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Robotics startup Figure is exiting its Feb. 2024 OpenAI deal, which aimed to develop AI models for robots, to focus on in-house AI after a “major breakthrough” (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-5 Startup AI Robot

Mark Zuckerberg says users on Threads can now make their custom feeds public and follow custom feeds made by others (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-5 Zuckerberg

HR software startup Deel completes a sale of $300M secondary shares, bringing General Catalyst on as an investor, and says its ARR grew 70% YoY to $800M in 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-5 Startup

Memo: Cruise is laying off 50% of its staff, after GM cut funding to robotaxi operations and shifts its focus to tech like hands-free driver assistance (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-5

ByteDance researchers demo OmniHuman-1, an AI system that is “easily heads and shoulders above previous deepfake techniques”, if ByteDance's clips are accurate (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-5 AI

Toronto-based programmatic ad startup StackAdapt raised $235M led by Teachers' Venture Growth, after raising $300M from Summit Partners in 2022 (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-5 Startup Toronto

Self-driving truck startup Waabi partners with Volvo to develop and deploy autonomous trucks, starting with pilots in Texas and a launch in late 2025 or 2026 (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-4 Startup Volvo Texas

Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal invests $230M in his Indian AI startup Krutrim, and plans to raise $1.15B from outside investors by 2026, to build local AI (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-4 India Startup AI

Meta describes what kinds of AI systems it may deem too risky to release, including ones that could aid in cyberattacks, and how such systems will be flagged (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-4 AI

The first ever native iPhone porn app, Hot Tub, arrives in the EU via the approved alternative app store AltStore PAL, which was made possible by the DMA (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-4 iPhone

French startup Riot, which educates staff about cybersecurity risks, raised a $30M Series B, a source says at a $170M valuation, and had $10M in 2024 revenue (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-4 France Startup

Stablecoins are becoming a core part of financial infrastructure in emerging markets, expanding beyond cross-border payments into consumer finance and more (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-3

India expands Aadhaar, now linked to the biometrics of over 1.4B people, to let businesses across several sectors use it to authenticate customers (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-3 India

OpenAI releases Deep Research, an AI agent for creating in-depth reports, available to subscribers of the $200 ChatGPT Pro tier and limited to 100 queries/month (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-3 AI

Google's X spins out Heritable Agriculture, which aims to use AI to improve crop yield, as the incubator aggressively spins off companies under CEO Astro Teller (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-3 Google AI

Reliance Retail launches the Shein app in India, with control over operations and data and Shein acting as a technology partner, years after the app's ban (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-3 India Retail Ban

India announces a new $1.15B Fund of Funds for startups with an “expanded scope” compared to previous initiatives, and extends tax benefits for startups (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-2 India Tax Startup

In a Reddit AMA, Sam Altman admitted that DeepSeek has lessened OpenAI's lead and said OpenAI has been “on the wrong side of history” concerning open sourcing (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-2 Reddit

MLCommons and Hugging Face release Unsupervised People's Speech, a dataset for AI research containing more than 1M hours of audio spanning at least 89 languages (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-1 AI

California DMV: a total of 4.5M autonomous vehicle test miles were logged in 2024, down 50% YoY, with driverless testing falling 83% YoY to just 552,895 miles (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-1 Autonomous Car California

OpenAI launches o3-mini, its latest reasoning model that it says is largely on par with o1 and o1-mini in capability, but runs faster and costs less (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-1

Microsoft creates the Advanced Planning Unit within its Microsoft AI division to help the company understand the societal, health, and work implications of AI (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-1 Microsoft AI

Finout, which makes cloud cost management software, raised a $40M Series C, following a $26M Series B in March, bringing its total raised to $85M (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-1

The Allen Institute for AI releases Tulu 3 405B, an open source model that it claims outperforms DeepSeek V3 and OpenAI's GPT-4o on certain benchmarks (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-31 AI

Interim co-CEO David Zinsner says Intel has already received $2.2B in federal grants through the CHIPS Act, of the $7.86B awarded to build chips in the US (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-31 Intel

DataBank, which provides high-performance compute-ready data centers for enterprise clients, raised $250M from PE firm TJC and $600M in a secondary share offer (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-31

AI audio startup ElevenLabs raised a $180M Series C co-led by a16z and ICONIQ Growth at a $3.3B post-money valuation, taking its total funding to $281M (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-31 Startup AI

Threads adds a dedicated media tab globally for photos and video, days after X and Bluesky added video tabs, and will let users tag people in photos (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-31

Motif, which is building cloud-native 3D computer-aided architecture design tools with AI features, raised $46M in seed and Series A funding (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-31 AI

French startup Formance, which offers an open source, programmable financial ledger and other services, raised a $21M Series A co-led by PayPal and Portage (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-30 France Startup

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