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- Health insurance startup Alan reaches €5B valuation
French health insurance startup Alan is now valued at €5 billion — approximately $5.83 billion, up from $4.5 billion in 2024.
TechCrunch · 3/11/2026
- Anduril snaps up space surveillance firm ExoAnalytic Solutions
The deal could give Anduril a better shot at lucrative missile defense contracts through the "Golden Dome" system.
TechCrunch · 3/11/2026
- Google brings Gemini in Chrome to India
As part of the rollout, Gemini will support languages including Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu, and Tamil.
TechCrunch · 3/11/2026
- In a vote of confidence for Meta’s Threads, Kalshi adds sharing feature
Kalshi now offers a share option that will automatically embed the relevant prediction market chart into a Threads post.
TechCrunch · 3/10/2026
- I pitched in to a new community effort to buy the Seattle Seahawks — so far I’m on the hook for $79M
"Without being too on the nose, it's sort of a criticism of billionaires and just how absolutely insane an amount of money it requires to buy something of that size," said Abel Charrow, creator of "Let's Buy the Seahawks." Read More
GeekWire · 3/10/2026
- Google and Tesla think we’re managing the electrical grid all wrong
The duo have teamed up with other companies to launch Utilize, which seeks to change how the grid is used and regulated.
TechCrunch · 3/10/2026
- Amazon launches its healthcare AI assistant on its website and app
Health AI can answer questions, explain health records, manage prescription renewals, book appointments, and more.
TechCrunch · 3/10/2026
- DOGE employee stole Social Security data and put it on a thumb drive, report says
A whistleblower is accusing a former DOGE member of stealing a large number of Americans’ personal data while he was working at the Social Security Administration, with the plan of using it at his new job.
TechCrunch · 3/10/2026
- ‘Pokémon Pokopia’ is a game about rehabilitating a broken world — and I love it
The latest Pokémon game is a cozy life simulator like "Animal Crossing" or "Minecraft," but in a way that feels more grounded to our actual world.
TechCrunch · 3/10/2026
- YouTube surpasses Disney, Paramount, WBD in 2025 ad revenue
This shift is a clear sign of just how much content consumption has changed over the years and how advertisers have adapted their strategies.
TechCrunch · 3/10/2026
- AI-powered apps struggle with long-term retention, new report shows
AI can drive stronger early monetization for apps, but sustaining value remains the challenge, RevenueCat's latest report finds.
TechCrunch · 3/10/2026
- Mandiant’s founder just raised $190M for his autonomous AI agent security startup
Kevin Mandia founded Armadin to create autonomous cybersecurity agents, software designed to learn and respond to threats without a human in the middle.
TechCrunch · 3/10/2026
- ChatGPT can now create interactive visuals to help you understand math and science concepts
Instead of just reading an explanation or looking at a static diagram, users can now engage directly with interactive visuals.
TechCrunch · 3/10/2026
- US military contractor likely built iPhone hacking tools used by Russian spies in Ukraine
Google found a series of hacking tools they said were used by a Russian espionage group and a cybercriminal group in China. Sources from a U.S. government defense contractor said some of those hacking tools were theirs.
