Amazon is testing Alexa+ in India with Hindi support | TechCrunch
…tap the market of native speakers who might speak both Hindi and English in a code-mixed way. Companies know that voice might be a big factor in AI tool usage in…
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Sarvam becomes India's newest AI unicorn with $234 million funding round led by HCLTech | TechCrunch
…Sarvam’s investment comes as India cements its position as one of the world’s most important AI markets. Both OpenAI and Anthropic have described India as their second-largest market after…
WhatsApp gets new chief as Meta taps India's CRED founder Kunal Shah and invests $900M in startup | TechCrunch
…India is WhatsApp’s largest market, with more than 500 million users accounting for a significant share of the app’s global base of over 3 billion people. The country has also…
SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO | TechCrunch
…market of around $28 trillion. Nearly all of that — $26 trillion — was centered around the company’s AI efforts. SpaceX told investors that it sees a potential $2.4 trillion AI infrastructure…
Wirestock raises $23M to supply creative multimodal data to AI labs | TechCrunch
In the past few years, creative marketplaces and platforms have realized they are sitting on a data gold mine, and they can either use that data to develop AI models or turn…
Coralogix raises $200M on bet that someone needs to watch the AI agents | TechCrunch
…View Bio Most Popular Still facing copyright lawsuits, AI music generator Suno raises another $400M These two founders left Goldman and Meta to build voice AI for markets everyone else overlooked GitLab…
Solar to dominate energy by 2035, but AI data centers will keep fossil fuels in business | TechCrunch
…The tectonic shift will occur alongside a historic rise in the use of energy driven by AI and the electrification of entire industries. “Solar is winning the race,” Matthias Kimmel, head of…
Microsoft offers devs a better way to control AI agent behavior | TechCrunch
As AI agents grow ever more capable, enterprises racing to put them to work across applications, workflows, and products face a new challenge: ensuring an agent does what it’s supposed to…
Google's 'Create My Widget' feature will let you vibe-code your own widgets | TechCrunch
…The feature signals Google’s latest push to bring generative AI deeper into the Android experience, as tech companies race to make customization tools more accessible to everyday users. “This is like…
The pope’s AI encyclical isn’t really about AI | TechCrunch
…More concretely, Leo called for an end to the AI arms race — the push to build “ever more powerful algorithms and larger datasets” that companies and countries believe will “secure geopolitical or…