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Australian founders have just 48 hours left to apply for a new startup competition that combines Stripe and TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield in Sydney. The event, called Stripe x Startup Battlefield, will take place on…
Parents who want a safer first phone for their children are pushing more attention toward a niche corner of the mobile market, and TechCrunch reports that companies are responding with devices built around tighter…
TechCrunch reports the insurance startup has landed another round, just weeks after a $106 million B1 raise valued it at $2.6
Industry experts told TechCrunch that Kimi K3’s fast improvement is unlikely to be explained by simple distillation from Anthropic’s Fable model alone.
Tesla is spending more aggressively just as several of its next-generation product plans appear to be moving more slowly than hoped. According to TechCrunch, the company’s revenue rose 26%, but that increase was not…
Amazon is expanding Prime Video beyond movies and TV with games, a move that could make the streaming service feel more like a broader entertainment hub than a pure video app. According to TechCrunch, the company is…
Google Maps is expanding beyond directions and discovery with new agentic features designed to help users complete everyday tasks, including food ordering and hotel bookings. The move, first reported by TechCrunch…
Snap has become the latest major technology company to move out of a lawsuit accusing social media platforms of harming children and young adults, according to TechCrunch. The company has reached a tentative settlement…
ServiceNow is putting $40 million into Indian banking software specialist BusinessNext, a move that adds momentum to its push deeper into financial services software and AI-enabled banking tools, according to…
Edtech startup Imagi has closed a $4.5 million seed round, backing its push to help students learn how to build with AI-assisted coding tools.
Runway is pushing beyond being a model maker and into the infrastructure business, adding a router that can send media tasks to different third-party AI models.

Moove is scaling up the autonomous vehicle fleet management side of its business and plans to someday own, not just manage, Waymo robotaxis
The startup, founded by three Harvard dropouts, says its chips and memory stack can speed up AI inference without GPUs, drawing major investor support and a huge valuation.
Ford will be the first automaker to use Apple’s new developer tools to embed Apple Maps navigation directly into vehicle infotainment
IBM is pushing back on the idea that artificial intelligence is killing the mainframe. After a sharp drop in the company’s stock last week tied to warnings about weaker mainframe sales, the message from IBM is that the…
Roblox has announced a new mobile feature called Build, allowing users to design basic games using simple text prompts and AI models without any prior programming experience.
With the new tools, parents and guardians will be able to view their teen's time spent on Threads, set daily time limits, adjust sleep mode, and manage their privacy

Zoox has secured a temporary federal exemption that clears the way for it to begin charging riders for trips in its custom-built robotaxi
Synthesia is moving its enterprise product strategy beyond generated videos and into interactive coaching tools designed to test whether training actually works. The British startup has launched Roleplay Sessions, a new…

Model Context Protocol gateway provider Runlayer has launched a lawsuit against HR software giant Rippling, claiming the latter used proprietary insights from a failed partnership to build a direct competitor
Hugging Face confirmed a security breach last week that compromised internal datasets and credentials. The company has since patched the vulnerability while urging its user base to take immediate protective measures
Maritime nuclear energy startup Bluecore Energy has raised $10 million in a pre-seed funding round to develop small modular reactors on floating barges for ports and local infrastructure.
Databricks has announced a new funding round placing the enterprise software firm at a $188 billion valuation, marking its latest milestone in a sustained effort to pivot toward AI-driven infrastructure