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Hitachi Ventures raises $400M fund to invest in everything from fusion to AI techcrunch.com an hour ago by Tim De Chant
Venture, Fundraising, venture capital, Exclusive, corporate venture capital, Hitachi Ventures
The size of the new fund is a vote of confidence in a range of deep tech verticals. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use …
Google wants Search to be more like an AI assistant in 2025 techcrunch.com 5 hours ago by Maxwell Zeff
AI, ChatGPT, Google, Google Search, Sundar Pichai
Google Search is in the midst of a “journey” around AI, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said during the company’s earnings call on Tuesday. The start…
Krafton leads Cashfree’s $53M funding at $700M valuation techcrunch.com 5 hours ago by Manish Singh
Fundraising, cashfree, India, Krafton
Cashfree, an Indian payments startup that facilitates and processes more than $80 billion for its customers each year, has raised $53 million …
Brightpick’s new warehouse robot can reach 20-foot-high shelves techcrunch.com 6 hours ago by Brian Heater
Hardware, Robotics, brightpick, giraffe, inventory, warehouse, warehouse robotics
Brightpick, a maker of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), on Tuesday announced a lofty addition to its current line. The appropriately named Gir…
Alphabet praises DeepSeek, but it’s massively ramping up its AI spending techcrunch.com 7 hours ago by Charles Rollet
AI, Alphabet, deepseek, earnings, Google
Alphabet is shrugging off concerns sparked by DeepSeek over AI spending, boosting its capital expenditures to a whopping $75 billion. © 2024 …
Two space startups have merged to create the next generation of telescopes techcrunch.com 7 hours ago by Sean O'Kane
Space, Startups, Exclusive, Mergers and Acquisitions, observable space, OurSky, planewave instruments, telescopes
On a clear spring evening in Michigan, the stars aligned — just not in the way Upfront Ventures partner Nick Kim expected. He’d just led a $9.…
Snap says TikTok uncertainty benefited its business techcrunch.com 7 hours ago by Lauren Forristal
Apps, Social, Snap, Snapchat, social media, TikTok Ban
During Snap’s fourth-quarter earnings call on Tuesday, CEO Evan Spiegel said that the uncertainty surrounding TikTok’s future has positively a…
a16z hires acquitted former Marine Daniel Penny as an investor techcrunch.com 8 hours ago by Julie Bort
TC, Venture, Andreessen Horowitz, In Brief, american dynamism
Powerhouse venture firm Andreessen Horowitz has hired Daniel Penny as an investor, its web page confirms. Penny is the former Marine who was …
AMD pulls up the release of its next-gen data center GPUs techcrunch.com 8 hours ago by Kyle Wiggers
AI, Enterprise, amd, amd instinct, amd instinct MI350, data center, earnings, earnings report, GPU, MI350, q4, q4 2024
AMD says that it plans to launch its next major data center GPUs, the AMD Instinct MI350 series, sooner than originally announced. During the …
Miist, founded by a 25-year-old, wants people to vape their way out of smoking addiction and migraines techcrunch.com 9 hours ago by Marina Temkin
Biotech & Health, Fundraising, Addiction, fda, medical devices, quit smoking, Refactor Capital, Seed
As a university student, Dalton Signor was troubled by how many people around him smoked or vaped, including his grandmother and 14-year-old s…
Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website techcrunch.com 10 hours ago by Maxwell Zeff
AI, Government & Policy, ai safety, defense, Google, In Brief
Google removed a pledge to not build AI for weapons or surveillance from its website this week. The change was first spotted by Bloomberg. The…
Spyware maker Paragon confirms US government is a customer techcrunch.com 10 hours ago by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
Security, cybersecurity, Exclusive, government spyware, hacking, Meta, Paragon Solutions, surveillance, WhatsApp
Israeli spyware maker Paragon Solutions confirmed to TechCrunch that it sells its products to the U.S. government and other unspecified allied…
Okta competitor SailPoint races toward $11.5B IPO techcrunch.com 10 hours ago by Julie Bort
Enterprise, identity management, IPOs 2025, sailpoint
Cybersecurity company SailPoint is hoping to sell $1 billion worth of stock in its upcoming IPO and offer another signal that IPOs will become…
Figure drops OpenAI in favor of in-house models techcrunch.com 10 hours ago by Brian Heater
AI, Robotics, figure, humanoid, humanoid robot, OpenAI
Figure AI, a robotics company working to bring a general-purpose humanoid robot into commercial and residential use, announced Tuesday on X th…
Hugging Face researchers aim to build an ‘open’ version of OpenAI’s deep research tool techcrunch.com 10 hours ago by Kyle Wiggers
AI, Apps, deep research, Hugging Face, Open AI, open deep research, open source, OpenAI, openai deep research
A group of developers at AI dev platform Hugging Face, including Thomas Wolf, the company’s co-founder and chief scientist, say they’ve built …
Amazon continues renewable energy spree with 476 MW purchase techcrunch.com 11 hours ago by Tim De Chant
Climate, Enterprise, Amazon, AWS, energy storage, renewable power, Solar Power, Wind power
Amazon’s power bill has been soaring lately as it adds data centers to deal with rising demand for AI and cloud services. © 2024 TechCrunch. …
A review of Tapestry, an app powered by the growing open web techcrunch.com 12 hours ago by Sarah Perez
Apps, Bluesky, fediverse, feeds, iOS apps, Mastodon, open social, Open Web, RSS, social web, tapestry
A new app called Tapestry, which launched Tuesday, aggregates and organizes information from across the web and social networks in a single pl…
E-fuels startup will make diamonds before powering jet planes techcrunch.com 12 hours ago by Tim De Chant
Climate, Transportation, aviation, carbon capture, Circularity Fuels, DCVC, e-fuels, Exclusive, sustainable aviation fuel
Circularity’s process uses 40% less energy than competing CO2-to-fuel pathways. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only…
TED Talks has put out an all-call for a new leader techcrunch.com 12 hours ago by Julie Bort
Media & Entertainment, In Brief, ted
Chris Anderson, who has run TED for 25 years, is looking to bestow the operation on anyone who has a good plan for its future, he announced in…
Challenging Bluesky, Threads now allows for public custom feeds techcrunch.com 12 hours ago by Sarah Perez
Social, Bluesky, feeds, Meta, social media, Threads
Meta’s Threads is doubling down on support for custom feeds as it faces challenges from the growing social network Bluesky, now with over 30 m…