In a push to expand its AI footprint in emerging markets, Google has partnered with billionaire Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries to bundle its AI Pro subscription with Jio 5G plans at no extra cost. Google announced a partnership with Reliance,…
People are increasingly asking AI, not Google, to help them discover products. A recent shopping report says Americans this holiday season will likely turn to large language models to find gifts, deals, and sales instead of traditional search. Retailers could…
Design platform Figma has announced its acquisition of Weavy, an AI-powered image and video generation company. The startup will join Figma under a new brand named Figma Weave. A team of twenty people from Weavy will be moving to Figma…
WhatsApp is introducing a new method to access your encrypted backups using passkey support. This update means that if you lose your device, you can regain access to your WhatsApp backup using authentication methods like your fingerprint, face scan, or…
IntrCity SmartBus, a tech-enabled intercity bus platform in India, has raised 30 million dollars in funding to expand its network across smaller cities and towns. The all-equity Series D round was led by A91 Partners and values the Noida-based startup…
India’s growing demand for instant convenience, which was once focused on food and grocery delivery, is now expanding into household help. This trend has supported Snabbit, an on-demand home services startup, in securing thirty million dollars in new funding. This…
Roy Lee from Cluely has a message for startup founders. He believes they should be thinking harder about how to go viral. He told the audience at Disrupt 2025 that if a company is not in deep tech, it needs…
For three days this week, twenty startups participated in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025. Each company was selected from the Startup Battlefield 200 to represent the best of the group and competed for a chance to win the…
YouTube is conducting a voluntary exit program with severance for its employees based in the United States. The company confirmed this news on Wednesday. YouTube CEO Neal Mohan informed employees about the program through an internal memo. The same memo…
The dead internet theory is real, according to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. He told Digg founder Kevin Rose that much of the internet is not human but is instead mostly bots. The two entrepreneurs have since teamed up to re-envision…
