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Internet pioneer Vint Cerf, who has served as Google's VP and Chief Internet Evangelist since 2005, plans to step down from his role next week and retire (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-1 Google

Omen AI, which provides real-time coolant health monitoring for data centers, raised a $31M Series A led by Nava Ventures, bringing its total funding to $41.5M (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-1 AI

Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workbench that uses existing Claude models like Opus 4.8 to integrate 60+ scientific databases and specialized toolkits (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-1 AI

AWS launches an internal organization for AI-focused forward-deployed engineers, backed by $1B in resources, following OpenAI and others in launching FDE teams (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-1 AI

AI coding startup 8090 raised a $135M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures; founder Chamath Palihapitiya announces that he will lead the company as CEO (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-30 Startup AI Salesforce

AI leaderboard provider Arena says it hit $100M in annualized run-rate revenue eight months after launching AI Evaluations, which offers performance analytics (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-30 AI

Google says the Gemini app now offers Nano Banana image generation to eligible US users for free; it was previously only available to Plus, Pro, and Ultra users (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-30 Google

Waymo and Uber quietly ended their partnership in Phoenix in May; Uber says it is readying the launch of a separate autonomous vehicle partnership in the city (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-30 Uber Autonomous Car

SCOTUS limits the law enforcement use of “geofence” warrants, saying people have “a reasonable expectation of privacy” in their cell-phone location data (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-30

Sakana AI's Fugu and 360's cybersecurity model Tulongfeng claim to rival Anthropic's banned Mythos and Fable 5 models amid the US export ban (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-28 AI Ban

Insurance tech startup Corgi denies accusations that it used Papermark's open source software code to develop its software and present it as its own (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-27 Startup Insurance

OpenAI appoints ex-Uber India head Prabhjeet Singh as its first managing director for India, to scale its presence in its second-largest market after the US (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-27 India Uber

YouTube rolls out changes to Shorts, including adding a setting to double playback speed, eliminating the “dislike” button, and more (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-26 YouTube

NHTSA proposes eliminating the mandate for manual brake pedals in “vehicles designed to be driven exclusively by automated driving systems” (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-26

Patronus AI, which builds simulated digital environments for evaluating AI agents, raised a $50M Series B led by Greenfield, bringing its total funding to $70M (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-26 AI

Netris, which helps neoclouds automate network configuration to bring their data centers online faster, raised a $15M Series A from a16z (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-26

Google launches a Google Finance app for Android, with market data, financial news, and an AI-powered “Key Moments” feature, and plans an iOS version this year (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-26 Android IOS Google AI

General Intuition, which trains AI agents in spatial reasoning via gameplay footage, raised $320M led by Khosla at a $2.3B valuation, for $454M in total funding (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-26 AI

Facebook brings back Facebook Creator Studio as a stand-alone app with built-in AI chatbot to help creators grow their audiences through personalized guidance (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-25 Facebook AI chatbot

Hang Ten Systems, led by former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka, launches with a $32M seed led by Mayfield to help enterprises use AI to run software at a lower cost (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-25 AI

Customer engagement service MoEngage acquires Aampe, whose AI agents help brands personalize messaging, for “tens of millions”, per a source; Aampe raised ~$28M (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-24 AI

Flipkart says it plans to expand its network of micro-fulfillment centers in India to 1,500 by the end of 2026, as it also claims orders have grown ~400% YoY (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-24 India

LastPass notifies customers that their personal information and customer support case records were stolen during a hack at Canadian market research company Klue (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-24 Canada

Market intelligence company Klue confirms it has suffered a breach, for which cybercrime group Icarus takes credit; Jamf, HackerOne, and others are affected (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-24 Intelligence

An interview with Smartbird CEO Nadia Carlsten about the shoe company Allbirds becoming an AI infrastructure company, plans to deploy compute clusters, and more (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-20 Interview AI

Paris-based Kyber, which develops a low-latency remote device control SDK and is founded by VLC lead developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf, raised $5M led by Lightspeed (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-20 Paris

Source: Elastic has agreed to acquire the AI site reliability engineering startup Deductive AI for up to $85M; CRV led Deductive AI's $7.5M seed round in 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-19 Startup AI

Appfigures: daily downloads of major VPN apps in India rose 49% on June 16 after India announced its Telegram ban; Proton and Turbo recorded largest increases (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-19 India Ban VPN

Snap plans to spin off an internal generative AI video team into Dotmo, a new company focused on AI models for interactive gaming experiences, citing high costs (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-19 AI

Sources: General Intuition, which trains AI agents in spatial reasoning, is in talks to raise $300M from Jeff Bezos and others at a $2B+ valuation (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-19 AI Jeff Bezos

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