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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)
2025-7-17 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)
2025-7-17 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)
2025-7-16 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)
2025-7-16 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)
2025-7-16 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)
2025-7-16 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)
2025-7-15 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)
2025-7-15 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)
2025-7-15 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)
2025-7-14

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)
2025-7-13

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)
2025-7-12

Google will have a nonexclusive license to certain Windsurf technology, but will not be taking a stake in the company (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-12 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)
2025-7-12 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)
2025-7-11 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)
2025-7-11 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)
2025-7-11

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)
2025-7-11 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)
2025-7-11 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)
2025-7-10 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)
2025-7-10 AI

YouTube is updating its monetization guidelines on July 15, defining “inauthentic” content as “mass-produced and repetitious” amid concerns over AI slop (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-10 AI YouTube

Perplexity launches Comet, its first AI web browser, initially available on its $200 per month Max plan and via a waitlist, in a bid to compete with Chrome (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-10 AI Browser Chrome

Hugging Face begins taking orders for its $449 Reachy Mini Wireless and $299 Reachy Mini Lite open source robots, which come as kits for developers to build (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-9 Robot

Replit announces a partnership with Microsoft to make its platform available in the Azure Marketplace and integrate its tech with some Microsoft cloud services (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-9 Microsoft

Source: Activision pulled Call of Duty: WWII after hackers exploited a flaw in a PC version, which led to some players getting their computers hacked (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-9

Dubai-based Huspy, which offers proptech tools to home buyers, agents, and brokers, raised a $59M Series B led by Balderton, after a $40M+ Series A in June 2022 (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-8 Dubai

The data industry is consolidating, with Databricks' $1B Neon purchase, Salesforce's $8B Informatica deal, and more, fueled by the need for quality data for AI (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-8 AI Salesforce

In iOS 26 beta 3, Apple dials back the degree of translucency in many UI elements, following user complaints about Liquid Glass (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-8 IOS Apple

An analysis of Crunchbase and PitchBook data shows that in 2025 so far at least 36 tech startups hit a $1B+ valuation, including seven in June and six in May (techcrunch.com)
2025-7-7 Startup

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