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Skyryse, which plans to integrate its flight automation OS, SkyOS, in Black Hawk helicopters and other aircraft, raised a $300M+ Series C at a $1.15B valuation (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-4

Apple brings agentic coding to Xcode 26.3, allowing developers to use Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex, and integrates support for MCP (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-4 Apple

Lotus, which uses AI to offer free, 24/7 primary care in 50 languages, raised a $35M Series A led by CRV and Kleiner Perkins, taking its total funding to $41M (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-4 AI

Adobe plans to discontinue its 2D animation software Animate on March 1; enterprise customers can receive support until March 2029, and others until March 2027 (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-3 Adobe

Alabama-based Linq, which pivoted to programmatic messaging APIs in February 2025, raised a $20M Series A to build AI assistants that work within messaging apps (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-3 AI

India proposes zero taxes for foreign cloud providers through 2047 on services sold outside the country as long as they run workloads from Indian data centers (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-2 India Tax

Inside Physical Intelligence, a startup co-founded by Stripe veteran Lachy Groom that is building general-purpose robotic foundation models and has raised $1B+ (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-2 Startup Robot Intelligence

Anthropic expands its agentic plugins, which let enterprise users automate department-specific workflows, from Claude Code to its new general-use tool Cowork (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-31

Bluesky releases its first transparency report: users rose 60% in 2025 to 41.2M, including AT Protocol accounts; moderation reports from users grew 54% to 9.97M (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-31

Insurance tech company Ethos raised ~$200M in its Jan. 29 IPO, selling 10.5M shares at $19 each; it reached a $1.1B market cap, below its 2021 $2.7B valuation (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-31 IPO Insurance

Google's experience in India has become a proving ground to scale AI in education, as the country accounts for the highest global usage of Gemini for learning (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-30 India Google AI Education

Appfigures: Sora's app downloads dropped 32% month-over-month in December and 45% in January to 1.2M; consumer spending on the app fell 32% MoM as of January (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-30

Google expands Gemini's hands-free conversational capabilities to walking and cycling modes in Google Maps, available on iOS and rolling out on Android (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-30 Android IOS Google

Waymo says a robotaxi struck a child at 6MPH near an elementary school in Santa Monica on January 23, resulting in minor injuries; the NHTSA opens a probe (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-30

Airtable unveils Superagent, a service that can deploy AI agents in parallel for tasks like market analysis, its first standalone product in its 13-year history (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-29 AI

US-based AI startup Arcee releases Trinity Large, a 400B-parameter open-weight model that it says compares to Meta's Llama 4 Maverick 400B on some benchmarks (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-29 Startup AI

In Meta's Q4 earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg says it plans to start shipping new models and products throughout 2026 and hints at “agentic shopping tools” (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-29 4Q Zuckerberg

Battery recycling and cathode production startup Redwood expands its Series E to $425M, sources say at a $6B valuation, adds Google as a new strategic investor (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-29 Google Startup Battery

Google expands Android's anti-theft suite, including a dedicated toggle for its Failed Authentication Lock feature on devices running Android 16 or later (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-28 Android Google

Flora, whose node-based design tool uses AI to create media assets for clients like Lionsgate, raised a $42M Series A, bringing its total funding to $52M (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-28 AI Asset

Uber launches Uber AV Labs, a division to collect real-world driving data via sensor-equipped vehicles to train reinforcement learning models for its partners (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-28 Uber Sensor

Khosla Ventures' Vinod Khosla and Ethan Choi disavow Keith Rabois' comments on an ICE shooting; Rabois said the man killed by agents was committing a “felony” (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-27

Meta says it will test new paid subscriptions that give people access to exclusive features on its apps and plans to scale Manus as part of those offerings (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-27

A group of YouTubers with a combined 6.2M subscribers adds Snap to a class action lawsuit, alleging the company trained its AI systems on their video content (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-27 AI

Nvidia announces its Earth-2 Medium Range weather model, built on its Atlas architecture, claiming it outperforms Google DeepMind's GenCast in 70+ variables (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-27 Google Nvidia

Counterpoint: India smartphone shipments were flat YoY at ~153M; Apple shipped 14M iPhones, raising its share of shipments to a record 9%, up from 7% in 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-24 India Apple

Google Photos' latest generative AI-powered feature, “Me Meme”, lets users create memes from their own images, launching first in the US (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-24 Google AI

Meta says it is pausing teens' access to its AI characters globally across all its apps as it develops a special version of an AI character for teens (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-24 AI

Google launches free SAT practice exams in the Gemini app, providing students with performance analysis and detailed explanations for incorrect answers (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-23 Google

Elon Musk says Tesla launched robotaxi rides in Austin with no human safety driver; Tesla's AI lead says Tesla is “starting with a few unsupervised vehicles” (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-23 AI Tesla Elon Musk

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