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Firecrawl, which offers an open-source web crawler for developers and AI agents, raised a $14.5M Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-20 AI

Meta rolls out AI-powered voice translations for creators on Facebook and Instagram globally, supporting English-Spanish translations with lip syncing (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-20 Facebook AI Instagram Spain

Keychain, which makes AI-powered software to help manufacturers manage their product cycles, raised a $30M Series B, bringing its total funding to $68M (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-20 AI

Eight Sleep, which makes the AI-powered Pod smart mattress to monitor sleep stages and more, raised $100M from HSG and others, after an $86M Series C in 2021 (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-19 AI

Texas AG Ken Paxton launches a probe into Meta and Character.AI over claims they deceptively market chatbots as mental health tools, including for children (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-19 AI chatbot Texas

HR giant Workday says hackers stole an unspecified amount of personal information, like names and email addresses, from one of its third-party CRM platforms (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-19 CRM

TikTok is updating its Community Guidelines, adding new rules for Live creators, including a requirement that commercial content must be disclosed (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-16

Appfigures: ChatGPT's app for iOS and Android hit $2B in global consumer spending, including $1.35B so far in 2025, up 673% YoY; Grok made ~$25.6M this year (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-16 Android IOS

Bluesky revises its policies and Community Guidelines to comply with new regulations, including EU's DSA, the UK Online Safety Act, and the US Take It Down Act (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-15

Google launches Flight Deals, an AI tool within Google Flights to let users find fares using natural language queries, in beta in the US, Canada, and India (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-15 India NLP Google AI Canada

Cohere hires Joelle Pineau, who previously led Meta's FAIR lab, as chief AI officer, to oversee AI strategy across Cohere's research, product, and policy teams (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-15 AI

India-based ride-hailing app Rapido starts testing its food delivery service Ownly in Bengaluru, marking its first serious move to challenge Swiggy and Zomato (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-14 India

xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, who led its engineering teams, says he is leaving the company to launch a venture firm that supports AI research and startups (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-14 Startup AI

OpenAI introduces “Auto”, “Fast”, and “Thinking” settings for GPT-5 in ChatGPT's model picker, with “Auto” similar to the GPT-5 model router announced earlier (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-13

Mumbai-based online pharmacy Truemeds, which offers generic alternatives to branded drugs, raised $85M led by Accel at a $400M valuation, up from $110M in 2023 (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-13

India's RBI grants Paytm “in-principle” approval to operate as a payment services provider for online merchants, after China's Ant Group sold its entire stake (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-13 China India

Match is settling with the FTC for $14M and a number of changes like making it easy to cancel subs, after the FTC sued in 2019 over false advertising and more (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-13

Appfigures: AI companion apps are on track to generate $120M+ in revenue in 2025, and in H1 there were 60M downloads of this kind of app, up 88% YoY (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-13 AI

Anthropic updates Claude Sonnet 4 to support a 1M token context window, letting it process prompts up to 750K words or 75K lines of code, up 5x on its old limit (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-13

Nvidia debuts new Omniverse SDKs and Cosmos world foundation models for robotics devs, including Cosmos Reason, a 7B-parameter reasoning vision language model (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-12 Robot Nvidia

Google is testing an AI-powered Google Finance website in the US, letting users ask questions, access advanced charting tools, view a live news feed, and more (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-9 Google AI

The Browser Company launches a $20-per-month Dia Pro subscription plan, providing unlimited access to the web browser's AI-powered chat and skills features (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-8 AI Browser

Source: Windsurf's gross margins are “very negative”; many believe the same margin pressure is impacting Cursor, Lovable, Replit, and other vibe coding tools (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-8

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)
2025-8-8 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)
2025-8-8 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)
2025-8-7 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)
2025-8-7 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)
2025-8-7 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)
2025-8-7 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)
2025-8-7 Fintech Startup

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