Meta launches two new Ray-Ban glasses designed for prescription wearers
Meta announced Tuesday that it will launch two types of Ray-Ban smart glasses designed for prescription wearers. While many people already use Metaglasses with prescription lenses, the company says these new glasses are compatible with almost any prescription and are made to better serve people who rely on glasses all day long. The new glasses […]
Former Coatue partner raises massive $65M seed for enterprise AI agent startup
Yet another startup aimed at helping companies build, secure, and tune AI agents has raised a resoundingly large seed round. Sycamore announced a $65 million seed on Monday led by Coatue and Lightspeed and includes a long list of angels including former OpenAI chief scientist Bob McGrew, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi, […]
Delve whistleblower strikes again over alleged ‘fake compliance’ receipts
A day after Karun Kaushik, Delve’s founder and CEO, published a lengthy post denying allegations that Company X falsified evidence for customer compliance audits, the anonymous accuser has posted again. The whistleblower, who goes by the name DeepDelver, presented purported receipts containing videos and Slack messages. DeepDelver also said he hopes to see more posts […]
Meta begins testing premium subscription on Instagram
Meta confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday that it has begun testing Instagram’s premium subscription in several countries. This subscription, called Instagram Plus, gives subscribers access to exclusive features. The move comes two months after Meta told TechCrunch that it plans to test the new subscription on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp. Among Instagram’s premium features is […]
Bluesky’s new AI tool Attie is already the most blocked account outside of JD Vance
Bluesky has launched an AI assistant called Attie that allows users to design their own social media algorithms and create custom feeds within the company’s AT protocol ecosystem. And let’s just say the reaction was hot. Ati debuted this weekend at the ATmosphere conference sponsored by Bluesky. However, Bluesky’s user base did not embrace the […]
Apple hides your email address from apps and websites, but not the police
Apple provided federal officials with the true identities of at least two customers who used one of the company’s privacy features designed to hide email addresses from apps and websites. “Hide My Email” is a feature that allows paying Apple iCloud+ customers to generate an anonymous email address and forward messages to their personal private […]
Mantis Biotech is creating a “digital twin” of humans to help solve medical data availability issues
Large language models trained on massive datasets can accelerate genomics research, streamline clinical documentation, improve real-time diagnostics, support clinical decision-making, accelerate drug discovery, and even generate synthetic data to advance experiments. But their promises to transform biomedical research often run into bottlenecks. Beyond the structured data that healthcare relies on, these models struggle in edge […]
AI chip startup Rebellions raises $400 million in pre-IPO round at $2.3 billion valuation
Fresh off a successful Series C funding round in November, South Korean fabless AI chip startup Rebellions has raised an additional $400 million. The capital injection comes ahead of an IPO scheduled for later this year and was led by Mirae Asset Financial Group and Korea National Growth Fund. This also comes as the company […]
Qodo raises $70M for code verification as AI coding scales
AI coding tools generate billions of lines of code each month, creating a new bottleneck in ensuring software works as intended. Qodo, a startup that develops AI agents for code review, testing, and governance, is betting that validation will define the next stage of software development. The New York-based startup has raised $70 million in […]
StarCloud raises $170 million Series A to build data centers in space
StarCloud’s latest funding round values the space computing company at $1.1 billion, making it one of the first startups to reach unicorn status after graduating from Y Combinator. The company’s Series A, which closed 17 months after its Demo Day presentation, was led by Benchmark and EQT Ventures. This is another sign of interest in […]