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Bengaluru-based C2i Semiconductors, building a “grid-to-GPU” power system for datacenters, raised a $15M Series A led by Peak XV, bringing total funding to $19M (techcrunch.com)
6 hours ago

Sam Altman says that India has 100M weekly active ChatGPT users, the app's second-largest userbase after the US, ahead of the AI Impact Summit (techcrunch.com)
15 hours ago India AI

Airbnb says its custom-built AI agent now handles ~33% of its customer support issues in North America, and it is preparing to roll out the feature globally (techcrunch.com)
1 day ago U.S. AI Airbnb

India approves a $1.1B state-backed VC fund to finance high-risk areas like AI and advanced manufacturing, doubling down on an effort that debuted in 2016 (techcrunch.com)
1 day ago India AI Manufacturing

India partners with Alibaba.com to help Indian startups and small businesses reach overseas buyers, highlighting its selective engagement with Chinese platforms (techcrunch.com)
2 days ago China India Alibaba Startup

Blockchain-based lending company Figure confirms a data breach; ShinyHunters hacking group published 2.5GB of data, saying Figure refused to pay a ransom (techcrunch.com)
2 days ago Blockchain

Didero, which provides an agentic AI layer that integrates with ERP systems to automate supply chains, raised a $30M Series A co-led by Chemistry and Headline (techcrunch.com)
3 days ago AI ERP

Ever, which says it is the first “AI-native, full-stack” retail marketplace for electric vehicles, raised a $31M Series A led by Eclipse (techcrunch.com)
3 days ago Retail AI

Spotify says AI is helping it speed up coding and product velocity and its best developers “have not written a single line of code since December” (techcrunch.com)
3 days ago AI Spotify

The US DOJ says Peter Williams, former boss of L3Harris' Trenchant, stole and sold tools that can hack millions of computers worldwide to a Russian broker (techcrunch.com)
4 days ago Russia

Amazon Pharmacy plans to bring same-day prescription delivery to almost 4,500 US cities and towns by the end of 2026, adding nearly new 2,000 communities (techcrunch.com)
4 days ago Amazon

Inertia, cofounded by ex-Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson to build one of the world's most powerful lasers for a grid-scale fusion power plant, raised a $450M Series A (techcrunch.com)
4 days ago

TikTok launches an opt-in Local Feed in the app's US version, including content related to travel, news, events, shopping, and dining near the user's location (techcrunch.com)
4 days ago

Meridian, which uses AI to make financial modeling and spreadsheets more “predictable and auditable”, exits stealth and raised a $17M seed at a $100M valuation (techcrunch.com)
4 days ago AI

Five members of xAI's 12-person founding team have now left the company, with four of the departures coming in just the last year (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago

Singapore blames Chinese-backed hacking group UNC3886 for a months-long cyber-espionage campaign that targeted its four largest telecommunication companies (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago China Singapore

Vega, which uses AI to detect security threats directly within cloud services, raised a $120M Series B at a $700M valuation, bringing its total raised to $185M (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago AI

Entire, founded by ex-GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke, raised a $60M seed at a $300M valuation to build open-source developer tools to better manage AI-written code (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago AI GitHub

YouTube rolls out an AI-powered playlist generator that lets Premium and Music Premium users on iOS and Android use text prompts to create playlists (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago Android IOS AI YouTube

London-based Tem, which uses AI to optimize energy transactions for businesses, raised a $75M Series B led by Lightspeed, a source says at a $300M+ valuation (techcrunch.com)
6 days ago Energy AI London

Gather AI, which builds “curious” AI for drones and cameras to autonomously monitor warehouses, raised a $40M Series B, taking its total funding to $74M (techcrunch.com)
6 days ago AI Drone

A look at the 2026 Super Bowl ads from Anthropic, Amazon, OpenAI, and others, as AI continued to take center stage in ad creations and AI product promotion (techcrunch.com)
7 days ago Amazon AI

India's updated startup framework doubles deep-tech startup eligibility to 20 years and triples the revenue cap for tax, grant, and regulatory benefits to ~$33M (techcrunch.com)
8 days ago India Tax Startup

Source: Benchmark invested at least $225M in Cerebras' ~$1B Series H led by Tiger Global at a $23B valuation; Benchmark led Cerebras' $27M Series A in 2016 (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago

Spotify rolls out About the Song, swipeable stories in English, summarized from third-party sources to highlight song details, in beta for Premium users (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago Spotify

Spotify changes Developer Mode to require a Premium subscription and reduces the number of test users per app from 25 to 5, to curb AI-aided or automated usage (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago AI Spotify

Sapiom, which is developing a financial layer for enterprises to let AI agents automatically buy the services they need, raised a $15M seed led by Accel (techcrunch.com)
10 days ago AI

Anthropic says Opus 4.6 adds “agent teams” that can split larger tasks into segmented jobs and integrates Claude directly into PowerPoint via a side panel (techcrunch.com)
10 days ago

Meta confirms it is testing a standalone app for Vibes, its short-form video feed of AI videos, after “strong early traction”, without sharing specific numbers (techcrunch.com)
10 days ago AI

Fundamental, which has developed an LTM to analyze structured data, comes out of stealth with $255M in funding, including a $225M Series A, at a $1.2B valuation (techcrunch.com)
10 days ago

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