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Amazon discontinues Inspire, which was launched in December 2022 as a TikTok-style feed in its app for discovering products (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-19 Amazon

Starting Feb. 19, Meta will store Facebook Live broadcasts for 30 days instead of storing them indefinitely and will remove videos currently older than 30 days (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-19 Facebook

Meta says LlamaCon, its first developer conference dedicated to generative AI, will take place on April 29, and Meta Connect will be held on September 17 and 18 (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-19 AI

Hightouch, which makes AI marketing, sales, and customer service tools, raised an $80M Series C led by Sapphire at a $1.2B valuation, up from $615M in July 2023 (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-19 AI

X raises its Premium+ subscription to $40 per month, or $395 per year, after raising it to $22 per month in December 2024, following Grok3's launch (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-18

xAI launches Grok3 beta and Grok3 mini, its latest AI models with reasoning capabilities, trained on “10x” more compute than Grok2, for X Premium+ subscribers (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-18 AI

An interview with Nextdoor CEO Nirav Tolia on building the “next Nextdoor”, not licensing data to AI firms for now, his relationship with Bill Gurley, and more (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-18 Interview AI

Mistral releases Mistral Saba, a 24B-parameter custom-trained model focused on Arabic language and culture, via its API; Saba outperforms Mistral Small 3 (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-18

A look at the OpenEuroLLM project, a partnership among 20 EU organizations to develop open-source LLMs that support all EU languages, with a budget of €37.4M (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-17 Budget

The death of former OpenAI employee Suchir Balaji was deemed suicide in a new autopsy report, countering suspicions by his family that had fueled speculation (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-16

Identity security startup SGNL, which lets enterprises enforce policies in real-time for privileged access to systems, raised a $30M Series A led by Brightmind (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-15 Startup

Kadrey v. Meta: Meta paused some AI-related book licensing efforts in April 2023 after contacting publishers and seeing “slow uptake” and logistical setbacks (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-15 AI

Meta announces Project Waterworth, a subsea cable project that will span over 50,000 km and connect five continents (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-15

Mastodon is working on a quote posts feature, which it says is a “source of concern” for some and “highly requested” by others (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-15

Instagram is testing a dislike button for comments; Instagram will not show a dislike count and dislikes may eventually count toward ranking comments (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-15 Instagram

The UK renames its AI Safety Institute to AI Security Institute in a pivot to cybersecurity, and is exploring ways to use Anthropic's Claude in public services (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-14 AI

OpenAI removes “warning” messages in ChatGPT that indicated when content might violate its terms of service, to cut down on “gratuitous/unexplainable denials” (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-14

Sources: Italian spyware maker SIO created malicious Android apps that masquerade as WhatsApp and other apps; a researcher says they were likely used in Italy (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-14 Android Italy WhatsApp

Identity security company CyberArk acquires identity governance and administration platform Zilla Security for $165M in cash and an additional $10M “earn-out” (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-14

YouTube updates Shorts to integrate Google DeepMind's latest video model Veo 2, letting creators generate AI video clips to add to any of their Shorts (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-14 Google AI YouTube

EnCharge AI, which claims its AI accelerators use 20x less energy to run workloads compared with other chips, raised a $100M+ Series B led by Tiger Global (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-14 Energy AI

SoftBank-backed P2P vehicle sharing service Getaround is shutting down US operations, including HyreCar, to focus on Europe, where it operates in six countries (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-13 Europe P2P

Court filing: Elon Musk will withdraw his $97.4B bid if OpenAI's board of directors “preserve the charity's mission” and halt its conversion to a for-profit (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-13 Elon Musk

Candid Health, which helps simplify medical billing by automating claims processing and eliminating manual work for billing teams, raised a $52.5M Series C (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-13

London- and SF-based Latent Labs, which is building AI foundation models to “make biology programmable”, emerges from stealth with $50M across seed and Series A (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-13 AI London

NYC- and Bengaluru-based SpotDraft, which offers tools to help in-house legal teams simplify contracting tasks, raised a $54M Series B led by Vertex and Trident (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-13

Sam Altman says GPT-5 will include o3, which will no longer be offered as a standalone model, GPT-4.5 will be OpenAI's last non-chain-of-thought model, and more (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-13

Indian startup Lucidity, which helps enterprises optimize their cloud storage, raised a $21M Series A led by WestBridge, after a $5.3M seed in September 2022 (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-13 India Startup

Google rolls out AI image remixing tool Whisk to 100+ countries, letting users upload three images for subject, scene, and style to remix, powered by Imagen 3 (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-12 Google AI

Miami-based Moderne, which helps companies analyze their software stack and remediate technical debt, raised a $30M Series B led by Acrew Capital (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-12

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