Chatbot platform Character.AI unveils video generation, social feeds
Character.AI’s new multimedia features include AvatarFX, plus Scenes and Streams, which allow users to create videos featuring their characters and then share them on a new social feed.
Elon Musk’s Neuralink closes a $650M Series E
Elon Musk’s brain computer interface startup Neuralink closed a $650 million funding round, the company announced in a blog post on Monday. The Series E fundraise included investors such as ARK Invest, Founders Fund, Sequoia Capital, and Thrive C…
Google Glass is back in the AI glasses game with Android XR smart glasses
Remember Google Glass and the reign of the “glasshole”? Well, Google’s giving face tech another shot with Android XR glasses that look like actual glasses this time.
Salesforce buys Moonhub, a startup building AI tools for hiring
Updated 1:13 p.m. Pacific: A Salesforce spokesperson told TechCrunch that Moonhub has not, in fact, been acquired (by the company’s definition of the term). Rather, Moonhub is shutting down, and only some of the company’s team — not the who…
Chime, last valued at $25B, aims for $11B in upcoming IPO
Chime, whose pending IPO is expected to be one of 2025’s blockbuster hits, issued a share price range on Monday of $24 to $26. That a market cap of up to $11.2 billion. At the midrange, the company will raise $800 million for itself and a handful…