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AI expands access to filmmaking for resource-constrained creators. But as efficiency becomes the industrys north star, creativity risks being overwhelmed by a deluge of low-effort, AI-generated content.

Peak XV says most of its new capital will target India as the firm prioritizes AI, fintech and cross-border bets while navigating recent partner departures.

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The technology promises to replace several parts of the grid with one device thats both controllable and updatable.

The company said on Friday that users between 18 and 24 years of age account for nearly 50% of all messages sent by Indians to ChatGPT, and users under 30 accounted for 80% of usage in the country.

The OpenAI mafia: 15 of the most notable startups founded by alumni

Abu Dhabi-based tech company G42 has partnered with U.S.-based chipmaker Cerebras to deploy eight exaflops of compute through a new system in India

The pledge marks a sharp jump from General Catalyst's earlier $500 million$1 billion India earmark.

Neo's new Residency program invests $750,000 in an uncapped SAFE for startups and provides a $40,000 no-strings-attached grant for college students.

Gemini 3.1 Pro promises a Google LLM capable of handling more complex forms of work.

Nvidia is working with investors, nonprofits, and venture firms to build earlier ties with India's fast-growing AI founder ecosystem.

Google said it prevented 1.75 million bad apps from going live on Google Play during 2025, a figure that's down from previous years.

Redwood Materials says its new energy storage business is the fastest growing unit within the company.

The CEOs of Read AI and Lucidya told TechCrunch at Web Summit Qatar that they see AI tools replacing tasks, rather than workers.

YouTube is testing conversational AI on smart TVs, allowing viewers to ask the assistant questions related to the video they're watching on the big screen.

The robots will be unloading totes full of auto parts from an automated warehouse tugger.

Reporter Zo Bernard spent months talking to 51 people (31 of them gay men) to map out a subculture that's been an open secret in Silicon Valley for years: gay men, at the upper echelons of tech, quietly raising up their own networks the way powerful people have always done.

Elon Musk's company town already has a volunteer fire department, and is forming a Starbase Police Department. Now it wants its own court, too.

The move comes a few months after Meta shut down Messengers stand-alone desktop apps for Windows and Mac.

The governor of New York pulled a robotaxi expansion proposal that was viewed as a win for Waymo.

Meta's CEO was questioned over the addictive nature of its social media apps like Instagram, and other teen harms.

If completed, the project would be among the largest and most expensive natural gas power plants.

OpenAI is reportedly getting close to closing a $100 billion deal, with backers including Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank, and Microsoft. The deal would value the ChatGPT-maker at $850 billion.

Current introduces a stress-free, totally reimagined RSS news reading app as a one-time paid download.

OpenAI also plans to expand its presence in India with new offices in Mumbai and Bengaluru later this year.

OpenAI moves beyond ChatGPT in India with a Pine Labs deal targeting enterprise payments and AI-driven commerce.

The deal comes nearly five years after Etsy purchased Depop for $1.62 billion, at a time when secondhand clothing apps were gaining traction during the pandemic.

The Def Con hacking conference banned hackers Pablos Holman and Vincenzo Iozzo, as well as former MIT Media Lab director Joichi Ito, from attending the annual conference after their reported connections with Jeffrey Epstein.

Startup founders are being pushed to move faster than ever, using AI while facing tighter funding, rising infrastructure costs, and more pressure to show real traction early. Cloud credits, access to GPUs, and foundation models have made it easier to get started, but those early infrastructure choices can have unforeseen consequences once startups move beyond []

Social network Bluesky now offers private messaging by integrating the startup Germ's E2E encrypted messenger natively in its app.

SeatGeek announced on Wednesday a new integration with Spotify, bringing a seamless ticket-buying experience for Spotify users. Now, when Spotify users browse an artists page or upcoming tour dates, they will see ticket links powered by SeatGeek for concerts at these participating venues, allowing for a streamlined purchase process. Currently, the integration is available for []

Amazon said Blue Jay's core tech will be used for other robotics projects and the employees who worked on it were moved to other projects.

Mastodon is looking to grow its open source, decentralized social network with new features aimed at creators.

The Figure data breach allowed hackers to steal customer names, dates of birth, physical addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses.

The smartphone is available for preorder now with shipments starting March 5. It comes in Lavender, Berry, Fog, and Obsidian.

The feature will require customers to buy both versions of the title, but at a discounted price.

X's new immersive video player is designed to offer a more mobile-friendly experience, optimized especially for portrait-oriented videos.

Users will be able to use text, images, and videos as a reference to generate music.

The revenue milestone comes as Snap has added additional paid offerings outside of its core Snapchat+ subscription over the past year to diversify its revenue streams.

Kana, a new AI marketing startup from the founders of Rapt and Krux, has raised $15 million to build customizable, agent-based marketing tools.

Though crowded, the identity management market seems eager for new solutions, and Venice is finding traction.

Microsoft said the bug meant that its Copilot AI chatbot was reading and summarizing paying customers' confidential emails, bypassing data protection policies.

OpenAI says its India education partnerships aim to reach more than 100,000 students, faculty and staff over the next year.

The partnership will see the two companies exploring how World Labs models can work alongside Autodesks tools, and vice versa, starting with a focus on entertainment use cases.

The creative company's monthly active users increased 20%, growth that was partially propelled by adoption of its AI tools.

The company is using edge models that take up only megabytes of space, can run on most phones with existing processors, and can work offline.

Tesla alumni Drew Baglino raises a large round to build a giga-scale factory, this time at his own startup.

The new lineup includes 30-billion and 105-billion parameter models; a text-to-speech model; a speech-to-text model; and a vision model to parse documents.

The startup is making solid-state transformers capable of intelligently aggregating power from a number of different sources before sending it to data center racks.