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👋 British startup Isembard lands $9M to reshore manufacturing for critical industries Geopolitical pressures are accelerating a demand in many countries and regions to reshore — that is, to redevelop critical industry infrastructure, and to bring back businesses, which had moved or out...

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🦋 Adobe releases new Firefly image generation models and a redesigned Firefly web app Adobe on Thursday launched the latest iteration of its Firefly family of image generation AI models, a model for generating vectors, and a redesigned web app that houses all its AI models, plus some f... #AI

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📢 Mystery will may reveal Zappos founder’s final wishes According to the WSJ, a recently discovered will suggests late Zappos co-founder Tony Hsieh had concrete plans for his fortune despite previous beliefs that he died without leaving instructions for an... #Commerce

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👋 IBM affected by DOGE cuts, downplays impact during Q1 earnings call Tech and consulting giant IBM was not immune to the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) cuts. IBM had 15 of its federal contracts canceled due to DOGE-related cuts during the first quarter of... #Enterprise #Hardware

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🦋 Windsurf slashes prices as competition with Cursor heats up AI coding assistant startup Windsurf cut its prices “across the board” it announced on Monday, touting “massive savings” for its users as competition with its rival Cursor intensifies. Windsurf said i... #AI #Startups #cursor

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📢 Tesla begins ‘FSD Supervised’ ride-hail tests with employees in Austin, Bay Area Tesla has started testing its autonomous ride-hail service with employees in Austin and the Bay Area ahead of the company’s planned robotaxi launch this summer. “FSD Supervised ride-hailing service is... #Tesla

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🦋 Government censorship comes to Bluesky, but not its third-party apps … yet Government censorship has found its way to Bluesky, but there’s currently a loophole thanks to how the social network is structured. Earlier this month, Bluesky restricted access to 72 accounts in Tur... #Social #Apps

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👋 OpenAI seeks to make its upcoming ‘open’ AI model best-in-class Toward the end of March, OpenAI said it intended to release its first “open” language model since GPT‑2 sometime this year. Now, details about that model are beginning to trickle out from the company’... #AI #OpenAI #OpenSourceAi

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📢 Here are the 19 US AI startups that have raised $100M or more in 2025 Last year was monumental for the AI industry in the U.S. and beyond. There were 49 startups that raised funding rounds worth $100 million or more in 2024, per our count at TechCrunch; three companies ... #Startups #AI

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📢 Netflix aims to be a trillion-dollar company, says co-CEO At Semafor’s 2025 World Economy Summit on Wednesday, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said he believes Netflix’s long-term goal to achieve a $1 trillion market capitalization is possible if the streaming g... #MediaEntertainment #Netflix

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📢 19 US fintech startups have raised over $50M in 2025 so far After a sluggish couple of years, fintech appears to be making a comeback. In the first quarter of 2025, fintech startups globally raised a combined $10.3 billion — marking the highest level of fundin... #Startups #Fintech #Plaid

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🦋 Discord appoints former Activision Blizzard exec Humam Sakhnini as CEO Amid rumors that the company is eyeing an IPO, Discord appointed former Activision Blizzard Vice Chairman Humam Sakhnini as CEO. Discord co-founder Jason Citron will leave his CEO role after 13 years ... #Social #Gaming

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👋 OpenAI’s GPT-4.1 may be less aligned than the company’s previous AI models In mid-April, OpenAI launched a powerful new AI model, GPT-4.1, which it claimed “excelled” at following instructions. But the results of several independent tests suggest the model is less aligned — ... #AI #gpt41

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👋 DOJ reportedly probes Disney-FuboTV deal over competition concerns The U.S. Department of Justice is probing Disney’s deal to take a controlling stake in FuboTV, Bloomberg reports. Fubo is a live TV streaming service known for its extensive sports coverage. Officials... #GovernmentPolicy #doj

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📢 Anti-Musk protests are now an official risk to Tesla’s business Protests against Elon Musk and Tesla have been spreading around the world thanks to the CEO’s involvement in the Trump administration. Now those protests are listed as an official “risk factor” in pap... #Transportation #ElonMusk

