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WordPress.com says it will now allow AI agents to draft, edit, and publish content on customers' websites, as well as manage comments, update metadata, and more (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-21 WordPress AI

Bluesky raised a $100M Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto in April 2025, following a $15M Series A in 2024 and an $8M seed in 2023; it now has over 43M users (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-20

Alphabet's X spins out Anori, which seeks to streamline building approvals through a unified platform for developers and city regulators, with $26M in funding (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-20 Alphabet

Edra, which says it helps companies automate workflows by turning their operational data into a living knowledge base, raised a $30M Series A led by Sequoia (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-19

Mistral announces Mistral Forge to help enterprises build custom models actually trained on their own data, using Mistral open-weight models as a starting point (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-18

Google expands Personal Intelligence, which lets Gemini tailor its responses by connecting to Gmail and other Google services, from paid users to all US users (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-18 Google Intelligence

World launches AgentKit, a software development tool that enables sites to verify that a real human is behind the purchasing decisions of AI shopping agents (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-18 AI

Fuse, which offers AI-powered loan origination software to credit unions and other financial institutions, raised a $25M Series A (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-17 AI

Spotify announces Taste Profile editing in beta, the first time it lets users fine-tune the recommendation algorithm, starting with Premium users in New Zealand (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-16 New Zealand Algorithm Spotify

Google's and Accel's joint AI startup accelerator Atoms picked five Indian startups from 4K+ applications, saying ~70% of rejected applicants were AI “wrappers” (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-16 India Google Startup AI

Indian edtech startup upGrad plans to acquire rival Unacademy in an all-stock deal; Unacademy was valued at less than $500M in 2025, down from $3.5B in 2021 (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-16 India Startup

Zendesk agrees to acquire Forethought, which makes AI-powered customer support software, for an undisclosed sum; Forethought has raised $115M (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-15 AI

Facebook launches new tools to help creators detect and report impersonation, and updates guidelines to better define what it considers to be “original content” (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-14 Facebook

Peacock adds a new feature to its app that uses AI to curate personalized vertical video playlists, narrated by a generative AI avatar of host Andy Cohen (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-14 AI

Tinder unveils updates designed to reinvigorate its product, bolster safety, and harness AI, including an Events tab and a virtual speed dating test in LA (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-13 AI

Gumloop, which helps companies deploy reliable AI agents that handle complex, multi-step tasks, raised a $50M Series B led by Benchmark (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-13 AI

Amazon announces new personality styles for Alexa+, including an adult-only “Sassy” option, which it says won't get into areas like explicit sexual content (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-13 Amazon

Disney+ is rolling out Verts, its new short-form video feed, to US users on its mobile app, featuring clips from movies and TV shows on Disney+ (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-13 Mobile

Google Research launches Groundsource, a geo-tagged time series dataset created by using Gemini to extract 2.6M flood events from 5M historical news articles (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-12 Google

Chinese brain-computer interface startup Gestala raised $21.6M co-led by Guosheng Capital and Dalton Venture at a $100M to $200M valuation, per CEO Phoenix Peng (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-12 China Startup

WordPress debuts my.WordPress.net, which lets users run WordPress entirely in the browser to set up a private workspace not accessible from the public internet (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-12 WordPress Browser

WhatsApp adds parent-managed accounts for users under the age of 13 and says the accounts will not get access to features like Meta AI, Channels, or Status (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-12 AI WhatsApp

Google closes its acquisition of Israeli cybersecurity company Wiz for $32B, marking Google's biggest acquisition ever; Google initially approached Wiz in 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-12 Israel Google

Amazon's Zoox partners with Uber to offer its robotaxis on the Uber app, starting in Las Vegas in late 2026 and expanding to LA in 2027; Zoox needs US approval (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-11 Amazon Uber Vegas

Paris-based digital health insurance startup Alan raised €100M led by Index Ventures at a €5B valuation, up from €4B after raising €173M in September 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-11 Startup Insurance Paris

Amazon expands its healthcare AI assistant Health AI to its website and app; it was previously only available on the app for One Medical (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-11 Amazon AI

Sandbar, which is developing the Stream Ring, a $249+ AI-powered wearable that transcribes audio notes, raised a $23M Series A, bringing total funding to $36M (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-11 AI

After a backlash, Google adds a toggle to let Google Photos users return to the “classic” search experience instead of the newer AI-powered “Ask Photos” option (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-11 Google AI

Google rolls out Gemini-powered AI capabilities across Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive, including a “Help me create” tool in Docs to generate first drafts (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-11 Google AI

AI networking equipment startup Eridu emerges from stealth and raised a $200M Series A led by Socratic, John Doerr, and more, taking its total funding to $230M (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-10 Startup AI

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