ago Startup AI

Telegram expands access to its TON crypto wallet, integrated into the Telegram app, for its 87M users in the US (techcrunch.com)
30 days ago

Philadelphia-based Asylon, which modifies Boston Dynamics' robot dog Spot into DroneDog, raised a $26M Series B led by Insight, taking its total funding to $45M (techcrunch.com)
30 days ago Robot Boston Dynamics

Lumotive, whose optical chip tech can “steer” laser light and is an alternative to lidar, extends its Series B from $45M to $59M, including from Amazon's IIF (techcrunch.com)
30 days ago Amazon

Appfigures: xAI debuted Grok 4 late on July 9 and by July 11, Grok's gross revenue on iOS had risen 325% to $419K, up from $99K the day before Grok 4's launch (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-22 IOS

Vultron, which makes AI tools for federal contractors, raised $22M from investors including David Sacks' Craft Ventures, raising ethical questions (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-20 AI

Sources: Cursor maker Anysphere acquired Koala, an AI-powered CRM startup that raised a $15M Series A five months ago; Koala plans to shut down in September (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-19 Startup AI CRM

Claude Code users, many on the $200-a-month Max plan, are unexpectedly facing restrictive usage limits; Anthropic says it's “working to resolve these issues” (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-18

Hadrian, which is building largely automated factories to produce space and defense parts, raised a $260M Series C, bringing its total funding to ~$500M (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-18

Mistral adds new features to its Le Chat chatbot, including a new “deep research” mode, native multilingual reasoning, and advanced image editing (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-18 chatbot

Spotify expands audiobook access to family plan members with new plans, including Audiobooks+, offering more listening hours, in the UK and 10+ countries (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-18 Spotify

Jack Dorsey invests $10M in “and Other Stuff”, a nonprofit focused on funding open-source projects and tools built on open protocols like Nostr and ActivityPub (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-17

Bengaluru-based QpiAI, which is integrating AI and quantum computing for enterprise use cases, raised a $32M Series A at a $162M post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-17 AI Quantum

Multi-service messaging app Beeper relaunches, introducing premium offerings and the option to switch to an on-device model; Automattic acquired Beeper in 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-17

Bedrock Robotics raised $80M from Eclipse and 8VC to develop retrofit self-driving kits for construction and worksite vehicles, in testing with five companies (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-17 Robot

Google Search's AI Mode gets Gemini 2.5 Pro and new deep research capabilities; Google also expands an AI-powered business calling feature to all users in US (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-17 Google AI

The DOJ says ex-Army soldier Cameron John Wagenius pleaded guilty to hacking over 10 telcos and to extortion; in February, he admitted hacking AT&T and Verizon (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-16 AT&T

In a paper, AI researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and others recommend further research into chain-of-thought monitorability for AI safety (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-16 Google AI

Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and CLI Codex, terminal-based AI tools launched since February, have surprisingly gained ground on AI code editors with traditional UIs (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-16 AI

Mistral releases Voxtral, its first open source AI audio model family, and says its API transcription offerings are cheaper than models from OpenAI and Google (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-16 Google AI

Meta says it has taken down around 10M Facebook profiles so far this year that were impersonating or repeatedly reusing content from large content producers (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-15 Facebook

Google adds featured notebooks to NotebookLM from publications, including The Economist and The Atlantic, as well as professors, authors, and select works (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-15 Google

Adobe Analytics: Prime Day's four-day event drove over $24B in US e-commerce sales, up 30.3% YoY; traffic from generative AI sources was up 3,300% YoY (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-15 AI Adobe

Discord launches Orbs, a virtual reward system that incentivizes users to interact with ads by completing Quests to earn digital items, after a seven week beta (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-14

xAI apologizes for Grok's “horrific behavior” when it wrote antisemitic posts on July 8, and blames “an update to a code path upstream of the Grok bot” (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-13

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