timef 12/09/2025
- Anthropic and Accenture sign multi-year AI strategic partnership techcrunch.com2025-12-09 23:02:35
The two companies are launching the Accenture Anthropic Business Group to bring Anthropic's AI to Accenture's employees.
- Spotify launches music videos in the U.S. and Canada for Premium subscribers techcrunch.com2025-12-09 23:00:00
Spotify will let you switch between music videos and audio at any time.
- Mistral AI surfs vibe coding tailwinds with new coding models techcrunch.com2025-12-09 22:45:00
French AI startup Mistral today launched Devstral 2, a new generation of its AI model designed for coding, as the company seeks to catch up to bigger AI labs like Anthropic and other coding-focused LLMs.
- Empromptu raises $2M pre-seed to help enterprises build AI apps techcrunch.com2025-12-09 21:51:22
Empromptu claims all a user has to do is tell the platform's AI chatbot what they want — like a new HTML or JavaScript app — and the AI will go ahead and build it.
- FTC upholds ban on stalkerware founder Scott Zuckerman techcrunch.com2025-12-09 06:47:59
Zuckerman, who used to run the stalkerware apps SpyFone and SpyTrac, claimed the ban is hurting his unrelated business.
- SoftBank and Nvidia reportedly in talks to fund SkildAI at $14B, nearly tripling its value techcrunch.com2025-12-09 06:30:32
Skild AI is developing a hardware-agnostic foundation model for robots that can be customized for various uses.
- Investor letter reveals skyrocketing growth of Waymo’s robotaxi rides techcrunch.com2025-12-09 05:58:13
Six months ago, Waymo disclosed it was providing 250,000 robotaxi rides. But it's grown significantly since, a leaked letter says.
- Department of Commerce may approve Nvidia H200 chip exports to China techcrunch.com2025-12-09 05:40:46
This news comes as a bill was introduced in Congree last week to prevent these exact kinds of chip exports.
- Google’s AI try-on app Doppl adds a shoppable discovery feed techcrunch.com2025-12-09 05:29:03
The tech giant says the idea behind the new feed is to display recommendations so users can discover and virtually try on items. Nearly everything in the feed is shoppable, with direct links to merchants.
- Lucid Motors’ former chief engineer sues for wrongful termination and discrimination techcrunch.com2025-12-09 05:19:10
Eric Bach, who was fired in November, claims a top HR executive at the automaker called him a "German Nazi."
- Tiger Global plans cautious venture future with a new $2.2B fund techcrunch.com2025-12-09 04:12:13
Tiger's last fund did well with investmetments in OpenAI, Waymo and Databricks. But it warns investors that AI valuations are already 'elevated.'
- Environmental groups call for halt to new data center construction techcrunch.com2025-12-09 03:50:58
More than 230 organizations signed a public letter urging members of Congress to take action.
- Claude Code is coming to Slack, and that’s a bigger deal than it sounds techcrunch.com2025-12-09 03:18:05
Anthropic launches Claude Code in Slack, letting developers delegate coding tasks from chat threads. It's part of a shift toward AI-embedded collaboration that could reshape software workflows.
- Google details security measures for Chrome’s agentic features techcrunch.com2025-12-09 02:00:00
Google details how it is enacting security guardrails before rolling out agentic capabilities on Chrome.
- You can buy your Instacart groceries without leaving ChatGPT techcrunch.com2025-12-09 01:59:53
Shoppers will be able to go from recipe planning to checkout within the ChatGPT window.
- TikTok adds a space for organizing content with others, teases ‘Shared Feeds’ techcrunch.com2025-12-09 01:18:36
Shared Feeds will surface new content tailored to both users' tastes, such as sports, winter activities, and their favorite creators.
- Petco’s security lapse affected customers’ SSNs, drivers’ licenses and more techcrunch.com2025-12-09 00:53:33
Petco said the exposure was due to an error in an application, and that it is notifying victims’ whose data was affected.
- Heat pump startup Quilt raises $20M Series B to expand sales techcrunch.com2025-12-09 00:52:34
Quilt has sold nearly 1,000 units in the U.S. and Canada, and the new funding should help expand sales operations to more states and provinces.
- ‘ONE RULE’: Trump says he’ll sign an executive order blocking state AI laws despite bipartisan pushback techcrunch.com2025-12-09 00:07:39
“I will be doing a ONE RULE Executive Order this week,” Trump posted on social media. “You can’t expect a company to get 50 Approvals every time they want to do something.”
