Snap alums unveil Ghost Angels fund | TechCrunch
…media was moving away from building generalized platforms and toward niche communities. “On the social side, we’re backing founders that are applying AI in creative ways to finally deliver on that…
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H1 secures $40M from CVS, proving SaaS startups can still attract investment | TechCrunch
It’s no secret that pre-AI era startups are generally getting little love from investors now. Ariel Katz, co-founder and CEO of a nine-year-old healthcare data platform H1…
These two founders left Goldman and Meta to build voice AI for markets everyone else overlooked | TechCrunch
…The company is hiring forward-deployed engineers on a contract basis to serve local markets and building channel partnerships with telecoms providers to handle telephony for voice AI calls. Plug-and-play…
Startup Battlefield is returning to Australia — here's what happened the last time we came to Sydney | TechCrunch
…GitHub Copilot’s new token-based billing spurs consternation among devs I put Google’s 24/7 AI assistant Gemini Spark to work, and it’s actually pretty useful
Anthropic and OpenAI are both launching joint ventures for enterprise AI services | TechCrunch
On Monday, Anthropic announced a joint venture focusing on deploying enterprise AI services. Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs will be founding partners in the new venture, which is backed by a…
Spotify adds AI-powered Q&A and briefing generation features to podcasts | TechCrunch
…Social platforms like Instagram, Facebook , and Snap already offer a similar product to content creators. Topics AI , AI audio , ai generated content , Apps , Spotify When you purchase through links in our articles…
Can tech companies learn to love cheaper AI models? | TechCrunch
…The test, performed in partnership with the inference platform Fireworks AI, combined Claude Opus and Fireworks’ GLM 5.1, and shifted to Opus for the most intensive tasks. The result was a…
Jedify raises $24M to help companies arm AI agents with context on their business | TechCrunch
…Snowflake’s investment and partnership are notable because large data platforms are also trying to build similar capabilities. But Henkin argues that Jedify is complementary to such efforts because much of a…
As Anthropic suspends access to new models, India debates its AI future | TechCrunch
…AI strategy and whether India could afford to remain dependent on a small number of foreign frontier AI providers. “It completely changes things,” said Aakrit Vaish, founder of Indian AI venture platform…
X caters to creators with new 'React with Video' feature | TechCrunch
…It’s also rolled out “Paid Partnership” labels for creators and tested ad formats that would connect posts with products. The Creator Subscriptions feature has had a revamp, too, with new features…