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India’s Ringg gets backing from Peak XV as it pushes voice AI past the phone call

India’s Ringg gets backing from Peak XV as it pushes voice AI past the phone call

Ringg has raised $10 million from Peak XV as a part of its Series A extension....

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Robotics startup Generalist reaches $3B valuation, sources say

Robotics startup Generalist reaches $3B valuation, sources say

The $200 million extension comes just months after the physical AI startup reached a $2 billion valuation....

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OpenAI loses a top data center exec, as stream of high-profile departures continues

OpenAI loses a top data center exec, as stream of high-profile departures continues

Before Malone left, OpenAI had already reshuffled its infrastructure org, shifting his reporting line away from Presiden...

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X sends cease-and-desist to open-source project Nitter over alleged scraping

X sends cease-and-desist to open-source project Nitter over alleged scraping

X has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open source project behind privacy-friendly X frontends, demanding it...

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Instagram’s ‘First Draft’ feature aims to make editing Reels less tedious

Instagram’s ‘First Draft’ feature aims to make editing Reels less tedious

Instagram is making one of the most tedious parts of creating Reels easier. The company announced Tuesday in a Threads p...

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Stability AI, maker of image generator Stable Diffusion, raises $76 million in fresh funding

Stability AI, maker of image generator Stable Diffusion, raises $76 million in fresh funding

The company's new fundraising total now stands at $232 million....

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SpaceX will build a second, $100B ‘Starbase’ spaceport in Louisiana

SpaceX will build a second, $100B ‘Starbase’ spaceport in Louisiana

The company says it will start construction in 2027 and that a Starship rocket could take flight as soon as 2029....

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Your vote matters! Decide which Audience Choice sessions will make it to TechCrunch Founder Summit 

Your vote matters! Decide which Audience Choice sessions will make it to TechCrunch Founder Summit 

Each year, we get a huge influx of applicants to speak at TechCrunch’s events, and this year’s Founder Summit in Boston ...

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Claude Cowork finally remembers what you told the app in chat

Claude Cowork finally remembers what you told the app in chat

Anthropic is giving Claude a shared memory across chat and Cowork, so users no longer have to repeatedly brief the AI on...

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Waymo robotaxis are headed to Munich

Waymo robotaxis are headed to Munich

Germany's autonomous vehicle regulations have made it a hotspot for autonomous vehicle testing and eventual commercial r...

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Life360 expands pet tracking with new $8 scannable tags and zoomie alerts

Life360 expands pet tracking with new $8 scannable tags and zoomie alerts

Life360’s new $7.99 scannable pet tags alert families when a lost pet is found and share its last known location, while ...

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That fake Grand Theft Auto VI demo is actually just malware

That fake Grand Theft Auto VI demo is actually just malware

Grand Theft Auto fans, eager for news about one of the most anticipated video games of all time, appear especially vulne...

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Pacific Fusion’s next fusion machine could clear a key hurdle to commercial power

Pacific Fusion’s next fusion machine could clear a key hurdle to commercial power

Fusion startup Pacific Fusion broke ground on a demonstration facility in New Mexico that it says will generate enough e...

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Gamma acquires Accel-backed design startup Lica

Gamma acquires Accel-backed design startup Lica

Lica co-founders are going to work on Gamma's new research team....

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Apple rescues Hide My Email feature from the privacy scrap heap

Apple rescues Hide My Email feature from the privacy scrap heap

Apple says it will no longer ditch using its icloud.com domain for hiding people's email addresses....

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OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip is built for fast inference at scale, benchmarks show

OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip is built for fast inference at scale, benchmarks show

Tested on Semianalysis’s InferenceX benchmark, Jalapeño registered both more tokens per user and more throughput per kil...

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Apple debuts its ‘most powerful chip ever’ in M5 Ultra and M6

Apple debuts its ‘most powerful chip ever’ in M5 Ultra and M6

Apple unveils these new processors alongside an updated Mac Mini and Mac Studio....

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Apple’s latest Mac Mini runs on a new M6 chip, and starts at $899

Apple’s latest Mac Mini runs on a new M6 chip, and starts at $899

The base model of the Mac Mini comes with 256GB of storage, 16GB of RAM, and costs $899....

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Uber launches live video streaming for teen accounts

Uber launches live video streaming for teen accounts

Uber said no one will be able to access the video once the ride ends...

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Accel-backed Keenable is indexing the web for AI agents

Accel-backed Keenable is indexing the web for AI agents

Now exiting stealth mode with a $26 million seed round, Keenable has been building a vast web search index for AI agents...

