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Vultron, which makes AI tools for federal contractors, raised $22M from investors including David Sacks' Craft Ventures, raising ethical questions (techcrunch.com)
13 days ago AI

Sources: Cursor maker Anysphere acquired Koala, an AI-powered CRM startup that raised a $15M Series A five months ago; Koala plans to shut down in September (techcrunch.com)
14 days ago Startup AI CRM

Claude Code users, many on the $200-a-month Max plan, are unexpectedly facing restrictive usage limits; Anthropic says it's “working to resolve these issues” (techcrunch.com)
14 days ago

Hadrian, which is building largely automated factories to produce space and defense parts, raised a $260M Series C, bringing its total funding to ~$500M (techcrunch.com)
15 days ago

Mistral adds new features to its Le Chat chatbot, including a new “deep research” mode, native multilingual reasoning, and advanced image editing (techcrunch.com)
15 days ago chatbot

Spotify expands audiobook access to family plan members with new plans, including Audiobooks+, offering more listening hours, in the UK and 10+ countries (techcrunch.com)
15 days ago Spotify

Jack Dorsey invests $10M in “and Other Stuff”, a nonprofit focused on funding open-source projects and tools built on open protocols like Nostr and ActivityPub (techcrunch.com)
15 days ago

Bengaluru-based QpiAI, which is integrating AI and quantum computing for enterprise use cases, raised a $32M Series A at a $162M post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
15 days ago AI Quantum

Multi-service messaging app Beeper relaunches, introducing premium offerings and the option to switch to an on-device model; Automattic acquired Beeper in 2024 (techcrunch.com)
16 days ago

Bedrock Robotics raised $80M from Eclipse and 8VC to develop retrofit self-driving kits for construction and worksite vehicles, in testing with five companies (techcrunch.com)
16 days ago Robot

Google Search's AI Mode gets Gemini 2.5 Pro and new deep research capabilities; Google also expands an AI-powered business calling feature to all users in US (techcrunch.com)
16 days ago Google AI

The DOJ says ex-Army soldier Cameron John Wagenius pleaded guilty to hacking over 10 telcos and to extortion; in February, he admitted hacking AT&T and Verizon (techcrunch.com)
17 days ago AT&T

In a paper, AI researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and others recommend further research into chain-of-thought monitorability for AI safety (techcrunch.com)
17 days ago Google AI

Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and CLI Codex, terminal-based AI tools launched since February, have surprisingly gained ground on AI code editors with traditional UIs (techcrunch.com)
17 days ago AI

Mistral releases Voxtral, its first open source AI audio model family, and says its API transcription offerings are cheaper than models from OpenAI and Google (techcrunch.com)
17 days ago Google AI

Meta says it has taken down around 10M Facebook profiles so far this year that were impersonating or repeatedly reusing content from large content producers (techcrunch.com)
18 days ago Facebook

Google adds featured notebooks to NotebookLM from publications, including The Economist and The Atlantic, as well as professors, authors, and select works (techcrunch.com)
18 days ago Google

Adobe Analytics: Prime Day's four-day event drove over $24B in US e-commerce sales, up 30.3% YoY; traffic from generative AI sources was up 3,300% YoY (techcrunch.com)
18 days ago AI Adobe

Discord launches Orbs, a virtual reward system that incentivizes users to interact with ads by completing Quests to earn digital items, after a seven week beta (techcrunch.com)
18 days ago

xAI apologizes for Grok's “horrific behavior” when it wrote antisemitic posts on July 8, and blames “an update to a code path upstream of the Grok bot” (techcrunch.com)
20 days ago

Sam Altman announces another delay for OpenAI's open-weight model, for further safety testing; the model was slated to be released next week (techcrunch.com)
20 days ago

Google will have a nonexclusive license to certain Windsurf technology, but will not be taking a stake in the company (techcrunch.com)
21 days ago Google

Jio Platforms debuts JioPC, a cloud PC service offered via its set-top box; Counterpoint: 70% of Indian households have a TV, but only 15% of them own a PC (techcrunch.com)
21 days ago India

Further tests reveal Grok 4 appears to consult Elon Musk's views on a range of sensitive topics, and its answers tend to align with Musk's personal opinions (techcrunch.com)
21 days ago Elon Musk

Sources: AWS is launching a marketplace for AI agents, with Anthropic as one of its partners, at the AWS Summit in NYC next week (techcrunch.com)
22 days ago AI

LGND, which uses vector embeddings to analyze geospatial data and has an enterprise app to query it, raised a $9M seed led by Javelin Venture Partners (techcrunch.com)
22 days ago

YouTube will remove its Trending page and Trending Now list in favor of category-specific charts, says it better aligns with the way content is discovered now (techcrunch.com)
22 days ago YouTube

Google adds an image-to-video generation feature to Veo 3 in its Gemini app, says users created 40M+ videos with Veo 3 since its May launch (techcrunch.com)
22 days ago Google

Google launches its AI-powered ad tools in India; the country repealing its so-called “Google Tax” boosts its appeal to global tech companies selling online ads (techcrunch.com)
22 days ago India Google Tax AI

xAI launches Grok 4 Heavy, a “multi-agent version” of Grok 4 offering increased performance, and unveils a new $300/month AI subscription plan, SuperGrok Heavy (techcrunch.com)
22 days ago AI

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