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VCs deploy 'kingmaking' strategy to crown AI winners in their infancy | TechCrunch

In early October, DualEntry, an AI enterprise resource planning (ERP) startup, announced a $90 million Series A round led by Lightspeed and Khosla Ventures, valuing the one-year-old business at $415 m

发布时间:2025-12-02来源:TechCrunch
WordPress's vibe-coding experiment, Telex, has already been put to real-world use | TechCrunch

WordPress’s experimental AI development tool, Telex, has already been put to real-world use, only months after its September debut. At the company’s annual “State of the Word” event on Tuesday in San

发布时间:2025-12-02来源:TechCrunch
Andy Jassy says Amazon's Nvidia competitor chip is already a multibillion-dollar business | TechCrunch

Can any company, big or small, really topple Nvidia’s AI chip dominance? Maybe not. But there are hundreds of billions of dollars of revenue for those who can even peel off a chunk of it for themselve

发布时间:2025-12-02来源:TechCrunch
Meta poaches Apple design exec Alan Dye to lead new creative studio in Reality Labs | TechCrunch

Alan Dye, the design executive who led Apple’s user interface team for the last decade, is leaving the company to join Meta, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. This is a significant h

发布时间:2025-12-02来源:TechCrunch
Nexus isn't going all in on AI, keeping half of its new $700M fund for India startups | TechCrunch

While many venture firms seem to only have eyes for AI these days, Nexus Venture Partners is deliberately splitting its focus for its new $700 million fund. The firm will back AI startups and seek out

发布时间:2025-12-03来源:TechCrunch
AI finds its way into Apple's top apps of the year | TechCrunch

Apple on Thursday shared its annual list of App Store Award winners, continuing its tradition of celebrating the best apps and games of the past year. For 2025, the winning iPhone app was visual plann

发布时间:2025-12-03来源:TechCrunch
EU investigating Meta over policy change that bans rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp | TechCrunch

Meta’s decision to serve only its AI chatbot, Meta AI, to WhatsApp users isn’t sitting well with the competition regulators in Europe. The European Commission on Thursday said it is launching an antit

发布时间:2025-12-03来源:TechCrunch
Anthropic signs $200M deal to bring its LLMs to Snowflake's customers | TechCrunch

AI research lab Anthropic’s not slowing down in its efforts to snap up enterprise clients. The company on Wednesday said it is expanding its partnership with cloud data company Snowflake in a $200 mil

发布时间:2025-12-03来源:TechCrunch
Meta reportedly plans to slash Metaverse budget by up to 30% | TechCrunch

Meta may be planning to make serious cuts to its Metaverse division, Bloomberg reported, citing anonymous sources. Company executives are mulling slashing the virtual reality platform’s budget by up t

发布时间:2025-12-03来源:TechCrunch
Meta centralizes Facebook and Instagram support, tests AI support assistant | TechCrunch

Meta is launching a new centralized support hub for Facebook and Instagram users, the company announced on Thursday, adding that its prior support options haven’t “always met expectations.” Within the

发布时间:2025-12-03来源:TechCrunch
Anthropic CEO weighs in on AI bubble talk and risk-taking among competitors | TechCrunch

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei shared his thoughts on if the AI industry was in a bubble at The New York Times DealBook Summit on Wednesday. This was in addition to throwing shade on one particular unname

发布时间:2025-12-03来源:TechCrunch
Micro1, a Scale AI competitor, touts crossing $100M ARR | TechCrunch

Micro1’s rapid climb over the past two years has pushed it into a cohort of AI companies scaling at breakneck speed. The three-year-old startup, which helps AI labs recruit and manage human experts fo

发布时间:2025-12-03来源:TechCrunch
Chicago Tribune sues Perplexity | TechCrunch

The Chicago Tribune filed a lawsuit against AI search engine Perplexity on Thursday alleging copyright infringement. The suit, seen by TechCrunch, was filed in a federal court in New York. The Tribune

发布时间:2025-12-03来源:TechCrunch
All the biggest news from AWS' big tech show re:Invent 2025 | TechCrunch

Amazon Web Services’ annual tech conference AWS re:Invent has wrapped. And the singular message, amid a deluge of product news and keynotes, was AI for the enterprise. This year it was all about upgra

发布时间:2025-12-03来源:TechCrunch
Meta signs commercial AI data agreements with publishers to offer real-time news on Meta AI | TechCrunch

Meta has signed commercial AI data agreements with news publishers to offer real-time global, entertainment, and breaking news on Meta AI, its AI chatbot. Now, when users ask Meta AI news-related ques

发布时间:2025-12-04来源:TechCrunch