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OpenAI's o3 performance on benchmarks suggests that test-time compute is the next best way to scale AI models, raising new questions about costs and usage (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-24 AI

Balderton Capital and Dealroom: European AI startups attracted 25% of the region's VC funding, or ~$13.7B, in 2024, compared to 15% in 2020 (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-24 Europe Startup AI

X raises US Premium+ prices by 37.5% to $22 per month, starting on December 21, and EU prices from €16 to €21 per month; the basic subscription still costs $3 (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-23

OpenAI details “deliberative alignment”, a new method it used to make o1 and o3 “think” about its safety policy before responding, to improve overall alignment (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-23

Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-23 Trump AI

OpenAI unveils o3 and o3-mini, trained to “think” before responding via what OpenAI calls a “private chain of thought”, and plans to launch them early next year (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-21

Experts say Apple's spyware notifications for victims are a game changer for research; the notifications direct the victims to nonprofit security lab Access Now (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-21 Apple

Bluesky updates its app to include a separate mentions tab in notifications, protections against username squatting, and new controls for replies sorting (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-20

Sources: Anysphere, developer of GitHub Copilot rival Cursor, raised a $100M Series B at a $2.6B valuation, up from a $400M valuation in August 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-20 GitHub

Charlotte, NC-based Aiwyn, which provides automation software for accounting firms, raised $113M led by KKR and Bessemer, bringing its total funding to $127M (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-20

YouTube plans to start a crackdown on “egregious clickbait”, or videos where the titles or thumbnails make claims the videos don't back up, beginning in India (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-20 India YouTube

Backflip, which is building AI models that can produce 3D designs using text, sketches, or photos as prompts, raised a $30M Series A co-led by NEA and a16z (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-20 AI

Google releases Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental, with the ability to “reason over the most complex problems” in fields like programming and physics (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-20 Google programming

Decart, which helps organizations train AI models at scale, raised a $32M Series A, sources say at a $500M+ valuation, after a $21M seed in October 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-20 AI

Tracxn: Indian startup funding rounds fell 32% YoY to 1,448 in 2024, but overall funding rose 6% YoY to $11.3B; 40+ startups completed IPOs, up 80% YoY (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-19 India IPO Startup

Anthropic demonstrates “alignment faking” in Claude 3 Opus to show how developers could be misled into thinking an LLM is more aligned than it may actually be (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-19

Appfigures: global consumer spending in mobile apps on the App Store and Google Play rose 15.7% YoY to $127.3B in 2024, but app downloads dropped 2.3% to 109.7B (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-19 Google Mobile

Lens, a high-performance layer-2 blockchain developed by Avara for consumer apps, raised $31M led by Lightspeed Faction, and plans to launch Lens v3 in Q1 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-19 Blockchain

GitHub makes its Copilot free in VS Code, with 2,000 code completions and 50 chat messages per month; GitHub now has 150M developers, up from 100M in early 2023 (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-19 GitHub

Shares in MobiKwik surged as much as 82% on their trading debut, after the Indian digital payments firm, which claims to have 161M users, raised $69M in its IPO (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-18 India IPO

India's commerce minister says that Shein will operate in India purely as a tech partner, with Reliance Retail having full ownership and control of operations (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-18 India Retail

OpenAI says it's rolling out o1 to its API for some developers, announces new versions of GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini as part of the Realtime API, and more (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-18

Amid the AI boom, non-AI companies that raised a Series A 18 months ago are likely facing challenges in securing their Series B, even with decent revenue growth (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-18 AI

Atlanta-based Slip Robotics, a robot-as-a-service startup whose robots speed up the loading and unloading of truck trailers, raised a $28M Series B led by DCVC (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-18 Startup Robot

Google launches Gemini Code Assist tools that lets the AI code completion product access real-time data and information from outside apps (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-18 Google AI

The Irish Data Protection Commission fines Meta €251M over a Facebook breach that affected ~29M users globally and ~3M in the EU and EEA in September 2018 (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-18 Facebook

Toronto-based Hostaway, which offers vacation rental management tools, raised $365M led by General Atlantic at a $925M valuation, after raising $175M in 2023 (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-17 Toronto

Turkish startup Agave Games, developer of Find the Cat, which has 10M+ downloads since its August 2024 release, raised an $18M Series A at a $100M valuation (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-17 Startup

Chinese shopping app Temu was the year's most downloaded free app in the US, for the second year in a row, followed by Threads, TikTok, ChatGPT, and then Google (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-17 China Google

YouTube adds a tool to let creators give authorization to several third parties, including Amazon, Apple, Nvidia, OpenAI, and Meta, to train on their videos (techcrunch.com)
2024-12-17 Amazon Apple YouTube Nvidia

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