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In Meta's Q4 earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg says it plans to start shipping new models and products throughout 2026 and hints at “agentic shopping tools” (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-29 4Q Zuckerberg

Battery recycling and cathode production startup Redwood expands its Series E to $425M, sources say at a $6B valuation, adds Google as a new strategic investor (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-29 Google Startup Battery

Google expands Android's anti-theft suite, including a dedicated toggle for its Failed Authentication Lock feature on devices running Android 16 or later (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-28 Android Google

Flora, whose node-based design tool uses AI to create media assets for clients like Lionsgate, raised a $42M Series A, bringing its total funding to $52M (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-28 AI Asset

Uber launches Uber AV Labs, a division to collect real-world driving data via sensor-equipped vehicles to train reinforcement learning models for its partners (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-28 Uber Sensor

Khosla Ventures' Vinod Khosla and Ethan Choi disavow Keith Rabois' comments on an ICE shooting; Rabois said the man killed by agents was committing a “felony” (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-27

Meta says it will test new paid subscriptions that give people access to exclusive features on its apps and plans to scale Manus as part of those offerings (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-27

A group of YouTubers with a combined 6.2M subscribers adds Snap to a class action lawsuit, alleging the company trained its AI systems on their video content (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-27 AI

Nvidia announces its Earth-2 Medium Range weather model, built on its Atlas architecture, claiming it outperforms Google DeepMind's GenCast in 70+ variables (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-27 Google Nvidia

Counterpoint: India smartphone shipments were flat YoY at ~153M; Apple shipped 14M iPhones, raising its share of shipments to a record 9%, up from 7% in 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-24 India Apple

Google Photos' latest generative AI-powered feature, “Me Meme”, lets users create memes from their own images, launching first in the US (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-24 Google AI

Meta says it is pausing teens' access to its AI characters globally across all its apps as it develops a special version of an AI character for teens (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-24 AI

Google launches free SAT practice exams in the Gemini app, providing students with performance analysis and detailed explanations for incorrect answers (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-23 Google

Elon Musk says Tesla launched robotaxi rides in Austin with no human safety driver; Tesla's AI lead says Tesla is “starting with a few unsupervised vehicles” (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-23 AI Tesla Elon Musk

Spotify expands its AI-powered Prompted Playlists beta to Premium subscribers in the US and Canada, following initial testing in New Zealand (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-23 AI New Zealand Canada Spotify

Google rolls out Personal Intelligence in AI Mode, providing access to users' Gmail and Google Photos for more tailored responses, for US Pro and Ultra subs (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-23 Google AI Intelligence

Snap updates its Family Center tool to let parents view daily screen time averages and a breakdown of time spent by specific app segment like Snap Map (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-22

Deepinder Goyal, CEO of Indian online food delivery service Zomato and its parent Eternal, steps down and will be succeeded by Blinkit CEO Albinder Dhindsa (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-22 India

X unveils Bluesky-like “Starterpacks” to help users find accounts that match their interests, curated by X and rolling out in the coming weeks (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-22

Meta plans to expand ads on Threads to all users globally starting next week; Threads began testing ads in the US and Japan a year ago (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-22 Japan

Adobe updates Acrobat to add new AI features, including presentation generation, file editing, and creating podcast summaries from docs stored in Adobe Spaces (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-22 AI Adobe

Sensor Tower: consumers spent $85B on apps globally in 2025, up 21% YoY, and, in a first, more money went on non-game mobile apps than on games, driven by GenAI (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-21 Mobile Sensor

Ukrainian-founded language learning marketplace Preply raised a $150M Series D led by WestCap at a $1.2B valuation; the startup has a 150-person office in Kyiv (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-21 Startup Ukraine

Bengaluru-based Amagi, an ad tools provider for broadcast and streaming TV, fell below its listing price in its India market debut after raising $196M in an IPO (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-21 India IPO

X says it has open sourced its “core recommendation system” on GitHub and that the system “ranks everything using a Grok-based transformer model” (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-21 GitHub

Netflix adds a real-time voting feature for its Star Search reboot, available on mobile, smart TVs, and streaming devices, but not on a browser (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-21 Mobile Netflix Browser

PE firm Everstone combines India's Wingify, which helps A/B test sites, and France's AB Tasty, which improves e-commerce UX; Everstone bought Wingify for $200M (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-20 France India

Similarweb: Threads had 141.5M DAUs on iOS and Android as of January 7, driven by Instagram promotions, while X had 125M DAUs; X continues to lead on the web (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-19 Android IOS Instagram

RunPod, an AI app hosting service launched four years ago that raised a $20M seed in May 2024, says it has reached a $120M annual revenue run rate (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-19 AI

Anthropic appoints Irina Ghose, a former Microsoft India managing director, to lead its business in India, which has the second-largest user base for Claude (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-17 India Microsoft

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