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Hauler Hero has picked up fresh funds as demand for its AI-powered waste management software continues to pile up. The New York-based startup raised $16 million in a Series A round led by Frontier Growth with participation from K5 Global and Somersault Ventures, among others, TechCrunch has learned. Hauler Hero has raised more than $27 million in venture capital, to date. Hauler Hero has developed an all-in-one software platform for waste management companies that covers a variety of functions, including customer relationship management, billing, and routing. And now, like so many other software companies, Hauler Hero plans to offer AI…

India has ordered social media platforms to step up policing of deepfakes and other AI-generated impersonations, while sharply shortening the time they have to comply with takedown orders. It’s a move that could reshape how global tech firms moderate content in one of the world’s largest and fastest growing markets for internet services. The changes, published (PDF) on Tuesday as amendments to India’s 2021 IT Rules, bring deepfakes under a formal regulatory framework, mandating the labeling and traceability of synthetic audio and visual content, while also slashing compliance timelines for platforms, including a three-hour deadline for official takedown orders and…

Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has raised the largest-ever seed round for a dev tool startup, according to its lead backer, Felicis. The startup, Entire, has raised $60 million at a $300 million valuation. Entire offers an open source tool to help developers better manage code written by AI agents. Entire’s tech has three components. One is a git-compatible database to unify the AI-produced code. Git is a distributed version control system popular with enterprises and used by open source sites like GitHub and GitLab. Another component is what it calls “a universal semantic reasoning layer” intended to allow multiple…

AI video generation startup Runway has raised a $315 million Series E round, nearly doubling its valuation to $5.3 billion, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch.  The fresh funds will allow Runway to “pre-train the next generation of world models and bring them to new products and industries,” per a company blog post announcing the raise. World models are AI systems that construct internal representations of an environment so they can plan for future events, and many top minds believe they are essential to pushing beyond the limits of large language models. Best known for its physics-aware AI…

Although there are striking differences between the cells that make up your eyes, kidneys, brain and toes, the DNA blueprint for these cells is essentially the same. Where do those differences come from?Scientists are realizing the defining qualities that make up each cell actually lie in a cousin of DNA called RNA.RNA was long considered DNA’s boring biochemical relative. Researchers thought it merely takes the genetic information stored in DNA and delivers it to other parts of the cell, where it is then used to make the proteins that carry out the cell’s functions.But only roughly 2% of DNA codes…

We still don’t know what OpenAI’s mysterious hardware device is — but now we have a better idea of when we might get our hands on it.The company just revealed it doesn’t expect to ship the product it’s building with legendary Apple designer Jony Ive before February 2027.The admission came in a Monday court filing by OpenAI amid a dispute with the startup Iyo, which sued OpenAI last year over the “io” trademark.The previously known timeline for the OpenAI device, shared by the company’s chief global affairs officer at Davos last month, was a product reveal in the second half…

Two C-suite executives and several senior staff have departed Tools for Humanity, the Sam Altman-founded startup behind the eyeball-scanning “Orb,” in recent months, Business Insider has learned.Adrian Ludwig, the Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Architect, recently left after a two-year stint, according to two people and a LinkedIn review. He previously worked at firms including Alphabet, Atlassian, and Adobe.Damien Kieran, Chief Legal and Privacy Officer for the past year and a half also recently announced his departure in a LinkedIn post. His previous roles included general counsel at the photo-sharing app BeReal and chief privacy officer at Twitter, leaving…

Harvey, the $8 billion legal software startup, is becoming a default vendor in Big Law. Now, with rival startups nipping at its heels and AI model providers moving closer to legal workflows, Harvey is bringing in a new executive to help defend its lead.The company tells Business Insider it has hired Anique Drumright as its first chief product officer. In this role, she’ll shape what Harvey builds next and how quickly it can ship. Drumright has held roles at Uber, TripActions, Loom, and, most recently, HR software startup Rippling, where she led the company’s push into IT management software.”Her slope…

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One of xAI’s cofounders, Tony Wu, has left Elon Musk’s AI company.Wu said in a post on X on Tuesday that he has resigned from the company.”It’s time for my next chapter,” Wu wrote. “It is an era with full possibilities: a small team armed with AIs can move mountains and redefine what’s possible.””And to Elon @elonmusk – thank you for believing in the mission and for the ride of a lifetime,” he added.Wu is the fourth cofounder to leave the company over the past year. Christian Szegedy left the company in February, according to his LinkedIn. Igor Babuschkin announced…