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OpenMind, which is developing an OS for humanoid robots, raised $20M led by Pantera and unveils Fabric, a protocol that lets robots share info with one another (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-7 Robot

Tavily, which is helping AI agents connect to live web data, raised a $20M Series A led by Insight Partners and Alpha Wave, taking its total funding to $25M (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-7 AI

Google launches its asynchronous coding agent Jules out of beta, with a free plan capped at 15 daily tasks and higher limits for Google AI Pro and Ultra users (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-7

Fundamental Research Labs, which is working on AI applications in different fields, including a general-purpose consumer assistant, raised a $30M Series A (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-2 AI

Instagram now requires users to have a public account with 1,000+ followers to go live, aligning with TikTok; previously, the feature was open to all users (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-2 Instagram

TikTok launches a new version of its app called TikTok Pro in Germany, Portugal, and Spain, allowing users to earn “virtual sunshine” to support charities (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-2 Germany Spain Portugal

Google rolls out Gemini 2.5 Deep Think, its most advanced reasoning model, which can consider multiple ideas simultaneously, to $250-per-month Ultra subscribers (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-1 Google

San Mateo-based observability service Observe raised a $156M Series C led by Sutter Hill Ventures with participation from Snowflake, Madrona, and others (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-1

OpenAI removes a ChatGPT feature that let users make their conversations discoverable by Google and other search engines, calling it a “short-lived experiment” (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-1 Google

TikTok adds new safety features, including enhanced parental controls, and publicly launches Footnotes, its Community Notes-like feature, in the US (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-30

YouTube is rolling out age estimation tech in the US to identify teen users and serve more age-appropriate content, regardless of the birthday given at signup (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-30 YouTube

Julius AI, which acts like a data scientist by analyzing data and running predictive models from natural language prompts, raised a $10M seed led by Bessemer (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-29 NLP AI

Harmonic, an AI math startup co-founded by Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev, unveils its model Aristotle, saying it achieved gold medal performance on the 2025 IMO (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-29 Startup AI Mathematics

Anthropic to debut new rate limits for Claude Pro and Max on Aug. 28, likely curbing <5% of users, saying some run Claude Code “continuously in the background” (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-29

Chrome will debut AI-generated store reviews to US shoppers, where clicking an icon just to the left of the URL will show a popup with store reputation info (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-29 AI Chrome

Rune Technologies, which is developing AI-enabled software to transform manual processes in military logistics, raised a $24M Series A by Human Capital (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-28 AI Logistics

US insurance giant Allianz Life says hackers stole the personal information of the “majority” of its customers, staffers, and employees, in a mid-July breach (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-27 Insurance

Source: India orders ISPs and app stores to block 25 streaming services, like Ullu and ALTT with millions of downloads, for allegedly promoting obscene content (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-26 India

Apple expands its App Store age rating system; developers must disclose app content, such as violent themes, letting Apple calculate and assign age ratings (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-26 Apple

Google is testing a vibe-coding tool called Opal that lets users create mini web apps using text prompts or remix existing apps, available in the US via Labs (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-25 Google

X is testing using Community Notes to highlight posts that are liked by users with different perspectives (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-25

Google launches Web Guide, an AI-powered Search Labs experiment that organizes Google Search results by grouping pages related to specific aspects of the query (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-25 Google AI

LegalOn, whose contract review tool uses AI to identify risks and suggest edits, raised a $50M Series C, bringing its total raised to $200M+ (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-25 AI

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)
2025-7-24 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)
2025-7-24 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)
2025-7-24 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)
2025-7-24 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)
2025-7-23 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)
2025-7-23 Startup AI

Telegram expands access to its TON crypto wallet, integrated into the Telegram app, for its 87M users in the US (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-23

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