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• Ati Motors raises $20M as India's robotics industry grows | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Ati Motors, an Indian startup building AI-powered autonomous mobile robots, has raised $20 million in a Series B round.
• Hinge’s new AI feature determines if your prompt response is too basic (Techcrunch)
  Hinge today launched a new AI-powered feature called “Prompt Feedback,” which aims to improve your dating profile by analyzing how you answ…
• Bluesky falling foul of EU rules by not reporting user numbers across the bloc (Techcrunch)
  Bluesky is in breach of European Union regulations that stipulate all online platforms must regularly publish user numbers.
• SoftBank veteran hunts for profits in payments infrastructure plumbing (Techcrunch)
  Former SoftBank exec Akshay Naheta's startup, Distributed Technologies Research, is trying to bridge the gap between banking and blockchain…
• Reddit looks to the UK, India, Brazil, and the Philippines to spur international growth (Techcrunch)
  Reddit is concentrating on international markets such as the U.K., India, Brazil, and the Philippines to bolster its user base.
• These tech companies are donating to LA wildfire relief efforts (Techcrunch)
  Numerous tech companies have pledged millions in donations to help LA recover from wildfires that caused widespread devastation and forced…
• Alan unveils AI health assistant for its 680K health insurance members (Techcrunch)
  Alan wants to build a super app for healthcare, so it's rolling out three new product updates, including an AI chatbot that's vetted by doc…
• Samsung says customer data stolen in July data breach (Techcrunch)
  The technology giant said the incident occurred in late-July.
• Promoted grabs more funding to help e-commerce marketplaces achieve profitability (Techcrunch)
  It’s a big week for startups developing technology for e-commerce marketplaces. We saw companies like Nautical Commerce bag $30 million in…
• Australia approves law banning social media for users under 16 (Techcrunch)
  In a step likely to be tracked around the world, Australia has approved legislation that will ban the use of social media for children unde…
• In AI copyright case, Zuckerberg turns to YouTube for his defense (Techcrunch)
  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg used YouTube and its battle to take down pirated content to defend his own company’s use of copyrighted data to tr…
• Streaming service Plex gets more social with public profiles and reviews (Techcrunch)
  Streaming service Plex has long since grown beyond its original focus of being a home for personal media to offer a more comprehensive solu…
• Ransomware hackers target NHS hospitals with new cyberattacks | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Two NHS trusts in England have been hacked in recent weeks, the latest attacks to hit the national health service.
• This ‘AI Granny’ hack wastes telephone scammers’ time with boring chit-chat (Techcrunch)
  O2 has created an "AI granny" to keep scammers on the call, with the express purpose of wasting as much of their valuable time as possible.
• USV quietly announces $625M in fresh funding for 'both Web2 and Web3' teams | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Union Square Ventures (USV), the 19-year-old, New York-based venture firm, has raised $275 million for its eighth early-stage fund and $350…
• Battery companies are the latest SPAC target as EVs get a huge regulatory boost (Techcrunch)
  Batteries are the latest landing pad for investors.
• It’s Election Day, and all the AIs (Techcrunch)
  X's chatbot, Grok, is claiming that former president Donald Trump has already won several battleground states.
• Meet the founder who wants to recreate Mars on Earth (Techcrunch)
  Praxis co-founder Dryden Brown wants to build a city in Greenland that emulates what a community on Mars could be like.
• Entrepreneur Marc Lore on 'founder mode,' bad hires, and why avoiding risk is deadly (Techcrunch)
  Entrepreneur Marc Lore has already sold two companies for billions of dollars, collectively.
• New York powerhouse VC Insight Partners nabs another $12.5B after $8B in exits | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Insight Partners closed another giant flagship fund after big returns in 2024.
• After raising nearly half a billion dollars, ABL Space pivots from launch vehicles to missiles (Techcrunch)
  Significant changes are coming to ABL Space Systems.
• EV startup Canoo files for bankruptcy and ceases operations (Techcrunch)
  Seven-year-old electric vehicle startup Canoo has filed for bankruptcy and will “cease operations immediately.” The company is liquidating…
• Method is helping fintech companies like SoFi build repayment functionality into their apps (Techcrunch)
  Method, a startup that helps fintech developers build repayment functionality into their apps, has raised $41.5 million in a funding round.
• Printful and Printify ink a merger deal (Techcrunch)
  Printful and Printify, both startups with Latvian roots providing custom printing services, are coming together as a single company.
• Meta’s Threads is developing its own take on Bluesky’s ‘Starter Packs’ (Techcrunch)
  Hoping to quell some of the momentum behind social network Bluesky, a competitor to X and Meta’s Threads, Meta is developing a feature that…
• Bending Spoons is taking video platform Brightcove private in $233M acquisition | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Brightcove, a cloud platform that helps businesses monetize video content, is being taken private in a deal valued at $233 million.
