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Smile Identity expands African footprint with acquisition of Appruve to strengthen ID verification services
Smile Identity , a KYC compliance and ID verification partner for many African fintechs and businesses, has acquired Inclusive Innovations, the...
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Luup raises $30M ahead of Japan’s new micromobility rules
Japanese shared micromobility startup Luup has raised $30 million (4.5 billion yen) in a Series D financing round, which consists of 3.8 billion...
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China’s central bank digital currency takes a bigger place on WeChat’s platform
For the last few years, China’s central bank has been trying to ramp up the adoption of digital yuan, or e-CNY, which forms part of the...
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China’s MG Motor launches compact hatchback EV in India for urban mobility
MG Motor, also called Morris Garages, introduced Wednesday its second EV in India — called Comet EV — targeting the masses looking for a compact...
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UniSieve’s filters use special crystals to reduce industrial emissions
The energy-intensive process of separating and purifying chemicals and gases is a big reason why industries like plastic manufacturing cause so...
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Tile launches a new cat tracking tag with three-year battery life
Tile launched a new cat-tracking tag on Tuesday to help you find your furry friends. The tag is essentially a modified version of the Tile Sticker...
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Tinder’s verification process will now use AI and video selfies
Tinder today is rolling out an AI-powered update to its Photo Verification feature, which to date has allowed the app’s users to prove to...
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Honda says first e:Architecture-based EV is coming sooner than planned
Honda said today that plans to release its first e:Architecture-based electric vehicle in North America in 2025. That’s a year earlier...
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Hyundai, GM partner with Korean battery makers to build US plants
Hyundai Motor Group and General Motors announced separately Tuesday plans to build electric vehicle battery plants in the U.S. in partnership with...
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Colorado’s new right-to-repair law ensures tractor and wheelchair owners get the parts they need
Colorado’s governor signed a refreshingly straightforward “right-to-repair” bill into law this afternoon, requiring companies to...
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AI startup Runway launches app to bring users video-to-video generative AI
Runway , an AI startup that helped develop the AI image generator Stable Diffusion, launched its first mobile app yesterday to give users...
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Big-time VCs link arms for climate coalition
About two-dozen venture capital firms say they are teaming up to “build a robust movement” in the VC business to combat the climate...
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Tesla expands non-Tesla Supercharger access to China
Certain non-Tesla vehicles in China can now charge at selected Superchargers, the company said Tuesday . The expanded access will also be...
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Hear how Cambrian BioPharma is reinventing drug (and drug company) development
I’m thrilled to announce this TechCrunch Live event. The startup Cambrian BioPharma is developing a life-changing technology while pioneering a...
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YouTube continues to see ad revenue decline, 2.6% drop YOY
Alphabet reported its latest earnings report today, citing that YouTube raked in $6.69 billion in advertising revenue for the first fiscal...
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Daily Crunch: Did Elon Musk unwittingly expose his alt Twitter account, or are we being trolled again?
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here . Oh...
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Google Cloud turns profit for the first time
Google Cloud may be chasing Amazon and Microsoft in the cloud game, but it has something big to boast about after earnings came out today. The...
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A developer exploited an API flaw to provide free access to GPT-4
A developer is attempting to reverse-engineer APIs to grant anyone free access to popular AI models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 — legal...
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Apple is reportedly developing an AI-powered health coaching service
Apple is developing an AI-powered health coaching service code named Quartz, according to a new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman . The...
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Rocket engine startup Ursa Major quietly closed $100M in new funding
Ursa Major has quietly closed $100 million in new funding, according to documents viewed by TechCrunch and multiple sources. Funders to the...
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Bobsled raises $17M Series A to make cross-cloud data sharing easier
Bobsled, a startup that is building a cross-cloud data sharing platform, today announced that it has raised a $17 million Series A funding round...
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News app Artifact can now summarize stories using AI, including in fun styles
Artifact , the personalized news aggregator from Instagram’s founders, is further embracing AI with the launch of a new feature that will...
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ispace loses contact with lunar lander seconds before touchdown
Japanese company ispace lost communication with its Hakuto-R lander just moments before it was supposed to touch down on the lunar surface....
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Spotify CEO says AI progress is both ‘really cool and scary,’ may pose risk to creative industry
In its first-quarter earnings call , streaming music service Spotify talked in more detail about how AI advances are impacting its business. On...
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OpenAI previews business plan for ChatGPT, launches new privacy controls
OpenAI says that it plans to introduce a new subscription tier for ChatGPT, its viral AI-powered chatbot , tailored to the needs of enterprise...