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xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, who led its engineering teams, says he is leaving the company to launch a venture firm that supports AI research and startups (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-14 Startup AI

OpenAI introduces “Auto”, “Fast”, and “Thinking” settings for GPT-5 in ChatGPT's model picker, with “Auto” similar to the GPT-5 model router announced earlier (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-13

Mumbai-based online pharmacy Truemeds, which offers generic alternatives to branded drugs, raised $85M led by Accel at a $400M valuation, up from $110M in 2023 (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-13

India's RBI grants Paytm “in-principle” approval to operate as a payment services provider for online merchants, after China's Ant Group sold its entire stake (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-13 China India

Match is settling with the FTC for $14M and a number of changes like making it easy to cancel subs, after the FTC sued in 2019 over false advertising and more (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-13

Appfigures: AI companion apps are on track to generate $120M+ in revenue in 2025, and in H1 there were 60M downloads of this kind of app, up 88% YoY (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-13 AI

Anthropic updates Claude Sonnet 4 to support a 1M token context window, letting it process prompts up to 750K words or 75K lines of code, up 5x on its old limit (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-13

Nvidia debuts new Omniverse SDKs and Cosmos world foundation models for robotics devs, including Cosmos Reason, a 7B-parameter reasoning vision language model (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-12 Robot Nvidia

Google is testing an AI-powered Google Finance website in the US, letting users ask questions, access advanced charting tools, view a live news feed, and more (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-9 Google AI

The Browser Company launches a $20-per-month Dia Pro subscription plan, providing unlimited access to the web browser's AI-powered chat and skills features (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-8 AI Browser

Source: Windsurf's gross margins are “very negative”; many believe the same margin pressure is impacting Cursor, Lovable, Replit, and other vibe coding tools (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-8

Brex says it has secured a license in the EU, allowing it to issue credit and debit cards and offer its spend management products to European customers (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-8 Europe

OpenAI says GPT-5 is its first “unified” AI model and combines the reasoning abilities of its o-series of models with the fast responses of its GPT series (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-8 AI

Lina Khan cites Figma IPO as vindication of M&A scrutiny, saying letting startups grow independently, rather than be acquired, can generate “enormous value” (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-7 IPO Startup

Elon Musk says that xAI will bring back Vine's video archive, and xAI's newly launched Grok Imagine feature, available to X Premium+ subscribers, is “AI Vine” (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-7 AI Elon Musk

Google says Big Sleep, DeepMind and Project Zero's vulnerability research tool “powered by Gemini”, found 20 flaws in various popular open-source software (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-7 Google

Uzbek fintech and e-commerce company Uzum raised $65.5M led by Tencent and VR Capital at a ~$1.5B valuation, up from $1.16B in March 2024 after a $114M Series A (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-7 VR Fintech Tencent

Spend management startup Alaan raised a $48M Series A led by Peak XV, one of the Middle East's largest Series A rounds for a fintech, after a $2.5M seed in 2021 (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-7 Fintech Startup

OpenMind, which is developing an OS for humanoid robots, raised $20M led by Pantera and unveils Fabric, a protocol that lets robots share info with one another (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-7 Robot

Tavily, which is helping AI agents connect to live web data, raised a $20M Series A led by Insight Partners and Alpha Wave, taking its total funding to $25M (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-7 AI

Google launches its asynchronous coding agent Jules out of beta, with a free plan capped at 15 daily tasks and higher limits for Google AI Pro and Ultra users (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-7

Fundamental Research Labs, which is working on AI applications in different fields, including a general-purpose consumer assistant, raised a $30M Series A (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-2 AI

Instagram now requires users to have a public account with 1,000+ followers to go live, aligning with TikTok; previously, the feature was open to all users (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-2 Instagram

TikTok launches a new version of its app called TikTok Pro in Germany, Portugal, and Spain, allowing users to earn “virtual sunshine” to support charities (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-2 Germany Spain Portugal

Google rolls out Gemini 2.5 Deep Think, its most advanced reasoning model, which can consider multiple ideas simultaneously, to $250-per-month Ultra subscribers (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-1 Google

San Mateo-based observability service Observe raised a $156M Series C led by Sutter Hill Ventures with participation from Snowflake, Madrona, and others (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-1

OpenAI removes a ChatGPT feature that let users make their conversations discoverable by Google and other search engines, calling it a “short-lived experiment” (techcrunch.com)
2025-8-1 Google

TikTok adds new safety features, including enhanced parental controls, and publicly launches Footnotes, its Community Notes-like feature, in the US (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-30

YouTube is rolling out age estimation tech in the US to identify teen users and serve more age-appropriate content, regardless of the birthday given at signup (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-30 YouTube

Julius AI, which acts like a data scientist by analyzing data and running predictive models from natural language prompts, raised a $10M seed led by Bessemer (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-29 NLP AI

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