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Ram Iyer / TechCrunch: Healthleap, which makes AI screening software to identify patients at risk of undiagnosed illnesses, raised $38M across a $30M Series A and an $8M seed — Healthleap, a startup building an…
Tim De Chant / TechCrunch: Parallel Systems, which builds autonomous freight trains, raised a $100M Series C led by AVP, taking its total funding to $200M+ — The railroad industry was one of the first to disrupt…
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google launches SynthID Detector, a website that lets users detect AI-generated image, video, and audio media across dozens of common file formats — Google on Tuesday launched a new site…
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Spotify expands audiobooks to 180+ markets, bringing its catalog to 750M+ users, and adds 350K+ titles in 120+ languages in partnership with 300+ publishers — Spotify announced on…
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: New York-based Melius, which provides AI tools for generating ad campaigns, images, and videos, raised $25M, including a $20M Series A and a $5M seed — Melius, an AI platform for…
Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: Flai, which makes AI tools for car dealerships to manage phone calls, emails, and texts, raised a $27M Series A led by Base10 Partners — When Flai was raising its seed round last year…
Anthropic is giving startups a free year of Claude Team and $1,000 in credits TechCrunch
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Sources: AI inference-chip startup Etched is in early talks to raise funding at a $40B-$50B valuation, up from $21B in August — Although it's only been a couple of months since Etched…
OpenAI will start watermarking ChatGPT’s text in the EU TechCrunch
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: TikTok debuts Shopping Assistant, a conversational AI agent that helps users find and buy products, and Buy Direct for one-click purchases from the For You feed — TikTok announced Monday…
Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: Ghost, which makes a $3,499 computer designed for AI agents and includes an RTX Pro 4000 SFF Blackwell GPU, emerges from stealth with an $11M seed led by a16z — For much of his…
OpenAI launches visual ads that appear alongside image generation results TechCrunch
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Q&A with Brian Chesky on Airbnb's plans for agent-to-agent interactions, why chatbots fail at travel e-commerce, the need for an AI-native OS, and more — Airbnb rolled out its new…
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: OpenAI's DevDay 2026 announcements to turn ChatGPT into a place to discover, launch, and use software could potentially disrupt the traditional app store model — The focus of OpenAI's…
Ram Iyer / TechCrunch: Reco, whose tech helps enterprises secure and govern AI agents across SaaS environments, raised a $55M Series B extension, taking its total funding to $140M — Terms like “AI…
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Apple says it is adding additional controls around “Full Disk Access” on macOS as AI agents have increased “the risks associated with this level of access” — Days…
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: OpenAI launches two ChatGPT shopping features: a virtual try-on tool for clothing and accessories, and a Favorites feature to save products to a user's Library — OpenAI is again…
ChatGPT can now virtually try on clothes for you TechCrunch
OpenAI cuts ties with 3 safety researchers, WSJ reports TechCrunch
Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Flow, a hardware development platform for AI agents, raised a $50M Series B led by Valor's Antonio Gracias and Atreides' Gavin Baker at a $750M valuation — Flow Engineering, a startup…
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Reddit says it is ending support for RSS feeds on November 13 because the feeds are a target for abuse by AI bots and is ending its public API access in March — Amid a number of updates…
OpenAI’s Jev clone could help the frontier lab stop its swarming agents TechCrunch
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Berlin-based Restate, which provides a durable execution engine to make software workflows resilient to crashes, raised a $20M Series A led by Singular — When Stephen Ewan co-founded…
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Instagram rolls out a conversational AI video editing assistant for Edits, its dedicated CapCut competitor, after an initial preview at a creator event in June — Instagram…
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Outmarket, which uses AI to help insurance agencies and brokers automate their tedious paperwork, raised a $34.5M Series B, a source says at a $335M valuation — Vishal Sankhla led…
The internet is convinced Elon Musk’s xAI trolled OpenAI’s ‘Dots’ launch TechCrunch
OpenAI’s latest features take direct aim at the app store model TechCrunch
OpenAI reportedly in talks to raise $30B round at $1.4T valuation TechCrunch
OpenAI repotedly in talks to raise $30B round at $1.4T valuation TechCrunch
Here’s why OpenAI is absent from Nvidia’s industry-wide effort to end rogue AI agents TechCrunch
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: OpenAI expands ChatGPT plugins with interactive panels and file viewers, launches a Plugin Creator tool, and adds MCP Events support for plugin automations — OpenAI isn't only coming…
OpenAI takes on Microsoft with the launch of what feels a whole lot like ChatGPT's own office suite TechCrunch
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: OpenAI announces new features for Codex, including reusable cloud development environments, a refreshed Codex CLI, a new code review experience, and more — OpenAI introduced new…
OpenAI launches Dots, its bubbly agentic avatar TechCrunch
OpenAI expands ChatGPT’s plugins with app-like interfaces and automations TechCrunch
OpenAI gives Codex reusable cloud environments that work across devices TechCrunch
OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Sol, says it nearly matches GPT-6 Astra and costs less TechCrunch
Anthropic's prospectus details losses, growth, and, yes, a warning that its AI could end humanity TechCrunch
OpenAI reportedly ditches model over safety concerns TechCrunch
Anthropic releases Sonnet 5.5, which it calls a significantly cheaper, faster work partner TechCrunch
OpenAI still doesn’t seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity TechCrunch
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Boston-based Modulate, which uses small AI models to offer enterprises transcription, emotional analysis, deepfake and AI music detection, and more, raised $25M — Boston-based voice…
TechCrunch: Quartermaster, which builds a SmartMast for ships to relay real-time maritime data, raised a $140M Series B, with $100M in equity, after a $43M Series A in May — The tech enables real-time awareness…
Anthropic’s CEO is about to have dinner with President Trump TechCrunch
Can Muse overcome Meta’s trust issues? TechCrunch
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei gets the SNL treatment TechCrunch
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Meta says its rejection of ads promoting the new documentary about Elon Musk “was an error and the ads are being restored”; YouTube is also allowing the ads — At least two…
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Sources: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg announces a new board and new advisers; board members include two founders of IRL and the author of the Silo book series — Automattic CEO Matt…
Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet without the lab's knowledge TechCrunch
Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal TechCrunch