Articles from techcrunch.com

Articles from techcrunch.com

Liberate, which builds AI agents to automate insurance operations, raised a $50M Series B led by Battery Ventures at a $300M post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
17 days ago AI Battery Insurance

Viven, which builds AI “digital twins” that grant employees access to crucial information when coworkers are unavailable, emerges from stealth with a $35M seed (techcrunch.com)
18 days ago AI

Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 4.5, claiming it offers similar levels of coding performance to Sonnet 4 at “one-third the cost and more than twice the speed” (techcrunch.com)
18 days ago

X plans to show new info about accounts, including their creation date and which country they are based in, “starting next week” on select X employees' profiles (techcrunch.com)
18 days ago

Spotify partners with Netflix to distribute a selection of video podcasts from Spotify Studios and The Ringer on Netflix starting in early 2026 in the US (techcrunch.com)
19 days ago Netflix Spotify

Google plans to invest $15B over five years in India to set up a 1GW data center and AI hub in the southern Andhra Pradesh state; Google has 14K staff in India (techcrunch.com)
19 days ago India Google AI

Oura raised $900M led by Fidelity at an “approximately” $11B valuation, up from $5.2B after raising $200M in December 2024, and has sold 5.5M smart rings total (techcrunch.com)
19 days ago

California Governor Gavin Newsom signs SB 243, which mandates safety protocols for AI chatbot companions, the first state law to regulate such AI chatbots (techcrunch.com)
20 days ago AI chatbot California

Google adds a Chrome feature that automatically disables browser notifications from websites users haven't interacted with recently, on Android and desktop (techcrunch.com)
22 days ago Android Google Browser Chrome

NPCI, which runs India's UPI, partners with OpenAI and digital payment company Razorpay on a pilot to let consumers shop and pay directly through ChatGPT (techcrunch.com)
23 days ago India

Prezent, which offers an AI-powered presentation builder to enterprises, raised $30M at a $400M valuation, bringing its total raised to $74M (techcrunch.com)
23 days ago AI

Google says Cl0p hackers who exploited vulnerabilities in Oracle's E-Business Suite have stolen data from “dozens” of organizations since at least July 10 (techcrunch.com)
24 days ago Google Oracle

Tigris, which is building a network of localized data storage centers that it claims can meet the compute needs of AI workloads, raised a $25M Series A (techcrunch.com)
24 days ago AI

SoundCloud evolves into a more social platform with the introduction of new community-oriented features, including playlists based on friends' likes (techcrunch.com)
24 days ago

OpenAI expands its ~$5 ChatGPT Go plan to 16 new Asian countries, including Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Vietnam, after launching it in August (techcrunch.com)
24 days ago Malaysia Philippines Vietnam

Sources: Dario Amodei is in India as Anthropic plans a Bengaluru office and explores a partnership with Reliance, seeking to expand in its second-largest market (techcrunch.com)
26 days ago India

Mastodon plans to add Bluesky-like starter packs to suggest accounts to follow for new users, but will allow accounts to opt out of being included in Packs (techcrunch.com)
26 days ago

AltStore, one of the first alternative app stores in the EU, raised a $6M Series A led by Pace Capital, aims to launch in Australia, Brazil, and Japan in 2025 (techcrunch.com)
26 days ago Australia Japan Brazil

MrBeast, who earned an estimated $85M in 2025, says AI-generated videos could threaten creators' livelihoods, calling it “scary times” for the industry (techcrunch.com)
27 days ago AI

OpenAI announces API updates, including GPT-5 Pro, Sora 2 in preview, and gpt-realtime-mini, a voice model that is 70% cheaper than gpt-realtime (techcrunch.com)
27 days ago

OpenAI launches AgentKit, a toolkit for building and deploying AI agents, including Agent Builder, which Sam Altman described as like Canva for building agents (techcrunch.com)
27 days ago AI

Sam Altman says ChatGPT has reached 800M weekly active users, 4M developers “have built with OpenAI”, and OpenAI processes over 6B tokens per minute on its API (techcrunch.com)
27 days ago

As part of the OpenAI-AMD deal, OpenAI will receive the first GW worth of AMD's Instinct MI450 chip in H2 2026, when the new chip is scheduled for deployment (techcrunch.com)
27 days ago AMD

Melbourne-based Heidi Health, which is developing AI agents to assist doctors, raised a $65M Series B led by Point72, taking its total raised to $96.6M (techcrunch.com)
27 days ago AI Melbourne

Polars, the Amsterdam-based startup behind the popular open-source library for data manipulation of the same name, raised a €18M Series A led by Accel (techcrunch.com)
28 days ago Startup

Anker paid users of its Eufy security cameras $2 per video of staged or real package and car thefts to train its AI systems from December 2024 to February 2025 (techcrunch.com)
28 days ago AI

OpenAI acquires AI-powered personal finance app Roi; source: CEO and co-founder Sujith Vishwajith is the only member of Roi's four-person team joining OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
30 days ago AI

Sources: former Databricks AI chief Naveen Rao is in talks to raise $1B led by a16z at a $5B valuation for his new AI hardware startup Unconventional (techcrunch.com)
30 days ago Startup AI

Lapsus$ publishes a data leak site on the dark web threatening to release about ~1B records stolen from Salesforce-hosted customer databases (techcrunch.com)
30 days ago Salesforce Darknet

An interview with CEO Amjad Masad on Replit's slow growth, leaving the professional developer market to focus on non-technical white-collar workers, and more (techcrunch.com)
30 days ago Interview

Previous Page Next Page