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According to a16z, it has eyes around the world in order to spot companies as early as local funds might.

The reason why this nascent startup had VCs lining up is the founders.They are so famed in the AI world, everyone tried to hire them.

From an AI research perspective, this is nothing novel, one expert told TechCrunch.

As India's first AI company to IPO, Fractal Analytics didn't have a stellar first day on the public markets, as enthusiasm for the technology collided with jittery investors in the wake of a sell-off in Indian software stocks.

India is hosting a four-day AI Summit this week that will be attended by executives from major AI labs and Big Tech, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, and Cloudflare, as well as heads of state.

Terra Industries, the African defense company, announced Monday that it had secured an additional $22 million in funding to further expand the business.

C2i has raised $15 million as it tests a grid-to-GPU approach to reducing power losses in AI data centers.

Neysa is targeting deployments of more than 20,000 GPUs over time as demand for local AI compute accelerates.

OpenAI said OpenClaw will live on as an open source project.

The longtime host of NPRs Morning Edition, is suing Google, alleging that the male podcast voice in the companys NotebookLM tool is based on him.

The apparent issue: whether Claude can be used for mass domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says India has the largest number of student users of ChatGPT worldwide.

In this week's episode of the Equity podcast, Glean CEO Arvind Jain explains the company's shift from enterprise search tool to middleware layer for enterprise AI.

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.

Will the Epstein revelations lead to broader fallout in Silicon Valley?

TechCrunch spoke to a16z partner Joshua Lu for some tips on standing out for the Speedrun program.

Students are losing some interest in computer science broadly but gaining interest in AI-specific majors and courses.

The Department of Homeland Security has been increasing pressure on tech companies to identify the owners of accounts that criticize ICE.

Elon Musk is actively working to make xAIs Grok chatbot more unhinged, according to a former employee.

As much of Silicon Valley chases mega-rounds and buzzy AI deals, Stacy Brown-Philpot is running Cherryrock Capital like a throwback to venture capital's earlier days

This week, Alta unveiled its first integration collaboration, teaming up with Public School, a storied New York City brand.

Hollywood organizations are pushing back against a new AI video model called Seedance 2.0, which they say has quickly become a tool for blatant copyright infringement.

Designer Kate Barton teams up with Fiducia AI and IBM for a NYFW presentation.

Indias $1.1B fund-of-funds will invest through private VCs to support deep-tech and manufacturing startups.

The two-story location will sell products from Nothing and the more affordable, mass-market brand CMF.

A backend flaw in web admin dashboards used by one of India's largest pharmacy chains, exposed thousands of online pharmacy orders.

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said the company wants to increase its use of large language models for customer discovery, support and engineering.

The company said hackers downloaded a limited number of files after breaking into an employees account. The hacking group ShinyHunters took responsibility for the breach.

AI companies have been hemorrhagingtalentthe past few weeks. Half ofxAIsfounding teamhas left the company some on their own, others through restructuring while OpenAI is facing its own shakeups, from thedisbanding of itsmission alignment teamto the firing of a policy exec who opposed its adult mode feature. Watch as TechCrunchsEquitypodcast hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony []

The Japanese sex toy maker said a hacker broke into an employee's inbox and stole customer names, email addresses, and correspondence, including order details and customer service inquiries.

The model is known for its overly sycophantic nature and its role in several lawsuits involving users' unhealthy relationships to the chatbot.

The financial regulator revealed in a response to a TechCrunch records request that the probe was closed in September 2025.

India turns to Alibaba.com's B2B network of 50 million buyers in 200 countries to help businesses scale global exports.

After Anthropic's Super Bowl ads, Claude's app reached the top 10 on the U.S. App Store.

Roku delivered an impressive Q4, posting net income of $80.5 million. The company also outlined plans for streaming bundles.

Our matches convert to actual dates at about 10x the rate of Tinder, Weng told TechCrunch.

At least nine engineers, including two co-founders, have announced their exits from xAI in the past week, fueling online speculation and raising questions about stability at Musks AI company amid mounting controversy.

The Dutch phone giant Odido is the latest phone and internet company to be hacked in recent months, as governments and financially motivated hackers continue to steal highly confidential information about phone customers.

This news comes less than a week after Ring's Super Bowl commercial stoked controversy over the company's capacity for mass surveillance.

Cohere surpassed $240 million in annual recurring revenue in 2025, highlighting strong enterprise AI demand as the Canadian startup positions itself for a potential IPO amid intensifying competition from OpenAI and Anthropic.

The feature, internally known as Name Tag, would allow smart glasses wearers to identify people and get information about them via Meta's AI assistant.

Two years ago, a controversial dating app was launched and quickly shuttered: for people with good-to-excellent credit. Now, the founder is relaunching it, open to anyone.

Helion's Polaris device hit 150 million degrees C recently, a milestone that nudges the company toward its commercial power plant that will sell electricity to Microsoft.

If a passenger accidentally leaves a Waymo door open, the vehicle can get stuck in place.