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Appfigures: dedicated mobile apps for vibe coding have yet to gain traction; the largest such app, Instance: AI App Builder, has just 16,000 downloads (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-24 Mobile AI

Huxe, an app built by three former NotebookLM developers that offers users personalized daily briefs and topic exploration with AI podcast hosts, raised $4.6M (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-24 AI

Filing: Indian ride-hailing app Rapido doubled its valuation to $2.3B after Swiggy offloaded its 12% Rapido stake for ~$270M in a secondary share sale (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-24 India

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Go in Indonesia for ~$4.50 per month, expanding its budget-friendly ChatGPT subscription plan after debuting it in India in August (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-23 India Indonesia Budget

Indian AI app development platform Rocket.new raised a $15M seed led by Salesforce Ventures; it has 400K+ users, including 10K+ paid subscribers (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-23 India AI Salesforce

UK-based Tide, a neobank used by 1.6M micro and small enterprises, half of them in India, raised $120M led by TPG at a $1.5B valuation (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-22 India

Google Cloud says it now works with nine of the 10 leading AI labs, including OpenAI, and with 60% of the world's generative AI startups, fueling its growth (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-21 Google Startup AI

Mastodon, the nonprofit behind the social network, plans to offer paid hosting, moderation, and support services for organizations joining the fediverse (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-19

Numeral, which provides AI-powered sales tax compliance software, raised a $35M Series B led by Mayfield at a $350M valuation, six months after an $18M Series A (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-19 Tax AI

Atlassian acquires developer productivity platform DX for $1B in cash and restricted stock; DX has 350+ enterprise customers and raised less than $5M (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-18 Atlassian

Filing: Insight Partners says a ransomware attack on its systems between October 2024 and January 2025 affected 12,600+ people, including limited partners (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-18

Google says India has emerged as the No. 1 country for Nano Banana model usage, making Gemini the top free app on both the App Store and Google Play in India (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-18 India Google

Meta rolls out Hyperscape Capture in early access, letting developers and creators use Quest 3 devices to scan a room and turn it into a VR space in minutes (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-18 VR

Meta announces the Oakley Meta Vanguard, with a 12MP wide-angle camera, Garmin and Strava integrations, and immersive audio, launching on October 21 for $499 (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-18

Google updates its Search app's Discover page to let users follow specific publishers and creators; it plans to add YouTube Shorts and X and Instagram posts (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-18 Google YouTube Instagram

AI code review startup CodeRabbit raised a $60M Series B led by Scale Venture Partners, valuing the company at $550M, and says it makes $15M+ in ARR (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-17 Startup AI

YouTube announces AI tools for podcasters, including one that turns video podcasts into clips and another that creates video for audio-only podcasts (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-17 AI YouTube

YouTube unveils new livestreaming features, including letting creators transition between public and members-only streams, and ads that run next to the stream (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-17 YouTube

Salesforce launches Missionforce, a new business unit focused on integrating AI into defense workflows concerning personnel, logistics, and decision-making (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-17 AI Salesforce Logistics

YouTube unveils new ways for creators to earn with brand deals and the Shopping program, including letting them swap out brand sponsorships in longform videos (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-17 YouTube

YouTube unveils new generative AI tools for Shorts, including a custom version of Veo 3 called Veo 3 Fast, which includes sound, and an Edit with AI feature (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-17 AI YouTube

Nothing raised a $200M Series C led by Tiger Global at a $1.3B valuation, taking its total funding to $450M+, and says it had $1B in total sales in early 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-16

Robinhood has filed an application with the SEC to launch a new publicly traded fund called “Robinhood Ventures Fund I” that will hold shares of startups (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-16 Startup

OpenAI debuts GPT‑5-Codex, a version of GPT‑5 optimized for agentic coding in Codex and says it spends its “thinking” time more dynamically than previous models (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-16

LA-based MarqVision, which uses AI to monitor marketplaces for counterfeits, raised a $48M Series B led by Peak XV Partners, bringing its total funding to ~$90M (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-16 AI

Spotify adds new features for free users globally, allowing them to search for and play any song they want; the company reported 433M ad-supported MAUs in Q2 (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-16 Spotify

Hike, which was valued at $1.4B in 2016 and has since pivoted from a messaging app to a real-money gaming app, shuts down following India's ban on such apps (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-14 India Ban

Mira Murati's TML launches a research blog called Connectionism, and shares its work on resolving nondeterminism and achieving reproducible results from LLMs (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-14

Shares of transit software company Via closed at $49.51 in their NYSE debut, above the $46 IPO price, giving Via a market cap of ~$3.9B, after raising $492.9M (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-13 IPO

Mastodon plans to launch quote posts starting next week with safety features allowing users to control how they get quoted, to avoid “dunking” (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-13

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