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Amazon to acquire Bengaluru-based BNPL startup Axio, sources say for $150M+; Axio raised $135M in equity, claims to have 10M+ customers, and a $260M+ loan book (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-16 Amazon Startup Equity

In a deposition for the Kadrey v. Meta copyright case, Mark Zuckerberg seemingly cited YouTube to justify Meta's use of copyrighted data for AI training (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-16 AI YouTube Zuckerberg

Mistral announces a content deal with the Agence France-Presse to improve answer accuracy in Le Chat, marking the French AI startup's first such partnership (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-16 France Startup AI

Google agreed to buy 100K tons of CO2 removal credits from Indian startup Varaha for an undisclosed sum, marking its first deal with a carbon project in India (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-16 India Google Startup

Nikita Bier, creator of apps like tbh and anonymous compliments app Gas, launches Explode, a freemium app to send disappearing texts and photos via iMessage (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-16

Maki, which provides companies a conversational AI agent for job interviews and candidate filtering, raised a $28.6M Series A led by Blossom Capital (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-16 AI

LinkedIn launches free AI tools: a Jobs Match tool for job seekers and a recruitment AI agent for small businesses, both built on its own AI tech and data (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-16 LinkedIn AI

Berlin-based Nelly, whose SaaS lets medical practices digitally onboard new patients, accept payments, and more, raised a €50M Series B led by Cathay Innovation (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-15 Germany SaaS

Synthesia, a London-based B2B startup building products around highly realistic AI avatar technology, raised a $180M Series D led by NEA at a $2.1B valuation (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-15 Startup AI London

LemFi, a financial and payment services platform designed for immigrants that claims to have over 1M active users, raised a $53M Series B led by Highland Europe (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-15 Europe Immigration

Elmsford, NY-based quantum computing startup SEEQC raised a $30M Series A extension co-led by Booz Allen and NordicNinja, following a $22.4M Series A in 2020 (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-15 Startup Quantum

Decentralized Instagram alternative Pixelfed debuts iOS and Android apps; its Android app is the top Social app on Google Play in some markets, including the US (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-15 Android IOS Google Instagram Decentralize

The US says the FBI hacked ~4.2K devices in the US to delete PlugX, malware used by China-backed hackers since 2014, after obtaining warrants in August 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-15 China FBI

The US, Japan, and South Korea issue a joint statement saying North Korean-backed hackers stole $659M+ in crypto heists in 2024 and were behind the $235M WazirX (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-15 Japan Korea

Sources and business records detail how Barcelona has emerged as an unlikely hub for spyware companies, raising concerns from digital rights groups (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-15

Paris-based Bioptimus, which is developing a foundational AI model for biology, raised $41M led by Cathay Innovation, bringing its total raised to $76M (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-14 AI Paris

Raspberry AI, which uses AI to turn fashion designer sketches into realistic images and has ~70 clients including Under Armour, raised an a16z-led $24M Series A (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-14 AI

Toronto-based Float Financial, which offers expense management software and corporate credit cards, raised a $48.5M Series B led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-14 Goldman Toronto Credit Card Equity

Qventus, which builds AI-based tools to automate health care work, raised a $105M Series D, including $85M in equity and $20M in optional debt (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-13 AI Equity

The UK plans to create geographic “AI Growth Zones” to fast-track AI infrastructure planning, says private tech firms have committed £14B for its AI plan (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-13 AI

Sources: Indian investment app Groww plans to file for an IPO within 10-12 months, seeking a $6B-$8B valuation; Groww was last valued at $3B in October 2021 (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-13 India IPO

Matt Mullenweg deactivates the accounts of several WordPress.org members, some of whom have been leading a push to create a new fork of the open-source project (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-12 WordPress

OpenAI's crawlers took down e-commerce site Triplegangers by relentlessly trying to scrape the entire site, whose robots.txt file was not properly configured (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-11 Robot

The EU approves Synopsys' $35B Ansys acquisition, after the companies offered to divest parts of their businesses; US and China approvals are still pending (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-11 China

Overhaul, which uses AI to anticipate freight shipping delays to fight cargo theft for customers like Microsoft, raised $55M, bringing total funding to ~$150M (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-11 Microsoft AI

The US DOJ indicts three Russian citizens for allegedly operating Bender.io and Sinbad.io crypto mixing services used by North Korea and ransomware gangs (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-11 Russia Korea

India is promoting RuPay, its homegrown card network, to challenge Visa and Mastercard, leveraging UPI, which now handles 13B+ real-time transactions monthly (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-10 India

X says it is rolling out labels for parody or satire accounts to differentiate them from others and boost transparency; accounts have to apply for the labels (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-10

Court docs: Mark Zuckerberg gave the Meta team training Llama AI models approval to use data from LibGen, which offers access to pirated, copyrighted material (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-10 AI Zuckerberg

NYC-based Captions, an AI-powered video editing app, introduces a free tier with basic video editing tools, while keeping AI features in the $10/month Pro tier (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-10 AI

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