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Some early users of Manus say the agentic AI is no panacea, with long waits, errors, unsatisfying answers, and endless loops often plaguing the experience (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-10 AI

A US federal judge allows the Kadrey v. Meta case, in which authors allege Meta violated IP rights by using their books to train Llama models, to move forward (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-9

CoreWeave's S-1 reveals its three co-founders own less than 3% of Class A shares after cashing out ~$488M, but still control ~80% of votes though Class B shares (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-8

Crogl, whose AI agent helps cybersecurity researchers analyze daily network alerts to find and fix security incidents, raised a $25M Series A and a $5M seed (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-8 AI

Signal President Meredith Whittaker says AI agents have a “profound issue” with privacy and security and refers to their use as “putting your brain in a jar” (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-8 AI

Meta is testing a feature that lets Threads users add their interests to their profile; the interests will direct users to active conversations about the topic (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-8

Former OpenAI policy researcher Miles Brundage criticizes OpenAI for “rewriting the history of GPT-2”, after OpenAI outlined its safety and alignment philosophy (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-7

The US Department of Labor has been investigating Scale AI for compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act, a source says since at least August 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-7 AI

The US Secret Service, Europol, and others take down Garantex, a Russian cryptocurrency exchange accused of being associated with ransomware hackers (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-7 Russia Cryptocurrency

Mistral launches Mistral OCR, a multimodal API that can turn complex PDF documents into AI-ready Markdown files (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-7 AI

YC partner Jared Friedman says ~25% of the W25 batch have 95% of their codebases generated by AI, not including things like code written to import libraries (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-7 AI

Turing, which works with engineers to contribute code to AI projects, raised a $111M Series E led by Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund at a $2.2B valuation (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-7 AI Malaysia

In a policy paper, Eric Schmidt, Scale AI's Alexandr Wang, and Center for AI Safety's Dan Hendrycks argue the US should not pursue a “Manhattan Project” for AGI (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-6 AI

NY-based Ataraxis AI, which uses AI to predict if a patient has cancer and what their cancer outcome looks like, raised a $20.4M Series A led by AIX Ventures (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-6 AI

Tel Aviv-based Grain, which helps businesses find the best FX hedges using FX derivatives and AI, emerges from stealth with a $33M Series A and an $18M seed (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-6 AI

Bolt says Ryan Breslow had been reinstated as CEO with the board's “unanimous approval”; Justin Grooms, interim CEO since last March, will serve as president (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-6

Anthropic quietly removes Biden-era AI policy commitments from its site, including pledges to research AI discrimination and share info on managing AI risks (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-6 AI

Google announces an experimental AI Mode in Search that lets users ask complex, multi-part questions, rolling out to Google One AI Premium subscribers (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-6 Google AI

Indian SaaS hiring platform Darwinbox raised $140M co-led by KKR and Partners Group, taking its total funding to $270M; the startup had a $1B+ valuation in 2022 (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-5 SaaS India Startup

Meta brings its anti-scam facial recognition test to the UK “after engaging with regulators”, letting celebrities opt-in “to receive the celeb-bait protection” (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-5 Facial Recognition

London-based Quantexa, which develops anti-money laundering tech, raised a $175M Series F at a $2.6B valuation as it expands its AI data curation business (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-5 AI London

Netherlands-based QuantWare, which offers its VIO chip architecture to help solve scaling bottlenecks in quantum processors, raised a €20M Series A (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-5 Netherlands Quantum

OpenAI unveils NextGenAI, a consortium of research institutions including Harvard, MIT, and Oxford, and commits $50M in compute, API access, and research grants (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-5

Creator monetization platform Passes and its CEO, Lucy Guo, are sued for allegedly distributing CSAM; the suit claims Guo intervened to override safety measures (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-4

Source: Ramp crossed $700M in annualized revenue in January 2025, up from $300M in August 2023; its CEO says it's not profitable by choice as it reinvests (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-4

CA state Senator Scott Wiener, author of the controversial 2024 AI safety bill SB 1047, introduces SB 53, a new bill to protect AI lab whistleblowers and more (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-4 AI

Mozilla rewrites Firefox's Terms of Use, after recent changes with overly broad language about user data sparked user backlash (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-4 Firefox Mozilla

Deutsche Telekom and Perplexity announce they are working on an “AI Phone” priced at under $1K, first aimed at the European market and slated to launch in 2026 (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-4 Europe AI

Anthropic raised a $3.5B Series E at a $61.5B post-money valuation led by Lightspeed Venture Partners; it has now raised $18.2B in total funding, per Crunchbase (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-4

Stability AI partners with Arm to bring Stability's Stable Audio Open, an AI model that can generate audio including sound effects, to Arm-based mobile devices (techcrunch.com)
2025-3-4 Mobile AI

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