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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)
7 days ago 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)
7 days ago 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)
7 days ago

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)
7 days ago 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)
7 days ago

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)
8 days ago 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)
8 days ago 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)
8 days ago

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)
8 days ago 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)
9 days ago 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)
9 days ago 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)
9 days ago 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)
9 days ago 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)
9 days ago

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)
9 days ago 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)
9 days ago 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)
10 days ago 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)
10 days ago Mobile AI

Mistral releases Mistral Medium 3, which it says focuses on efficiency without compromising performance, for $0.40 per 1M input and $20.80 per 1M output tokens (techcrunch.com)
10 days ago

Ox Security, which scans for vulnerabilities in both AI- and human-generated code, raised a $60M Series B led by DTCP and says it scans 100M+ lines per day (techcrunch.com)
10 days ago AI

Amsterdam-based neobank Finom raised €92.7M from General Catalyst and says it serves 100K+ SMBs in Germany, France, Spain, the Netherlands, and Italy (techcrunch.com)
10 days ago Germany France Italy Spain Netherlands

Melbourne-based Blinq, which lets users create custom digital business cards and sync contacts with CRM systems, raised a $25M Series A led by Touring Capital (techcrunch.com)
10 days ago Melbourne CRM

Uber and Chinese company Pony.ai partner to deploy Pony.ai's robotaxis on Uber's platform, starting with a launch in “a key market in the Middle East” in 2025 (techcrunch.com)
10 days ago China Uber AI

Patreon rolls out an updated version of its iOS app that lets users make purchases via the web in addition to using in-app purchases (techcrunch.com)
10 days ago IOS

News reader Particle launches on the web, featuring news headlines and AI summaries, key quotes, links to sources, and reader questions answered by AI (techcrunch.com)
10 days ago AI

Unblocked, an AI-powered tool that helps devs understand codebases by answering contextual questions, raised a $20M Series A from B Capital and Radical Ventures (techcrunch.com)
11 days ago AI

Spotify rolls out a new “plays” metric for podcasts that shows users and creators how many times people have actively listened to or watched an episode (techcrunch.com)
11 days ago Spotify

Orca AI, which offers an autonomous shipping navigation service based on a dataset of 80M+ nautical miles, raised a $72.5M Series B, after raising $23M in 2024 (techcrunch.com)
11 days ago AI

Uber and WeRide plan to expand their robotaxi service to 15 more cities over the next five years, including in Europe, after a December 2024 launch in Abu Dhabi (techcrunch.com)
11 days ago Europe Uber

Recraft, whose image model Recraft V3 beat OpenAI's DALL-E and Midjourney on the Artificial Analysis benchmark last year, raised a $30M Series B led by Accel (techcrunch.com)
11 days ago

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