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Anthropic details multiagent experiments showing Claude agents can wage a “turf war” over incompatible goals, fail to coordinate, collude on prices, and more (techcrunch.com)
2 days ago

X makes the source code for its For You timeline available on GitHub and adds tools to let users see if X's ranking systems “shadowbanned” them (techcrunch.com)
3 days ago GitHub

Twitch says it intends to use videos streamed on its platform to help train Amazon's generative AI models and tells creators how to opt out (techcrunch.com)
3 days ago Amazon AI

Google unveils the $899+ Pixel 11, $1,099+ 11 Pro, and $1,299+ 11 Pro XL, with Tensor G6, new Gemini features, Magic Capture to pick the best frames, and more (techcrunch.com)
4 days ago Google

AI code-testing startup Blacksmith raised a $45M Series B led by Peak XV Partners at a $550M valuation, up from $60M after it raised a $10M Series A in 2025 (techcrunch.com)
4 days ago Startup AI

Bengaluru-based Yulu, which gets ~95% of its revenue from renting e-bikes to gig workers, raised a $93M Series C, sources say at a ~$170M post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
4 days ago

Similarweb: Bluesky's mobile MAUs fell 27% YoY to 10.4M in June and DAUs fell 26% to 3M in July; X's mobile MAUs fell 3% to 302M and DAUs fell 7% to 123.7M (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago Mobile

YouTube says new creators will need double, or 8,000+, watch hours over the past year or 20M Shorts views in the last 90 days to start earning money from Feb. 1 (techcrunch.com)
6 days ago YouTube

Google adds Venmo as a payment option on Google Play for games, apps, add-ons, subscriptions, and more in the US, adding to support for PayPal and Cash App (techcrunch.com)
6 days ago Google

Q&A with historian Jill Lepore on her new book The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, tech leaders misreading science fiction warnings as manuals, and more (techcrunch.com)
6 days ago

A look at London's King's Cross, which transformed from a seedy area into an AI hub after DeepMind moved in in 2016, now home to OpenAI, Meta, Wayve, and others (techcrunch.com)
6 days ago AI London

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)
9 days 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)
9 days 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)
9 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)
10 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)
10 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)
11 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)
11 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)
13 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)
13 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)
13 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)
13 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)
15 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)
16 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)
16 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)
16 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)
17 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)
17 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)
18 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)
18 days ago

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