Author: Arabian Media staff

A deal between Anthropic, Microsoft and Nvidia makes AI more circular Source link

When Anthony Sardain began developing Cavela in 2023, an AI startup that helps brands automate supplier sourcing, he did not foresee that new tariffs would drive customers to become increasingly wary of manufacturing products in China. “You don’t just walk into Vietnam and build up a supply chain,” Sardain told TechCrunch. “A lot of brands find one supplier, and they hang on for the rest of their life, because they really don’t want to lose it.” That’s especially true for small and midsize companies that lack dedicated, global sourcing departments. Sardain claims that Cavela solves this problem through its AI…

January Ventures co-founder Jennifer Neundorfer stopped by the Equity podcast during TechCrunch Disrupt to chat about fundraising in this very AI-driven market.   Founders and investors alike are obsessed with AI, and even Neundorfer said her firm is looking at ways to use AI to make their work more efficient, such as helping to do due diligence on the market and competition. As for companies being built, she has a preference for the founders looking to create something entirely new.   “Where I tend to get excited is when I see someone who is using AI to do something that isn’t 10x better. It’s…

If you want insight into just how worried VCs (and Silicon Valley, generally) are over legal challenges to AI training on copyrighted material, look no further than AI music site Suno.  Suno, which allows anyone to create AI-generated songs through prompts, announced on Wednesday that it has raised a $250 million Series C round at a $2.45 billion post-money valuation. The round was led by Menlo Ventures with participation from Nvidia’s venture arm NVentures, as well as Hallwood Media, Lightspeed, and Matrix.   The company offers consumer monthly subscriptions (a free tier plus $8 or $24 per month plans) and launched…

Decentralized social network Bluesky, a competitor to X and Threads, announced on Wednesday that it’s making further changes to its moderation process. Specifically, the company said it’s introducing new updates around how it tracks violations of its Community Guidelines and enforces its policies. This includes the inclusion of new reporting categories in the app, changes to its “strike” system for violations, and more guidance provided to those who violate the rules. The moderation changes are rolling out with the latest version of the Bluesky app (v. 1.110), which also includes a dark-mode app icon and a redesigned feature for controlling…

Auckland-founded Kiki Club launched its peer-to-peer subletting startup in New York City in 2023 with the mission of helping renters sublet their apartments while traveling for extended periods.  However, Kiki’s model violated local short-term rental laws, leading to its shutdown this past June. The New York Mayor’s Office of Special Enforcement (OSE) announced on Wednesday that Kiki has agreed to pay over $152,000 to settle charges.  Backed by Blackbird, the Airbnb competitor aimed to simplify the subletting process and boldly promised a solution that would let users sublet their spaces for up to six months. The platform used a matching…

For Daniil Boiko and Andrei Tyrin, the idea for Onepot AI came from the same frustration.   “The best ideas in drug discovery were often blocked not by biology, but by synthesis,” Boiko told TechCrunch. Synthesis is the creation of new molecules by using chemical reactions. It’s like a recipe or Lego pieces, where small pieces, ingredients, molecules, come together to form a wider puzzle picture, a food dish, a larger molecule.   As one might expect, it’s quite hard to create those small molecules that go on to build bigger ones.   For Boiko, a Ph.D. candidate studying machine learning in chemistry at Carnegie Mellon (he received his bachelor’s and master’s in organic chemistry from a university in Russia), that meant realizing that drug hunters — the scientists who oversee drug discovery and development…

Image credit: Supplied Property Finder, the MENA region’s property platform, has announced a strategic partnership and investment in Keyper, the UAE’s leading rent-now-pay-monthly solution. In a first for the region’s property sector, Keyper’s rent-in-installments technology will be fully integrated into the Property Finder app and website, giving residents the ability to pay rent monthly rather than in large upfront cheques. It’s a major step forward for the UAE’s rental landscape. Historically, tenants in the UAE have been required to pay annual rent in one to four cheques, creating financial pressure and limiting access to homes that truly fit their needs.…

Shivi Sharma spent a decade working in credit risk at places like American Express and Varo Bank.   At some point, she realized teams were spending equal amounts of time analyzing all types of loans — regardless of whether it was worth $100,000 or $5 million — meaning assessing smaller loans was ultimately an unprofitable and time-consuming process for lenders.   She and her husband, Utsav Shah, realized there was an opportunity here.   “She watched as the vast majority of small business owners couldn’t access the capital they needed to grow, simply because the economics didn’t work for banks,” Shah told TechCrunch.   “Between our skills in building AI-powered decision-making systems at scale and our expertise in…

Image: Dubai Media office Dubai International Airport (DXB) recorded its highest quarterly passenger traffic in its 65-year history in Q3 2025, welcoming 24.2 million passengers between July and September, a 1.9 per cent increase from the same period last year, Dubai Airports said on Tuesday. The strong Q3 performance lifted total passenger traffic for the first nine months of 2025 to 70.1 million, up 2.1 per cen year-on-year. The airport’s rolling 12-month traffic at the end of September reached a record 93.8 million. Aircraft movements also remained robust, with 115,000 flights recorded in Q3 and 336,000 flights across all categories…