TechCrunch · 3/10/2026
- Microsoft’s return-to-office policy creates a return to slower commutes, traffic analysis shows
Inrix measured travel speeds on eastbound and westbound SR 520 and southbound and northbound I-405 during the weeks of Feb. 23 and March 2. Read More
GeekWire · 3/10/2026
- Anthropic and OpenAI just exposed SAST's structural blind spot with free tools
OpenAI launched Codex Security on March 6, entering the application security market that Anthropic had disrupted 14 days earlier with Claude Code Security. Both scanners use LLM reasoning instead of pattern matching. Both proved that traditional static application security testing (SAST) tools are structurally blind to entire vulnerability classes. The enterprise security stack is caught in the middle.Anthropic and OpenAI independently released reasoning-based vulnerability scanners, and both fo
VentureBeat · 3/10/2026
- OpenAI upgrades ChatGPT with interactive learning tools as lawsuits and Pentagon backlash mount
The past ten days have been among the most consequential in OpenAI's history, with developments stacking up across product, politics, personnel, and the courts. Here is what happened — and what it means.OpenAI on Tuesday launched a set of interactive visual tools inside ChatGPT that let users manipulate mathematical and scientific formulas in real time — a genuinely impressive education feature that landed in the middle of the most turbulent stretch of the company's corporate life.The
VentureBeat · 3/10/2026
- Judge blocks Perplexity’s AI bot from shopping on Amazon in early test of agentic commerce
A federal judge sided with Amazon in its lawsuit over Perplexity's Comet browser, granting a preliminary injunction in an early legal test of AI-powered shopping tools. Read More
GeekWire · 3/10/2026
- Google upgrades Gemini for Workspace allowing it to pull data from multiple apps to create Docs, Sheets, Slides and more
Lest you thought Microsoft would have all the fun introducing new AI features for white collar enterprise work this week with its Copilot Cowork announcement yesterday, Google is here to take back the spotlight. The search giant and, increasingly, AI leader today announced a sweeping series of updates to its Gemini AI models embedded into Google Workspace — the productivity suite of cloud-based apps including Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and more. They're being made available both to indivi
VentureBeat · 3/10/2026
- Tim Chen’s Essence VC firm is raising a new fund to back more infrastructure startups
Chen said the new fund will allow Essence to lead bigger pre-seed rounds and gives him more flexibility on deployment timeframes. Read More
GeekWire · 3/10/2026
- AgentMail raises $6M to build an email service for AI agents
AgentMail provides an API platform that lets you give AI agents their own email inboxes, with support for two-way conversations, parsing, threading, labeling, searching, and replying.
TechCrunch · 3/10/2026
- I got my hair cut at the one-of-a-kind Amazon Salon in London: See before and after photos
We all know Amazon as a master of book sales, cloud computing and Prime Video — but GeekWire's John Cook had to determine how a Seattle-based tech juggernaut fared at cutting hair. Read More
GeekWire · 3/10/2026
- Thinking Machines Lab inks massive compute deal with Nvidia
The multi-year deal involves at least a gigawatt of compute power and also includes a strategic investment from Nvidia.
TechCrunch · 3/10/2026
- Google gives in to users’ complaints over AI-powered ‘Ask Photos’ search feature
The option appears on the Google Photos Search screen and lets users pick which experience they want.
TechCrunch · 3/10/2026
- Opinion: You couldn’t pay me to leave Washington state, and I’d pay more to stay
My view on Washington’s proposed tax on very high incomes is simple: if I’ve found myself in the position of making that much in a year, I can afford to contribute a little more to the place that helped make that circumstance possible. Read More
GeekWire · 3/10/2026
- Legora reaches $5.55 billion valuation as AI legal tech boom endures
Legora, an AI platform for lawyers, is now valued at $5.55 billion following a $550 million Series D led by Accel to fuel its growth in the U.S.
TechCrunch · 3/10/2026
- Meta acquired Moltbook, the AI agent social network that went viral because of fake posts
Meta says that Moltbook's approach to "connecting agents through an always-on-directory" is novel.
TechCrunch · 3/10/2026
- Seattle-area startup turns industrial emissions into high-performance battery materials
Homeostasis is building a business at the intersection of climate policy, trade wars and the global race for battery materials with its graphite production tech. Read More
GeekWire · 3/10/2026
- YouTube expands AI deepfake detection to politicians, government officials, and journalists
YouTube's AI deepfake detection tool is becoming available to politicians, journalists, and officials, letting them flag unauthorized likenesses for removal.
TechCrunch · 3/10/2026
- Adobe is debuting an AI assistant for Photoshop
Adobe is also adding new AI-powered image-editing features to Firefly.
TechCrunch · 3/10/2026