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Google ships the first developer preview of Android 16, far ahead of schedule vs. the past few years, hoping to lower fragmentation by giving partners more time (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-20 Android Google

Google rolls out a “memory” feature for Gemini Advanced subscribers for the web app that remembers a user's interests and preferences (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-20 Google

Bluesky has 20M+ users after hitting 15M on Nov. 13; Appfigures: it's been #1 in US App Store since Nov. 13; Similarweb: its DAU gap with Threads is narrowing (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-20

Microsoft plans to bring the “full capabilities” of Windows 11 to the Meta Quest 3 and Quest 3S in December in public preview (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-20 Microsoft

Microsoft unveils new custom chips: the Azure Boost DPU, its first data processing unit, and the Azure Integrated HSM, a new in-house cloud security chip (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-20 Microsoft

Microsoft and Atom Computing plan to ship quantum computers with 1,000+ physical qubits to enterprises in 2025 and detail a 24 entangled logical qubits record (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-20 Microsoft Quantum

Atomico: European startups are on track to raise $45B in 2024, down from $47B in 2023, with only $3B in IPO value and $10B in M&A through mid-November (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-19 Europe IPO Startup

Los Angeles-based Moonvalley, which is developing “transparent” generative AI video tools, raised a $70M seed co-led by General Catalyst and Khosla Ventures (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-19 AI

Perplexity debuts a shopping feature offering product recommendations, one-click checkout, and more for Pro users in the US, alongside a merchant program (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-19

Xiaomi, the second largest smartphone vendor in India, plans to replace its app store there with one from PhonePe in January, amid ongoing geopolitical tensions (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-19 India Xiaomi

India fines Meta ~$25M and imposes new data rules, over antitrust issues from 2021 when it removed a way to opt out of sharing WhatsApp data with Meta companies (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-19 India WhatsApp

In his amended lawsuit against OpenAI, Musk names new defendants including Microsoft, Reid Hoffman, and ex-OpenAI board member and Microsoft VP Dee Templeton (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-15 Microsoft

SwiftConnect, which provides a platform to let workers access physical offices via mobile digital badges, raised a $37M Series B led by Quadri Ventures (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-15 Mobile

OpenAI says the ChatGPT desktop app for MacOS can now read code in some developer-focused apps, including VS Code, Xcode, TextEdit, and Terminal (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-15

François Chollet, the AI pioneer who created Keras, says he is leaving Google after nearly 10 years to start a new company, but doesn't reveal many details (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-15 Google AI

The EU publishes its first draft of a Code of Practice under the AI Act for general-purpose AI models, including provisions for copyright and systemic risk (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-15 AI

BitSight, the cybersecurity startup last valued at $2.4B, acquires Cybersixgill, which gathers threat intelligence data from the dark web, for $115M (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-15 Startup Intelligence Darknet

Amazon One Medical expands telehealth services with low-cost treatment plans and medication delivery for beauty and lifestyle issues like hair loss, skin care (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-15 Amazon

London-based Tessl, which is building an AI to write and maintain code, raised $125M across seed and Series A, sources say at a $500M+ post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-14 AI London

UK consumer rights group Which? launches a legal claim against Apple, seeking £3B in compensation, alleging that Apple locked ~40M UK users into iCloud services (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-14 Apple

DeepL, which was valued at $2B in May 2024, debuts DeepL Voice to give users real-time text translations of others speaking in one of 13 different languages (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-14

Google announces new features for the Fitbit Ace LTE, its smartwatch for kids, including family group chats, messaging for siblings, and a new mini-game (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-14 Google

Just Eat Takeaway announces that it is selling Grubhub to Wonder in a $650M deal expected to close in Q1 2025; Just Eat bought Grubhub for $7.3B in 2020 (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-13

Rivian and VW finalize a software development joint venture; VW has invested $1B of its planned up to $5.8B by 2027 in the JV designed to be a 50-50 partnership (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-13

Perplexity says it will begin experimenting with ads on its platform in the US starting this week; ads will be formatted as “sponsored follow-up questions” (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-13

PointFive, which helps companies track usage across multiple clouds, raised a $20M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures, after raising a $16M seed in June 2024 (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-13 Salesforce

Zurich-based LocalStack, which helps developers emulate and test cloud apps locally, raised a $25M Series A led by Notable Capital (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-13

New York-based ScaleOps, which offers cloud spend management tools, raised a $58M Series B led by Lightspeed, taking its total funding to $80M (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-13 New York

Writer, which makes enterprise generative AI tools, raised a $200M Series C led by Premji, Radical Ventures, and Iconiq at a $1.9B valuation, for $326M raised (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-13 AI

SoftBank says Vision Fund co-CEO Rajeev Misra will step down from his leadership roles; during his 10-year tenure, he led investments in WeWork, Wag, and others (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-12

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