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Meta expands voice calls on WhatsApp to large businesses and explores AI-powered product recommendations for merchants' sites (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/meta-adds-busines…

Meta adds business voice calling to WhatsApp, explores AI-powered product reccomendations | TechCrunch
WhatsApp is adding more AI features to its business suite. The company on Tuesday announced it's introducing the ability for large businesses to reach

Campfire, which offers AI-powered ERP and accounting services, raised a $35M Series A led by Accel (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/30/tiny-ai-erp-startup-campfire-is-winning-s…

Tiny AI ERP startup Campfire is winning so many startups from NetSuite, Accel led a $35M Series A  | TechCrunch
Campfire was launched in 2023 to upend 1990s-era enterprise resource planning accounting software (ERP) like Netsuite with an LLM-powered alternative. 

San Mateo-based observability service Observe raised a $156M Series C led by Sutter Hill Ventures with participation from Snowflake, Madrona, and others (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/30/observe-contin…

Observe continues to adapt to the changing world of software observability | TechCrunch
Observe just raised a $156 million Series C round as the company looks to offer support for Apache Iceberg by the end of the year.

OpenAI removes a ChatGPT feature that let users make their conversations discoverable by Google and other search engines, calling it a "short-lived experiment" (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/31/your

Your public ChatGPT queries are getting indexed by Google and other search engines | TechCrunch
Search engines are indexing links to ChatGPT conversations that have been made sharable with a link.

Levelpath, which provides AI-powered enterprise procurement services, raised a $55M Series B led by Battery Ventures, bringing its total funding to $100M (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/30/next-gen-procurement-platform-…

Next-gen procurement platform Levelpath nabs $55M | TechCrunch
The investment signals confidence in Levelpath's fast growth and its potential to disrupt a market dominated by legacy players.

Fundamental Research Labs, which is working on AI applications in different fields, including a general-purpose consumer assistant, raised a $30M Series A (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/01/fund

Fundamental Research Labs nabs $30M to build AI agents across verticals | TechCrunch
Fundamental Research Labs is releasing multiple AI products related to gaming and productivity.

Cloudflare launches Pay per Crawl, a marketplace letting sites charge AI crawlers per crawl; new sites set up with Cloudflare will block AI crawlers by default (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/clou

Cloudflare launches a marketplace that lets websites charge AI bots for scraping | TechCrunch
Cloudflare is launching a new marketplace that reimagines the relationship between publishers and AI companies.

Google announces 30 Gemini AI tools for educators, like "Gems" which help students on specific subjects, included with Google Workspace for Education accounts (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025…

Google embraces AI in the classroom with new Gemini tools for educators, chatbots for students, and more | TechCrunch
Google will give teachers the ability to create interactive study guides using the AI research tool Notebook LM, along with their classroom materials.

TikTok launches a new version of its app called TikTok Pro in Germany, Portugal, and Spain, allowing users to earn "virtual sunshine" to support charities (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/01/tiktok-launche…

TikTok launches 'TikTok Pro' in Europe with built-in charity program | TechCrunch
The app features TikTok's new "Sunshine Programme," which allows users to support charitable organizations.

Google rolls out Gemini 2.5 Deep Think, its most advanced reasoning model, which can consider multiple ideas simultaneously, to $250-per-month Ultra subscribers (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/01/goog

Google rolls out Gemini Deep Think AI, a reasoning model that tests multiple ideas in parallel | TechCrunch
Google released its first publicly available "multi-agent" AI system, which uses more computational resources, but produces better answers.