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June 26, 2025June 26, 2025Tech Crunch
Indian drone startup Raphe mPhibr raises $100M as military UAV demand soars
The startup aims to boost its R&D and local production capabilities amid growing demand for drones in battlefields and for border surveillance.
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June 26, 2025June 26, 2025Tech Crunch
Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training AI models on copyrighted books
A federal judge sided with Meta on Wednesday in a lawsuit brought against the company by 13 book authors, including Sarah Silverman, that alleged the company had illegally trained its AI models on their copyrighted works.
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June 26, 2025June 26, 2025Tech Crunch
Brad Feld on “Give First” and the art of mentorship (at any age)
Brad Feld has spent decades operating by a simple principle: Give without expecting anything in return.
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June 26, 2025June 26, 2025Tech Crunch
Sam Altman comes out swinging at The New York Times
From the moment OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stepped onstage, it was clear this was not going to be a normal interview.
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June 26, 2025June 26, 2025Tech Crunch
Meta’s recruiting blitz claims three OpenAI researchers
In the fight for top AI talent, Meta just reportedly snagged a win, poaching three OpenAI researchers despite rival Sam Altman’s public mockery of Mark Zuckerberg’s lavish hiring tactics. The latest victory in Zuckerberg’s widely-reported recruiting blitz: Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai – who established OpenAI’s Zurich office – have joined Meta’s superintelligence...
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June 25, 2025June 25, 2025Tech Crunch
India’s GoKwik raised a small $13M round for a hefty leap in valuation
What has made GoKwik so attractive to investors is its offerings, which help companies, big and small, set up shop online and enter the direct-to-consumer (D2C) space.
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June 25, 2025June 25, 2025Tech Crunch
New data highlights the race to build more empathetic language models
One sign of that focus came on Friday, when prominent open source group LAION released a suite of open source tools focused entirely on emotional intelligence.
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June 25, 2025June 25, 2025Tech Crunch
Facebook Group admins complain of mass bans — Meta says it’s fixing the problem
The bans have affected thousands of groups both in the U.S. and abroad and have spanned various categories. The reason for the mass bans is not yet known, though many suspect that faulty AI-based moderation could be to blame.
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June 25, 2025June 25, 2025Tech Crunch
In just 4 months, AI medical scribe Abridge doubles valuation to $5.3B
Abridge nabbed a $300 million Series E led by a16z, months after it closed its previous $250 million fundraise. The 7-year-old Abridge is widely considered to be the leader in the increasingly crowded AI-powered medical scribe market, largely due to its early entry and integration with Epic Systems, the dominant health record software.