Spotify launches an ElevenLabs-powered audiobook creation tool
Alongside tools for AI-generated podcasts, Spotify on Thursday introduced a new, ElevenLabs-powered AI tool…
How VCs and founders use inflated ‘ARR’ to crown AI startups
"Investors can't call it out," a VC told TechCrunch. "Everyone has a company monetizing…
OpenRouter more than doubles valuation to $1.3B in a year
OpenRouter, the unified gateway and API for Large Language Models founded in 2023, has…
Triomics nabs $22M to bring oncology-specific AI to cancer centers
By reducing appointment prep time, these summaries give oncologists more time with their patients.…
Glean’s top line crosses $300M as AI budget-cutting becomes its major selling point
Glean, a company often described as the Google for enterprise, said it has reached…
DuckDuckGo makes its ‘no-AI’ search engine easier to access as its traffic booms
As its traffic continues to climb, alternative search engine DuckDuckGo is leaning into anti-AI…
New Microsoft tool lets devs spin up AI behavior tests using text descriptions
In a bid to make that testing process simpler, Microsoft on Tuesday took the…
Meet Wander, a StumbleUpon-inspired tool for discovering the ‘small web’
But that still wouldn't surface the kind of small websites that are maintained by…
Massachusetts votes to pass new privacy rights bill that bans sale of precise location data
By applying the location data ban to both residents and visitors, the Massachusetts law…
Evotrex raises $30M to build the RV that doesn’t need a charging station
It will also need it to hold its ground in a crowded field of…
ServiceNow tells customers a bug left some of their data exposed to the internet
Cloud technology giant ServiceNow has notified some of its enterprise customers that a software…
Equal AI raises $30M to screen calls so Indians don’t have to
In India, consumers receive a lot of calls every day, ranging from spam and…
UK may ban social media for children under 16
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is about to announce a ban on social media…
Fintech startup Parker files for bankruptcy
Parker, a well-funded startup offering corporate credit cards and banking services for e-commerce businesses,…
For Eclipse, the $2.5B Cerebras win is just the start of realizing its physical-world thesis
At first glance, it may seem that investor enthusiasm for physical-world tech is driven…
Google adds voice-based prompting to Docs and Keep
At the Google I/O developer conference, Google announced it's bringing a voice-based prompting feature…
