timef 11/12/2025
- Blue Origin delays second New Glenn launch again due to solar storms techcrunch.com2025-11-12 23:22:16
The same solar activity that's been lighting up the night sky in North America is causing this particular delay.
- Airbnb’s testing a ‘kitchen stocking’ service that lets guests place Instacart orders before their stay techcrunch.com2025-11-12 23:14:24
Airbnb will offer the "kitchen stocking" service during a three-month pilot program starting on January 5, according to an email sent to hosts.
- Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs speeds up the world model race with Marble, its first commercial product techcrunch.com2025-11-12 21:44:01
Startups like Decart and Odyssey have released free demos, and Google's Genie is still in limited research preview. Marble differs from these — and even World Labs's own real-time model, RTFM — because it creates persistent, downloadable 3D environments rather than generating worlds on-the-fly as you explore. This, the company says, results in less morphing or inconsistency, and lets users export worlds as Gaussian splats, meshes or videos.
- Microsoft-backed VEIR is bringing superconductors to data centers techcrunch.com2025-11-12 21:00:00
The Massachusetts-based startup is taking tech developed for long distance transmissions lines to solve an emerging problem for data center designers.
- Australian spy chief warns Chinese hackers are ‘probing’ critical networks for espionage and sabotage techcrunch.com2025-11-12 20:47:27
Australia's intelligence chief warned that Chinese hackers are trying to break into its networks, sometimes successfully, to "pre-position" for sabotage ahead of an anticipated invasion of Taiwan.
- Groww raises nearly $750M in IPO as India’s retail investing boom continues techcrunch.com2025-11-12 20:40:06
The company's shares opened 12% above their issue price, at ₹112, and closed at ₹128.85, lending it a market cap of ₹795 billion (approximately $9 billion).
- Teradar raises $150M for a sensor it says beats lidar and radar techcrunch.com2025-11-12 20:00:00
Teradar's sensor uses the terahertz part of the electromagnetic spectrum, and combines the best traits of radar and lidar sensors without some of the drawbacks.
- Self-driving trucks startup Einride plans to go public via a SPAC techcrunch.com2025-11-12 19:30:00
The Swedish startup just raised $100 million from investors last month.
- Figma bets on India to expand beyond design techcrunch.com2025-11-12 18:00:00
Figma has opened a new office in Bengaluru as part of a push to deepen its India ties and appeal to more developers.
- The global race for the AI app layer is still on techcrunch.com2025-11-12 15:01:00
The U.S. is far ahead of Europe in the race for large AI models, at least in funding. But the picture is different for the application layer, global VC firm Accel highlighted in its 2025 Globalscape report.
- Red Bull Racing’s secret weapon? An engineer who treats workflows like lap times techcrunch.com2025-11-12 10:52:33
Lauren Mekies spent much of his career in the engineering trenches. His approach to winning reflects that technical background, too.
- SoftBank’s Nvidia sale rattles market, raises questions techcrunch.com2025-11-12 03:52:31
Wall Street can’t help but wonder: does Son see something right now that others do not?
- Google Pixel update adds battery-saving maps mode, AI photo remixing, and smarter notifications techcrunch.com2025-11-12 03:00:00
Google says the new power saving mode for Google Maps can save you up to four hours of battery life
- Threads targets podcasters with new features, aiming to become the home for show discussions techcrunch.com2025-11-12 02:00:00
Threads is targeting podcasters with new features, including dedicated links in the bio and more visible links in the feed.
- Immortality startup Eternos pivots to a personal AI that sounds like you techcrunch.com2025-11-12 01:29:58
Uare.ai raised $10.3 million in seed funding led by Mayfield and Boldstart Ventures.
- How AI startups should be thinking about product-market fit techcrunch.com2025-11-12 01:15:00
Two experienced investors share their tips for founders and operators hoping to nail product-market fit at their AI startups.
- Google Photos adds new AI features for editing, expands AI-powered search to over 100 countries techcrunch.com2025-11-12 01:00:00
Google Photos is getting an image edit feature powered by the Nano Banana model.
- Wonderful raised $100M Series A to put AI agents on the front lines of customer service techcrunch.com2025-11-12 00:08:47
Israeli AI agent startup Wonderful has raised $100 million in a Series A round led by Index Ventures, with participation from Insight Partners, IVP, Bessemer, and Vine Ventures. The large round, in a market already crowded with AI agent startups, suggests Wonderful has convinced top tier investors it’s not just another GPT wrapper, but a company building the infrastructure and orchestration that could scale if […]
- How founders can prepare for their late-stage fundraises from the start techcrunch.com2025-11-12 00:00:00
Startups should start forging connections with late-stage investors while they are still at the early stages.
