TechCrunch Latest Updates – 02 July 2025
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Bye-bye bots: Altera's game-playing AI agents get backing from Eric Schmidt | TechCrunch
Content:Autonomous, AI-based players are coming to a gaming experience near you, and a new startup, Altera, is joining the fray to build this new guard of AI agents. The company announced Wednesday that it … [+6416 chars] Read More...
$450M for Noname, two billion-dollar rounds, and good news for crypto startups | TechCrunch
Content:Good news, crypto founders: Venture capital activity is picking up in your sector after falling to multi-year lows in late 2023. Put another way, venture folks appear more web3-bullish than before, e… [+1599 chars] Read More...
Watch: When did iPads get as expensive as MacBooks?
Content:Apple’s iPad event had a lot to like. New iPads with new chips and new sizes, a new Apple Pencil, and even some software updates. If you are a big fan of Apple hardware, well, it was probably a good … [+1385 chars] Read More...
Uber promises member exclusives as Uber One passes $1B run-rate | TechCrunch
Content:Uber plans to deliver more perks to Uber One members, like member-exclusive events, in a bid to gain more revenue through subscriptions. You will see more member-exclusives coming up where members … [+4676 chars] Read More...
Checkfirst raises $1.5M pre-seed, applying AI to remote inspections and audits | TechCrunch
Content:Weve all seen them. The inspector with a clipboard, walking around a building, ticking off the last time the fire extinguishers were checked, or if all the lights are working. They work in the TICC (… [+3279 chars] Read More...
UK challenger bank Monzo nabs another $190M as US expansion beckons | TechCrunch
Content:Monzo has raised another £150 million ($190 million), as the challenger bank looks to expand its presence internationally particularly in the U.S. The new round comes just two months after Monzo rai… [+1960 chars] Read More...
iRobot names former Timex head Gary Cohen as CEO | TechCrunch
Content:iRobot Tuesday announced the successor to longtime CEO, Colin Angle. Gary Cohen, who previous held chief executive role at Timex and Qualitor Automotive, will be heading up the company, marking a maj… [+2120 chars] Read More...
Google Deepmind debuts huge AlphaFold update and free proteomics-as-a-service web app | TechCrunch
Content:Google Deepmind has taken the wraps off a new version AlphaFold, their transformative machine learning model that predicts the shape and behavior of proteins. AlphaFold 3 is not only more accurate, b… [+7069 chars] Read More...
Mycocycle uses mushrooms to upcycle old tires and construction waste | TechCrunch
Content:Usually, when something starts to rot, it gets pitched in the trash. But Joanne Rodriguez wants to turn the concept of rot on its head by growing fungus on trash to turn it into something better. We… [+4229 chars] Read More...
Controversial drone company Xtend leans into defense with new $40M round | TechCrunch
Content:Close to a decade ago, brothers Aviv and Matteo Shapira co-founded Replay, a company that created a video format for 360-degree replays — the sorts of replays that have become part and parcel of majo… [+5398 chars] Read More...
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