• US sanctions Chinese cybersecurity firm for firewall hacks targeting critical infrastructure (Techcrunch)
  sanctioned a Chinese cybersecurity company and one of its employees for exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Sophos firewalls to target U…
• Fast-growing South African venture FARO raises $6M to source, refurbish and sell surplus clothing (Techcrunch)
  FARO came onto the scene last year and recently raised $6 million to make fashion affordable while combating textile waste across Africa.
• 10 years of fintech failure: 3 more ideas that failed to live up to the initial hype (Techcrunch)
  These innovations rolled out with hype and momentum, but they ultimately failed to change the way the average person manages their money.
• Dewey launches a solution to save your TikTok favorites … just in case (Techcrunch)
  for the time being, but its future remains uncertain.
• Apple warns investors its new products might never be as profitable as the iPhone (Techcrunch)
  Apple is warning investors that its new and future products might never be as profitable as the iPhone.
• Meta hires Salesforce's CEO of AI, Clara Shih, to lead new business AI group (Techcrunch)
  Meta hired Salesforce’s CEO of AI, Clara Shih, to lead a new organization building AI tools for businesses that use Meta’s apps to reach co…
• Business leaders among Pegasus spyware victims, says security firm (Techcrunch)
  The mobile security company said it detected Pegasus spyware attacks on seven iPhone owners, including government officials and a business…
• FTC says partnerships like Microsoft-OpenAI raise antitrust concerns (Techcrunch)
  The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said in a staff report issued Friday that there are potential competitive issues in partnerships between…
• Here’s why ServiceTitan was on the clock to go public (Techcrunch)
  ServiceTitan's Series H round came with a compounding IPO ratchet clause with an IPO deadline that has already passed.
• Allbirds is investing in a plant-based leather substitute, plans faux-leather shoe drop in December (Techcrunch)
  The sustainability focused shoe maker Allbirds has taken another step to green its supply chain with a small $2 million investment in a new…
• Samsung Unpacked 2025: Google is bringing improved hearing aid features (Techcrunch)
  Alongside a slew of announcements tied to Samsung’s Galaxy S25 launch at Samsung Unpacked 2025 on Wednesday, Google announced a pair of acc…
• AWS brings third-party apps to its SageMaker AI platform (Techcrunch)
  SageMaker has long been AWS' fully managed platform for building, training, and deploying machine learning and generative AI models.
• Canadian authorities say they arrested hacker linked to Snowflake data breaches (Techcrunch)
  Alexander Moucka was arrested in October in Canada. Moucka is suspected of being linked to the series of Snowflake data breaches this year.
• Colvin raises €45M Series C led by Eurazeo to disrupt the cosy flowers industry (Techcrunch)
  Something very interesting is going on with supply chains and has been for a while. But it’s clear the pandemic has accelerated the trend.
• Mistral signs deal with AFP to offer up-to-date answers in Le Chat (Techcrunch)
  Just a day after Google inked a deal with The Associated Press, Mistral has announced a content deal with newswire Agence France-Presse (AF…
• How victims of PowerSchool’s data breach helped each other investigate 'massive' hack (Techcrunch)
  School workers say they resorted to crowdsourcing help among each other following PowerSchool's breach, fueled by solidarity and the slow r…
• Mercedes partners with Google to bring Maps and YouTube into its vehicles | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Mercedes-Benz and Google have struck a partnership to offer drivers navigation, maps and other apps like YouTube provided by the tech giant.
• Viam looks beyond robotics with its automation platform (Techcrunch)
  Since the last time we spoke, Viam didn’t pivot exactly, according to founder and CEO Eliot Horowitz — it’s more of a “rebrand.” Roughly si…
• Chainalysis permanently parts ways with its founding CEO (Techcrunch)
  Michael Gronager, the co-founder and longtime CEO of Chainalysis, has agreed to leave the company permanently, two months after taking a te…
• The FTC comes after neobank Dave for misleading marketing, hidden fees | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on Tuesday that it will be taking action against the online cash app and neobank Dave, which i…
• Duolingo sees 216% spike in US users learning Chinese amid TikTok ban and move to RedNote (Techcrunch)
  users have been learning Chinese on Duolingo in increasing numbers amid their adoption of a Chinese social app called Red Note ahead of the…
• Amazon begins delivering select products via drone in Phoenix (Techcrunch)
  Amazon says that it's begun drone-based deliveries in the West Valley Phoenix Metro Area for eligible customers.
• Bluesky is courting the Swifties (Techcrunch)
  Bluesky has grown by 2 million users — about 15% — since Donald Trump won the U.S.
• Spade turns credit card transaction gibberish into clear, actionable data (Techcrunch)
  Spade’s technology “cleans” credit card data and enriches it with actual merchant identities, logos, business hours and spending history.