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Mark Zuckerberg says Threads has 350M MAUs, having added 30M in Q1 2025, compared to 20M in Q4 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-1 4Q Zuckerberg

Nuvo, a B2B startup that scales trade partnerships by streamlining credit approvals and more, raised a $34M Series A from Sequoia Capital and Spark Capital (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-1 Startup

SEC filing: Intel EVP and Chief Commercial Officer Christoph Schell is resigning “in order to pursue another career opportunity” after joining in February 2022 (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-1 Intel Career

Wikipedia says it will use AI to build new features that “remove technical barriers” for editors, moderators, and patrollers, automate tedious tasks, and more (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-1 AI

Kintsugi, which uses AI to help companies automate their sales tax compliance, raised $18M at a $150M post-money valuation, up from $80M in November 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-1 Tax AI

AI legal analysis startup Supio, which focuses on personal injury law across 114+ case types, raised $60M led by Sapphire, taking its total funding to $91M (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-30 Startup AI

Miami-based Cast, which optimizes AI and other workloads via automation, raised a $108M Series C led by G2 and Vision Fund 2, sources say at a $900M valuation (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-30 AI

Online graphic design platform Freepik unveils F Lite, a 10B-parameter “open” AI image model that it says was trained on ~80M licensed, “safe-for-work” images (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-30 AI

At LlamaCon, Satya Nadella said 20%-30% of code in Microsoft's repositories was written by AI and the company was seeing more progress in Python and less in C++ (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-30 Microsoft AI

An Indian court directs the government to block Proton Mail after a local firm alleged its staff received emails containing obscene content sent via the service (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-30 India

Appfigures: Google Play hosts 1.8M apps, down from 3.4M at the beginning of 2024, a 47% decline likely due to raised minimum quality requirements (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-30 Google

The latest update of GPT-4o is “now 100% rolled back” for free users and is currently rolling back for paid users, as OpenAI aims to fix the model's sycophancy (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-30

Meta says its Llama AI models have been downloaded 1.2B times, up from 1B downloads in March and 650M downloads in early December 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-30 AI

Meta debuts an API for its Llama AI models, in limited preview with pricing yet to be publicly announced (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-30 AI

Helsinki-based IXI, which is building low-power glasses that can autofocus to a user's prescription, emerges from stealth and raised a $36.5M Series A (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-29

Hugging Face releases SO-101, a programmable, 3D-printable robotic arm that can pick up and place objects, costing $100 to $500 depending on the supplier (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-29 Robot

Alibaba unveils the Qwen3 family of open-weight “hybrid” AI reasoning models, including Qwen3-235B-A22B, with 235B total parameters and 22B activated parameters (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-29 Alibaba AI

OpenAI says users made over a billion web searches in ChatGPT last week and that WhatsApp users can now message 1-800-ChatGPT to get up-to-date search results (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-29 WhatsApp

Tel Aviv-based Lightrun, an observability platform that uses AI to identify and debug code in production, raised a $70M Series B co-led by Accel and Insight (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-28 AI

Lagos-based OmniRetail, which digitizes order management for manufacturers, distributors, and others, raised a $20M Series A, taking its total funding to $38M (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-28

Alpaca, which offers APIs for financial firms to connect and trade in US stocks, raised a $52M Series C to expand into the Middle East, Europe, and Asia (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-27 Europe Asia

OpenAI expands deep research usage for Plus, Pro, and Team users with an o4-mini-powered lightweight version, which also rolls out to Free users today (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-26

Facebook will reduce the reach of accounts sharing spammy content and make them ineligible for monetization, after Zuckerberg promised a return to “OG Facebook” (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-26 Facebook Zuckerberg

CB Insights: fintech startups globally raised a combined $10.3B in Q1, the highest since Q1 2023; 19 US fintech startups have raised over $50M in 2025 so far (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-26 Fintech Startup

Meta moves Threads from Threads.net to Threads.com and updates its web app, including features to more easily access custom feeds, create new columns, and more (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-25

VW and Uber unveil an ambitious plan to launch a commercial robotaxi service using ID. BUZZ vehicles in US cities over the next decade, starting in LA in 2026 (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-24 Uber

Adobe unveils its Firefly Image Model 4 and Model 4 Ultra, launches a redesigned Firefly web app, is testing a new Adobe Content Authenticity web app, and more (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-24 Adobe

Report: Bluesky restricted access to 72 accounts in Turkey at the government's request; the accounts are available on third-party apps using the AT Protocol (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-24

Sources: OpenAI aims to debut its next “open” model, which will be “text in, text out” and possibly let developers turn “reasoning” on and off, in early summer (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-24

Tesla says it has started testing its autonomous ride-hailing service with employees in Austin and the Bay Area, and has completed 15,000 miles of driving (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-24 Tesla

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