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Suno snaps up WavTool for its AI music editing tools amid ongoing dispute with music labels

AIMPWAJune 26, 2025

Suno, the AI music company currently in a legal battle with music labels, announced on Thursday the acquisition of WavTool, a browser-based AI digital audio workstation (DAW). This acquisition aims to improve Suno’s editing capabilities for songwriters and producers. WavTool, launched in 2023, offers several tools to musicians, such as stem separation, AI audio generation,...

Jon McNeill brings the operator’s playbook to TC All Stage

AIMPWAJune 26, 2025

Founders are often told to chase product-market fit before anything else, but what if scaling too soon, too fast, is what’s really holding them back? At TechCrunch All Stage 2025 on July 15 in Boston, Jon McNeill, CEO and co-founder of DVx Ventures (and former president of Tesla and COO of Lyft), will take the...

Indian drone startup Raphe mPhibr raises $100M as military UAV demand soars

AIMPWAJune 26, 2025

Indian drone startup Raphe mPhibr has raised $100 million in an all-equity Series B round led by General Catalyst, as the startup aims to boost its R&D and local production capabilities amid growing demand for drones in battlefields and for border surveillance. Drones are becoming increasingly ubiquitous in global military operations. In recent and ongoing...

Kalshi closes $185M round as rival Polymarket reportedly seeks $200M

AIMPWAJune 25, 2025

Kalshi just raised a $185 million round, led by crypto-focused VC firm Paradigm, bringing the company’s valuation to $2 billion post-money, representatives from Paradigm and Kalshi confirmed to TechCrunch. “Prediction markets remind me of crypto 15 years ago: a new asset class on a path to trillions,” Matt Huang, co-founder and managing partner at Paradigm,...

Rubrik acquires Predibase to accelerate adoption of AI agents

AIMPWAJune 25, 2025

Data cybersecurity company Rubrik announced Wednesday its intent to acquire Predibase. Predibase is a venture-backed startup that helps companies train and fine-tune open source AI models to customize them to their needs. Rubrik is the latest company to make an acquisition with the goal of boosting enterprise AI agent adoption. Terms of the deal were not...

Better Auth, an authentication tool by a self-taught Ethiopian dev, raises $5M from Peak XV, YC

AIMPWAJune 25, 2025

It’s rare to see a solo founder building a widely adopted developer infrastructure tool. Even more so, if the founder happens to be from Africa. Bereket Engida, a self-taught programmer from Ethiopia, is quietly building what some developers say is the best authentication tool they’ve ever used. Engida’s startup, Better Auth, offers an open-source framework...

Bill Gates-backed AirLoom begins building its first power plant

AIMPWAJune 25, 2025

Wind power has run into some headwinds, and not the kind that spin its turbines. Recently, President Trump has decided to wage war against the technology, an unwelcome bit of friction that coincides with rising costs in recent years. Onshore wind power went for $61 per megawatt-hour last year, according to Lazard, bucking a decade-long...

Kleida Martiro is leading the AI scale conversation at TC All Stage

AIMPWAJune 25, 2025

AI-native startups are rewriting the rules of what early traction looks like — and too often, investors are still playing by the old ones. At TechCrunch All Stage, happening in Boston on July 15, Kleida Martiro, partner at Glasswing Ventures, will lead a breakout that cuts straight to the core of this disconnect. Her session,...

Introducing the Going Public Stage at Disrupt 2025

AIMPWAJune 25, 2025

For the first time ever, TechCrunch Disrupt is launching the Going Public Stage — a brand-new destination for founders navigating the mid and late stages of company building. This content is essential for any founder, but especially those scaling fast, preparing for exit, or reimagining what comes next. Because whether you’re at the seed stage...

India’s GoKwik raised a small $13M round for a hefty leap in valuation

AIMPWAJune 24, 2025

GoKwik, an Indian startup that offers a suite of integrated e-commerce products, has raised a small round of $13 million, which it calls a “growth” round, that has boosted its valuation to $450 million pre-money. While the new funding round, led by RTP Global, is 63% smaller than its Series B of $35 million, announced...

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IPO hopeful Brex scored major win to sell in the EU, plans UK expansion

AIMPWAAugust 7, 2025

Financial services provider Brex on Thursday announced that it achieved a major milestone: it is now licensed in the European Union. That means it can now directly issue credit and debit cards and offer its spend management products to any business in all 30 EU countries with “no workarounds required,” as co-founder and CEO Pedro...

Sri Lanka accepts WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies, four remaining for entry into force

AIMPWAAugust 7, 2025

On 6 August, WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala received Sri Lanka’s instrument of acceptance of the Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies from Sri Lanka’s WTO Ambassador R.G.S. Wijesekara. Just four more acceptances are needed for the Agreement to enter into force. Source link

WTO issues 2025 Annual Report

AIMPWAAugust 7, 2025

The WTO published today (7 August) its 2025 Annual Report, providing a comprehensive account of the organization’s activities in 2024 and the early part of 2025. The Report looks back at recent key events, such as the 13th Ministerial Conference in February 2024, and describes the WTO’s work in addressing the challenges and opportunities facing...

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Elad Gil joins the stage at Disrupt 2025 in October

AIMPWAAugust 7, 2025

Elad Gil isn’t just ahead of the curve — he practically lives there. Before most of the world had even asked ChatGPT its first question, Gil was writing early checks into companies like Perplexity, Character.AI, and Harvey. And that’s just a slice of the story. His track record includes seed or Series A investments in...

FIEO Signs MoU With Amazon India To Boost MSME Exports Through E-Commerce Platform

AIMPWAAugust 7, 2025

New Delhi, Aug 7 (KNN) The Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) has entered into a strategic partnership with Amazon India through a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at accelerating e-commerce exports by micro, small, and medium enterprises across the country. The agreement establishes a framework for collaborative policy development, infrastructure support, and enhanced awareness of...

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