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Reliable Robotics extended its Series D round with $115 million in equity and $25 million in debt. spr.ly/6016BHT4UO

SpaceX alum's aviation startup, Reliable Robotics, lands $115M, topping $1B valuation | TechCrunch

Reliable Robotics extended its Series D round with $115 million in equity and $25 million in debt.

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The raise comes as venture dollars pile up on the West Coast. spr.ly/6015BHTNFX

Inspired Capital closes $450M fourth fund as New York pushes back on Silicon Valley’s gravitational...

The raise comes as venture dollars pile up on the West Coast.

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The US has ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products and third-party services built using its technology, citing national security concerns. spr.ly/6017BHTNRf

US orders federal agencies to remove China’s DeepSeek AI from their systems | TechCrunch

The US has ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products and third-party services built using its technology, citing national security concerns.

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Eka Robotics may be the first robotic arm that is actually good at picking a wide range of objects up, and it is so smooth and human-like, it is wowing the industry. spr.ly/6011BHT29F

Eka is worth $1.45B thanks to a physical AI model that has experts raving | TechCrunch

Eka Robotics may be the first robotic arm that is actually good at picking a wide range of objects up, and it is so smooth and human-like, it is wowing the industry.

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Spotify's new paid memberships let podcasters offer fans exclusive perks, including ad-free listening, early access, and bonus content, while keeping 90% of the revenue. spr.ly/6016BHTvY6

Spotify launches paid podcast memberships with perks beyond bonus content | TechCrunch

Spotify's new paid memberships let podcasters offer fans exclusive perks, including ad-free listening, early access, and bonus content, while keeping 90% of the revenue.

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While Oura has largely dominated the smart ring market for years, rivals like RingConn and Ultrahuman are emerging to dethrone it, putting pressure on the company to keep innovating. By launching more advanced workout metrics, Oura is looking to spr.ly/6010BHTQLA

Oura adds new fitness metrics to show how workouts impact your body | TechCrunch

While Oura has largely dominated the smart ring market for years, rivals like RingConn and Ultrahuman are emerging to dethrone it, putting pressure on the company to keep innovating. By launching...

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Meeting note-taking tool spr.ly/6017BHTo6h announced on Tuesday that it has raised $320 million from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF), which provides capital to startups without diluting equity and gets returns on the results of marketing spend. spr.ly/6019BHToBB

Otter Meeting Agent - AI Notetaker, Transcription, Insights

Otter AI Meeting Agent supports real-time transcription, live chat, automated summaries, insights, and action items.

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Yelp is embedding numerous new AI features into its app that can do everything from call to check on restaurant wait times to create personalized recommendations that remember your preferences. spr.ly/6016BHTWun

Yelp can now call on your behalf to check wait times at a restaurant | TechCrunch

Yelp is embedding numerous new AI features into its app that can do everything from call to check on restaurant wait times to create personalized recommendations that remember your preferences.

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Blackwall has raised $100M at a $2.2B valuation to continue building security and filtering tools that help websites grapple with growing bot and AI traffic. spr.ly/6012BHTkp6

Blackwall quadruples valuation to $2.2B as websites wrangle an increasingly crowded internet |...

Blackwall has raised $100M at a $2.2B valuation to continue building security and filtering tools that help websites grapple with growing bot and AI traffic.

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Flipkart has expanded access to its food-delivery service to thousands of employees ahead of its public launch. spr.ly/6019BHT1tS

Walmart's Flipkart is quietly building a food delivery challenger in India | TechCrunch

Flipkart has expanded access to its food-delivery service to thousands of employees ahead of its public launch.

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Monday night that New Yorkers must resist the narrative that an AI takeover is inevitable and demand regulations that protect the public and put power back in their hands. spr.ly/6012BHT8YY

Mamdani says feds have abdicated on AI, urges New Yorkers to push back | TechCrunch

Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Monday night that New Yorkers must resist the narrative that an AI takeover is inevitable and demand regulations that protect the public and put power back in their hands.

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In August, Nscale and Anthropic announced a $45 billion compute deal. The two companies are reportedly discussing yet another deal of the same magnitude. spr.ly/6015BHr29P

Nscale and Anthropic are reportedly in talks for yet another $45B compute deal | TechCrunch

If the deal goes through, it would be the latest in a long string of giant compute deals Anthropic has struck over the past year.

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AI labs have staked their reputations on model benchmarking — the supposedly neutral and accurate system of evaluations that are designed to measure whether one AI product is better than another. However, the methods behind these evaluations are spr.ly/6015BHrx7S

Embedded AI evaluators won't be an easy solution, Hugging Face's policy chief says | TechCrunch

The idea of embedded evaluators — in which supposedly "neutral" third-party observers are placed inside AI organizations — has been popularized over the last several months, as AI labs grapple with a...

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Microsoft wants enterprises to closely watch the agents employees use with systems not controlled by AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic. spr.ly/6012BHrQyk

Microsoft says AI agents are like insider threats as 'frontier models can't be trusted' | TechCrunch

Microsoft wants enterprises to closely watch the agents employees use with systems not controlled by AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic.

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Amazon wants to break Nvidia’s hold on PyTorch, the free toolkit used to build most AI apps, so that more developers run their apps on alternative chips like its own. spr.ly/6010BHrcny

Amazon is taking its biggest shot at Nvidia yet with new TorchNeuron dev tool | TechCrunch

Amazon wants to break Nvidia’s hold on PyTorch, the free toolkit used to build most AI apps, so that more developers run their apps on alternative chips like its own.

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OpenCode is an open-source AI coding agent that's become a popular alternative to Claude Code and Cursor. But hackers got into part of its online platform and stole some users’ API keys, and the AI tools it turned to for help kept refusing to look at the spr.ly/6014BHren0

Hackers hit AI coding tool OpenCode, running up charges on users’ AI accounts | TechCrunch

OpenCode is an open source AI coding agent that's become a popular alternative to Claude Code and Cursor. But hackers got into part of its online platform and stole some users’ API keys, and the AI...

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AI companion app Tolan has raised another $30 million after attracting more than 250,000 active users. spr.ly/6012BHrbdj

Tolan snags $30M for its AI companion that helps users navigate life | TechCrunch

AI companion app Tolan has raised another $30 million after attracting more than 250,000 active users.

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Eugenia Kuyda's newest startup Wabi is positioned to take advantage of an idea she had more than a decade ago. Wabi offers a personal AI assistant with a twist, free and downloadable to anyone today. spr.ly/6014BHrwnr

Replika’s founder built the AI assistant she pitched at Disrupt 12 years ago | TechCrunch

Eugenia Kuyda's newest startup Wabi is positioned to take advantage of an idea she had more than a decade ago. Wabi offers a personal AI assistant with a twist, free and downloadable to anyone today.

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After drawing acquisition interest earlier this year, the Nvidia challenger raised $1.5 billion to remain independent. spr.ly/6011BHrkQc

Tenstorrent hits $6.2B valuation to scale open-weight AI chips | TechCrunch

After drawing acquisition interest earlier this year, the Nvidia challenger raised $1.5 billion to remain independent.

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AI assistant startup Town nabbed a unicorn valuation on Monday, announcing a $108 million Series B round co-led by Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures. spr.ly/6013BHrp6c

AI assistant startup Town nabs unicorn valuation four months after launch | TechCrunch

AI assistant startup Town nabbed a unicorn valuation on Monday, announcing a $108 million Series B round co-led by Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures.

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