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• SleekFlow snaps up $7M to tap the conversational AI opportunity across Asia [158d]
• The banks that loaned Musk $13B to buy Twitter might be having regrets [158d]
• Is your company AI-washing? Rippling founder Parker Conrad thinks it might be. [158d]
• Move over, Apple: Meet the alternative app stores coming to the EU [158d]
• Google’s Nest Learning Thermostat is still the one to beat [158d]
• Watch this robot quickly install roof shingles [158d]
• Cisco employees face a month of silence ahead of second layoff in 2024 [158d]
• OpenAI signs deal to train on Condé Nast content, surface stories in ChatGPT [158d]
• PayPal could challenge Apple Wallet in the EU [158d]
• Fintech shutdowns, Klarna’s move into banking and which companies are hiring [158d]
• How Fabric plans to make advanced cryptography ubiquitous [158d]
• Life-sciences investor BEVC raising $25M climate fund [158d]
• YouTube takes on TikTok Shop with expanded Shopify partnership [158d]
• TechCrunch Minute: Ikea is expanding its fleet of inventory drones [158d]
• Waymo is now giving 100,000 robotaxi rides a week [158d]
• Discover how founders and investors are saving the planet at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 [158d]
• 4 days left to save big on TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 tickets [158d]
• US government accuses Iran of Trump campaign hack; Iran scoffs [158d]
• Thirty-nine state AGs now support Live Nation-Ticketmaster lawsuit [158d]
• Sarah Buchner started as a carpenter when she was 12 — now her AI construction startup has raised $20 million [158d]
• The Rounds scoops up $24M to bring its ‘household restocking’ delivery service to more markets [158d]
• Eppo lands new cash to grow its app, website and AI experimentation business [158d]
• Defcon AI closes $44M seed round to solve a problem of ‘maximum complexity’: Military logistics [158d]
• Beyond Math’s ‘digital wind tunnel’ puts a physics-based AI simulation to work on F1 cars [158d]
• Markforged adds metal printing to its industrial 3D printer amid economic struggles [158d]
• Starpath accelerates moon water mining plans with $12M seed funding [158d]
• Reliant’s paper-scouring AI takes on science’s data drudgery [158d]
• Mike Lynch, recently acquitted in HP-Autonomy fraud case, is missing after yacht capsized off Sicily (updated) [158d]
• US tech giants fight Indian telcos’ bid to regulate internet services [158d]