From: today

Oil giant BP shutters its corporate venture arm after 20 years

Tech Crunch Climate

BP Ventures is shutting down, ending a nearly 20 year run that was marked by reportedly lackluster returns.

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Uber’s $14.8B Delivery Hero deal would nearly double its global footprint

Tech Crunch Commerce

Uber has agreed to acquire Delivery Hero in a $14.8 billion all-stock deal that would nearly double the company’s global footprint and create one of the world’s largest food delivery platforms out...

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Newsletter platform Beehiiv now lets subscribers chat with each other, adds AI

Tech Crunch Apps

Beehiiv is launching an AI Copilot to help publishers with user growth and analytics

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From: today

X cracks down on creators who steal content

Tech Crunch Social

X will use Grok AI to better detect stolen content, redirect payouts to original creators, and crack down on engagement bait.

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From: today

AI-powered travel agency Fora hits unicorn status, raises $60M

Tech Crunch Fundraising

Travel agency Fora announced a $60 million Series D round led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures, valuing the company at $1 billion. 

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From: today

Google continues its renaming streak by turning NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook

Tech Crunch Apps

Google said users can soon access their notebooks through AI Mode in Search.

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From: today

Google’s AI Mode now lets you link and interact with select apps

Tech Crunch AI

With this new update, Google is expanding AI Mode beyond answering questions and into completing tasks across the apps they use regularly.

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From: today

Yes, you can now order DoorDash from the command line

Tech Crunch AI

DoorDash is opening a limited beta of dd-cli, a command-line tool that lets developers and AI agents search stores, build carts, and place orders from the terminal, marking another step toward softwar...

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From: today

UK cops say arrest of two young hackers disrupted the operations of an infamous hacking group

Tech Crunch Security

Owen Flowers and Thalha Jubair, two members of the prolific Scattered Spider hacking group, pleaded guilty and were sentenced to five years and six months in jail for hacking London’s metropolitan t...

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From: today

Period tracker Stardust shares users’ health data with analytics firm, says Mozilla research

Tech Crunch Biotech & Health

One period tracker app tested by Mozilla was 'squeaky clean,' while another app was seen sharing users' health data with an analytics company, underscoring vast differences in user privacy among these...

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From: today

Why is OpenAI selling a ChatGPT basketball?

Tech Crunch AI

You may have heard that OpenAI released its first piece of hardware this week. You may not have heard about the ChatGPT basketball.

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How a former DeepMind researcher raised at a $300M pre-seed valuation before launching a product

Tech Crunch Security

Drawing on more than a decade spent helping build some of the world's most influential AI systems, including research that later informed the development of ChatGPT, Andrew Dai explains why he believe...

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From: today

Sheryl Sandberg leads $10 million investment in AI-powered vehicle inspection service

Tech Crunch Fundraising

The startup, founded in 2021, lets enterprise customers use smartphones to scan and spot vehicle damage.

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From: today

Why AMI Labs’ Alexandre LeBrun won’t call his AI ‘AGI’ or ‘superintelligence’

Tech Crunch AI

While everyone in AI is chasing "superintelligence," Alexandre LeBrun, CEO of Yann LeCun’s world model startup, AMI Labs, dismisses the word.

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From: today

Moonshot’s upcoming Kimi 3 is expected to close the gap with Anthropic’s Opus 4.8

Tech Crunch AI

The FT reports Kimi K3 will be the largest open AI model from China, with a parameter count between 2 trillion and 3 trillion. 

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From: today

Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba and Baidu

Tech Crunch AI

The deal, which was rumored to be in the works last year, marks an important step for Apple's AI ambitions in a key market.

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From: today

Ultrahuman’s former hardware VP raises $5.5M for devices that control AI agents, not just record you

Tech Crunch Apps

Aina is going to pilot a new device in coming weeks

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From: today

Meta now alerts parents if their teen discussed suicide or self-harm with its AI chatbot

Tech Crunch Apps

The updates come as Meta and other tech companies are facing scrutiny from regulators and parents around how AI chatbots respond to users in crisis, particularly teenagers.

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From: today

Please Stop Making Me Opt Out of AI

Ai News Gear

I’m sick of “opt-out” toggles for automatically enabled generative AI features. It’s past time to make “opt in” the default setting for sensitive features.

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From: today

Phone maker OnePlus says it won’t release new phones in the U.S. and Europe

Tech Crunch Gadgets

OnePlus could also wind down its operations in India by 2027.

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From: yesterday

Lululemon backs nylon-recycling startup Syntetica in $30M Series A

Tech Crunch Climate

Syntetica, a French startup that has developed a novel approach to recycling nylon, has already obtained big-name partners and investors.

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From: yesterday

A better way to turn 2D designs into 3D models for rapid prototyping

MIT Research

Researchers developed an automated framework that helps AI models generate CAD programs more accurately and efficiently.

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From: yesterday

Applied Computing wants to give oil and gas operators an AI model for the entire plant

Tech Crunch AI

Applied Computing has raised a $20M Series A to build a foundation AI model for the oil, gas and petrochemical industry.

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From: yesterday

Why Greylock capped its new fund at $1.5B when it says it could have raised more

Tech Crunch Fundraising

By keeping the number of investments to about 25 per fund, Greylock aims to remain what it calls "the most important partner" to its founders.

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