Year: 2026
India’s government to propose blanket ban on real-money gaming | TechCrunch
Real-money gaming companies are reeling as India moves to propose a blanket ban on their operations under a...
Two years after launch, Walmart’s Flipkart is closing in on India’s quick-commerce leaders | TechCrunch
Indian startups spent years getting consumers accustomed to having groceries and everyday goods delivered within minutes. Now Walmart-owned...
Nandan Nilekani leaves GP role at Fundamentum as it launches $200M third fund | TechCrunch
Nandan Nilekani, co-founder of Indian IT services giant Infosys, will no longer serve as a general partner at...
Instagram’s ‘First Draft’ feature aims to make editing Reels less tedious | TechCrunch
Instagram is making one of the most tedious parts of creating Reels easier. The company announced Tuesday in...
Apple approves Poke as the first AI agent on its Messages for Business platform | TechCrunch
Poke, a startup that turns using AI agents into something as simple as sending a text message, has...
AI music generator Suno breach affects 55M users, per Have I Been Pwned | TechCrunch
A cyberattack at AI music generator Suno last year allowed a hacker to steal the personal information of...
Vals, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, is looking to become the gold standard for AI benchmarking | TechCrunch
Benchmarking has become the industry norm for how AI companies validate their models’ capabilities and, when the metrics...
Duolingo CEO says controversial AI memo was misunderstood | TechCrunch
While Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn was loudly criticized this year after declaring that Duolingo would become an...
Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research | TechCrunch
Inherent, a London AI lab founded by Google DeepMind alumni, says its AI agent just outperformed much larger...
Crypto VC firm Paradigm raises $1.2B to invest in ‘technical frontier’ startups | TechCrunch
Crypto VC firm Paradigm has raised $1.2 billion — its third venture fund and fourth overall — with...
