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OpenAI warns investors against "unauthorized opportunities" to gain exposure to its equity, including through special purpose vehicles (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/23/openai-warns-against-spvs-and-other-unaut…

OpenAI warns against SPVs and other ‘unauthorized’ investments | TechCrunch
OpenAI isn't the only AI company looking to crack down on SPVs.

Telegram expands access to its TON crypto wallet, integrated into the Telegram app, for its 87M users in the US (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/22/telegrams-crypto-wallet-launches-in-the-us/

Telegram's crypto wallet launches in the US | TechCrunch
Telegram is expanding access to its crypto wallet for its 87 million users in the US.

On its 10th anniversary, YouTube Music gets new features, including "Taste Match" playlists similar to Spotify Blend and event notifications through Bandsintown (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/21/yout

YouTube Music celebrates 10 years with new features that help it compete with Spotify | TechCrunch
YouTube Music is rolling out taste match playlists, comments, badges and more.

YouTube gives Shorts creators access to new generative AI features powered by Veo 2, including an image-to-video tool and new effects (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/23/youtube-shorts-is-adding-an-image-to-video-ai-…

YouTube Shorts is adding an image-to-video AI tool, new AI effects | TechCrunch
The image to video feature lets creators turn a picture from their camera roll into a a six-second video.

Bluesky blocks access to its service in Mississippi, saying it doesn't have the resources to comply with the state's broad new law requiring age verification (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/22/bluesky-blocks-serv…

Bluesky blocks service in Mississippi over age assurance law | TechCrunch
In a blog post published on Friday, the company explains that, as a small team, it doesn't have the resources to make the substantial technical changes this type of law would require, and it raised concerns about the law's broad scope and privacy implications.

Court filings from in-ear hardware startup iyO's trademark dispute lawsuit against OpenAI detail OpenAI and io's early work on in-ear hardware devices (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/23/court-filing…

Court filings reveal OpenAI and io's early work on an AI device | TechCrunch
Court filings in a trademark case against OpenAI reveal some of the company's early work on developing AI devices.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Go in Indonesia for ~$4.50 per month, expanding its budget-friendly ChatGPT subscription plan after debuting it in India in August (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/22/after-india-openai-l…

After India, OpenAI launches its affordable ChatGPT Go plan in Indonesia | TechCrunch
OpenAI is launching ChatGPT Go in Indonesia to compete with Google AI Plus plan.

PayPal announces PayPal World, an upcoming platform designed to simplify cross-border payments via Venmo, India's UPI, Tencent's Tenpay, and Mercado Pago (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/22/payp

PayPal taps wallets from China and India to make cross-border payments easier for 2 billion people | TechCrunch
PayPal is partnering with global fintech companies to let users pay to different wallet systems cross border.

Indian AI app development platform Rocket.new raised a $15M seed led by Salesforce Ventures; it has 400K users, including 10K paid subscribers (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/22/rocket…

Rocket.new, one of India's first vibe-coding startups, snags $15M from Accel, Salesforce Ventures | TechCrunch
Rocket.new has surged to 400,000 users and $4.5M ARR in three months.

AI compliance startup Delve raised a $32M Series A at a $300M valuation led by Insight Partners with participation from CISOs at Fortune 500 companies (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/22/21-year-old-mit-dropou…

21-year-old MIT dropouts raise $32M at $300M valuation led by Insight | TechCrunch
Delve gets $32 million from Insight Partners to scale its platform that automates regulatory compliance with AI agents.