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NextEra Energy, which partnered with Google to revive an Iowa nuclear power plant, gets a $1.9B loan from the Department of Energy to finance the refurbishment (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-9 Google Energy

Poseidon Aerospace, which plans the first test flight of its pilotless cargo plane by year-end, raised a $60M Series A led by TQ Ventures, after an $11M seed (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-9

PUBG developer Krafton plans to invest $250M in India in the next 3-4 years, for a total investment of $500M+ since 2021, as it expands into AI and robotics (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-5 India AI Robot

The NHTSA opens a probe into Tesla's decision to launch its new Cybercab on public roads in Austin with no steering wheel or pedals (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-4 Tesla

India-based smart ring maker Ultrahuman raised $70M, including $5M in debt, a source says at a $365M valuation, and is working with Qualcomm on a new ring (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-4 India

Sources: Palo Alto Networks paid $500M in cash and stock to acquire agentic IT support startup Console; PitchBook: Console was valued at $157M before the sale (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-3 Startup

X says US payouts for its Original Content Rewards and Subscriptions will now be handled through X Money (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-3

Austin-based HiddenLayer, which makes security tools to protect AI models, agents, and workflows, raised a $100M Series B led by Delta-v Capital (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-3 AI

Adobe launches Adobe for Slack, making 70+ creative and productivity tools, including Firefly, Photoshop, and Express, available via Slackbot prompts (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-3 Adobe Slack

OpenAI launches a ChatGPT Health integration with Epic's EHR system and a new Healthcare Public Data plug-in that can fetch info from sources including PubMed (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-2

India's JioHotstar launches internationally without live sports, replacing Hotstar in the UK, Canada, and Singapore; the company says it has 500M+ MAUs in India (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-2 India Singapore Canada

Empirik, which uses AI to predict and prevent IT outages by analyzing system changes and their effects, raised a $21M seed and spins out from Sequoia Capital (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-2 AI

Indian edtech startup upGrad closes its acquisition of rival Unacademy in an all-stock deal valuing Unacademy at ~$206M, down from its peak $3.5B valuation (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-2 India Startup

Microsoft says it is testing a fix to an outage affecting Exchange Online and Outlook, lasting for 17+ hours from around 11:30AM ET on Monday (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-1 Microsoft

The Pentagon launches ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government on its GenAI.mil platform, giving its 3M personnel access to AI tools “tailored to warfighter needs” (techcrunch.com)
2026-9-1 AI Pentagon

a16z creates a $1.1B Machine Age fund focusing on hardware to “open the throttle and accelerate the physical buildout of AI” (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-29 AI

Meta's India and Southeast Asia VP Sandhya Devanathan is joining OpenAI to oversee consumer growth and enterprise adoption across SE Asia and Australia (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-28 Australia India Asia Southeast Asia

Bluesky launches a feature to let users hide their posts from non-followers in its Discover feed; other AT Proto apps can choose whether to respect the opt-out (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-28

CISA says that cyberattacks on critical US infrastructure targeted 100+ internet-exposed water and wastewater systems in July, largely attacking PLCs (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-28

CivilGrid, which collects data about utility assets, property ownership, and more to build a “Google Maps for the underground”, raised a $26M Series A (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-28 Google Asset

Google announces new performance thresholds for Android apps including memory-use limits, citing the AI-induced memory crunch (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-28 Android Google AI

OpenAI launches ads on its ChatGPT Free and Go subscription tiers in India, where it has 100M+ weekly active users, and plans to launch an ad manager next month (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-27 India

Bengaluru-based Runable, whose AI agents let small businesses find customers, run ad campaigns, and more, raised a $21M Series A at a $65M post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-27 AI

Nitter, an open-source front end that let users read X without an account, says X sent cease-and-desist letters demanding a takedown; Nitter.net is now offline (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-26

Keenable, which is building a web search index for AI agents and says several AI labs are using its API, raised a $26M seed led by Accel (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-26 AI

Autonomous trucking startup Gatik raised $200M, two months after striking a multi-year commercial agreement with PepsiCo, bringing its total funding to ~$500M (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-26 Startup

WhatsApp upgrades its two-step verification, letting users replace the six-digit PIN with a longer alphanumeric password, and adds support for multiple passkeys (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-25 WhatsApp

Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman unveil the $250 Luffu Link, a screenless, jewelry-inspired LTE health and safety band, set to ship in early 2027 (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-25

Bengaluru-based autonomous drone startup Airbound raised a $37M Series A led by Greenoaks, less than a year after an $8.65M seed, taking total funding to ~$50M (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-25 Startup Drone

Sources: Flipkart Minutes, the quick commerce service of Walmart's Flipkart, is now delivering 1.1M-1.2M orders per day, up from ~390K-400K in November 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2026-8-23 Walmart

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