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PetLibro’s new smart camera uses AI to describe your pet’s movements, and it's adorable

11 hours ago | techcrunch.com | Lauren Forristal

PetLibro, the pet tech startup known for its automatic feeders and filtered water fountains, has just launched its latest product, the AI-powered Scout Smart Camera, designed to provide pet owners with real-time insights into their furbabies’ activities and behaviors. Scout is similar to other pet cameras on the market; it monitors your pet in real-time and features two-way audio, allowing you to communicate with them if they’re getting into mischief.
Meta buys over 1 GW of renewables to power its data centers

12 hours ago | techcrunch.com | Tim De Chant

Meta bolstered its already considerable renewable power portfolio this week with a string of deals that added over 1 gigawatt of generating capacity. The social media company announced Thursday it will buy 791 megawatts of solar and wind power in Ohio, Arkansas, and Texas from project developer Invenergy. And on Wednesday, Meta said it would buy the environmental attributes from two of Adapture Renewables’ solar farms in Texas totaling 360 megawatts.
Suno snaps up WavTool for its AI music editing tools amid ongoing dispute with music labels

1 day ago | techcrunch.com | Lauren Forristal

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, and an AI music assistant. Suno will integrate WavTool’s technology into its new editing interface, which launched this month.
Indian drone startup Raphe mPhibr raises $100M as military UAV demand soars

2 days ago | techcrunch.com | Jagmeet Singh

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 conflicts, countries have turned to drones for rapid infiltration and high-impact strikes.
Air quality tests around xAI's Memphis data center raise questions

2 days ago | techcrunch.com | Tim De Chant

Elon Musk’s xAI is the subject of scrutiny in Memphis, where natural gas turbines powering its Colossus data center have raised alarm among residents concerned about air pollution. On Tuesday, the City of Memphis released the results of initial air quality testing performed by a third party, saying that levels of the 10 pollutants tested were not dangerous.
How one biotech startup is betting on cows and winning over investors

2 days ago | techcrunch.com | Tim De Chant

Cow burps are a climate problem, and one startup wants to reprogram them. Livestock are a major source of methane emissions, a greenhouse gas that is 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide. While plenty of startups are trying to tackle the issue with seaweed feed, synthetic additives, or carbon offsets, one biotech founder is taking a more fundamental approach: changing what happens inside the cow’s gut.
Bill Gates-backed AirLoom begins building its first power plant

2 days ago | techcrunch.com | Tim De Chant

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 downward trend. “We have a lot of headwinds,” acknowledges Neal Rickner, CEO of wind startup AirLoom Energy.
Exclusive: Nascent Materials emerges from stealth to make LFP batteries better and cheaper | TechCrunch

2 days ago | techcrunch.com | Tim De Chant

Lithium-ion batteries have dropped in cost by 75% over the past decade, a marvel of research and development that isn’t the result of a singular breakthrough but of myriad incremental improvements. Few know that better than Chaitanya Sharma, founder of the stealthy Nascent Materials. Sharma spent a little over two years working at Tesla’s Gigafactory in Nevada and another two leading iM3NY, a lithium-ion manufacturer in New York.
Ring cameras and doorbells now use AI to provide specific descriptions of motion activity

2 days ago | techcrunch.com | Lauren Forristal

Amazon-owned Ring announced on Wednesday that it’s introducing a new AI-powered feature to its doorbells and cameras, which offers users specific text descriptions of current motion activity. Now, when users receive real-time notifications about happenings at their property, the updates will be more descriptive.
India's GoKwik raised a small $13M round for a hefty leap in valuation

3 days ago | techcrunch.com | Jagmeet Singh

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 in May 2022, it has valued the New Delhi-based startup 43% more than its last pre-money valuation of $315 million.