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• Electric aircraft startup Beta Technologies seeks to raise $825M in IPO [47d]
• This Thiel-backed venture allows doping in its own sports [47d]
• Spotify spotted working on a ‘SongDNA’ feature that showcases the people behind your favorite music [47d]
• Apple adds 650 megawatts of renewables in Europe with more coming in China [47d]
• Eightfold co-founders raise $35M for Viven, an AI digital twin startup for querying unavailable coworkers [47d]
• Anthropic launches new version of scaled-down ‘Haiku’ model [47d]
• Liberate bags $50M at $300M valuation to bring AI deeper into insurance back offices [47d]
• Self-driving car companies Pony.ai and WeRide get the OK for Hong Kong listing [47d]
• Meta partners up with Arm to scale AI efforts [47d]
• Nscale inks massive AI infrastructure deal with Microsoft [47d]
• Google releases Veo 3.1, adds it to Flow video editor [47d]
• Google now lets you add friends as contacts for account recovery [47d]
• Cyber giant F5 Networks says government hackers had ‘long-term’ access to its systems, stole code and customer data [47d]
• X plans to show more information about user profiles to help improve trust [47d]
• Apple upgrades iPad Pro, MacBook Pro, and Vision Pro with new M5 chip [47d]
• Threads is getting group chats as messaging rolls out to the EU [47d]
• The full Space Stage agenda at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: The future of tech launches here [47d]
• Less than 3 days remain to secure your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 [47d]
• You can now text Spotify’s AI DJ [47d]
• 3 days left: Save up to $624 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 Pass before prices rise [47d]
• VSCO gets AI editing chops, support for RAW files [47d]
• Waymo plans to launch a robotaxi service in London in 2026 [47d]
• OpenAI has five years to turn $13 billion into $1 trillion [47d]
• Coinbase boosts investment in India’s CoinDCX, valuing exchange at $2.45B [48d]