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X is testing a standalone X Chat iOS app with 1,000 users via Apple's TestFlight, a shift away from Elon Musk's plan to make X an “everything app” (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-4 IOS Apple Elon Musk

Israel-based Fig Security, which makes tools for companies to monitor their security stack, raised $38M in seed and Series A funding (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-4 Israel

X announces a “Paid Partnership” label that creators can apply to their posts to indicate they're ads; until now, creators relied on hashtags to label posts (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-3

Xiaomi launches the €15 Xiaomi tag, an AirTag-like device that works with both Apple Find My and Android Find Hub, and the €300 Xiaomi Watch 5, in Europe (techcrunch.com)
2026-3-1 Android Europe Apple Xiaomi

Source: India issued a blocking order on February 24 to restrict access to developer database service Supabase; the government did not publicly cite a reason (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-28 Database India

In a newly released deposition in Elon Musk's case against OpenAI, Musk attacked OpenAI's safety record, saying nobody “committed suicide because of Grok” (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-28 Elon Musk

India-based Ultrahuman launches the $479 Ring Pro, available for pre-order globally, excluding the US, after the ITC ruled in favor of Oura in a patent dispute (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-28 India

Deepinder Goyal, who stepped down as Zomato's CEO, raised $54M at a $190M valuation for Temple, which aims to make high-performance wearables for elite athletes (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-28

Plaid allowed employees to sell some of their shares at an $8B valuation, up 31% from the $6.1B valuation in April 2025 and 40% below its $13.4B peak in 2021 (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-27

Driverless truck startup Einride raised a $113M PIPE at a $1.35B pre-money valuation, down from $1.8B initially attached to its upcoming SPAC deal (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-27 Startup

Google says Nano Banana 2 can create images with a resolution ranging from 512px to 4K, and will become the default image generation model in the Gemini app (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-27 Google

Alphabet's Intrinsic, which builds AI models and software for industrial robots, joins Google; it will remain a distinct entity and work with Google DeepMind (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-26 Google AI Robot Alphabet

Insurance brokerage Harper, which uses AI to automate submission routing and follow-up, raised $46.8M in combined Series A and seed led by Emergence Capital (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-26 AI Insurance

Adobe updates Firefly to add Quick Cut, a new AI tool to edit footage and B-roll to create a first draft of the final video based on user prompts (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-26 AI Adobe

Sensor Tower: India was the largest market for GenAI app downloads in 2025, surging 207% YoY; India accounts for 20% of global installs but 1% of in-app revenue (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-25 India Sensor

The US Treasury sanctions Russian zero-day broker Operation Zero, its founder Sergey Zelenyuk, and others for acquiring and reselling stolen US defense exploits (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-25 Russia

YouTube updates its $7.99 per month Premium Lite subscription to let users download videos for offline access and play videos in the background (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-25 YouTube

Nimble, whose AI agents structure real-time web data into tables that can be queried like a database, raised a $47M Series B, bringing its total funding to $75M (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-25 Database AI

Bengaluru-based Xflow, which facilitates B2B cross-border payments, raised a $16.6M Series A led by GC at an $85M valuation, bringing its total raised to $32M+ (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-24

Sam Altman says discussions about AI's energy usage are “unfair”, as it takes “20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time” to train a human (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-23 Energy AI

Open source projects like VLC and Blender are seeing a decline in the average quality of contributions, likely as AI coding tools lower barriers to entry (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-22 AI

Bengaluru-based Sarvam, which is building AI models for local languages, launches its Indus chat app in beta, powered by its Sarvam 105B model (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-21 AI

Peak XV, which split from Sequoia in 2023, raised $1.3B across new India- and Asia-focused funds, bringing its total assets under management to over $10B (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-21 India Asia Asset

OpenAI says users aged 18-24 account for ~50% and under-30s represent 80% of ChatGPT usage in India; Indians use ChatGPT mostly for work (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-21 India

General Catalyst plans to invest $5B in India over five years, an increase from the $500M to $1B previously announced, after merging with a local VC in 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-20 India

Google rejected 1.75M policy-violating Android apps and blocked 80K+ developer accounts from Google Play in 2025, down from 2.36M apps and 158K accounts in 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-20 Android Google

Reddit is testing an AI search feature that takes community recommendations and shows matching products from its advertisers in the results (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-20 AI Reddit

FreeForm, which is building an AI native 3D printing system that uses 18 lasers to fuse metal powders into precision components, raised a $67M Series B (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-20 AI

Indian digital payments company Pine Labs plans to embed OpenAI APIs into its infrastructure to enable AI-assisted settlement, reconciliation, and invoicing (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-19 India AI

India's TCS signs OpenAI as its first data center customer, starting with 100MW of capacity; Tata Group plans to deploy ChatGPT Enterprise, starting with TCS (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-19 India

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