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The pharma giant won’t say how many patients were affected by its February data breach. A count by TechCrunch confirms that over a million people are affected.

Pharma giant Cencora is alerting millions about its data breach

The San Jose-based startup raised $60 million in a round that values it lower than the $500 million valuation it garnered in its most recent round, according to multiple sources.

Sequoia-backed Knowde raises Series C at a valuation cut

When Xiaoyin Qu was growing up in China, she was obsessed with learning how to build paper airplanes that could do flips in the air. Her parents, though, didn’t have…

Heeyo built an AI chatbot to be a billion kids’ interactive tutor and friend

Google Cloud is giving Y Combinator startups access to a dedicated, subsidized cluster of Nvidia graphics processing units and Google tensor processing units to build AI models. It’s part of…

Google Cloud now has a dedicated cluster of Nvidia GPUs for Y Combinator startups

Sybill, a startup that has built an AI assistant specifically for sales reps, has raised $11 million in a Series A round led by Greycroft.

Sybill raises $11M for its AI assistant that helps salespeople reduce administrative burden

The startup has raised $21.5 million to build more of its machines and deploy them throughout the U.S.

Applied Carbon’s farm robot turns plant waste into biochar to capture CO2

Alex Cook, a partner at Tiger Global who oversaw some of its largest fintech investments and India deals, is departing the firm after a tenure of nearly seven years, three…

Tiger Global partner Alex Cook to leave firm, sources say

Back in May, Spotify quietly started putting lyrics behind a paywall, limiting free users to lyrics for three songs per month. The move was a bid to push more users…

Spotify expands lyrics access for free users

Uber is now letting riders in India book up to three rides simultaneously.

Uber now lets users in India book three trips at once

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UK’s Zapp EV plans to expand globally with an early start in India

Zapp is launching its urban electric two-wheeler in India in 2025 as it plans to expand globally.

UK’s Zapp EV plans to expand globally with an early start in India

Sound Search on TikTok is somewhat similar to YouTube Music’s song detection tool that lets you find the name of a song by singing, humming or playing it. 

TikTok rolls out a new feature that lets you find songs by singing or humming them

Until a year ago, Arjun Pillai had the comfortable yet important role of chief data officer at ZoomInfo, a B2B database company. But the serial entrepreneur was getting antsy. He…

ZoomInfo alum raises $15M for startup that builds AI sales engineers

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Data breach exposes US spyware maker behind Windows, Mac, Android and Chromebook malware

Exclusive: The Minnesota-based spyware maker Spytech snooped on thousands of devices before it was hacked earlier this year.

Data breach exposes US spyware maker behind Windows, Mac, Android and Chromebook malware

A hacker claims to be selling data relating to thousands of current and former employees of India’s Piramal Group.

Hacker claims theft of Piramal Group’s employee data

Reworkd’s founders went viral on GitHub last year with AgentGPT, a free tool to build AI agents that acquired more than 100,000 daily users in a week. This earned them…

After AgentGPT’s success, Reworkd pivots to web-scraping AI agents

Farmers have got to do something about pests. But nobody really likes the idea of using more chemical pesticides. Thomas Laurent’s company, Micropep, thinks the answer might already be in…

Micropep taps tiny proteins to make pesticides safer

Digital banking startup Mercury informed some founders that it is no longer serving customers in certain countries, including Ukraine.

Digital banking startup Mercury abruptly shuttered service for startups in Ukraine, Nigeria, other countries

Waymo has started testing on public roads in San Francisco a new robotaxi built by Chinese electric automaker Zeekr.  Waymo has “less than a handful” of the Zeekr vehicles in San…

The Waymo-Zeekr robotaxi has come to San Francisco

Vayu Robotics is working to make delivery robotics cheaper and more scalable. Ditching LiDAR is a piece of that puzzle.

Former Velodyne CEO’s delivery robot startup is ditching LiDAR for foundation models

Indian food delivery and quick commerce startup Swiggy is pivoting one of its smaller businesses, Swiggy Minis, into a link-in-bio service.

Swiggy turns Minis into a link-in-bio platform

Venture capital giant a16z fixed a security vulnerability in one of the firm’s websites after being warned by a security researcher.

Researcher finds flaw in a16z website that exposed some company data

Waymo would need a ground transportation permit to operate at SFO, which has yet to be approved.

Waymo wants to bring robotaxis to SFO, emails show

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USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap

The U.S. Postal Service confirmed it took action to “remediate” the data sharing following a TechCrunch investigation.

USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap

Marathon Fusion emerges from stealth with a plan to help fusion power plants extract tritium, a necessary fuel.

Without this company’s technology, future fusion power plants might never light up

Strong magnets are essential for the type of fusion power being pursued by Commonwealth Fusion Systems and a number of other startups.

WHAM! Nuclear fusion experiment hits new record for magnet strength

Coast, a startup that describes itself as “a financial services platform for the future of transportation,” has raised $40 million in Series B funding — just four months after announcing…

Fintech startup Coast lands $40M just 4 months after its last $25M raise

Adtech startup InMobi is eyeing a valuation of about $10 billion in an initial public offering it is planning for next year.

InMobi eyes $10 billion valuation in 2025 India IPO

A new app called The Way is aiming to help people explore the deeper side of meditation through a single, structured path guided by an authorized Zen master. Founded by…

The Way app offers a chance to meditate alongside a Zen master

To say that Pix, the instant payment system created by the Central Bank of Brazil, has been a resounding success is an understatement. With Pix, money moves directly between core…

Matera raises $100M from Warburg Pincus to help the US catch up to Brazil in instant payments

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Toddle wants to ‘change how we build software’ with a collaborative visual web app builder

Danish startup Toddle has launched a no-code web app builder that’s designed as a full-featured alternative to Javascript frameworks.

Toddle wants to ‘change how we build software’ with a collaborative visual web app builder