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WhatsApp v. NSO Group: NSO kept targeting WhatsApp users even after Meta sued, it spent $59M on R&D in 2024, and its customers pay ~$3M-$30M to use Pegasus (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-14 WhatsApp

Amazon says it will work with Humain to invest $5B+ in a strategic partnership to help build an “AI Zone” in Saudi Arabia (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-14 Amazon AI Arabia Saudi Arabia

TikTok launches TikTok AI Alive, which lets users turn static photos into videos in TikTok Stories using Story Camera (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-14 AI

Google says that over one billion RCS messages are sent each day in the US (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-14 Google

Google announces Android 16 security features like expanded fraud detection in Messages, prevention of some actions while on calls, like side loading apps, more (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-14 Android Google

The US Commerce Department formally rescinds the Biden-era AI Diffusion Rule, which would have limited US AI chip exports and taken effect on May 13 (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-14 AI

Dallas-based Bestow, which offers underwriting and insurance software to carriers, raised a $120M Series D led by Goldman Sachs and Smith Point Capital (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-13 Goldman Insurance

GM names Aurora co-founder and CPO Sterling Anderson as VP of global product and chief product officer, a newly created position at GM, starting on June 2 (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-13

Google's Gemma models passed 150M downloads and 70K+ variants on Hugging Face, after launching in Feb. 2024; Meta's Llama models passed 1.2B downloads in April (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-13 Google

Cairo-based Nawy, Africa's largest proptech platform combining listings with brokerage services, raised a $52M Series A led by Partech Africa (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-12 Africa

Ramp AI index: 32.4% of US businesses had OpenAI subscriptions in April, up from 28% in March; Google AI subscriptions fell from 2.3% in Feb. to 0.1% in April (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-11 Google AI

A study finds that asking LLMs to be concise in their answers, particularly on ambiguous topics, can negatively affect factuality and worsen hallucinations (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-10

ServiceNow agrees to acquire cloud-native data catalog and data governance startup Data.World, which had raised over $130M and was valued at $350M in 2022 (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-10 Startup

SoundCloud quietly changed its policies to allow the company to use audio uploaded by users on its platform to “inform, train, develop or serve as input to AI” (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-10 AI

Datadog acquires Eppo, which offers feature flagging and app experimentation tools, reportedly for $220M; Eppo had raised $47.5M and was valued at $80M in 2022 (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-10

Source: US DOL ended its probe into Scale AI's Fair Labor Standards Act compliance, after announcing a friendlier approach to classifying workers as contractors (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-10 AI

Rippling raised a $450M Series G at a $16.8B valuation, up from $13.4B during its $200M Series F in 2024; it is also conducting a $200M tender offer (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-10

Appfigures estimates Apple's US App Store revenue from commissions was ~$10.1B in 2024, more than doubling from ~$4.76B in 2020 (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-9 Apple

SEC filing: Sterling Anderson, CPO and co-founder of self-driving truck startup Aurora, is resigning effective June 1, and will leave the board on August 31 (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-9 Startup

Meta says it will start testing video ads on Threads with a “small number” of advertisers, and “Reels trending ads”, which will be shown next to trending Reels (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-9

Google rolls out AI-powered defenses to help combat scams on Chrome, including the use of Gemini Nano, its on-device LLM, in Enhanced Protection mode on desktop (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-9 Google AI Chrome

Sales automation startup Clay lets staff with 1+ year of tenure sell shares in a tender led by Sequoia at a $1.5B valuation, up from $1.25B in January 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-9 Startup

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says the service will work with “various third-party services” to verify a user's humanity, after an AI experiment in r/ChangeMyView (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-8 AI Reddit

WisdomAI, which offers AI-powered data analytics from structured, unstructured, and “dirty” data, launches with a $23M seed led by Coatue Ventures (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-8 AI

At Stripe Sessions, the company announced an AI foundation model for payments, plans for stablecoin-powered accounts, a recent migration with Nvidia, and more (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-8 AI Nvidia

Anthropic launches web search on its API for Claude 3.7 Sonnet, 3.5 Sonnet, and 3.5 Haiku at $10/1K searches, giving the models access to up-to-date information (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-8

Figma releases AI-powered tools to take on Canva and Adobe: Figma Sites for creating sites, Figma Make for app prototypes, and Figma Buzz for marketing assets (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-8 AI Adobe Asset

Netflix unveils its ChatGPT-powered search that lets users express preferences using natural phrases, to be rolled out this week to iOS users as an opt-in beta (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-8 IOS Netflix

Microsoft says it will support Google's Agent2Agent spec, known as A2A, in Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio and will join A2A's working group on GitHub (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-8 Google Microsoft AI GitHub

Tel Aviv-based Sett, which builds AI agents to create and run mobile game marketing content, emerges from stealth and raised $27M, including a $15M Series A (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-8 Mobile AI

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