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Google updates its Gemini chatbot, adding Canvas, a space for users to create, refine, and share writing and coding projects, and Audio Overview from NotebookLM (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-19 Google chatbot

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's Llama models have been downloaded 1B times, up from 650M downloads in early December 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-19 Zuckerberg

Google launches new Search and Android health features, including medical records APIs, and plans to release open AI models for drug discovery called TxGemma (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-19 Android Google AI

San Francisco grants Waymo a temporary permit to map SFO roads with human-driven cars, paving the way for future commercial operations (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-18 San Francisco

Users report that Gemini 2.0 Flash is very good at removing watermarks from images; many models allow this but some, like Claude 3.7 Sonnet and GPT-4o, do not (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-18

In an open letter, about 100 EU companies urge lawmakers to take “radical action” to cut reliance on foreign Big Tech by fostering a so-called “Euro stack” (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-17

Some developers say licenses for “open” AI models like Google's Gemma and Meta's Llama have limits that restrict commercial use without fear of legal reprisal (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-17 Google AI

Bluesky proposes letting users indicate if their data can be used for AI training, web archiving, and more; critics see it as a reversal of its prior statements (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-16 AI

A lack of consensus on what defines an AI “agent” is leading to customer frustration, as Microsoft, OpenAI, Salesforce, and others market it differently (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-16 Microsoft AI Salesforce

A look at some standout startups from YC's W25 Demo Day, which showcased 160 companies, including several creating tools to enhance other companies' AI agents (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-15 Startup AI

Orlando-based Worth, whose tech lets fintechs, banks, and enterprises underwrite SMBs by automating KYC, fraud verification, and more, raised a $20M seed (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-15

The DOJ says Rostislav Panev, who is accused of being a key developer for the LockBit ransomware gang, has been extradited from Israel to the US (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-15 Israel

SoftBank plans to buy a former Sharp LCD panel plant in Osaka for ~$676M, sources say to turn it into a data center for jointly developing AI agents with OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-14 AI

Flock Safety, maker of computer vision-enabled video surveillance tech for police and businesses, raised $275M at a $7.5B valuation, up from $4.8B a year ago (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-14

OpenAI calls DeepSeek “state-controlled” and recommends that the US consider banning “PRC-produced” models that “violate user privacy and create security risks” (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-14

Google releases its proposals for White House's AI Action Plan, arguing that “fair use and text-and-data mining exceptions” are “critical” to AI development (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-14 Google AI

UiPath acquires Peak, which makes AI tools to optimize product inventory and pricing; Peak raised a total of $121M and reported revenue of just ~£9M in 2023 (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-14 AI

Omni, which offers data analysis tools, raised a $69M Series B led by ICONIQ Growth at a $650M valuation, bringing its total raised to $97M (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-14 Data Analysis

Xiaomi plans to preinstall PhonePe's Indus Appstore on all new smartphones sold in India and replace its GetApps app store with Indus Appstore on existing ones (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-13 India Xiaomi

Estonia-based Blackwall, formerly BotGuard, raised a €45M Series B to protect SMBs from malicious online traffic, after a €12M Series A in March 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-13

In its final decision report, the UK CMA finds that Apple and Google's mobile browser duopoly is “holding back innovation”, but offers no enforcement action (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-13 Google Mobile Apple Browser

Indian police arrest Aleksej Besciokov, the co-founder of Garantex, a Russian crypto exchange sanctioned by the EU and the US, at the request of US authorities (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-13 Russia India

Snapchat introduces AI video Lenses, powered by Snap's in-house generative video model, available to subscribers of the $16/month Snapchat Platinum tier (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-13 AI Snapchat

Ditto, which aims to enable “resilient” edge device connectivity, raised an $82M Series B at a $462M post-money valuation, after a $45M Series A in April 2023 (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-12

India's largest telco Jio Platforms partners with SpaceX to offer Starlink in the country, just hours after rival Airtel announced a similar partnership (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-12 India SpaceX

Israeli startup Sola, which offers a low-code platform to build cybersecurity apps, emerges from stealth with a $30M seed co-led by S Capital and Mike Moritz (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-12 Israel Startup

Neobank Zolve, which offers services for those moving to the US, raised a $51M Series B led by Creaegis and $200M in debt, and says it has 750,000 customers (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-11

Infinite Uptime, which uses AI and proprietary sensors to offer predictive maintenance solutions for factories, raised a $35M Series C led by Avataar Ventures (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-11 AI

Nirvana, which uses real-time driving telematics to build insurance policies for truckers, raised an $80M Series C at an $830M valuation, up from $350M in 2023 (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-11 Insurance

Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf: current AI development paradigms won't yield outside-the-box problem-solving that leads to true scientific breakthroughs (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-10 AI

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