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Experian Launches Credit Score App in ChatGPT, Enhancing Financial Access
New tool enables users to check credit scores effortlessly via ChatGPT.Highlights: Experian's app allows users to check credit scores through ChatGPT.Users access personalized credit insights and tips.The launch aims...
FinTech
US Senate Passes Bill Banning Issuance of CBDCs
Legislation aims to restrict the development of digital currencies by the Federal Reserve.Highlights: The US Senate approved a...
FinTech
Truist Expands Open Banking Offerings with Plaid Partnership
Collaboration aims to enhance customer access to financial services.Highlights: Truist collaborates with Plaid for open banking expansion.The partnership...
FinTech
UK’s National Fraud Database Reports 444,000 Fraud Cases in 2025
Cifas reveals a significant rise in reported fraud incidents across the UK.Highlights: Cifas reported 444,000 fraud cases in...
FinTech
Zelle and BofA Accelerate Charitable Disbursements
New partnership aims to streamline donations through Zelle's platform.Highlights: Zelle partners with Bank of America for charitable donations.New...
Mitigating AI biases in healthcare with Amy Brown from Authenticx
Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups.This week Becca and Dom are joined by Amy Brown, the co-founder and...
Paul McCartney used AI to make a new Beatles song
AI-generated music is a bourgeoning and fraught topic, with artists either vocally opposing even the faintest hint of it, or some (like Grimes) more...
Vectara lands $28.5M to supercharge enterprise search
Some years ago, three former Googlers — Amr Awadallah (who previously founded Cloudera), Amin Ahmad and Tallat Shafaat — set out to build what...
Itoka wants to license AI-generated music via the blockchain
AI-generated music is fast becoming a reality. Thanks to tools like Meta’s MusicGen, it’s now possible to create halfway decent songs in a range...
Striveworks snaps up first funding of $33M to build tools for machine learning operations
MLOps, or DevOps for those working with machine learning models, has seen a boom of interest in the last year, and that should come...
Cloud cost management startup CloudZero lands $32M investment
CloudZero, a cloud cost management startup, today announced that it raised $32 million in a Series B funding round led by Innovius Capital and...
France’s Mistral AI blows in with a $113M seed round at a $260M valuation to take on OpenAI
AI is well and truly off to the races: a startup that is only four weeks old has picked up a $113 million round...
Can AI make older adults feel less lonely?
Welcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in...
AI startup Cohere, now valued at over $2.1B, raises $270M
In a sign that there’s plenty of cash to go around for generative AI startups, Cohere, which is developing an AI model ecosystem for...

