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Liberate, an AI startup automating insurance operations, has raised $50 million in a round led by Battery Ventures as it looks to scale its agentic deployments across carriers and agencies globally. The all-equity round values the three-year-old startup at $300 million post-money, with participation from new investor Canapi Ventures and returning backers Redpoint Ventures, Eclipse, […]

Semiconductor design company Arm is partnering up with Meta to enhance the social media giant’s AI systems amid an unprecedented infrastructure buildout. Under the partnership, Meta’s ranking and recommendation systems will move toArm’s Neoverse platform, which wasrecently optimizedfor AI systems in the cloud, among other implementations. “AI is transforming how people connect and create,” Santosh

AI hyperscaler startupNscalehas signed a sizable deal with Microsoft to bring Nvidia AI hardware to multiple data centers. The AI cloud provider announced that itsigned a deal with Microsoftto bring approximately 200,000 Nvidia GB300 GPUs to three data centers in Europe and one in the U.S. on Wednesday. These GPUs will be delivered through Nscale-owned

Google launched its new video model Veo 3.1 with improved audio output, granular editing controls, and better output for image to video. It said that Veo 3.1 builds onMay’s Veo 3 releaseand generates more realistic clips and adheres to prompts better. The model allows users to add an object to the video and have it

AtTechCrunch Disrupt 2025, the future doesn’t just get discussed — ittakes off.Nowhere is that more literal than on theSpace Stage, launching in San Francisco’s Moscone West onOctober 27, in partnership with The Aerospace Corporation. This is where the builders of the next frontier meet: founders, investors, and operators shaping the business of orbit — from

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025runs October 27-29 in San Francisco’s Moscone West, and the Expo Hall is filling up fast. With just three days left to book,nowis the moment toreserve your exhibit tablebefore a competitor takes it. This is your opportunity to showcase your innovation to investors, founders, media, and tech leaders who are actively seeking the

Spotify on Wednesdayupgradedits AI DJ feature — available to Premium subscribers — with a handful of new features, including the ability to send in your requests by typing, not just using voice commands.  The feature works with both English and Spanish requests, as Spotify’sSpanish-language DJ, called DJ Livi, now accepts music requests.  The AI DJ

The final countdown of the final flash sale is here. Only three days remain to save up to $624 on yourTechCrunch Disrupt 2025pass before prices increase on Friday, October 17 at 11:59 p.m. PT. From October 27–29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West, Disrupt 2025 will bring together 10,000+ founders, investors, and operators for three days

The Dfinity Foundation on Wednesday released Caffeine, an artificial intelligence platform that allows users to build and deploy web applications through natural language conversation alone, bypassing traditional coding entirely. The system, which became publicly available today, represents a fundamental departure from existing AI coding assistants by building applications on a specialized decentralized infrastructure designed specifically

OpenAI is printing money right now. The company is pulling in roughly $13 billion in annual revenue, with 70% coming from everyday people paying $20 a month to chat with an AI,according to the Financial Times. That’s pretty wild when you consider ChatGPT has 800 million regular users, but only 5% are actually paying subscribers.