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👋 OpenAI makes its upgraded image generator available to developers OpenAI on Wednesday brought the tech behind its new and improved image generation feature in ChatGPT to its API, allowing developers to integrate it into their apps and services. OpenAI’s new image ge... #AI #api #OpenAI

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📢 Google Gemini has 350M monthly users, reveals court hearing Gemini, Google’s AI chatbot, had 350 million monthly active users around the globe as of March, according to internal data revealed in Google’s ongoing antitrust suit. The Information first reported t... #AI #AIChatbots #InBrief

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👋 Fluent Ventures backs replicated startup models in emerging markets A new venture firm aims to prove that the most successful startup ideas don’t have to be born or scaled in Silicon Valley. Fluent Ventures, a global early-stage fund, is backing founders replicating p... #Venture #MENA

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👋 Meta’s Threads opens up ads to global advertisers Months after first testing ads in select markets, including the U.S., Meta on Wednesday announced that its Instagram Threads app would now expand ads to all advertisers worldwide. The expansion will a... #Apps #Social #Instagram #Ads #Meta

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📢 Amazon’s Starlink competitor runs into production delays Amazon’s Project Kuiper, the company’s initiative to launch a fleet of satellites into low-Earth orbit and beam internet connection to users, is struggling to ramp up production, Bloomberg reported on... #Space #Starlink #ProjectKuiper

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📢 AI note-taking app Fireflies adds new ways to extract insights from meeting notes Khosla Ventures-backed Fireflies.ai, an AI-powered note-taking app, on Wednesday released a set of domain-specific “mini apps” to extract insights from meeting transcripts automatically. With the wide... #AI

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📢 Vibe coding helps Supabase nab $200M at $2B valuation just seven months after its last raise In 2020, when open source database Supabase was founded, its New Zealand-based CEO, Paul Copplestone, couldn’t have imagined it would be sitting in the sweet spot for 2025’s biggest trend: vibe coding..

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👋 Character.AI unveils AvatarFX, an AI video model to create lifelike chatbots Character.AI, a leading platform for chatting and roleplaying with AI-generated characters, unveiled its forthcoming video generation model, AvatarFX, on Tuesday. Available in closed beta, the model a... #AI #Apps

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📢 Burning questions (and some answers) about Bluesky’s new verification system Bluesky’s launch of a verification system has raised a slew of questions among its user base, from who will be picked — and why — to what outside organizations might be involved and whether the self-v... #Social

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📢 Meta releases its CapCut rival Edits globally Meta announced on Tuesday that it’s officially launching Edits, its CapCut-like video-creation app. Releasing globally, Edits will allow creators to do things like keep track of video ideas, get inspi... #Apps #Social

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📢 Ex-Meta engineer raises $14M for AI-powered customer service software for home services As an AI engineer at Meta, Boris Valkov helped build PyTorch, one of the world’s largest machine learning libraries. During his time there, Valkov realized that artificial intelligence “was about to u...

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🦋 India’s EV startup Ather cuts IPO size to $308M, seeking $1.4B post-money valuation Ather Energy, the Indian startup manufacturing electric two-wheelers, has cut the size of its initial public offer by 18% to 26.26 billion Indian rupees ($308.3 million), according to a new draft pros... #EV

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👋 Adaptive Computer wants to reinvent the PC with ‘vibe’ coding for non-programmers Dennis Xu is a repeat tech startup founder, but he’s the first to admit he’s not a programmer. After co-founding AI note-taking app Mem — one of OpenAI’s earliest venture investments — he has now lau... #AI

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📢 Marks & Spencer confirms cybersecurity incident amid ongoing disruption The company said it was necessary to make operational changes to protect the business. #Security #cyberattack #cybersecurity #DataBreach #retail

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📢 Uber customers can now earn Delta SkyMiles from rides or deliveries Delta SkyMiles members in the United States can now start earning points when they ride with Uber or order delivery through Uber Eats as part of a recently announced exclusive partnership between the ... #Transportation #Delta

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📢 Superpower wants to help people detect and address health issues before symptoms appear A startup called Superpower is publicly launching what it calls the world’s first super app that is designed to help people better understand and take care of their health. For $499, the startup offer...

