Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni’s Phia raises $35M to ‘make shopping fun again’
“We’re on the cusp of a completely new way of shopping,” Gates told TechCrunch.
TikTok now lets Apple Music subscribers play full songs without leaving the app
TikTok, which is known for shaping music trends and viral songs, said the new feature is designed to make it easier to go from the moment of discovery to deeper listening.
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Airtable gets into the AI agent game with Superagent
SuperAgent is Airtable’s first standalone product in its 13-year history, and signals both the company’s ambitions and the reality of the current AI moment: every serious software player is racing to prove they can deliver on agents.
Pinterest to lay off 15% of staff to redirect resources to AI
Pinterest says it’s “reallocating resources to AI-focused roles and teams that drive AI adoption and execution” and “prioritizing AI‑powered products and capabilities.”
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Luminar receives a larger $33 million bid for its lidar business
A new leading bidder has appeared in the Luminar bankruptcy case: Redmond, Washington-based MicroVision, which beat out Quantum Computing Inc.’s bid by $5 million.
China’s Moonshot releases a new open-source model Kimi K2.5 and a coding agent
The company said that the model was trained on 15 trillion mixed visual and text tokens.
Node-based design tool Flora raises $42M from Redpoint Ventures
Flora’s node-based design tool is being used by companies like Pentagram and Lionsgate.
Uber launches an ‘AV Labs’ division to gather driving data for robotaxi partners
Uber is not developing its own robotaxis again; instead it plans to collect and offer data. It’s a bet that more volume will help autonomous vehicle partners solve the weirdest edge cases.
Northwood Space secures a $100M Series B and a $50M Space Force contract
This is the El Segundo, California-based startup’s second raise in less than a year.
‘Among the worst we’ve seen’: report slams xAI’s Grok over child safety failures
“We assess a lot of AI chatbots at Common Sense Media, and they all have risks, but Grok is among the worst we’ve seen,” Robbie Torney of Common Sense Media said.