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Some researchers say it looks like DeepSeek may have used Google Gemini to help train its R1-0528 reasoning model (techcrunch.com)
2025-6-4 Google

Tel Aviv-based Speedata, which is designing analytics processing units for big data workloads, raised a $44M Series B, aims to showcase its first APU this month (techcrunch.com)
2025-6-4

Adobe launches a Photoshop app for Android in beta for devices running Android 11 or later with 6GB+ of RAM, including core desktop features like layering (techcrunch.com)
2025-6-3 Android Adobe

Dublin-based cross-border payment startup NomuPay raised a $40M Series C at a $290M valuation, following a $37M Series B at a $200M valuation in January 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2025-6-3 Startup

Character.AI rolls out features like AvatarFX for video generation, plus Streams and Scenes for creating and sharing videos with characters on a new social feed (techcrunch.com)
2025-6-3 AI

Neuralink raised a $650M Series E from ARK Invest, Founders Fund, G42, Human Capital, Sequoia, Thrive, and others; it was reportedly valued at ~$9B pre-money (techcrunch.com)
2025-6-3

X aims to roll out an “XChat” messaging feature “with encryption, vanishing messages and the ability to send any kind of file” to all users this week (techcrunch.com)
2025-6-3

Elad Gil, backer of Perplexity, Character.AI, Airbnb, Coinbase, and Stripe, invested in Enam Co., which aims to transform businesses with AI via PE roll-ups (techcrunch.com)
2025-6-2 AI Airbnb Coinbase

Google quietly released an Android app called Google AI Edge Gallery on GitHub, letting users run some AI models from Hugging Face locally on their phones (techcrunch.com)
2025-6-1 Android Google AI GitHub

Automattic says it will resume contributing to the WordPress project, after announcing a pause in April (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-31 WordPress

The US Treasury sanctions Philippines-based Funnull Technology for allegedly facilitating “pig butchering” crypto scams that stole over $200M from US victims (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-30 Philippines

Hugging Face unveils two open-source humanoid robots, the $3,000 full-sized HopeJR and a $250-$300 Reachy Mini desktop unit, expected to ship by the end of 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-30 Robot

Black Forest Labs releases Flux.1 Kontext, a suite of AI models that let users generate and edit images using both text and images as inputs (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-30 AI

YouTube plans to roll out Google Lens integration to Shorts in the coming weeks, allowing users to search for elements within Shorts (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-30 Google YouTube

Perplexity launches Perplexity Labs, letting users craft reports, spreadsheets, dashboards, and more, available on the web, iOS, and Android for its Pro users (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-30 Android IOS

Rillet raised a $25M Sequoia-led Series A and has added ~200 customers, including Windsurf, since debuting an AI tool in 2024 to automate general ledger systems (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-29 AI

Instacart appoints Chief Business Officer Chris Rogers as its new CEO, effect August 15, replacing Fidji Simo, who left to become OpenAI's CEO of Applications (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-28

SignalFire: startups and Big Tech firms cut hiring of recent graduates by 11% and 25% respectively in 2024 vs. 2023, as AI can handle routine, low-risk tasks (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-28 Startup AI

Anthropic is rolling out voice mode in beta for its Claude mobile apps, available in English; free users can expect 20-30 voice messages before hitting a limit (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-28 Mobile

Apple says its App Store blocked $9B+ in fraudulent transactions over the past five years, with $2B in just 2024, and rejected ~2M risky app submissions in 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-28 Apple

SpAItial, which is building text-to-3D environment generation tools, raised a $13M seed led by Earlybird and plans to license its foundation model to developers (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-27

Some VCs, such as Khosla Ventures, are considering acquiring mature businesses, like call center operators, and optimizing them with AI to serve more customers (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-25 AI

RevenueCat, which offers tools for devs to add subscriptions to their apps, raised a $50M Series C led by Bain Capital Ventures, valuing the company at $500M (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-24

OpenAI says Operator, its AI agent that can use the web to perform tasks, will soon use a model based on o3 after previously using a custom version of GPT-4o (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-24 AI

Zoom CEO Eric Yuan used an AI avatar for initial comments during a quarterly call; Klarna CEO used an AI avatar to deliver earnings earlier this week (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-24 AI

Bluesky lets “notable and authentic” accounts apply for blue check verification and enables select organizations to become Trusted Verifiers to verify others (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-23

Apollo Research, which Anthropic partnered with to test Opus 4, recommended against deploying an early version due to its tendency to “scheme” and deceive (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-23

Anthropic's System Card: Opus 4 often attempted to blackmail engineers by threatening to reveal sensitive personal info when it was threatened with replacement (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-23

Sonnet 4 is available to free and paid users, while Opus 4 is limited to paid users; Opus 4 API costs $15/$75 per 1M input/output tokens, Sonnet 4 costs $3/$15 (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-23

NYC-based Siro, which offers AI-powered coaching for sales reps, raised a $50M Series B led by SignalFire, bringing its total raised to $75M (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-22 AI

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