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Business travel startup TravelPerk raised a $200M Series E at a $2.7B valuation and buys expense management startup Yokoy, a source says for a “nine-figure” sum (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-28 Startup

Alibaba's Qwen team releases Qwen2.5-VL, a new series of AI models that can control PCs and phones, as well as perform a number of text and image analysis tasks (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-28 Alibaba AI

Google open sources PebbleOS, paving the way for more smartwatch hardware; Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky aims to develop a new smartwatch (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-28 Google

Meta says Meta AI will now use account info from across Meta's apps to give personalized suggestions; users can also ask Meta AI to “remember” specific things (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-28 AI

DeepSeek debuts a family of multimodal, MIT-licensed open-source models including Janus-Pro-7B, which it claims beats OpenAI's DALL-E 3 in GenEval and DPG-Bench (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-28

DeepSeek's iOS app is now the top free app in Apple's App Store in the US, just ahead of ChatGPT (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-27 IOS Apple

Filing: Character AI claims it is protected by 1A as a lawsuit claims a teen committed suicide after becoming emotionally attached to a chatbot on Character AI (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-25 AI chatbot

UnitedHealth says the ransomware attack on its Change Healthcare unit in February 2024 affected ~190M people, nearly double its previous estimate of 100M (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-25

Flip, which lets shoppers share video reviews and earn cash based on engagement, launches a creator fund that grants up to $100M of equity over 5+ years (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-25 Equity

Sources: ElevenLabs closed a $250M Series C led by ICONIQ Growth at a valuation of between $3B to $3.3B; it was initially looking for funding at a $4B valuation (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-25

Similarweb: RedNote's DAUs in the US fell by 54% on January 20 when the TikTok ban was put on hold, after reaching a high of 32.5M DAUs on the day of the ban (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-25 Ban

Meta begins a “limited, early test” of ads in Threads in the US and Japan, with the goal of making the ads “as interesting as organic content” (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-25 Japan

PE firm Everstone acquires Delhi-based Wingify, whose flagship product Visual Website Optimizer helps business improve their online conversion rates, for $200M (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-24

Anthropic debuts Citations, a new API feature letting developers “ground” answers in source documents, available for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Haiku (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-24

Substack launches a $20M Creator Accelerator Fund to lure US creators who have $2K+ per month in recurring revenue away from other subscription-based platforms (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-24

OpenAI partners with DoorDash, Instacart, Priceline, StubHub, and Uber to ensure that Operator respects these businesses' terms of service agreements (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-24 Uber

Perplexity launches Perplexity Assistant in its Android app, which can take “multi-app actions” like hailing a ride, initially free for users in 15 languages (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-24 Android

Ramp launches Ramp Treasury, letting businesses store cash in a business account and earn 2.5% or in a money market fund for potentially higher yields (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-24

Hugging Face releases SmolVLM-256M and SmolVLM-500M, claiming they can analyze images, short videos, and text on “constrained devices” with under ~1GB of RAM (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-24

ChatGPT suffered a major outage on Thursday morning and OpenAI's API also experienced downtime; OpenAI says both issues are fixed (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-24

An Indian tribunal suspends restrictions preventing WhatsApp from sharing user data with Meta for ads, temporarily lifting a five-year ban imposed by the CCI (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-23 India WhatsApp Ban

Sensor Tower: consumer spending in 2024 on AI apps like ChatGPT, Gemini, and ByteDance's Doubao grew more than 200% YoY to nearly $1.1B (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-23 AI Sensor

Scale AI faces a lawsuit by six people who worked on its Outlier platform, claiming they were forced to write disturbing prompts about violence and abuse (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-23 AI

London-based Lindus Health, which has built a software platform for running clinical trials, raised a $55M Series B led by Balderton Capital (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-23 London

Samsung's Galaxy S25 lineup will be the first handsets to support the Content Credentials standard, which identifies AI-generated images (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-23 Samsung AI

After Musk said “they don't actually have the money” about Stargate, Altman says “what is great for the country isn't always what's optimal for your companies” (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-23

YouTube adds experimental features for Premium users, including higher audio bitrate of up to 256kbps for music videos and faster playback on mobile (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-23 Mobile YouTube

Data analytics startup Databricks closed its $10B Series J, announced in December 2024 and including investment from Meta, and raised $5.25B in debt (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-23 Startup

London-based Vertice, which offers an AI-powered SaaS spend platform, raised a $50M Series C led by Lakestar, taking its total funding to ~$100M (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-23 SaaS AI London

Truecaller rolls out real-time caller ID to its ~750K iOS subscribers, who account for 40% of its revenue; Truecaller has 2.6M+ paying subscribers in total (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-22 IOS

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