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Canadian legaltech company Clio says its ARR has reached $500M, citing demand for its AI services; it was valued at $5B after a $500M Series G in November 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-14 AI Canada

TikTok launches TikTok GO in the US for users to book hotels, attractions, and experiences directly in the app, partnering with Booking.com, Expedia, and others (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-14

Adaption, co-founded by ex-Cohere VP of AI research Sara Hooker, unveils AutoScientist, which can automate the research loop behind model training and alignment (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-14 AI

Anthropic launches Claude for Small Business, featuring a host of automated services like bookkeeping functions, business insights, and tools for ad campaigns (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-14

Config, which is building a data layer for robotics foundation models, raised a $27M seed at a $200M+ valuation led by Samsung Venture Investment (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-13 Samsung Robot

The US' Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is testing ACCESS, an outcome-based payment model for AI-driven medical care, with 150 tech companies (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-13 AI Medicare

Google announces Pause Point, an Android 17 feature that forces a mandatory 10-second pause before opening any app a user has labeled as a distraction (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-13 Android Google

Threads is testing a Meta AI integration similar to X's Grok, letting users mention Meta AI in a post or a reply to get more context, in five countries (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-13 AI

Exaforce, which uses AI agents to detect and thwart cyberattacks, raised a $125M Series B at a $725M valuation, bringing its total funding to $200M (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-13 AI

AI voice startup Vapi raised a $50M Series B led by Peak XV, a source says at a $500M post-money valuation, after Amazon chose Vapi to handle 100% of Ring calls (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-12 Amazon Startup AI

Amazon launches Amazon Now, its 30-minute delivery service, in dozens of US cities including Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, Philadelphia, and Seattle, after pilots (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-12 Amazon Seattle

Digg relaunches as an aggregator of AI news and social media commentary, with plans to expand to other topics; its previous reboot shut down in March (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-12 AI

Discord launches Nitro Rewards, giving Nitro subscribers access to offers from gaming services like Xbox Game Pass and hardware like Logitech G at no extra cost (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-11 Xbox

NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests; Tesla conducted the tests and submitted the results to the NHTSA (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-9 Tesla

Mozilla says Anthropic's Mythos Preview and other AI models helped it identify and ship 423 Firefox security bug fixes in April, compared to 31 a year earlier (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-8 AI Firefox Mozilla

Khosla-backed robotics startup Genesis AI unveils GENE-26.5, its first model, which can control robotic hands that it designed in-house to do tasks like cooking (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-7 Startup AI Robot

Bengaluru-based Pronto, an on-demand home-help service, raised a $20M Series B extension from Lachy Groom at a $200M valuation, up from $100M in March (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-7

Finnish AI lab QuTwo, led by ex-AMD Silo AI CEO Peter Sarlin, raised a €25M angel round at a €325M valuation, and secures $23M in committed partnership revenue (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-6 AI Finland AMD

Seattle-based CopilotKit, whose popular AG-UI protocol lets developers deploy app-native AI agents, raised a $27M Series A led by Glilot, NFX, and SignalFire (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-6 AI Seattle

Musk v. Altman: Stuart Russell, Musk's only AI expert witness, warned of AI risks but his concerns about AI's existential threats were excluded by the judge (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-5 AI

Amazon launches “Join the chat”, an AI-powered feature that allows users to ask questions about products and receive conversational audio responses in real time (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-1 Amazon AI

X says it has begun a “phased rollout” of its rebuilt ad platform, which it says will have more modern “retrieval and ranking systems” powered by AI (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-1 AI

Spotify rolls out a Verified by Spotify badge to identify human artists; criteria include artist presence on and off platform and consistent listener activity (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-30 Spotify

Google says paid subscriptions reached 350M in Q1, up 25M QoQ, driven by YouTube and Google One, while Gemini Enterprise paid MAUs grew 40% QoQ (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-30 Google YouTube

Pursuit, which uses AI to scan public data to help companies find and win government contracts, raised a $22M seed led by OpenGov co-founder Mike Rosengarten (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-30 AI

Scout AI, which is building an AI model to operate and command military assets like autonomous ATVs, raised a $100M Series A co-led by Align and Draper (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-30 AI Asset

Divine, a Vine reboot financed by Jack Dorsey-backed nonprofit and Other Stuff and built by an early Twitter staffer, launches with ~500K restored Vine videos (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-29 Twitter

Lovable launches its AI coding app on iOS and Android, letting users code via voice or text AI prompts, and allowing them to switch between a PC and mobile (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-29 Android IOS Mobile AI

Snapchat launches AI Sponsored Snaps, a conversational ad format in the Chat tab that lets users talk to brand-specific AI agents for product recommendations (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-29 AI Snapchat

Bengaluru-based Snabbit, an on-demand home services startup, raised a $56M Series D, a source says at a ~$350M valuation, up from $180M in October 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2026-4-28 Startup

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