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Apeiron Labs gets $29M to flood the oceans with autonomous underwater robots

Alexa+, Amazon’s AI assistant, is now available to everyone in the U.S.

SNAK Venture Partners raises $50M fund to back vertical marketplaces

Spotify upgrades its lyrics feature with offline access, more translations

MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria talks AI hype and the database evolution as he crosses 10-year mark

A lot has happened since Dev Ittycheria took the reins at MongoDB, the $26 billion database company he’s led as...

How RPA vendors aim to remain relevant in a world of AI agents

What’s the next big thing in enterprise automation? If you ask the tech giants, it’s agents — driven by generative...

London’s first defense tech hackathon brings Ukraine war closer to the city’s startups

Last week, the UK announced its largest ever military support package for Ukraine. The bill takes the U.K.’s total support...

UK to develop hypersonic missiles ‘to catch up with China and Russia by 2030’

Britain plans to equip its armed forces with a homegrown hypersonic cruise missile by the end of the decade, according...

Will a TikTok ban impact creator economy startups? Not really, founders say

President Joe Biden signed a bill on Wednesday that could ban TikTok – for real this time. After so many...

TikTok faces a ban in the US, Tesla profits drop and healthcare data leaks

Welcome, folks, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter covering this week’s noteworthy happenings in tech. TikTok’s fate in...

Investors won’t give you the real reason they are passing on your startup

“When an investor passes on you, they will not tell you the real reason,” said Tom Blomfield, group partner at...

Deal Dive: Givebutter is turning a profit making tech for nonprofits

Givebutter recently raised $50 million for its CRM platform for nonprofits as startups building tech for that industry gain momentum....

The ‘valley of death’ for climate lies between early-stage funding and scaling up

It's easier for climate companies to get enough funding to get started. It's much harder once they need money to...

Creators of Sora-powered short explain AI-generated video’s strengths and limitations