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WhatsApp rolls out new group chat features: member tags that show user roles, text stickers generated from any word, and custom event reminders (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-8 WhatsApp

Intel spinout and enterprise AI company Articul8 raised over half of a $70M Series B at a $500M pre-money valuation and expects the round to close in Q1 2026 (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-7 Intel AI

In the first successful US prosecution of a spyware operator in 10+ years, pcTattletale founder pleads guilty to promoting surveillance apps for unlawful uses (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-7

AMD unveils Ryzen AI 400 Series AI PC chips with 12 CPU cores, claiming 1.3x faster multitasking and 1.7x faster content creation than rivals (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-6 AI AMD

Amazon unveils a Fire TV UI redesign with rounded corners, 20 app slots, and Alexa+ integration, and launches $899+ Ember Artline TV series with colorful frames (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-6 Amazon

African fintech Flutterwave acquires Nigerian open banking startup Mono, sources say in an all-stock deal valued at $25M to $40M; Mono raised $17.5M since 2020 (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-5 Fintech Startup Africa Nigeria

CES 2026: self-driving truck company Kodiak partners with Bosch to develop a hardware and software system to turn standard semi-trucks into autonomous vehicles (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-5 Autonomous Car

India orders X to fix Grok to block the generation of obscene content, giving it 72 hours to submit an action-taken report or risk losing “safe harbor” immunity (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-3 India

Pebble unveils Pebble Round 2 smart watch with a rounded screen and basic health and activity tracking but no heart rate monitor, shipping in May for $199 (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-3

Dealroom: 76 European deep tech and life sciences companies spun out from universities reached $1B valuations or $100M in revenue in 2025, or both (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-1 Europe

Tracxn: VC funding for Indian startups fell 17%+ YoY to $10.5B in 2025 across 1,518 deals, down ~39% YoY; AI startups raised $643M, up 4% YoY, across 100 deals (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-28 India Startup AI

A profile of the Digital Security Helpline, run by Access Now, which gives 24/7 help to reporters and others who suspect they are victims of government spyware (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-28

Chainalysis and TRM Labs estimate that $2.7B was stolen in crypto in 2025 in total, up from $2.2B in 2024; the biggest hack was the $1.4B breach at Bybit (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-24

Marissa Mayer's new startup Dazzle, which is building next-gen AI personal assistants, raised an $8M seed at a $35M valuation and plans to exit stealth in 2026 (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-24 Startup AI

Lemon Slice, which launched a 20B-parameter model that creates digital avatars for AI agents, streaming video at 20 FPS on a single GPU, raised a $10.5M seed (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-24 AI

France's La Poste says it has suffered a suspected DDoS attack in “a major network incident” on Monday, which disrupted its postal and banking services (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-24 France

OpenAI details efforts to secure its ChatGPT Atlas browser against prompt injection attacks, including building an “LLM-based automated attacker” (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-23 Browser

OpenAI rolls out Your Year with ChatGPT, a Spotify Wrapped-like feature, to Free, Plus, and Pro users in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-23 Australia New Zealand Canada Spotify

Q&A with iRobot co-founder Colin Angle on the company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy, regulatory pressure that killed Amazon's deal, his new robotics startup, and more (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-22 Amazon Startup Robot

Sources: Resolve AI, which is developing an autonomous site reliability engineering tool, raised a Series A at multiple valuation tiers, including at $1B (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-20 AI

Netflix acquires avatar creation platform Ready Player Me to let its subscribers carry their personas and fandoms across games; the startup raised $72M (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-20 Startup Netflix

Rivian launches Universal Hands-Free driving for second-generation R1 EVs, expanding coverage from 135,000 highway miles to 3.5M+ miles across the US and Canada (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-19 Canada

Luma AI launches Ray3 Modify, which allows users to modify existing footage by providing character reference images; users can also define start and end frames (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-19 AI

Meta is testing limiting Facebook professional accounts and Pages to posting just two links per month, unless they subscribe to $14.99+/month Meta Verified (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-18 Facebook

Google makes Gemini 3 Flash the default model in Gemini app and Search's AI mode; it scored 33.7% without tool use on Humanity's Last Exam vs. GPT-5.2's 34.5% (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-18 Google AI

Google brings its vibe coding tool Opal to Gemini on the web, letting users create their own custom apps called Gems; the mini apps can be reused later (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-18 Google

Customer engagement service MoEngage raised $180M in a follow-on Series F, split into a $57M primary and $123M secondary round, weeks after raising $100M (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-17

X updates its ToS, effective January 15, 2026, to explicitly claim rights to the “Twitter” trademark after a startup filed an application to trademark the term (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-17 Startup Twitter

Leona Health, maker of an AI-copilot that integrates with doctors' WhatsApp accounts in LATAM to manage patient communications, raised a $14M seed led by a16z (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-17 AI WhatsApp

Adobe updates Firefly's app to add a prompt-based video editor using Runway's Aleph model, and adds image and video models from Black Forest Labs and others (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-17 Adobe

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