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Rivian launches Universal Hands-Free driving for second-generation R1 EVs, expanding coverage from 135,000 highway miles to 3.5M+ miles across the US and Canada (techcrunch.com)
2 hours ago Canada

Luma AI launches Ray3 Modify, which allows users to modify existing footage by providing character reference images; users can also define start and end frames (techcrunch.com)
3 hours ago AI

Meta is testing limiting Facebook professional accounts and Pages to posting just two links per month, unless they subscribe to $14.99+/month Meta Verified (techcrunch.com)
19 hours ago Facebook

Google makes Gemini 3 Flash the default model in Gemini app and Search's AI mode; it scored 33.7% without tool use on Humanity's Last Exam vs. GPT-5.2's 34.5% (techcrunch.com)
1 day ago Google AI

Google brings its vibe coding tool Opal to Gemini on the web, letting users create their own custom apps called Gems; the mini apps can be reused later (techcrunch.com)
1 day ago Google

Customer engagement service MoEngage raised $180M in a follow-on Series F, split into a $57M primary and $123M secondary round, weeks after raising $100M (techcrunch.com)
1 day ago

X updates its ToS, effective January 15, 2026, to explicitly claim rights to the “Twitter” trademark after a startup filed an application to trademark the term (techcrunch.com)
1 day ago Startup Twitter

Leona Health, maker of an AI-copilot that integrates with doctors' WhatsApp accounts in LATAM to manage patient communications, raised a $14M seed led by a16z (techcrunch.com)
2 days ago AI WhatsApp

Adobe updates Firefly's app to add a prompt-based video editor using Runway's Aleph model, and adds image and video models from Black Forest Labs and others (techcrunch.com)
2 days ago Adobe

Ford plans to repurpose its US battery manufacturing capacity to launch a battery energy storage business for data centers, amid a shift away from large EVs (techcrunch.com)
2 days ago Energy Manufacturing Battery Ford

Berlin-based Mirelo, whose AI models can interpret video content to add matching sound effects, raised a $41M seed led by Index and a16z, after a $3M pre-seed (techcrunch.com)
3 days ago Germany AI

A look at iRobot, founded in 1990, and its slow collapse after regulatory pressure killed Amazon's $1.7B acquisition in 2024, and the rising Chinese competition (techcrunch.com)
3 days ago China Amazon

Sam Altman's World updates its app to make it a “super app” with encrypted chat integration and a Venmo-like tool for sending and requesting crypto (techcrunch.com)
6 days ago

Google launches Disco, a Gemini 3-powered experiment that suggests and creates GenTabs, web apps based on the user's open browser tabs and Gemini chat history (techcrunch.com)
7 days ago Google Browser

Runway launches GWM-1, its first world model, which uses frame-by-frame prediction to simulate physics, and updates Gen 4.5 to add native audio and more (techcrunch.com)
7 days ago

Fertility startup Inito, which offers an at-home health diagnostics platform, raised a $29M Series B and plans to use AI-designed antibodies to make new tests (techcrunch.com)
7 days ago Startup AI

Runware, which operates a developer tool platform that generates images, video, and audio in real-time, raised a $50M Series A, taking its total funding to $66M (techcrunch.com)
7 days ago

Israeli startup Port, which offers a proprietary developer portal competitor to Spotify's open-source Backstage, raised a $100M Series C at an $800M valuation (techcrunch.com)
7 days ago Israel Startup Spotify

Harness, which uses AI to automate code testing, verification, security, and governance, raised a $240M Series E led by Goldman Sachs at a $5.5B valuation (techcrunch.com)
7 days ago AI Goldman

Unacademy CEO Gaurav Munjal says the Indian edtech startup's valuation has fallen from its $3.5B peak three years ago to less than $500M, and confirms M&A talks (techcrunch.com)
7 days ago India Startup

Google tests AI-powered overviews on some publications' Google News pages; publishers like Der Spiegel, El País, and WaPo in commercial partnerships get paid (techcrunch.com)
7 days ago Google AI

Spotify will begin testing a feature that lets a user write a prompt for a playlist and receive a unique set of songs based on the user's earlier behavior (techcrunch.com)
7 days ago Spotify

ChatGPT was 2025's most downloaded free app in the US iOS App Store, up from No. 4 in 2024, followed by Threads, Google, TikTok, WhatsApp, and Instagram (techcrunch.com)
7 days ago IOS Google Instagram WhatsApp

Reddit starts a limited test of verified profiles, an opt-in feature that places a gray checkmark beside the usernames of notable people or businesses (techcrunch.com)
7 days ago Reddit

Google releases fully managed, remote MCP servers to help developers connect AI agents to services such as Maps, BigQuery, Compute Engine, and Kubernetes Engine (techcrunch.com)
7 days ago Google AI

Amazon plans to let authors offer their DRM-free ebooks in the EPUB and PDF formats through Kindle Direct Publishing, starting January 20, 2026 (techcrunch.com)
8 days ago Amazon

Google launches a cheaper AI Plus plan in India, costing ~$2.21 per month for the first six months and ~$4.44 thereafter, to compete with ChatGPT Go (techcrunch.com)
8 days ago India Google AI

Google Photos launches new video editing tools, including specialized templates with preset music and text overlays, as well as a redesigned video editor (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago Google

Mistral launches Devstral 2, a coding model with 123B parameters requiring at least four H100 GPUs, and a 24B parameter Devstral Small for local deployment (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago

OpenAI and Instacart launch a grocery shopping experience inside of ChatGPT, letting customers brainstorm meal ideas and check out via OpenAI Instant Checkout (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago

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