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Mistral buys Paris-based Koyeb, which simplifies AI app deployment at scale and manages AI infrastructure, in its first acquisition; Koyeb raised $8.6M to date (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-18 AI Paris

Automattic adds an AI assistant to WordPress.com, enabling users to perform site-wide layout and style modifications via natural language commands (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-18 NLP WordPress AI

Snapchat launches creator subscriptions in alpha, available to some creators in the US starting February 23; creators set custom monthly pricing (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-18 Snapchat

Airbnb expands its Reserve Now, Pay Later feature globally, after a US pilot for domestic travel saw a 70% adoption rate for eligible bookings (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-18 Airbnb

Cohere releases Tiny Aya, a family of 3.35B-parameter open-weight models supporting 70+ languages for offline use, trained on a single cluster of 64 H100 GPUs (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-17

Bengaluru-based C2i Semiconductors, building a “grid-to-GPU” power system for datacenters, raised a $15M Series A led by Peak XV, bringing total funding to $19M (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-16

Sam Altman says that India has 100M weekly active ChatGPT users, the app's second-largest userbase after the US, ahead of the AI Impact Summit (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-16 India AI

Airbnb says its custom-built AI agent now handles ~33% of its customer support issues in North America, and it is preparing to roll out the feature globally (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-15 U.S. AI Airbnb

India approves a $1.1B state-backed VC fund to finance high-risk areas like AI and advanced manufacturing, doubling down on an effort that debuted in 2016 (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-15 India AI Manufacturing

India partners with Alibaba.com to help Indian startups and small businesses reach overseas buyers, highlighting its selective engagement with Chinese platforms (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-14 China India Alibaba Startup

Blockchain-based lending company Figure confirms a data breach; ShinyHunters hacking group published 2.5GB of data, saying Figure refused to pay a ransom (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-14 Blockchain

Didero, which provides an agentic AI layer that integrates with ERP systems to automate supply chains, raised a $30M Series A co-led by Chemistry and Headline (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-13 AI ERP

Ever, which says it is the first “AI-native, full-stack” retail marketplace for electric vehicles, raised a $31M Series A led by Eclipse (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-13 Retail AI

Spotify says AI is helping it speed up coding and product velocity and its best developers “have not written a single line of code since December” (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-13 AI Spotify

The US DOJ says Peter Williams, former boss of L3Harris' Trenchant, stole and sold tools that can hack millions of computers worldwide to a Russian broker (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-12 Russia

Amazon Pharmacy plans to bring same-day prescription delivery to almost 4,500 US cities and towns by the end of 2026, adding nearly new 2,000 communities (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-12 Amazon

Inertia, cofounded by ex-Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson to build one of the world's most powerful lasers for a grid-scale fusion power plant, raised a $450M Series A (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-12

TikTok launches an opt-in Local Feed in the app's US version, including content related to travel, news, events, shopping, and dining near the user's location (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-12

Meridian, which uses AI to make financial modeling and spreadsheets more “predictable and auditable”, exits stealth and raised a $17M seed at a $100M valuation (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-12 AI

Five members of xAI's 12-person founding team have now left the company, with four of the departures coming in just the last year (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-11

Singapore blames Chinese-backed hacking group UNC3886 for a months-long cyber-espionage campaign that targeted its four largest telecommunication companies (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-11 China Singapore

Vega, which uses AI to detect security threats directly within cloud services, raised a $120M Series B at a $700M valuation, bringing its total raised to $185M (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-11 AI

Entire, founded by ex-GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke, raised a $60M seed at a $300M valuation to build open-source developer tools to better manage AI-written code (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-11 AI GitHub

YouTube rolls out an AI-powered playlist generator that lets Premium and Music Premium users on iOS and Android use text prompts to create playlists (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-11 Android IOS AI YouTube

London-based Tem, which uses AI to optimize energy transactions for businesses, raised a $75M Series B led by Lightspeed, a source says at a $300M+ valuation (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-10 Energy AI London

Gather AI, which builds “curious” AI for drones and cameras to autonomously monitor warehouses, raised a $40M Series B, taking its total funding to $74M (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-10 AI Drone

A look at the 2026 Super Bowl ads from Anthropic, Amazon, OpenAI, and others, as AI continued to take center stage in ad creations and AI product promotion (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-9 Amazon AI

India's updated startup framework doubles deep-tech startup eligibility to 20 years and triples the revenue cap for tax, grant, and regulatory benefits to ~$33M (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-8 India Tax Startup

Source: Benchmark invested at least $225M in Cerebras' ~$1B Series H led by Tiger Global at a $23B valuation; Benchmark led Cerebras' $27M Series A in 2016 (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-7

Spotify rolls out About the Song, swipeable stories in English, summarized from third-party sources to highlight song details, in beta for Premium users (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-7 Spotify

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