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The US, Japan, and South Korea issue a joint statement saying North Korean-backed hackers stole $659M+ in crypto heists in 2024 and were behind the $235M WazirX (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-15 Japan Korea

Sources and business records detail how Barcelona has emerged as an unlikely hub for spyware companies, raising concerns from digital rights groups (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-15

Paris-based Bioptimus, which is developing a foundational AI model for biology, raised $41M led by Cathay Innovation, bringing its total raised to $76M (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-14 AI Paris

Raspberry AI, which uses AI to turn fashion designer sketches into realistic images and has ~70 clients including Under Armour, raised an a16z-led $24M Series A (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-14 AI

Toronto-based Float Financial, which offers expense management software and corporate credit cards, raised a $48.5M Series B led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-14 Goldman Toronto Credit Card Equity

Qventus, which builds AI-based tools to automate health care work, raised a $105M Series D, including $85M in equity and $20M in optional debt (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-13 AI Equity

The UK plans to create geographic “AI Growth Zones” to fast-track AI infrastructure planning, says private tech firms have committed £14B for its AI plan (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-13 AI

Sources: Indian investment app Groww plans to file for an IPO within 10-12 months, seeking a $6B-$8B valuation; Groww was last valued at $3B in October 2021 (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-13 India IPO

Matt Mullenweg deactivates the accounts of several WordPress.org members, some of whom have been leading a push to create a new fork of the open-source project (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-12 WordPress

OpenAI's crawlers took down e-commerce site Triplegangers by relentlessly trying to scrape the entire site, whose robots.txt file was not properly configured (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-11 Robot

The EU approves Synopsys' $35B Ansys acquisition, after the companies offered to divest parts of their businesses; US and China approvals are still pending (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-11 China

Overhaul, which uses AI to anticipate freight shipping delays to fight cargo theft for customers like Microsoft, raised $55M, bringing total funding to ~$150M (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-11 Microsoft AI

The US DOJ indicts three Russian citizens for allegedly operating Bender.io and Sinbad.io crypto mixing services used by North Korea and ransomware gangs (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-11 Russia Korea

India is promoting RuPay, its homegrown card network, to challenge Visa and Mastercard, leveraging UPI, which now handles 13B+ real-time transactions monthly (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-10 India

X says it is rolling out labels for parody or satire accounts to differentiate them from others and boost transparency; accounts have to apply for the labels (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-10

Court docs: Mark Zuckerberg gave the Meta team training Llama AI models approval to use data from LibGen, which offers access to pirated, copyrighted material (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-10 AI Zuckerberg

NYC-based Captions, an AI-powered video editing app, introduces a free tier with basic video editing tools, while keeping AI features in the $10/month Pro tier (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-10 AI

Innovaccer, which aggregates medical data and plans to introduce multiple AI co-pilots and agents for the healthcare industry, raised a $275M Series F (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-10 AI

Dublin-based Xocean, which provides ocean data to the energy and hydrography industries using uncrewed surface vessels, raised €115M (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-10 Energy

Ivanti warns that a zero-day in its widely-used Connect Secure VPN service has been exploited to compromise the networks of its corporate customers (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-10 VPN

xAI is testing a standalone iOS app for its chatbot Grok in several countries like the US, Australia, and India; Grok was available only to X users until now (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-9 IOS Australia India chatbot

Istanbul-based gaming startup Grand Games, maker of Magic Sort and Car Match, raised a $30M Series A led by Balderton, after securing a $3M seed in 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-9 Startup

Source: Flipkart hires Kabeer Biswas, co-founder of Dunzo, an Indian delivery startup that raised $500M+, to lead its quick commerce business, Flipkart Minutes (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-9 India Startup

Microsoft is reverting to an older version of the DALL-E 3 model for Bing Image Creator, after the latest version faced a wave of complaints on X and Reddit (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-9 Microsoft Reddit

Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko says Meta's moderation changes are “deeply troubling”, and Mastodon will take action on Threads accounts violating Mastodon's policies (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-9

Whatnot, which lets users sell comics and other items through live videos, raised a $265M Series E at a $4.97B valuation, and says its annual GMV passed $3B (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-8

Dublin-based payments startup NomuPay, formed in 2023 from some of Wirecard's regional payment licenses, raised a $37M Series B at a $200M valuation (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-8 Startup

Jensen Huang says Nvidia's AI chips are improving faster than Moore's Law, claiming that today's Nvidia AI chips are 1,000x better than those made 10 years ago (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-8 AI Nvidia

AWS says it plans to invest “at least” $11B to expand data center infrastructure in Georgia, which is becoming a popular site for data centers in the US (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-8

Atlanta-based HR and payroll software startup OnPay raised a $63M Series B led by Carrick Capital Partners, taking its total raised to $165M+ in equity and debt (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-8 Startup Equity

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