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👋 Reddit briefly down for users worldwide Popular social network and forum site Reddit reported significant outages on Monday morning. The connection errors started at around 11:20 a.m. ET, according to the website Downdetector, which collec... #Apps #Social #Reddit

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👋 An AI doctoral candidate in California says they had their student visa revoked An AI doctoral student in California had their SEVIS record — the digital proof of their valid student visa — terminated, putting their immigration status at risk. Speaking to TechCrunch, the student,... #AI #visas

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📢 19 new tech unicorns were minted in 2025 so far Despite a still tight venture capital market, new unicorns are still being created every month. Using data from Crunchbase and PitchBook, TechCrunch tracked down the newly VC-backed startup minted uni... #Startups #evergreens #fundraising

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🦋 Final weeks to secure your spot in the AI spotlight at TechCrunch Sessions: AI The countdown is real! Exhibit tables for TechCrunch Sessions: AI are almost gone, and the May 9 deadline is closing in fast. If you’ve been meaning to showcase your AI innovation, this is your last w... #TC #AI

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👋 Instagram is using AI to find teens lying about their age and restricting their accounts Meta is using AI technology to search for kids who are lying about their age on Instagram in order to bypass safeguards, the company announced on Monday. When Meta finds an account that it suspects be...

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👋 ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with sh... #AI #ChatGPT #evergreens

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🦋 Tesla reportedly delays launch of new low-cost model by months Tesla is pushing back the promised launch of a more affordable EV by months, according to a report from Reuters. The new model, which is supposedly a very stripped-down Model Y, was supposed to debut ... #Transportation #ElonMusk

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👋 Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away One of the chief complaints of Airbnb users over the years has been not being able to tell right away how much they would pay for their stay, including charges such as cleaning fees. Airbnb is now fix... #Apps #Airbnb #travel

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🦋 The Nintendo Switch 2 will still cost $450 in the US, despite tariffs Nintendo announced on Friday that it will open Switch 2 preorders in the U.S. on April 24, following a delay due to the Trump administration’s hefty tariffs. Fans feared the long-awaited console would... #Gaming #Nintendo

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📢 Final day to submit your speaker application and shape the next wave of startups at TechCrunch All Stage Today’s the day! The application to speak at TechCrunch All Stage closes tonight at 11:59 p.m. PT — this is your final chance to share real-world insights with 1,200+ startup founders and VC

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📢 Netflix is revamping search with AI to improve discovery Netflix is building a new search experience aimed at improving the discovery experience, and it’s going to use AI to do it, the company’s CEO Greg Peters said during its first-quarter results conferen... #MediaEntertainment #AISearch

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📢 OpenAI pursued Cursor maker before entering into talks to buy Windsurf for $3B When news broke that OpenAI was in talks to acquire AI coding company Windsurf for $3 billion, one of the first questions on the mind of anyone following the space was likely: “Why not buy Cursor crea... #AI #OpenAI

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🦋 Defense tech Theseus landed Y Combinator, the US Special Forces, and $4.3M from a tweet On February 18, 2024, Ian Laffey posted on X that he and two others he’d just met built a cheap drone at a hackathon that calculated its coordinates simply by using its camera and Google Maps. He and ...

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👋 Defense tech Theseus landed Y Combinator, the US Special Forces, and $4.3M from a tweet On February 18, 2024, Ian Laffey posted on X that he and two others he’d just met built a cheap drone at a hackathon that calculated its coordinates simply by using its camera and Google Maps. He and ...

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📢 Ramp is trying to get the US government as a customer after seeing a tweet from DOGE Expense management startup Ramp is being considered for a charge card pilot program by the U.S. government’s General Services Administration, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Thursday. The gover...

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📢 OpenAI launches Flex processing for cheaper, slower AI tasks In a bid to more aggressively compete with rival AI companies like Google, OpenAI is launching Flex processing, an API option that provides lower AI model usage prices in exchange for slower response ... #AI #Enterprise #OpenAI

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📢 Carbon removal startup Holocene bought by oil and gas giant Occidental The deal was executed through Oxy Low Carbon Ventures for an undisclosed amount. #Climate #CarbonRemoval #DirectAirCapture #exit #MergersAndAcquisitions

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