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Cloudflare debuts Kitesurf, a cloud-hosted browser for AI agents built on top of its Workers serverless service, available for free while in beta in Browser Run (techcrunch.com)
1 day ago AI Browser

Athens-based Omilia, which builds self-learning AI agents that work across different customer contact points, raised a $67M Series B led by Expedition Growth (techcrunch.com)
1 day ago AI

Naïve, which provides infrastructure for AI agents to handle most business operations, raised a $28.5M Series A led by Nexus, bringing its total funding to $32M (techcrunch.com)
2 days ago AI

WindBorne, which deploys weather balloons to collect data for its AI weather forecasting models, raised a $37M Series B at a $250M post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
2 days ago AI

Nikita Bier steps down as head of product at X after a little more than a year in the role and says he will continue as an adviser (techcrunch.com)
3 days ago

Hark, founded by Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock, previews Handoff, a computer use agent it says outperforms GPT-5.4 and Opus 4.8, and plans for a summer release (techcrunch.com)
3 days ago AI

Amazon's Zoox will start charging for rides in Las Vegas starting August 10, launching its commercial operations after offering free rides since last year (techcrunch.com)
3 days ago Amazon Vegas

Samsung says it's restricting app registrations and removing apps with SDKs that can turn smart TVs into residential proxy exit nodes, after a similar ban by LG (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago Samsung Ban

Horizon3, whose AI penetration testing platform NodeZero helps find and exploit attack paths in production systems, raised a $250M Series E at a $2B valuation (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago AI

June, which aims to help enterprise AI deployment by finding bottlenecks and building agents, emerges from stealth with $20M led by Marc Benioff's Time Ventures (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago AI

YouTuber Hank Green faces online criticism after using ChatGPT to help research a script, and says his LLM usage “is not healthy for me or good for the world” (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago YouTuber

Sensor Tower: India's mobile app market generated a record $345M in consumer spending in Q2, up 35% YoY; ChatGPT ranked No. 1 by downloads and No. 2 by revenue (techcrunch.com)
8 days ago India Mobile Sensor

Snap says its recommendation systems will be adjusted so only videos created by real people, not AI-generated ones, are eligible for Spotlight recommendations (techcrunch.com)
8 days ago AI

SpaceXAI says it will remove 69 gas turbines used to power the Colossus data centers near Memphis by July 2027, as it moves to a 1.2 GW natural gas power plant (techcrunch.com)
8 days ago

Apple CFO Kevan Parekh says Services surpassed 1.5B paid subscriptions, up from 1B in January 2025, but a gaming slowdown and App Store changes hurt growth (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago Apple

Okta agrees to acquire AI identity security startup Permiso; source: the acquisition is valued at just under $200M and is structured as an almost all-cash deal (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago Startup AI

London-based Inforcer, which helps managed service providers handle their clients' Microsoft 365 accounts, raised a $50M Series C led by Insight Partners (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago Microsoft London

In Q4, Microsoft's Anthropic investment saw a $3.2B gain, while its OpenAI investment was marked down ~$600M but has generated a $5B gain on a full-year basis (techcrunch.com)
10 days ago Microsoft 4Q

Waymo gradually resumes freeway routes, starting with Phoenix, more than two months after suspending them to improve performance around construction zones (techcrunch.com)
10 days ago

Encore AI, which studies companies' customer interactions to train and deploy AI voice agents, raised a $30M Series A led by Team8, Planven, and The Garage (techcrunch.com)
11 days ago AI

Lake Mary, Florida-based Spur Intelligence, which helps distinguish human and bot traffic to find fake users and threats, raised $200M led by Insight Partners (techcrunch.com)
11 days ago Intelligence

Fish Audio, which offers AI voice models for creators and enterprises and has $21M in ARR, raised a $50M seed led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today (techcrunch.com)
12 days ago AI

Richard Socher's Recursive Superintelligence signs a $410M, multiyear AWS compute deal to support its self-improving AI systems, after raising $650M in May (techcrunch.com)
12 days ago AI

Baidu begins testing its purpose-built Apollo Go RT6 robotaxis with human safety operators in outer London; Baidu plans to deploy the taxis on Lyft's Freenow (techcrunch.com)
12 days ago London

Cursor introduces Cursor Start, a ~$7 monthly subscription exclusive to India, its third-largest market, priced below its standard $20 Pro monthly subscription (techcrunch.com)
12 days ago India

Enigma, which runs large-scale experiments exploring how humans interact with robots, emerges from stealth with a $70M seed led by Index Ventures and Ribbit (techcrunch.com)
13 days ago Robot

Sources: Prentis, which develops computer use models and is co-founded by Reid Hoffman and Marc Pincus, is in talks to raise $100M at a $1B valuation (techcrunch.com)
15 days ago

Cognition acquires the makers of Poke, an AI assistant that users can access via messaging services, in a deal valuing Poke's parent in the “low nine figures” (techcrunch.com)
15 days ago AI

Mobileye founder and CEO Amnon Shashua plans to step down after nearly three decades, as the company pushes into robotaxis and humanoid robots (techcrunch.com)
16 days ago Robot

Anthropic makes its Opus and Sonnet models available in voice mode, and says voice mode can now tap into some connected apps like Gmail, Slack, and Notion (techcrunch.com)
16 days ago Slack

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