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Meta rolls out AI tools to find ads that secretly lead users to CSAM and says it took action against 33.2M pieces of child exploitation content in H1 2026 (techcrunch.com)
2026-10-8 AI

Healthleap, which makes AI screening software to identify patients at risk of undiagnosed illnesses, raised $38M across a $30M Series A and an $8M seed (techcrunch.com)
2026-10-8 AI

Parallel Systems, which builds autonomous freight trains, raised a $100M Series C led by AVP, taking its total funding to $200M+ (techcrunch.com)
2026-10-8

Google launches SynthID Detector, a website that lets users detect AI-generated image, video, and audio media across dozens of common file formats (techcrunch.com)
2026-10-8 Google AI

Spotify expands audiobooks to 180+ markets, bringing its catalog to 750M+ users, and adds 350K+ titles in 120+ languages in partnership with 300+ publishers (techcrunch.com)
2026-10-7 Spotify

New York-based Melius, which provides AI tools for generating ad campaigns, images, and videos, raised $25M, including a $20M Series A and a $5M seed (techcrunch.com)
2026-10-7 AI New York

Flai, which makes AI tools for car dealerships to manage phone calls, emails, and texts, raised a $27M Series A led by Base10 Partners (techcrunch.com)
2026-10-7 AI

Sources: AI inference-chip startup Etched is in early talks to raise funding at a $40B-$50B valuation, up from $21B in August (techcrunch.com)
2026-10-6 Startup AI

TikTok debuts Shopping Assistant, a conversational AI agent that helps users find and buy products, and Buy Direct for one-click purchases from the For You feed (techcrunch.com)
2026-10-6 AI

Ghost, which makes a $3,499 computer designed for AI agents and includes an RTX Pro 4000 SFF Blackwell GPU, emerges from stealth with an $11M seed led by a16z (techcrunch.com)
2026-10-6 AI

Q&A with Brian Chesky on Airbnb's plans for agent-to-agent interactions, why chatbots fail at travel e-commerce, the need for an AI-native OS, and more (techcrunch.com)
2026-10-4 AI Airbnb chatbot

OpenAI's DevDay 2026 announcements to turn ChatGPT into a place to discover, launch, and use software could potentially disrupt the traditional app store model (techcrunch.com)
2026-10-4

Reco, whose tech helps enterprises secure and govern AI agents across SaaS environments, raised a $55M Series B extension, taking its total funding to $140M (techcrunch.com)
2026-10-3 SaaS AI

Apple says it is adding additional controls around “Full Disk Access” on macOS as AI agents have increased “the risks associated with this level of access” (techcrunch.com)
2026-10-3 AI Apple

OpenAI launches two ChatGPT shopping features: a virtual try-on tool for clothing and accessories, and a Favorites feature to save products to a user's Library (techcrunch.com)
2026-10-2

Flow, a hardware development platform for AI agents, raised a $50M Series B led by Valor's Antonio Gracias and Atreides' Gavin Baker at a $750M valuation (techcrunch.com)
2026-10-1 AI

Reddit says it is ending support for RSS feeds on November 13 because the feeds are a target for abuse by AI bots and is ending its public API access in March (techcrunch.com)
2026-10-1 AI Reddit RSS

Berlin-based Restate, which provides a durable execution engine to make software workflows resilient to crashes, raised a $20M Series A led by Singular (techcrunch.com)
2026-10-1 Germany

Instagram rolls out a conversational AI video editing assistant for Edits, its dedicated CapCut competitor, after an initial preview at a creator event in June (techcrunch.com)
2026-10-1 AI Instagram

Outmarket, which uses AI to help insurance agencies and brokers automate their tedious paperwork, raised a $34.5M Series B, a source says at a $335M valuation (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-30 AI Insurance

OpenAI expands ChatGPT plugins with interactive panels and file viewers, launches a Plugin Creator tool, and adds MCP Events support for plugin automations (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-30

OpenAI announces new features for Codex, including reusable cloud development environments, a refreshed Codex CLI, a new code review experience, and more (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-30

Boston-based Modulate, which uses small AI models to offer enterprises transcription, emotional analysis, deepfake and AI music detection, and more, raised $25M (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-29 AI

Quartermaster, which builds a SmartMast for ships to relay real-time maritime data, raised a $140M Series B, with $100M in equity, after a $43M Series A in May (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-28 Equity

Meta says its rejection of ads promoting the new documentary about Elon Musk “was an error and the ads are being restored” (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-27 Elon Musk

Sources: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg announces a new board and new advisers; board members include two founders of IRL and the author of the Silo book series (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-27

Nscale secures $3.36B in convertible financing led by Third Point ahead of its US IPO, with $2.36B available immediately and $1B from Nvidia in November (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-26 IPO Nvidia

Ando, which is building a team messaging platform for both humans and AI agents, comes out of stealth with $20M in pre-seed and seed funding (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-26 AI

Google is testing Call for Me, which lets Gemini call businesses on behalf of users, initially for Pixel 11 users with a Gemini subscription in the US (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-25 Google

Colorado-based Enveda, which uses AI to discover new drugs in the natural world, raised a $311M Series E at a $2B valuation, double its valuation a year ago (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-24 AI

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