From: today

India’s Yulu raises $93M as quick-commerce boom fuels e-bike demand

Tech Crunch Startups

Yulu aims to have a fleet of 200,000 bikes in the next two years and faster electric two-wheelers, aiming at new logistics use cases.

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From: today

OpenAI Daybreak Cyber Defense Models Land on Amazon Bedrock

Unite AI Cybersecurity

OpenAI's two cyber defense models are now available to eligible customers on Amazon Bedrock, AWS announced on August 11, 2026, one day after OpenAI expanded its Daybreak initiative with new access tie...

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From: today

Accel closes oversubscribed $550M India fund within weeks, 19 months after its last

Tech Crunch AI

The U.S. VC firm still has more than 55% of its previous $650 million India fund available for deployment.

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Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni reportedly knew Phia was ‘cookie stuffing’ for months

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Phia, the shopping startup co-founded by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, is once again under fire for its alleged business practices.

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Quantinuum Puts a 98-Qubit Helios Machine Inside Oracle’s AI Data Centers

Unite AI Partnerships

Quantinuum and Oracle announced a multi-year strategic partnership on August 11, 2026 that will install Quantinuum's Helios quantum computer inside a US-based Oracle Cloud Infrastructure AI data cente...

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From: yesterday

Uber surprised robotics company Serve by selling its entire stake

Tech Crunch Transportation

The divestiture comes as the two once-tight companies have started to diverge on the business side.

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FBI says cybercriminals are hacking into victims’ online accounts to steal their intimate pictures

Tech Crunch Security

In a new alert, the FBI said cybercriminals are targeting adults and minors in an attempt to steal their personal and intimate pictures in extortion campaigns.

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From: yesterday

OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux

Tech Crunch AI

OpenAI is finally bringing a dedicated ChatGPT desktop app to Linux operating systems.

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xAI Launches Grok Bot, Always-On AI Teammates With Their Own Cloud Computers

Unite AI AI Models & Platforms

xAI has launched Grok Bot, a beta product it describes as a team of always-on AI agents that get their own cloud computer, sign into a customer's existing tools, and finish multi-step jobs without bei...

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From: yesterday

River AI Raises $1.1B Out of Stealth to Rebuild the Stack for Personal AI

Unite AI Funding

River AI, the startup xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin took out of stealth on June 10, 2026, has raised $1.1 billion across its Series Seed and Series A rounds, the company announced on August 11, 2026....

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From: yesterday

Google’s Gemini app surges to 1 billion users

Tech Crunch AI

Google also shared numbers of how people are actually using the chatbot, with 63% of Gemini users talking directly to the assistant using the voice feature. Plus, Gemini now generates more than 150 mi...

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From: yesterday

Gemini App Tops 1 Billion Monthly Users as Google’s Fastest-Growing Product

Unite AI AI Models & Platforms

Google's Gemini app has passed 1 billion monthly active users, a milestone CEO Sundar Pichai announced on August 11, 2026, calling it the fastest-growing product in the company's history and its 14th ...

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Bluesky’s active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app

Tech Crunch Apps

Over a year following its post-election surge, Bluesky’s mobile app is seeing a continued decline in active users, though its remaining community is still relatively engaged.

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From: yesterday

What’s Scaleup Europe, the $5.7B fund that just backed satellite company ICEYE?

Tech Crunch Government & Policy

Scaleup Europe, a public-private fund with a $5.7 billion target, made its first investment by backing Finnish satellite company ICEYE.

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From: yesterday

Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s longtime COO, is leaving to ‘start something new’

Tech Crunch AI

One of OpenAI's longest serving executives is headed out the door, although the longtime COO told staff that he was "excited to help you all advance the mission from a different vantage point."

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From: yesterday

General Catalyst leads $1.1B round into 2-month-old River AI

Tech Crunch AI

River AI, a startup founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has a fascinating vision for personal agents and secured $1.1 billion out of the gate.

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Pathway Raises New Funding at $500M Valuation to Scale Post-Transformer AI

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AI research company Pathway has secured additional funding at a $500 million valuation, bringing its total seed financing to $30 million as it prepares to scale a new generation of models built around...

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From: yesterday

Sam Jenkins, Managing Partner at Punchcard Systems – Interview Series

Unite AI Interviews

Sam Jenkins, Managing Partner at Punchcard Systems, has spent more than two decades working at the intersection of technology, entrepreneurship, and organizational transformation. Since co-founding Pu...

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From: yesterday

An unreleased Anthropic model made progress on one of math’s biggest unsolved problems

Tech Crunch AI

For more than 150 years, the Riemann hypothesis has stood as one of the major unsolved problems in mathematics. Anthropic hasn't solved it — but the company's models made more progress than you migh...

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From: yesterday

Joby Aviation builds out defense business with $500M acquisition

Tech Crunch Transportation

Joby Aviation reached an agreement to acquire Resonant Sciences, which will kick off its new defense business.

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Delta investigating after someone set up fake Wi-Fi network mid-flight

Tech Crunch Security

The Delta flight crew switched off the aircraft's legitimate Wi-Fi network for around 30 minutes due to the incident, according to a spokesperson.

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2025’s most downloaded game, Block Blast!, is going ad-free on Apple Arcade

Tech Crunch Apps

Block Blast!, the most downloaded mobile game of 2025, is coming to Apple Arcade in September, where it will be ad-free.

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Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe is betting on EVs, robots, and autonomy all at once — he’ll explain why at Disrupt 2026 

Tech Crunch Transportation

Rivian's CEO RJ Scaringe is speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to detail his journey, and the lessons it’s bestowed.

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From: yesterday

FlightAware sues Kalshi over flight cancellation prediction markets

Tech Crunch Apps

FlightAware says that Kalshi used its name and data to offer bets on flight cancellations without the flight tracker's permission.

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