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Indian police arrest Aleksej Besciokov, the co-founder of Garantex, a Russian crypto exchange sanctioned by the EU and the US, at the request of US authorities (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-13 Russia India

Snapchat introduces AI video Lenses, powered by Snap's in-house generative video model, available to subscribers of the $16/month Snapchat Platinum tier (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-13 AI Snapchat

Ditto, which aims to enable “resilient” edge device connectivity, raised an $82M Series B at a $462M post-money valuation, after a $45M Series A in April 2023 (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-12

India's largest telco Jio Platforms partners with SpaceX to offer Starlink in the country, just hours after rival Airtel announced a similar partnership (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-12 India SpaceX

Israeli startup Sola, which offers a low-code platform to build cybersecurity apps, emerges from stealth with a $30M seed co-led by S Capital and Mike Moritz (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-12 Israel Startup

Neobank Zolve, which offers services for those moving to the US, raised a $51M Series B led by Creaegis and $200M in debt, and says it has 750,000 customers (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-11

Infinite Uptime, which uses AI and proprietary sensors to offer predictive maintenance solutions for factories, raised a $35M Series C led by Avataar Ventures (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-11 AI

Nirvana, which uses real-time driving telematics to build insurance policies for truckers, raised an $80M Series C at an $830M valuation, up from $350M in 2023 (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-11 Insurance

Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf: current AI development paradigms won't yield outside-the-box problem-solving that leads to true scientific breakthroughs (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-10 AI

Some early users of Manus say the agentic AI is no panacea, with long waits, errors, unsatisfying answers, and endless loops often plaguing the experience (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-10 AI

A US federal judge allows the Kadrey v. Meta case, in which authors allege Meta violated IP rights by using their books to train Llama models, to move forward (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-9

CoreWeave's S-1 reveals its three co-founders own less than 3% of Class A shares after cashing out ~$488M, but still control ~80% of votes though Class B shares (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-8

Crogl, whose AI agent helps cybersecurity researchers analyze daily network alerts to find and fix security incidents, raised a $25M Series A and a $5M seed (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-8 AI

Signal President Meredith Whittaker says AI agents have a “profound issue” with privacy and security and refers to their use as “putting your brain in a jar” (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-8 AI

Meta is testing a feature that lets Threads users add their interests to their profile; the interests will direct users to active conversations about the topic (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-8

Former OpenAI policy researcher Miles Brundage criticizes OpenAI for “rewriting the history of GPT-2”, after OpenAI outlined its safety and alignment philosophy (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-7

The US Department of Labor has been investigating Scale AI for compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act, a source says since at least August 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-7 AI

The US Secret Service, Europol, and others take down Garantex, a Russian cryptocurrency exchange accused of being associated with ransomware hackers (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-7 Russia Cryptocurrency

Mistral launches Mistral OCR, a multimodal API that can turn complex PDF documents into AI-ready Markdown files (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-7 AI

YC partner Jared Friedman says ~25% of the W25 batch have 95% of their codebases generated by AI, not including things like code written to import libraries (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-7 AI

Turing, which works with engineers to contribute code to AI projects, raised a $111M Series E led by Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund at a $2.2B valuation (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-7 AI Malaysia

In a policy paper, Eric Schmidt, Scale AI's Alexandr Wang, and Center for AI Safety's Dan Hendrycks argue the US should not pursue a “Manhattan Project” for AGI (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-6 AI

NY-based Ataraxis AI, which uses AI to predict if a patient has cancer and what their cancer outcome looks like, raised a $20.4M Series A led by AIX Ventures (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-6 AI

Tel Aviv-based Grain, which helps businesses find the best FX hedges using FX derivatives and AI, emerges from stealth with a $33M Series A and an $18M seed (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-6 AI

Bolt says Ryan Breslow had been reinstated as CEO with the board's “unanimous approval”; Justin Grooms, interim CEO since last March, will serve as president (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-6

Anthropic quietly removes Biden-era AI policy commitments from its site, including pledges to research AI discrimination and share info on managing AI risks (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-6 AI

Google announces an experimental AI Mode in Search that lets users ask complex, multi-part questions, rolling out to Google One AI Premium subscribers (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-6 Google AI

Indian SaaS hiring platform Darwinbox raised $140M co-led by KKR and Partners Group, taking its total funding to $270M; the startup had a $1B+ valuation in 2022 (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-5 SaaS India Startup

Meta brings its anti-scam facial recognition test to the UK “after engaging with regulators”, letting celebrities opt-in “to receive the celeb-bait protection” (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-5 Facial Recognition

London-based Quantexa, which develops anti-money laundering tech, raised a $175M Series F at a $2.6B valuation as it expands its AI data curation business (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-5 AI London

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