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• How Synthflow AI is cutting through the noise in a loud AI voice category [23d]
• India’s GoKwik raised a small $13M round for a hefty leap in valuation [23d]
• New data highlights the race to build more empathetic language models [23d]
• Facebook Group admins complain of mass bans — Meta says it’s fixing the problem [23d]
• In just 4 months, AI medical scribe Abridge doubles valuation to $5.3B [23d]
• The All-In Podcast’s $1,200 tequila has already sold out [23d]
• iPhone customers upset by Apple Wallet ad pushing ‘F1’ movie [23d]
• Chrome for Android now lets you move the address bar to the bottom, too [23d]
• ElevenLabs releases a stand-alone voice-generation app [23d]
• Feds question Ford in hands-free driving investigation [23d]
• At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, Medha Agarwal, Jyoti Bansal, and Jennifer Neundorfer discuss what makes a pitch land [23d]
• Wispr Flow raises $30M from Menlo Ventures for its AI-powered dictation app [23d]
• Thanks to Fidelity and our amazing sponsors, TechCrunch All Stage is where startups rise [23d]
• A federal judge sides with Anthropic in lawsuit over training AI on books without authors’ permission [23d]
• Amazon to spend over $4B to expand Prime delivery to rural communities in the US [23d]
• UK may require Google to give users alternative search options and rank its results ‘more fairly’ [23d]
• Google rolls out new Gemini model that can run on robots locally [23d]
• How a data-processing problem at Lyft became the basis for Eventual [23d]
• Novoloop is making tons of upcycled plastic [23d]
• Google brings historical Street View imagery to Google Earth [23d]