Counterpoint: India smartphone shipments were flat YoY at ~153M; Apple shipped 14M iPhones, raising its share of shipments to a record 9%, up from 7% in 2024
Apple's iPhone is gaining ground fast in India, shipping about 14 million units in 2025, based on market data shared exclusively with TechCrunch.
Guardio, which helps detect malicious code created with AI tools, raised $80M led by ION Crossover, and says it has 500K paying users and $100M in ARR in 2025
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Sundar Pichai says the Gemini app has 450M+ MAUs, with daily requests up 50%+ from Q1, AI Overviews has 2B+ MAUs, and AI Mode has 100M+ MAUs in the US and India
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Ramp: 32.4% of US businesses using Ramp cards had OpenAI subscriptions in April, up from 28% in March; Google AI subscriptions fell to 0.1% in April
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Sundar Pichai says Waymo logs 200K+ weekly paid robotaxi rides, doubling in a year and 20x in two; Waymo says its self-driving system logs 1M+ miles per week
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DeepSeek's app tops the US Play Store; Appfigures says the DeepSeek app has 1.9M+ downloads on the App Store and 1.2M+ on the Play Store since mid-January 2025
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Balderton Capital and Dealroom: European AI startups attracted 25% of the region's VC funding, or ~$13.7B, in 2024, compared to 15% in 2020
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OpenAI's o3 performance on benchmarks suggests that test-time compute is the next best way to scale AI models, raising new questions about costs and usage
Last month, AI founders and investors told TechCrunch that we're now in the “second era of scaling laws,” noting how established methods …
Roblox now offers 25% more Robux when users buy on the web or via gift cards than when they make an in-app purchase via Apple's App Store or Google's Play Store
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Customer service automation startup Cognigy, whose AI agents can talk to tens of thousands of users at once, raised a $100M Series C and reports ~175 clients
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