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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

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)
2025-7-22 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)
2025-7-22 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

Sam Altman announces another delay for OpenAI's open-weight model, for further safety testing; the model was slated to be released next week (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-12

Google will have a nonexclusive license to certain Windsurf technology, but will not be taking a stake in the company (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-12 Google

Jio Platforms debuts JioPC, a cloud PC service offered via its set-top box; Counterpoint: 70% of Indian households have a TV, but only 15% of them own a PC (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-12 India

Further tests reveal Grok 4 appears to consult Elon Musk's views on a range of sensitive topics, and its answers tend to align with Musk's personal opinions (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-11 Elon Musk

Sources: AWS is launching a marketplace for AI agents, with Anthropic as one of its partners, at the AWS Summit in NYC next week (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-11 AI

LGND, which uses vector embeddings to analyze geospatial data and has an enterprise app to query it, raised a $9M seed led by Javelin Venture Partners (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-11

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