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Sensor Tower: India's mobile app market generated a record $345M in consumer spending in Q2, up 35% YoY; ChatGPT ranked No. 1 by downloads and No. 2 by revenue (techcrunch.com)
10 hours ago India Mobile Sensor

Snap says its recommendation systems will be adjusted so only videos created by real people, not AI-generated ones, are eligible for Spotlight recommendations (techcrunch.com)
18 hours ago AI

SpaceXAI says it will remove 69 gas turbines used to power the Colossus data centers near Memphis by July 2027, as it moves to a 1.2 GW natural gas power plant (techcrunch.com)
20 hours ago

Apple CFO Kevan Parekh says Services surpassed 1.5B paid subscriptions, up from 1B in January 2025, but a gaming slowdown and App Store changes hurt growth (techcrunch.com)
1 day ago Apple

Okta agrees to acquire AI identity security startup Permiso; source: the acquisition is valued at just under $200M and is structured as an almost all-cash deal (techcrunch.com)
1 day ago Startup AI

London-based Inforcer, which helps managed service providers handle their clients' Microsoft 365 accounts, raised a $50M Series C led by Insight Partners (techcrunch.com)
1 day ago Microsoft London

In Q4, Microsoft's Anthropic investment saw a $3.2B gain, while its OpenAI investment was marked down ~$600M but has generated a $5B gain on a full-year basis (techcrunch.com)
2 days ago Microsoft 4Q

Waymo gradually resumes freeway routes, starting with Phoenix, more than two months after suspending them to improve performance around construction zones (techcrunch.com)
3 days ago

Encore AI, which studies companies' customer interactions to train and deploy AI voice agents, raised a $30M Series A led by Team8, Planven, and The Garage (techcrunch.com)
3 days ago AI

Lake Mary, Florida-based Spur Intelligence, which helps distinguish human and bot traffic to find fake users and threats, raised $200M led by Insight Partners (techcrunch.com)
3 days ago Intelligence

Fish Audio, which offers AI voice models for creators and enterprises and has $21M in ARR, raised a $50M seed led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today (techcrunch.com)
4 days ago AI

Richard Socher's Recursive Superintelligence signs a $410M, multiyear AWS compute deal to support its self-improving AI systems, after raising $650M in May (techcrunch.com)
4 days ago AI

Baidu begins testing its purpose-built Apollo Go RT6 robotaxis with human safety operators in outer London; Baidu plans to deploy the taxis on Lyft's Freenow (techcrunch.com)
4 days ago London

Cursor introduces Cursor Start, a ~$7 monthly subscription exclusive to India, its third-largest market, priced below its standard $20 Pro monthly subscription (techcrunch.com)
4 days ago India

Enigma, which runs large-scale experiments exploring how humans interact with robots, emerges from stealth with a $70M seed led by Index Ventures and Ribbit (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago Robot

Sources: Prentis, which develops computer use models and is co-founded by Reid Hoffman and Marc Pincus, is in talks to raise $100M at a $1B valuation (techcrunch.com)
7 days ago

Cognition acquires the makers of Poke, an AI assistant that users can access via messaging services, in a deal valuing Poke's parent in the “low nine figures” (techcrunch.com)
7 days ago AI

Mobileye founder and CEO Amnon Shashua plans to step down after nearly three decades, as the company pushes into robotaxis and humanoid robots (techcrunch.com)
8 days ago Robot

Anthropic makes its Opus and Sonnet models available in voice mode, and says voice mode can now tap into some connected apps like Gmail, Slack, and Notion (techcrunch.com)
8 days ago Slack

AegisAI, which uses AI agents to detect AI-driven spear-phishing attacks, raised a $36M Series A led by Battery Ventures, bringing its total funding to $49M (techcrunch.com)
8 days ago AI Battery

OpenAI expands ChatGPT Health, which helps users with health-related queries and connects to services like Apple Health, to all logged-in US users over 18 (techcrunch.com)
8 days ago Apple

Runway launches Runway Media Router, which it says is the first built specifically for generative media, as it expands from AI video to AI infrastructure (techcrunch.com)
8 days ago AI

AI inference chip startup Etched raised a $300M Series C led by Sequoia, with a16z, SK Hynix, others participating, at a $10.3B valuation, up from $5B in Dec. (techcrunch.com)
8 days ago Startup AI

ServiceNow invests $40M in banking software specialist BusinessNext, valuing the 24-year-old Indian company at $700M and taking a roughly 5% stake (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago India

Travis Kalanick's robotics startup Atoms raised $1.7B led by a16z, with Uber and others participating; Ben Horowitz will join the startup's board (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago Uber Startup Robot

Yope, a social network that has ~15M registered users for its “micro communities” and no algorithms, ads, or public content, raised $12.3M seed led by Northzone (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago Algorithm

WhatsApp updates its CarPlay and Android Auto integrations to include message playback, replies and more, now lets users sign up from its iPad app, and more (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago Android WhatsApp iPad

Glow, a cybersecurity startup that uses AI agents to monitor software and developer tools, emerges from stealth with a $180M Series A at a $1.2B valuation (techcrunch.com)
10 days ago Startup AI

Gritt, which is developing an AI system that helps build infrastructure like solar panels, emerges from stealth with a $26M Series A and $34M in total funding (techcrunch.com)
11 days ago AI Solar

X relaunches its Android app after a year-long rewrite from scratch; Nikita Bier calls it “one of the largest engineering projects” in the company's history (techcrunch.com)
11 days ago Android

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