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Apple says OpenAI leadership “normalized” misconduct and OpenAI's hardware business is “rotten to its core by its illegal reliance” on stolen trade secrets (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-11 Apple

Filing: college social app Fizz accuses Maveron's Jerry Lu of giving confidential info to rival Sidechat after he met with Fizz as a potential investor in 2022 (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-11

Google says it will automatically add a disclosure to ads that are made with its AI advertising tools, expanding the disclosure beyond election ads to all ads (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-10 Google AI

Character.AI launches three human-written, AI-generated microdramas, whose characters users can chat with, and aims to eventually let users make their own shows (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-10 AI

Ollama, which helps developers run open-weight AI models locally, raised a $65M Series B led by Theory Venture, following a $15M Series A led by Benchmark (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-9 AI

Prime Intellect, which helps companies build their own AI agents by offering computing power and specialized tools, raised a $130M Series A at a $1B valuation (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-9 AI

US autonomous military vehicle startup Forterra says it deployed 100+ Lancer UGVs, based on Polaris ATVs, in Ukraine since 2025, completing 1,100+ missions (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-7 Startup Ukraine

Q&A with Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson on why the startup is going public via SPAC, the physical layer as its proprietary advantage, safety, and more (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-6 Startup Robot

Shenzhen-based Even Realities, a startup that makes smart glasses without cameras, raised a $150M pre-Series B led by Meituan and Tencent (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-6 Startup Tencent Shenzhen

Prague-based EquiLibre, which offers AI for quant hedge funds and is founded by three ex-Google DeepMind researchers, raised a Series A at a $500M valuation (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-4 Google AI

Finnish quantum computing company IQM closed up 2% in its Nasdaq debut Thursday after going public via a SPAC merger at a ~$1.9B valuation (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-3 Finland Quantum

Travel app Hopper agrees to a $35M FTC settlement over allegations the company misled users by imposing hidden fees and misrepresenting the total costs (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-3

Venice AI, which offers access to 200+ AI models while allowing users to retain their privacy, raised a $65M Series A led by Dragonfly at a $1B valuation (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-2 AI

Internet pioneer Vint Cerf, who has served as Google's VP and Chief Internet Evangelist since 2005, plans to step down from his role next week and retire (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-1 Google

Omen AI, which provides real-time coolant health monitoring for data centers, raised a $31M Series A led by Nava Ventures, bringing its total funding to $41.5M (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-1 AI

Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workbench that uses existing Claude models like Opus 4.8 to integrate 60+ scientific databases and specialized toolkits (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-1 AI

AWS launches an internal organization for AI-focused forward-deployed engineers, backed by $1B in resources, following OpenAI and others in launching FDE teams (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-1 AI

AI coding startup 8090 raised a $135M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures; founder Chamath Palihapitiya announces that he will lead the company as CEO (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-30 Startup AI Salesforce

AI leaderboard provider Arena says it hit $100M in annualized run-rate revenue eight months after launching AI Evaluations, which offers performance analytics (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-30 AI

Google says the Gemini app now offers Nano Banana image generation to eligible US users for free; it was previously only available to Plus, Pro, and Ultra users (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-30 Google

Waymo and Uber quietly ended their partnership in Phoenix in May; Uber says it is readying the launch of a separate autonomous vehicle partnership in the city (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-30 Uber Autonomous Car

SCOTUS limits the law enforcement use of “geofence” warrants, saying people have “a reasonable expectation of privacy” in their cell-phone location data (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-30

Sakana AI's Fugu and 360's cybersecurity model Tulongfeng claim to rival Anthropic's banned Mythos and Fable 5 models amid the US export ban (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-28 AI Ban

Insurance tech startup Corgi denies accusations that it used Papermark's open source software code to develop its software and present it as its own (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-27 Startup Insurance

OpenAI appoints ex-Uber India head Prabhjeet Singh as its first managing director for India, to scale its presence in its second-largest market after the US (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-27 India Uber

YouTube rolls out changes to Shorts, including adding a setting to double playback speed, eliminating the “dislike” button, and more (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-26 YouTube

NHTSA proposes eliminating the mandate for manual brake pedals in “vehicles designed to be driven exclusively by automated driving systems” (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-26

Patronus AI, which builds simulated digital environments for evaluating AI agents, raised a $50M Series B led by Greenfield, bringing its total funding to $70M (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-26 AI

Netris, which helps neoclouds automate network configuration to bring their data centers online faster, raised a $15M Series A from a16z (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-26

Google launches a Google Finance app for Android, with market data, financial news, and an AI-powered “Key Moments” feature, and plans an iOS version this year (techcrunch.com)
2026-6-26 Android IOS Google AI

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