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Runway launches a $10M fund to invest in early-stage startups building across AI, media, and world simulation and a Builders program offering free API credits (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-1 Startup AI

Meta is testing an Instagram Plus subscription in a few countries, offering features including anonymous Story viewing and extended 48-hour Story durations (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-31 Instagram

Fabless AI chip startup Rebellions raised $400M in a pre-IPO round at a $2.34B valuation, bringing its total funding to $850M, with $650M in the past six months (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-31 IPO Startup AI

New York-based Qodo, which offers AI agents for code review, testing, and governance, raised a $70M Series B led by Qumra, taking its total funding to $120M (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-30 AI New York

Space data center startup Starcloud raised a $170M Series A led by Benchmark and EQT at a $1.1B valuation, and plans to launch Starcloud 2 later in 2026 (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-30 Startup

Bluesky's CEO talks about their new app, Attie, an agentic social app built on Bluesky's AT Protocol, which uses Claude and enables users to build custom feeds (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-30

Report analyzing payments of 28M US consumers shows Claude adding paid subs at a steadily increasing pace; Anthropic: paid subs have more than doubled this year (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-29

The FBI confirms Iran-linked Handala breached Kash Patel's personal email and the data accessed was “historical in nature” and involves no government info (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-28 FBI Iran

Google expands Search Live, its AI conversational search feature previously limited to the US and India, to all languages and regions where AI Mode is available (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-27 India Google AI

Cohere launches Transcribe, its first voice model; the 2B-parameter, open-source speech recognition model handles tasks like notetaking and speech analysis (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-27

ByteDance launches its Dreamina Seedance 2.0 audio and video model in its CapCut editing platform, supporting clips up to 15 seconds across six aspect ratios (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-27

WhatsApp rolls out features and updates: an AI tool to suggest replies based on a user's conversations, the ability to touch up photos with Meta AI, and more (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-27 AI WhatsApp

Mistral launches Voxtral TTS, an open-source enterprise text-to-speech model that supports nine languages, including Hindi and Arabic, based on Ministral 3B (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-26

Deccan AI, which supplies post-training data and evaluation work, raised a $25M Series A led by A91 Partners; most of its workforce of experts is based in India (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-26 India AI

Reddit says it will label automated accounts that provide a service to users and will require accounts suspected of being bots to verify they are human (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-26 Reddit

Google launches Lyria 3 Pro music generation model, with better creative control and allowing users to create three-minute tracks, up from Lyria 3's 30 seconds (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-26 Google

Charlotte-based Lucid Bots, which manufactures autonomous drones for cleaning windows, raised a $20M Series B co-led by Cubit and Idea Fund (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-26 Drone

Glimpse, which uses AI agents to let 200+ brands automate financial deduction processes, raised a $35M Series A led by a16z, bringing its total raised to $52M (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-26 AI

Elon Musk says X will “pause” new creator monetization rules that would base payouts on engagement from a user's local audience, after criticism from creators (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-26 Elon Musk

Spotify is beta testing Artist Profile Protection, allowing artists to review releases before they go live to prevent AI tracks from being attributed to them (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-25 AI Spotify

OpenAI releases a set of prompts designed to be used with its open-weight safety model gpt-oss-safeguard that lets developers make their apps safer for teens (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-25

Doss, which provides an AI-native inventory management layer that integrates with existing accounting systems, raised a $55M Series B (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-25 AI

Apple plans to launch Apple Business, a free platform that consolidates its business tools, on April 14, and plans Apple Maps ads in summer in the US and Canada (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-25 Apple Canada

Mirage, formerly Captions, which develops an AI video editing and marketing suite, raised $75M from General Catalyst, after moving to a freemium model in 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-25 AI

In a Kleiner podcast interview, DOD official Emil Michael says he will “never forget” nor “forgive” Uber investors that ousted him and Travis Kalanick in 2017 (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-24 Uber Interview

Bengaluru-based Swish, which offers a 10-minute food delivery service, raised a $38M Series B at a $139M post-money valuation, bringing its total raised to $54M (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-24

A new version of iPhone exploit kit DarkSword has been leaked on GitHub; iVerify co-founder Matthias Frielingsdorf says the exploits “will work out of the box” (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-24 iPhone GitHub

Drone delivery startup Zipline raised an additional $200M, including from Paradigm, bringing Zipline's Series H, originally announced in January, to $800M (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-24 Startup Drone

Gimlet Labs, which says it is the first “multi-silicon inference cloud” for running AI workloads across diverse types of hardware, raised an $80M Series A (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-24 AI

Cloaked, which offers security and privacy services such as VPNs, raised a $375M Series B in a mix of equity and growth funding, for enterprise expansion (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-22 Equity

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