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S-1: as of September 30, Anthropic had 11,900+ customers spending $100,000+ annually, 1,900+ customers spending $1M+, and ~250 customers spending $10M+ (techcrunch.com)
18 days ago

OpenAI makes Decisions API, its Jev competitor, generally available with new voice and visual modalities, at $0.10/1M input tokens and no output-token charges (techcrunch.com)
22 days ago

Oura sues Indian smart ring rival Ultrahuman again to block US sales of Ring Pro, months after a redesign helped Ultrahuman return following an import ban (techcrunch.com)
22 days ago India Ban

Spotify confirms it is rolling out a new family plan verification method requiring members to scan QR codes on plan managers' phones within seven days of notice (techcrunch.com)
22 days ago Spotify

Canva launches Craft, its first image generation model, trained on human-designed templates, available to all users, with plans to support third-party chatbots (techcrunch.com)
22 days ago chatbot

Walmart unveils its Agent Gateway, a new MCP server to help users' approved AI agents shop its website, and dedicated Agent Profiles with special “terms” for AI (techcrunch.com)
23 days ago AI Walmart

Mach9, which develops AI-powered CAD software trained on proprietary, in-house AI models using multimodal image and laser scan datasets, raised a $34M Series A (techcrunch.com)
24 days ago AI

Reliable Robotics, which develops an autonomous flight system, raised a $115M extension for its $160M Series D, pushing its valuation to $1B+ (techcrunch.com)
24 days ago Robot

Google launches TorchTPU, an open-source version of PyTorch to let AI apps run on TPUs and Google Cloud via simple configuration changes without rewriting code (techcrunch.com)
24 days ago Google AI

Sensor Tower: Muse had 10.9M downloads since its September debut, 10.2M of those in the US, becoming the 12th app to hit 10M US downloads in its first 40 days (techcrunch.com)
24 days ago Sensor

Eka Robotics, which is developing a “vision-force-action” architecture for its physical AI models, raised a $150M Series A at a $1.45B post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
25 days ago AI Robot

Spotify launches paid podcast memberships in 34 markets, including the US; creators can offer perks like bonus content or fewer ads and keep 90% of revenue (techcrunch.com)
25 days ago Spotify

Note-taking tool Otter.ai raised $320M in non-dilutive capital from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund; PitchBook says it raised $50M prior to this round (techcrunch.com)
25 days ago AI

Estonia-based web traffic security company Blackwall raised a $100M Series C led by AVP at a $2.2B valuation, after raising a $49.2M Series B in March 2025 (techcrunch.com)
25 days ago

Town, which develops enterprise AI assistants, raised a $108M Series B at a $1B valuation, after announcing a $55M Series A in June (techcrunch.com)
25 days ago AI

Developers and vibe coders are using AI tools like Claude Code to get rid of sponsored ads on their smart TVs, disable tracking features, and more (techcrunch.com)
25 days ago AI

CEO Amjad Masad says Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, citing cost and saying “ChatGPT is better now”; source: the partnership is still in place (techcrunch.com)
28 days ago

Bluesky expands Attie, its AI tool for building custom feeds, with a “social vibe coding” feature to create sites, games, quizzes, and more on the AT Protocol (techcrunch.com)
29 days ago AI

Figma announces new features to define how AI agents work on its platform, including Figma Specs, a Markdown editor that lets users define their design language (techcrunch.com)
30 days ago AI

Flock CEO Garrett Langley defends his company's cameras, arguing that reducing crime means sacrificing privacy in return and that “we shouldn't pause progress” (techcrunch.com)
30 days ago

Zenzap, a private messenger with AI agents that aims to replace apps like WhatsApp in the workplace, raised $44M from Bessemer, Lightspeed, and others (techcrunch.com)
30 days ago AI WhatsApp

YouTube Music rolls out labels for songs created with the help of AI; Spotify has AI labels, and Apple Music plans to add “Made With AI” labels later this year (techcrunch.com)
30 days ago AI Apple YouTube Spotify

Bengaluru-based Scimplify, which uses AI agents and 500+ partner manufacturing facilities to accelerate chemical production, raised $25M led by Hitachi Ventures (techcrunch.com)
2026-10-14 AI Manufacturing

Pluto Security, which monitors AI agents and vibe-coded apps, exits stealth with $42M, including a $34M Series A, and says it has hit $2M+ in ARR since April (techcrunch.com)
2026-10-14 AI

Anthropic says it is barring live internet access for internal evals until monitoring is reliable, after its agents exploited websites and bypassed restrictions (techcrunch.com)
2026-10-10

Vesta, which uses AI agents to automate much of the loan origination process, raised $30M led by Conversion, bringing its total funding to $85M (techcrunch.com)
2026-10-10 AI

Tesla renames Full Self-Driving to Tesla Assisted Driving in Europe after pushback from Germany, whose transport minister will now back its EU-wide approval (techcrunch.com)
2026-10-10 Germany Europe Tesla

AI hardware startup Natura unveils Interface, a $99 smart ring that connects to AI agents and apps, including Muse, Instinct, Claude, Grokbot, and ChatGPT (techcrunch.com)
2026-10-9 Startup AI

Google debuts Google AI Edge Foresight, a local macOS note-taking app for meetings that uses its 740M-parameter EmbeddingGemma 2 model and Gemma 4 assistant (techcrunch.com)
2026-10-9 Google AI

Mecka, which collects human motion data to train humanoid robots, raised a $60M Series B led by Sequoia, with participation from Nvidia, M12, and others (techcrunch.com)
2026-10-8 Robot Nvidia

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