India doubles down on state-backed venture capital, approving $1.1B fund

India’s $1.1B fund-of-funds will invest through private VCs to support deep-tech and manufacturing startups.

Designer Kate Barton teams up with IBM and Fiducia AI for a NYFW presentation

Designer Kate Barton teams up with Fiducia AI and IBM for a NYFW presentation.

Hollywood isn’t happy about the new Seedance 2.0 video generator

Hollywood organizations are pushing back against a new AI video model called Seedance 2.0, which they say has quickly become a tool for “blatant” copyright infringement.

In a changed VC landscape, this exec is doubling down on overlooked founders

As much of Silicon Valley chases mega-rounds and buzzy AI deals, Stacy Brown-Philpot is running Cherryrock Capital like a throwback to venture capital’s earlier days

‘Clueless’ -inspired app Alta partners with brand Public School to start integrating styling tools into websites

This week, Alta unveiled its first integration collaboration, teaming up with Public School, a storied New York City brand.

Homeland Security reportedly sent hundreds of subpoenas seeking to unmask anti-ICE accounts

The Department of Homeland Security has been increasing pressure on tech companies to identify the owners of accounts that criticize ICE.

Is safety ‘dead’ at xAI?

Elon Musk is “actively” working to make xAI’s Grok chatbot “more unhinged, according to a former employee.

The great computer science exodus (and where students are going instead)

Students are losing some interest in computer science broadly but gaining interest in AI-specific majors and courses.

A Stanford grad student created an algorithm to help his classmates find love; now, Date Drop is the basis of his new startup

“Our matches convert to actual dates at about 10x the rate of Tinder,” Weng told TechCrunch.

Dutch phone giant Odido says millions of customers affected by data breach

The Dutch phone giant Odido is the latest phone and internet company to be hacked in recent months, as governments and financially motivated hackers continue to steal highly confidential information about phone customers.