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India’s Snabbit closes $56M round as investor interest in on-demand home services heats up

Snabbit, an Indian on-demand home services startup, has closed a $56 million funding round, confirming TechCrunch’s earlier report. Co-led by Susquehanna Venture Capital, Mirae Asset

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Truecaller faces mounting pressures as its growth matures

Truecaller is one of the world’s most widely used caller identification platforms, with more than 500 million users. Now it’s entering a more challenging phase

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Maine’s governor vetoes data center moratorium

Maine Governor Janet Mills has vetoed a bill that would have temporarily brought permits for new data centers to a halt. If it had become

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Steve Ballmer blasts founder he backed who pleaded guilty to fraud: ‘I was duped and feel silly’

Silicon Valley tends to tolerate a certain amount of founder exaggeration when pitching investors, often dismissing it as part of selling a vision. But some

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Bob Iger rejoins Thrive Capital as advisor after Disney exit

Bob Iger is returning to Thrive Capital as an advisor, just one month after stepping down as CEO of Disney, a role he held for

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Meta will now allow parents to see the topics their child discussed with Meta AI

Meta announced on Thursday that parents using its supervision tools can now see the topics their teen has asked Meta AI about in the past

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Meta will record employees’ keystrokes and use it to train its AI models

Meta has found a new source of training data for its AI models: its own employees. The company plans to use data culled from the

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Yelp’s updated AI assistant can answer questions and book a restaurant or service in one conversation

For years, existing consumer platforms have tried to keep users within their app by offering more services. After the rise of the AI chatbot, the

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The 12-month window | TechCrunch

In a recent episode of “No Priors” — the excellent podcast co-hosted by AI investors Sarah Guo and Elad Gil — Gil made a point

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VC Ron Conway says he has a ‘rare form of cancer’

Longtime venture capitalist Ron Conway said Friday that he was “recently diagnosed with a rare form of cancer.” In a post on X, Conway wrote