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Secfix raises $12M Series A to build end-to-end security compliance platform
Munich-based Secfix, an end-to-end security compliance platform, has closed an oversubscribed $12 million Series A round led by Alstin Capital, with participation from Bayern Kapital and existing investor neosfer, an early-stage investor of the Commerzbank Group. The funding will support the company’s expansion across Europe and the further development of its AI-native capabilities and CISO-as-a-Service read more
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Google adds a way to create automated workflows to Opal | TechCrunch
Google on Tuesday announced it’s adding a new way to create automated workflows to its vibe-coding app Opal. The company said that a new agent being introduced in Opal will allow users to create mini-apps that can let them plan and execute tasks using text prompts. The feature uses the Gemini 3 Flash model and read more
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Self-driving tech startup Wayve raises $1.2B from Nvidia, Uber, and three automakers | TechCrunch
Wayve’s self-driving tech has attracted a diverse set of investors in the company’s latest $1.2 billion funding round, including three automakers, top venture and institutional firms, and returning backers Microsoft, Nvidia, and Uber.The total raise could reach $1.5 billion thanks to another $300 million from Uber contingent on deploying robotaxis, beginning in London. Everyone, it read more
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Nvidia challenger AI chip startup MatX raised $500M | TechCrunch
MatX, a chip startup founded by two former Google hardware engineers, has raised a $500 million Series B led by Jane Street and Situational Awareness, an investment fund formed by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner. The company’s goal is to make its processors 10 times better at training LLMs and delivering results than Nvidia’s GPUs. read more
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Spanish 'soonicorn' Multiverse Computing releases free compressed AI model | TechCrunch
Large language models have a problem: they are large. Multiverse Computing, a Spanish startup, is addressing this issue with compressed models that aim to close the gap between what frontier models can do and what companies can actually afford to deploy. The secret sauce is CompactifAI, a compression technology inspired by quantum computing that the read more
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Apple rolls out age-verification tools worldwide to comply with growing web of child safety laws | TechCrunch
Apple is launching new tools to comply with the growing number of age-verification laws both in the U.S. and abroad. As part of the changes, Apple will block the downloads of apps rated 18+ in Brazil, Australia, and Singapore, while also rolling out other features to comply with laws in Utah and Louisiana in the read more
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M4 iPad Air: Whats New and When Its Coming
Apple is planning to hold an “Experience” on March 4 for select members of the media, and in the days before the event, we’re expecting several product refreshes. The iPad Air is one of the new devices that could get an update, so we thought we’d highlight what’s coming. Design and Display There are no read more
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Uber engineers built an AI version of their boss | TechCrunch
Consumers probably think of Uber as a ride-hailing and food delivery company. But in the eyes of CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber is really just a giant code base with engineers that are “literally the builders of the company.” In fact, Uber’s engineers have gone so far as to replace Khosrowshahi with a chatbot that they’ll read more
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Here’s What a Google Subpoena Response Looks Like, Courtesy of the Epstein Files
Last month, the Department of Justice released over 3 million documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. While the dumps shed light on Epstein’s own social circle and activities, they also provide a rare window into the inner workings of a federal investigation, including how tech companies like Google respond to government requests for read more
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YouTubes More Affordable Premium Lite Plan Gets New Perks
YouTube today updated its Premium Lite subscription plan with new features, including background play and downloads. Subscribers will be able to watch most videos ad-free offline and in the background. Prior to now, downloads and background play were features that were limited to the more expensive Premium plan. YouTube Premium Lite is priced at $7.99 read more
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Kudzu Vines and Synthetic Leaves Entwine in Joyce Lin's Irrepressible Sculptures
Dubbed the “vine that ate the South,” the infamous kudzu plant has a reputation. The fast-multiplying, invasive arrowroot was brought to North America in the 19th century and promoted to ease erosion, although the hot, muggy climate of the Southern U.S. proved too accommodating. For decades, kudzu has spread at a rapid speed, swallowing up read more
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Discord delays global rollout of age verification after backlash | TechCrunch
Discord no longer plans to roll out age verification globally in March and is delaying the launch until the second half of 2026, the company announced Tuesday. Discord had faced heavy backlash from users earlier this month after it announced that all users would be put into a “teen-appropriate experience” by default until they were read more
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Instagram head pressed on lengthy delay to launch teen safety features, like a nudity filter, court filing reveals | TechCrunch
Prosecutors in a lawsuit focused on whether or not social media apps, like Instagram, are addictive and harmful, wanted to know why it took so long for Meta to roll out basic safety tools, like a nudity filter for private messages sent to teens. In April 2024, Meta introduced a feature that would automatically blur read more
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More startups are hitting $10M ARR in 3 months than ever before | TechCrunch
AI has brought the startup world the rise of a new phenomenon: startups that almost instantly hit multimillion-dollar ARR (annual recurring revenue). Stories abound of founders going from zero to $10 million, or as much as $100 million, in annual recurring revenuein a matter of months. To be fair, this alone isn’t a harbinger of read more
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Instagram's TV app is launching on Google TV devices | TechCrunch
Instagram is expanding its Instagram for TV app to Google TV devices in the U.S., two months after its debut on Amazon Fire TV in December. The app first launched as a way to expand Reels viewing beyond mobile, and now users can also browse posts from their Instagram feeds directly on their TVs. By read more
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Nor’easter Causes Travel Delays for New York Dealers Heading to Frieze Los Angeles
I arrived in Los Angeles last Friday afternoon, expecting that the showers that drenched my hometown last week might have dampened spirits ahead of Frieze Los Angeles. That proved not to be the case—temperatures here have been steadily increasing into the mid-70s over the past few days—but it turns out that weather across the country, read more
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Civilization is A Sculpture: The Art of Dustin Yellin – Hi-Fructose Magazine
As a child in the mountains of Colorado, Yellin found art in nature. “I was picking up sticks and rocks and seeing the multitudes of history in the rocks,” he says. “I always thought that a rock was a beautiful sculpture. Timeless.” He surmises that his road to art-making began “by stacking rocks and sticks, read more
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Heading Into Frieze After a Year Marked by Fire and ICE, Los Angeles’s Art World Is Poised Between ‘Grief and Hope’
As the art market looks ahead to its next major tentpole event, the 2026 edition of Frieze Los Angeles this week, LA is marking just over one year since devastating wildfires ripped through parts of the city. “There was really a point where we thought the whole city was going to burn down,” said lifelong read more
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Former L3Harris Trenchant boss jailed for selling hacking tools to Russian broker | TechCrunch
Peter Williams, a former U.S. defense contractor boss, was sentenced on Tuesday to seven years in prison for stealing and selling his former company’s hacking and surveillance tools to a Russian firm. Reporters with Bloomberg and Cyberscoop first reported Williams’ sentencing. Williams was the general manager of Trenchant, a division of the defense contractor L3Harris read more
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iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max Expected to Feature Smaller Dynamic Island
The iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max will have a smaller Dynamic Island, according to Bloomberg. Over the past year, there have been mixed rumors about whether the iPhone 18 Pro models will continue to feature a Dynamic Island or have a hole punch camera with under screen Face ID and no Dynamic Island, but read more
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