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Fiat Ventures combines venture and advisory divisions into new brand, raises $35M Fund II

Fiat Ventures combines venture and advisory divisions into new brand, raises $35M Fund II

In an environment where emerging fund managers struggle to attract LP attention, FGV is betting that a different venture...

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‘The world seems to be ready’: An interview with OpenAI head of product Thibault Sottiaux

‘The world seems to be ready’: An interview with OpenAI head of product Thibault Sottiaux

TechCrunch talks agents, UX, and reporting to Greg Brockman with OpenAI's head of product....

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Fitbit founders launch Luffu Link, an LTE health and safety band

Fitbit founders launch Luffu Link, an LTE health and safety band

Luffu Link combines all day health sensing, voice logging, location awareness, and the ability to get help from trusted ...

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India’s Airbound bags $37M to take on trucks with rocket-like drones

India’s Airbound bags $37M to take on trucks with rocket-like drones

Airbound's ultra-lightweight approach to drone delivery has attracted backing from Greenoaks, DoorDash, and Silicon Vall...

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Situational Awareness, star AI hedge fund that nearly imploded, now being probed by the SEC

Situational Awareness, star AI hedge fund that nearly imploded, now being probed by the SEC

The AI hedge fund went from "the talk of Wall Street" to "subject of federal subpoenas" faster than you can say "diversi...

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Oura is reportedly eyeing a September IPO that could value it at more than $16B

Oura is reportedly eyeing a September IPO that could value it at more than $16B

We all knew it was coming. The expected valuation may surprise, though....

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Trump bought SpaceX shares two weeks after blockbuster IPO

Trump bought SpaceX shares two weeks after blockbuster IPO

The president bought when the stock was in the mid-$150 range. SpaceX finished trading on Monday back at its IPO price o...

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Zillow and Redfin settle FTC antitrust case

Zillow and Redfin settle FTC antitrust case

Zillow and Redfin reached a settlement with the FTC, which requires Redfin to reenter the rental advertising business....

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Showcase your startup at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and book an exhibit table while there’s still space

Showcase your startup at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and book an exhibit table while there’s still space

Make the most of Disrupt's crowds of potential investors and partners by exhibiting your startup from October 13-15....

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Alabama launches investigation into OpenAI’s hack of Hugging Face

Alabama launches investigation into OpenAI’s hack of Hugging Face

Weeks after OpenAI disclosed that one of its cybersecurity models had gone rogue and hacked AI dataset company Hugging F...

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Amazon hikes hardware prices by 60 percent, blaming memory shortage

Amazon hikes hardware prices by 60 percent, blaming memory shortage

As the memory shortage continues to cause trouble for hardware makers, Amazon says it is now being forced to pass on the...

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Instinct’s powerful AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns

Instinct’s powerful AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns

Early testers are raving about what Instinct can do, but some say the AI assistant’s sweeping access, broad terms and ab...

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Valor, Point72 back General Intuition at $6B valuation as AI startup pushes into robotics

Valor, Point72 back General Intuition at $6B valuation as AI startup pushes into robotics

General Intuition, the startup building a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents how to move through space a...

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OpenAI is building AI agents for everything. Will everyone use them?

OpenAI is building AI agents for everything. Will everyone use them?

Inside the frontier lab’s push to bring AI agents from software engineers to the masses....

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Brake problems in GM EVs draw greater federal scrutiny

Brake problems in GM EVs draw greater federal scrutiny

In one crash, the driver of a 2024 Blazer EV said they had to "deliberately steer the vehicle into a concrete curb" to s...

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Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B

Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B

Hugging Face has reportedly been fielding acquisition offers that would value the company at around $13B. But with the f...

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US nutrition startup Berry Street merges with India’s Healthify as GLP-1 trends upwards

US nutrition startup Berry Street merges with India’s Healthify as GLP-1 trends upwards

Berry Street founder Noah Kotlove and Healthify founder Tushar Vashisht will act as co-CEOs of the new entity....

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Who’s behind the new ‘stealth model’ Ox Alpha?

Who’s behind the new ‘stealth model’ Ox Alpha?

A mysterious new AI model called Ox Alpha has driven certain corners of the internet into a frenzy of speculation....

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Uber faces fine of nearly $1B over automated driver suspensions

Uber faces fine of nearly $1B over automated driver suspensions

The Dutch Data Protection Authority is fining Uber €825 million in the second largest penalty issued under Europe’s GDPR...

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TechCrunch Mobility: The custom chip driving Waymo’s robotaxi ambitions

TechCrunch Mobility: The custom chip driving Waymo’s robotaxi ambitions

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation....

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