Founders and investors in the Minneapolis tech industry told TechCrunch they’ve put much of their work on hold to help out their community.
Varaha’s fresh funding is part of a $45 million Series B round led by WestBridge Capital.
Attia co-founded longevity medical testing startup Biograph, which came out of stealth a year ago.
The investment comes from backers including the Qatar Investment Authority as demand for chips beyond Nvidia soars and as Qatar aims to build out its AI infrastructure.
Spotify is revamping its lyrics feature, adding offline access for Premium users, global lyric translations, and a more prominent placement in the Now Playing view.
Fibr AI replaces marketing agency– and engineering-heavy website personalization with autonomous systems designed for enterprise scale.
Right-wing influencers who were instrumental in spreading allegations of fraud in Minnesota ahead of ICE’s surge are now going after a number of California’s social welfare programs.
Roku is knocking down the price of all of its streaming devices ahead of football’s big game.
Two agents involved in the shooting deaths of US citizens in Minneapolis are reportedly part of highly militarized DHS units whose extreme tactics are generally reserved for war zones.
I went undercover on Moltbook and loved role-playing as a conscious bot. But rather than a novel breakthrough, the AI-only site is a crude rehashing of sci-fi fantasies.
