<p>We may be witnessing the makings of a new tech industry feud between competitors. Figma has sent a cease-and-desist letter to popular no-code AI startup Lovable, Figma confirmed to TechCrunch.&nbsp; The letter tells Lovable to stop using the term “Dev Mode&#8221; for a new product feature. Figma, which also has a feature called Dev Mode, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Context.ai, a startup building evaluations and analytics for AI models, announced Tuesday that its co-founders will join OpenAI.  Context.ai plans to wind down its products following the acqui-hire, per a message on the company&#8217;s website. When reached for comment, OpenAI declined to reveal the terms of the deal. &#8220;Evals are a requirement to building high-performing [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Rippling&#8217;s efforts to serve Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz have been significantly complicated by the fact that Bouaziz and his lawyer are now in Dubai, according to internal correspondence seen by TechCrunch. The UAE is a country with a reputation of being a safe haven for those wanting to avoid extradition. Rippling is trying to serve [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Pacific Fusion also announced the hiring of a key executive from competitor Helion.</p>

<p>Tesla famously struggled to scale up production of the Model 3 sedan in 2018 &#8212; so much so that CEO Elon Musk said his company was weeks away from collapsing. That near-death experience helped spawn a whole new company called Atomic that&#8217;s built around using AI to streamline supply chains. Co-founded by former Tesla employees [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Notion released Notion Mail, an AI-powered email client for Gmail that integrates with the rest of Notion&#8217;s workflow management platform, on Tuesday. Notion Mail connects to Notion users&#8217; Gmail accounts and uses AI to help users organize their emails, draft responses, schedule meetings, and search across messages. Any Notion user can sign up, and Notion [&hellip;]</p>

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<p>Hexium has emerged from stealth with $8 million in seed funding.</p>

<p>The science fiction trope of humans superpowered by computer and bionic implants is fast becoming a reality, and today, a startup hoping for a role in how that plays out is announcing some funding.&nbsp; Phantom Neuro, which is developing a wristband-like device that gets implanted under the skin to let a person control prosthetic limbs, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Reshma Saujani, founder of the nonprofit Girls Who Code, got straight to the point.&nbsp; “If I had applied to be the CEO of Girls Who Code, I wouldn’t have gotten the job,” she told Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, on the latest episode of the duchess&#8217; podcast, “Confessions of a Female Founder.&#8221; “I didn’t code,” Saujani [&hellip;]</p>

<p>U.K. startup Marshmallow has blown up over the years by using innovations in data science to build car insurance policies for immigrants and other consumers who have been overlooked or priced out of traditional insurance. Now, with a million drivers insured and a profitable annual revenue run rate of $500 million, Marshmallow has raised a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>HR tech startup Rippling is trying to serve Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz with papers as part of a blockbuster lawsuit against its competitor. There&#8217;s just one problem: French bailiffs hired by Rippling can&#8217;t seem to find Bouaziz, Irish newspaper Business Post reports. April 15 update: Deel&#8217;s CEO is in Dubai, TechCrunch has learned, further complicating [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Neptune is one of the newest short-form video apps on the block seeking to compete with major players like TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts.  The app, currently in beta, has attracted attention from hundreds of thousands of users, with 970 testers participating and 400,000 people on the waitlist, per the company. Neptune announced Monday [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A handful of engineers who worked at Lucid Motors and on Apple&#8217;s electric car project have launched a new startup that puts a fresh spin on electric hub motors. The new startup, called Conifer, has developed its motor to be free of rare earth elements by using more abundant ferrite magnets, which the company says [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Demand for solar energy in power-starved Nigeria has soared in the last decade thanks to worsening grid reliability and rising fuel costs. That’s drawn investor interest to Arnergy, a clean tech startup meeting that need. The company just raised a $15 million Series B extension (on top of a $3 million B1 round last year), [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the AI startup led by OpenAI’s co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has raised an additional $2 billion in funding at a $32 billion valuation, according to the Financial Times. The startup had already raised $1 billion, and there were reports that an additional $1 billion round was in the works. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>In recent years, focus on career and delayed marriage age is driving some women to consider preserving their fertility through egg freezing. But the steep cost of the procedure, estimated at $10,000 to $15,000 per attempt, means many women can&#8217;t afford it during their most fertile years: 20s and early 30s. Cofertility, a startup founded [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Thirteen years ago, Forerunner Ventures began helping to usher in a new era of consumer startups, including Warby Parker, Bonobos, and Glossier. None has gone through a traditional IPO process. Warby Parker was taken public through a special purpose acquisition vehicle. Bonobos was acquired by Walmart. Glossier is still privately held, along with many other [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google Cloud announced a long list of impressive AI startups as customers during its Cloud Next conference this week </p>