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Perplexity has reportedly closed a $500M funding round

AI-powered search engine Perplexity has reportedly closed a $500 million funding...

Real estate VC Fifth Wall is raising $500M for a new fund

Real estate venture firm Fifth Wall is raising a new $500 million fund called Fi...

TuSimple pivot from self-driving to AI animation is com...

TuSimple has completed its pivot away from autonomous trucking to AI animation a...

Ex-Twitch CEO Emmett Shear is founding an AI startup ba...

Emmett Shear, the former CEO of Twitch, is launching a new AI startup, TechCrunc...

A bad experience with an accounting firm spurred this f...

Accounting firms are struggling to adopt high-tech solutions. That’s according t...

Meet the robot with two Guinness World Records for bask...

A team of engineers at Toyota have spent years iterating on CUE6, the basketball...

Waymo fills the Cruise void overseas and a salute to ic...

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Tapestry, a new app for tracking social media, news, bl...

A new app called Tapestry promising to unify social media, news, and RSS in one ...

Google releases its own ‘reasoning’ AI model

Google has released what it’s calling a new “reasoning” AI model — but it’s in t...

$25 billion valuation Chime takes another step towards ...

Digital bank Chime has reportedly filed its confidential IPO paperwork with the ...

World(coin) must let Europeans comprehensively delete t...

It took a lot more than the initially slated few weeks to arrive, but a pivotal ...

Instagram teases AI tools for editing appearances, back...

Instagram head Adam Mosseri is teasing upcoming generative AI features for the s...

Over 20 venture firms pledge to not take money from Chi...

Founders now have a way to ensure that their investors haven’t taken money from ...

US government urges high-ranking officials to lock down...

The move to urge Americans to use end-to-end encrypted apps comes as China-backe...

Oura closes $200M round, bringing its valuation to $5.2B

Smart ring maker Oura announced on Thursday that it has closed a $200 million Se...

Hotel booking platform Safara raises $14M, acquires riv...

Doug Schuessler has always been a founder. This passion, which has been with him...