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AltStore, one of the first alternative app stores in the EU, raised a $6M Series A led by Pace Capital, aims to launch in Australia, Brazil, and Japan in 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-8 Australia Japan Brazil

MrBeast, who earned an estimated $85M in 2025, says AI-generated videos could threaten creators' livelihoods, calling it “scary times” for the industry (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-7 AI

OpenAI announces API updates, including GPT-5 Pro, Sora 2 in preview, and gpt-realtime-mini, a voice model that is 70% cheaper than gpt-realtime (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-7

OpenAI launches AgentKit, a toolkit for building and deploying AI agents, including Agent Builder, which Sam Altman described as like Canva for building agents (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-7 AI

Sam Altman says ChatGPT has reached 800M weekly active users, 4M developers “have built with OpenAI”, and OpenAI processes over 6B tokens per minute on its API (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-7

As part of the OpenAI-AMD deal, OpenAI will receive the first GW worth of AMD's Instinct MI450 chip in H2 2026, when the new chip is scheduled for deployment (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-7 AMD

Melbourne-based Heidi Health, which is developing AI agents to assist doctors, raised a $65M Series B led by Point72, taking its total raised to $96.6M (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-6 AI Melbourne

Polars, the Amsterdam-based startup behind the popular open-source library for data manipulation of the same name, raised a €18M Series A led by Accel (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-6 Startup

Anker paid users of its Eufy security cameras $2 per video of staged or real package and car thefts to train its AI systems from December 2024 to February 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-5 AI

OpenAI acquires AI-powered personal finance app Roi; source: CEO and co-founder Sujith Vishwajith is the only member of Roi's four-person team joining OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-4 AI

Sources: former Databricks AI chief Naveen Rao is in talks to raise $1B led by a16z at a $5B valuation for his new AI hardware startup Unconventional (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-4 Startup AI

Lapsus$ publishes a data leak site on the dark web threatening to release about ~1B records stolen from Salesforce-hosted customer databases (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-4 Salesforce Darknet

An interview with CEO Amjad Masad on Replit's slow growth, leaving the professional developer market to focus on non-technical white-collar workers, and more (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-3 Interview

a16z releases a report, with Mercury data, on the top 50 AI companies startups pay for; OpenAI leads, followed by Anthropic, Replit, Freepik, and ElevenLabs (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-3 Startup AI

Anthropic hires former Stripe CTO Rahul Patil as its new CTO, taking over from co-founder Sam McCandlish, who will move to a new role as chief architect (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-3

Appfigures: Sora saw 56K iOS installs on its first day, on par with Grok but ahead of Claude and Copilot; ChatGPT and Gemini each had ~80K installs on day one (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-3 IOS

Google adds a new command-line interface and public API to its AI coding agent Jules, allowing it to plug into terminals, CI/CD systems, and tools like Slack (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-3 Google AI Slack

Meta unveils communities on Threads, starting with 100+ dedicated spaces for casual conversations around topics like basketball, television, and K-pop music (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-3

Oneleet, an integrated compliance service combining penetration testing, code scanning, and more, raised a $33M Series A led by Dawn Capital and hits $3M ARR (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-2

Source: HR software company Gusto paid ~$600M to acquire Guideline, which offers 401(k) plans to SMBs; Guideline raised $340M and had a $1.15B valuation in 2021 (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-2

Simple, an AI-powered health coaching app to help users lose weight, raised a $35M Series B led by Kevin Hart's HartBeat Ventures (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-2 AI

Salesforce launches Agentforce Vibes, an enterprise vibe-coding tool and IDE featuring Vibe Codey, built on a fork from Cline's open source AI coding agent (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-2 AI Salesforce

Wikimedia Deutschland launches the Wikidata Embedding Project, a vector-based semantic search database with nearly 120M entries, to make data accessible to AI (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-1 Database AI

In an email to customers, Venmo says Venmo users and PayPal users will be able to send each other money natively in the app in the US and worldwide in November (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-1

Imgur blocks UK access after the ICO notified it of a possible fine over its handling of kids' data; the ICO calls Imgur's move a “commercial decision” (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-1 ICO

Chipmaker Cerebras Systems raised a $1.1B Series G from Fidelity, Trump Jr.'s 1789 Capital, and others at an $8.1B post-money valuation ahead of its planned IPO (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-30 Trump IPO

London-based Paid, which helps AI agent providers monetize and track costs, raised a $21.6M seed led by Lightspeed, a source says at a $100M+ valuation (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-29 AI London

An interview with California state Senator Scott Wiener on his new AI safety bill SB 53, the bill's scope, his focus on AI safety bills, AI PACs, and more (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-27 Interview AI California

eBay agrees to acquire Tise, a social marketplace for secondhand fashion and interior design items that has raised $45M in funding, for an undisclosed sum (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-27 eBay

How developers are using Apple's local AI models in iOS 26: Lil Artist story generation, MoneyCoach's spending insights, F1 race summaries in Lights Out, more (techcrunch.com)
2025-9-27 IOS AI Apple

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