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In a Kleiner podcast interview, DOD official Emil Michael says he will “never forget” nor “forgive” Uber investors that ousted him and Travis Kalanick in 2017 (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago Uber Interview

Bengaluru-based Swish, which offers a 10-minute food delivery service, raised a $38M Series B at a $139M post-money valuation, bringing its total raised to $54M (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago

A new version of iPhone exploit kit DarkSword has been leaked on GitHub; iVerify co-founder Matthias Frielingsdorf says the exploits “will work out of the box” (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago iPhone GitHub

Drone delivery startup Zipline raised an additional $200M, including from Paradigm, bringing Zipline's Series H, originally announced in January, to $800M (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago Startup Drone

Gimlet Labs, which says it is the first “multi-silicon inference cloud” for running AI workloads across diverse types of hardware, raised an $80M Series A (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago AI

Cloaked, which offers security and privacy services such as VPNs, raised a $375M Series B in a mix of equity and growth funding, for enterprise expansion (techcrunch.com)
11 days ago Equity

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)
12 days ago 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)
13 days ago

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)
13 days ago 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)
14 days ago

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)
15 days ago

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)
15 days ago 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)
15 days ago AI

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

Zendesk agrees to acquire Forethought, which makes AI-powered customer support software, for an undisclosed sum; Forethought has raised $115M (techcrunch.com)
18 days ago 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)
19 days ago 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)
20 days ago 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)
20 days ago 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)
20 days ago 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)
20 days ago 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)
21 days ago 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)
21 days ago 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)
21 days ago 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)
21 days ago 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)
21 days ago 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)
22 days ago 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)
22 days ago Amazon Uber Vegas

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