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An interview with Mozilla interim CEO Laura Chambers about Firefox's 20th birthday, growth due to EU's DMA, focus on privacy, Google search deal, AI, and more (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-11 Google Interview AI Firefox Mozilla

Source: AI coding assistant startup Anysphere has received unsolicited offers valuing the company at as much as $2.5B from Benchmark, Index, a16z, and others (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-9 Startup AI

ChatGPT gave ~2M responses asking users to get election news elsewhere on Nov. 5 and Nov. 6, and rejected 250K+ requests for DALL-E images of Trump and others (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-9 Trump

Sources: Upwind, which sells tools to secure cloud infrastructure, is raising a $100M Series B at a $850M-$900M valuation, after raising $50M in September 2023 (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-9

UnifyApp, which lets companies build their own AI chatbots by connecting their SaaS apps and data, raised a $20M Series A, around six months after a $11M seed (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-9 SaaS AI chatbot

Yelp agrees to buy RepairPal, a site for car repair estimates, for $80M in cash, with the deal expected to close by the end of 2024; RepairPal had raised $21.3M (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-8

TikTok launches Share to TikTok, which lets users directly share music from Apple Music and Spotify in a post to their TikTok Feed or in DMs via TikTok Messages (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-8 Apple Spotify

Anthropic partners with Palantir and AWS to provide US intelligence and defense agencies access to its Claude models and “operationalize” their use (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-8 Intelligence

Truecaller co-founders Alan Mamedi and Nami Zarringhalam plan to hand over day-to-day company operations to product chief Rishit Jhunjhunwala in January 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-7

Perplexity's US election hub offered helpful, real-time election insights and maps on November 5, linking to reliable resources and providing historical context (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-7

OpenAI acquired chat.com, which now redirects to ChatGPT; HubSpot co-founder Dharmesh Shah reportedly bought the domain, registered in 1996, for $15.5M in 2023 (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-7

Lyft partners with autonomous vehicle startup May Mobility to launch cars in Atlanta in 2025, and self-driving car company Mobileye and smart dashcam firm Nexar (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-7 Startup Autonomous Car

The Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% of its employees and tells staff in an email that it is eliminating its advocacy and global programs divisions (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-6 Mozilla

India issues a notice to Wikipedia over bias concerns, questioning if it should be classified as a publisher, after judges called its open editing “dangerous” (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-6 India

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says his offer to help NYT was “to provide technical infra support” and “not to replace journalists or engineers” amid push back (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-5

Caitlin Kalinowski, who served as Meta's head of AR glasses from March 2022 to July 2024 and oversaw Orion, joins OpenAI to lead robotics and consumer hardware (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-5 Robot AR

ChatGPT Search is impressive in some ways, but it's unreliable for short queries containing just a few words, meaning it's far from being a “Google killer” (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-5 Google

Anthropic releases Claude 3.5 Haiku, but it is priced at $1 per million input tokens, up 4x from Claude 3.0 Haiku's price, and lacks image analysis features (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-5

Meta confirms it has made Llama models available for US national security applications, with partners like Anduril, Booz Allen, Lockheed Martin using Llama AI (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-5 AI

X starts rolling out the update to let users see public posts and following and followers lists of users who block them; blocked users still can't engage or DM (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-4

Interviews with Quantum Machines' CTO and other executives on the startup's Nvidia partnership to use ML to get closer to an error-corrected quantum computer (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-4 Startup Nvidia Quantum

Perplexity launched a dedicated hub for the US general election, including ballot measures and voting results, while rivals like OpenAI have been more cautious (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-4

Indonesia bans sales of Pixel smartphones, saying Google must comply with rules requiring 40% local content in smartphones, days after banning iPhone 16 (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-1 Google iPhone Indonesia

Tel Aviv-based, enterprise-focused cybersecurity startup Noma emerges from stealth with $32M in funding, including a $25M Series A led by Ballistic Ventures (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-1 Startup

Meta is working with Wonik and GelSight to develop and commercialize tactile sensors for AI, including the Allegro robotic hand and Digit 360 tactile fingertips (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-1 AI Robot

The EU will review Nvidia's acquisition of AI workload management startup Run:ai, after a request by Italy's regulators; Nvidia reportedly paid $700M for Run:ai (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-1 Italy Startup AI Nvidia

Anthropic launches Claude apps for Mac and Windows in public beta, and releases a dictation tool for Claude on iOS, Android, and iPadOS (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-1 Android IOS

Aurora Innovation delays deploying its autonomous commercial trucks from Q4 2024 to April 2025 to validate its self-driving tech, with up to 10 trucks at launch (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-31 4Q

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston says the company is laying off 528 employees, or 20% of its workforce, as it enters a “transitional period” (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-31 Dropbox

LinkedIn launches Hiring Assistant, an AI agent designed to take on a wide array of recruitment tasks like sourcing candidates, to a select group of customers (techcrunch.com)
2024-10-30 LinkedIn AI

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