October 15, 2025

TechCrunch Top 3

Meta partners up with Arm to scale AI efforts: Semiconductor firm Arm is partnering with Meta to enhance the social media company's AI systems amid an unprecedented infrastructure buildout. Read More

Nscale inks massive AI infrastructure deal with Microsoft: Nscale plans to deploy the chips over the next few years to three data centers in Europe and a fourth in the U.S. Read More

Cyber giant F5 Networks says government hackers had 'long-term' access to its systems, stole code and customer data: The company, which provides cybersecurity defenses to most of the Fortune 500, said the DOJ allowed it to delay notifying the public on national security grounds. Read More

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Afternoon Must-Reads

Apple adds 650 megawatts of renewables in Europe with more coming in China: Apple is adding renewable power to offset customer charging and support its operations, including third-party manufacturing in China. Read More

Eightfold co-founders raise $35M for Viven, an AI digital twin startup for querying unavailable coworkers: Viven's seed funding was led by Khosla Ventures and Foundation Capital. Read More

Liberate bags $50M at $300M valuation to bring AI deeper into insurance back offices: Liberate's AI agents automate tasks for P&C insurers, working across sales, service, and claims. Read More

Anthropic launches new version of scaled-down 'Haiku' model: Anthropic has released Claude Haiku 4.5, the newest version of its smallest model, billed as offering similar performance to Sonnet 4 "at one-third the cost and more than twice the speed." Read More

Self-driving car companies Pony.ai and WeRide get the OK for Hong Kong listing: The Chinese AV companies are already traded on the Nasdaq. Read More

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Last but Not Least

Google releases Veo 3.1, adds it to Flow video editor: Veo 3 already has edit features such as adding reference images to drive a character, providing the first and last frame to generate a clip using AI, and the ability to extend an existing video based on the last few frames. With Veo 3.1, Google is adding audio to all these features to make the clips more lively. Read More