Indian fintech Paytm wins a major regulatory battle days after key investor exit

Indian fintech giant Paytm has received long-awaited approval from the country’s central bank to operate as…

TDK backs Ultraviolette with $21M to take India-made electric motorcycles global

Two months ago, Indian electric motorcycle startup Ultraviolette expanded into 10 European countries. Now, fueled with…

Seoul-based Datumo raises $15.5M to take on Scale AI, backed by Salesforce

Most organizations say they aren’t fully prepared to use generative AI in a safe and responsible…

Nvidia, AMD may sell high-end AI chips to China if they pay US a cut

The AI chip race narrative used to be about U.S. national security, but apparently now it’s…

Security flaws in a carmaker’s web portal let one hacker remotely unlock cars from anywhere

A security researcher said flaws in a carmaker’s online dealership portal exposed the private information and…

After researchers unmasked a prolific SMS scammer, a new operation has emerged in its wake

If you, like practically anyone else with a cell phone in the U.S. and beyond, have…

Former Googlers’ AI startup OpenArt now creates ‘brain rot’ videos in just one click

AI-generated “brain rot” videos are popping up all over the internet and getting a lot of…

RIP, Microsoft Lens, a simple little app that’s getting replaced by AI

Sometimes it’s nice to have a simple app that does one thing well without a lot…

Sam Altman addresses ‘bumpy’ GPT-5 rollout, bringing 4o back, and the ‘chart crime’

During a Reddit ask-me-anything session on Friday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and key members of the…

Impersonators are targeting companies with fake TechCrunch outreach

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