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Deccan AI, which supplies post-training data and evaluation work, raised a $25M Series A led by A91 Partners; most of its workforce of experts is based in India (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-26 India AI

Reddit says it will label automated accounts that provide a service to users and will require accounts suspected of being bots to verify they are human (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-26 Reddit

Google launches Lyria 3 Pro music generation model, with better creative control and allowing users to create three-minute tracks, up from Lyria 3's 30 seconds (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-26 Google

Charlotte-based Lucid Bots, which manufactures autonomous drones for cleaning windows, raised a $20M Series B co-led by Cubit and Idea Fund (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-26 Drone

Glimpse, which uses AI agents to let 200+ brands automate financial deduction processes, raised a $35M Series A led by a16z, bringing its total raised to $52M (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-26 AI

Elon Musk says X will “pause” new creator monetization rules that would base payouts on engagement from a user's local audience, after criticism from creators (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-26 Elon Musk

Spotify is beta testing Artist Profile Protection, allowing artists to review releases before they go live to prevent AI tracks from being attributed to them (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-25 AI Spotify

OpenAI releases a set of prompts designed to be used with its open-weight safety model gpt-oss-safeguard that lets developers make their apps safer for teens (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-25

Doss, which provides an AI-native inventory management layer that integrates with existing accounting systems, raised a $55M Series B (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-25 AI

Apple plans to launch Apple Business, a free platform that consolidates its business tools, on April 14, and plans Apple Maps ads in summer in the US and Canada (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-25 Apple Canada

Mirage, formerly Captions, which develops an AI video editing and marketing suite, raised $75M from General Catalyst, after moving to a freemium model in 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-25 AI

In a Kleiner podcast interview, DOD official Emil Michael says he will “never forget” nor “forgive” Uber investors that ousted him and Travis Kalanick in 2017 (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-24 Uber Interview

Bengaluru-based Swish, which offers a 10-minute food delivery service, raised a $38M Series B at a $139M post-money valuation, bringing its total raised to $54M (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-24

A new version of iPhone exploit kit DarkSword has been leaked on GitHub; iVerify co-founder Matthias Frielingsdorf says the exploits “will work out of the box” (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-24 iPhone GitHub

Drone delivery startup Zipline raised an additional $200M, including from Paradigm, bringing Zipline's Series H, originally announced in January, to $800M (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-24 Startup Drone

Gimlet Labs, which says it is the first “multi-silicon inference cloud” for running AI workloads across diverse types of hardware, raised an $80M Series A (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-24 AI

Cloaked, which offers security and privacy services such as VPNs, raised a $375M Series B in a mix of equity and growth funding, for enterprise expansion (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-22 Equity

WordPress.com says it will now allow AI agents to draft, edit, and publish content on customers' websites, as well as manage comments, update metadata, and more (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-21 WordPress AI

Bluesky raised a $100M Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto in April 2025, following a $15M Series A in 2024 and an $8M seed in 2023; it now has over 43M users (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-20

Alphabet's X spins out Anori, which seeks to streamline building approvals through a unified platform for developers and city regulators, with $26M in funding (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-20 Alphabet

Edra, which says it helps companies automate workflows by turning their operational data into a living knowledge base, raised a $30M Series A led by Sequoia (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-19

Mistral announces Mistral Forge to help enterprises build custom models actually trained on their own data, using Mistral open-weight models as a starting point (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-18

Google expands Personal Intelligence, which lets Gemini tailor its responses by connecting to Gmail and other Google services, from paid users to all US users (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-18 Google Intelligence

World launches AgentKit, a software development tool that enables sites to verify that a real human is behind the purchasing decisions of AI shopping agents (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-18 AI

Fuse, which offers AI-powered loan origination software to credit unions and other financial institutions, raised a $25M Series A (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-17 AI

Spotify announces Taste Profile editing in beta, the first time it lets users fine-tune the recommendation algorithm, starting with Premium users in New Zealand (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-16 New Zealand Algorithm Spotify

Google's and Accel's joint AI startup accelerator Atoms picked five Indian startups from 4K+ applications, saying ~70% of rejected applicants were AI “wrappers” (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-16 India Google Startup AI

Indian edtech startup upGrad plans to acquire rival Unacademy in an all-stock deal; Unacademy was valued at less than $500M in 2025, down from $3.5B in 2021 (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-16 India Startup

Zendesk agrees to acquire Forethought, which makes AI-powered customer support software, for an undisclosed sum; Forethought has raised $115M (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-15 AI

Facebook launches new tools to help creators detect and report impersonation, and updates guidelines to better define what it considers to be “original content” (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-14 Facebook

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