​It is not that European startups never get attention — Lovable and Mistral AI are proof of that. But there are many more that insiders are tracking.  

​Praveen Neppalli Naga, Uber’s chief technology officer, revealed the plan in an interview at TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC event in San Francisco on Thursday night, describing it as a natural extension of a nascent program the company announced in late January called AV Labs.  

​At TechCrunch’s sold-out StrictlyVC event in San Francisco on Thursday night, we covered a lot of ground in a short time, beginning with the question everyone in the industry is asking right now: in a world where rival Cursor is reportedly in talks to be acquired by SpaceX for $60 billion, is Replit also bound to sell?  

​The DTC skin, hair, and menopause care brand will use the non-dilutive capital to super-charge customer acquisition.  

​Meta bought humanoid startup Assured Robot Intelligence to beef up its AI models for robots, the company said.  

​Coatue, one of the biggest names in venture capital, has a new venture that is reportedly buying land near large power sources.  

​The deals come as the DoD has doubled down on diversifying its exposure to AI vendors in the wake of its controversial dispute with Anthropic over usage terms of its AI models.  

​A group of hacktivists have claimed responsibility for a distributed denial-of-service attack, which has affected several Ubuntu and Canonical websites, and prevented users from updating the Linux-based operating system.