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TechCrunch Popular open source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M, grows to nearly 9M users

Benchmark-backed Ollama has amassed 176,000 stars, and nearly 17,000 forks on GitHub by helping developers easily run AI on their...

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TechCrunch Character.AI enters the microdrama arena with its own productions, but there’s a twist

In an interesting twist that takes advantage of the company's core product, users can chat with these shows' characters, ask them...

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TechCrunch Nandan Nilekani leaves GP role at Fundamentum as it launches $200M third fund

Nilekani remains Fundamentum's anchor investor as the firm expands its leadership team and targets AI and fintech startups in Indi...

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TechCabal 👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Koko runs out of gas

In today's edition: Djamo eyes Series C raise || Koko Networks is looking for buyers || Betting in Kenya could soon be a family di...

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TechCrunch Truecaller clashes with India’s telecom regulator over anti-spam rules

The caller ID company says users are increasingly ignoring and blocking calls from India's dedicated business number series.

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TechCrunch Despite ‘misgivings,’ judge approves Elon Musk’s $1.5M SEC settlement

The saga of Musk's tussle with the SEC over how he disclosed his growing stake in Twitter (now X) has come to an end.

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TechCrunch Lovable reportedly in talks to double its valuation to $13.2B

The $300 million round is expected to be led by Menlo Ventures, Sifted reported.

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TechCrunch Feds demand autonomous vehicle companies stop interfering with first responders

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said emergency scenes are not "edge cases."

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TechCrunch Google’s deepfake detector system used to debunk McConnell hoax pic

Earlier this week, a picture seemed to show Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell covered in tubes in a hospital bed in a state of extr...

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TechCrunch With EU backing, QuantumDiamonds aims to speed up chip manufacturing

Like its U.S. counterpart, the European Chips Act aims to foster the semiconductor industry — in part thanks to state subsidies. O...

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TechCrunch Autonomous drone delivery startup Manna plots major US expansion

Manna is launching a U.S. operations and manufacturing facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that will eventually employ 1,000 people.

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TechCrunch SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.5, which Elon describes as an ‘Opus-class model’

Elon Musk's tech company released the newest version of Grok on Wednesday, promising a cheaper, more efficient alternative to othe...

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TechCrunch ‘Slow-cial’ app Roost forces you to slow down to the speed of a carrier pigeon

This developer didn't expect his side project to grow to 300,000 users, but people love Roost because it's an alternative to an al...

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TechCrunch This startup thinks robotics is about to have its ChatGPT moment

General Intuition is betting millions of hours of video game data can train the foundation models for physical AI, making it easie...

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TechCrunch Elon Musk says X will send DMs when posts you’ve engaged with are corrected

X plans to send users direct messages when posts they’ve liked, replied to, or reposted receive Community Notes, an update aimed a...

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TechCrunch Google Photos adds a new AI ‘Video Remix’ tool

The feature can do things like apply cinematic relighting to brighten up a dark clip, swap out a plain background for something fu...

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TechCrunch Why this CEO thinks video games make better training data than the internet

When it comes to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), large language models just don’t have what it takes. Models like...

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TechCrunch Meta wants its AI glasses to seem less creepy. Its AI strategy says otherwise.

Meta is adding a new safeguard to stop people from secretly recording others with its AI glasses. But the update comes as the comp...

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TechCrunch OpenAI releases new voice models for more natural live conversations

OpenAI says its new voice mode can speak and listen at the same time, a key ability for live translation.

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TechCabal Kelvin Obasuyi learned entrepreneurship by failing at almost everything first

In February 2023, the idea became 56 Capital, the finance firm he founded to provide debt and equity financing to both structured...

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TechCabal Nothing Ear 3a: Price, release date and full specs

Nothing has launched the Ear 3a, the newest earbuds in its affordable lineup. The earbuds went official on July 7, 2026, alongside...

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TechCabal Google’s Intelligent Eyewear vs Ray-Ban Meta glasses: Key differences explained

Meta has already put its Ray-Ban Display glasses in customers' hands. Google is now moving to challenge that dominance with Google...

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TechCrunch Crypto VC firm Paradigm raises $1.2B to invest in ‘technical frontier’ startups

For Paradigm, the technical frontier will stretch beyond its cryptocurrency investment roots. This fund is expected to expand its...

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TechCrunch Prime Intellect raises $130M Series A to help enterprises build their own AI agents

Founded in 2024, Prime Intellect’s goal is to give organizations capabilities to train their own agentic systems without relying o...

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